NFL Monday morning recap - Week 2

Issues - I need to be the NFL commissioner. Who wants to vote me in?I'll visit every locker room and lay down the Cara rules. Then maybe we can play football and the pregame shows can discuss football and the law enforcement officials can deal with the law. The Vikings and the Panthers aren't fooling anybody with their suspensions of Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy right out of the gate, and the 49ers apparently haven't been paying attention with their allowing an abuser to continue playing.The NFL has not had a great start to their opening. The fact that they've had other issues besides football to talk about each week for the past three years ought to be waking everyone up. Cara for commissioner!

RGIII - Before he went down, I was writing how I think the Redskins screwed up by not letting Griffin scramble. They want him to stay in the pocket so he doesn't get hurt like he did two seasons ago, but telling him he can't run hasn't worked well either as we saw last year. Oops. He scrambled to avoid a sack, leaped in the air to avoid a hit, threw a completed pass, and came down out of bounds grimacing without anyone even touching him. A dislocated ankle came the word from the locker room which sent everyone online as that is a new one in the NFL. 

Replacement - Good thing Kirk Cousins has had some experience in the NFL at quarterback. RGIII who?

Washington defense - Washington's defense didn't horse around after their main man went down. They sacked the Jaguars' Chad Henne nine times. That's picking up the pieces.

Favorite play - On a punt by the Bills the ball bounced off of Dolphins' Jarvis Landry's face mask and tumbled to the ground while Landry stood with his arms wide up in the air. The Bills recovered, but failed to convert their good fortune into a score. Deflated me somewhat, but it was still funny.

Buffalo - Well, I can say that I've seen them play now as this is the game that was televised locally.Wow. The crowd was fired up. The players were fired up. The coaches were fired up.It was fun to watch them kick the Dolphins around the field. 

Jim Kelly - He was inducted into the Ring of Honor before the Bills game. He looked great. He announced he was cancer free. God bless him.I hope he has a lot of years that way. 

NFL network game day - Love it! Insightful (at times) it is always moving as teams score and viewers get to stay informed about every game live. And this was a great week for the program as scores traded off quickly. The three announcers could barely finish talking about one team scoring when the other side came back with its own score. 

Nonsense - Just before the lightning delayed Tampa's game, Buc's Leonard Johnson picked up what he thought might be a fumble, ran down the field, and then just to be a showboat, he somersaulted into the end zone with no defender near him. Really? Was this guy not aware of how many teammates were in the locker room hurt?

Seattle - Oops. Might have gotten a bit cocky with all those Super Bowl plums dancing in their heads. Phillip Rivers, on the other hand, he came to play football, along with the rest of the Chargers who held the ball over 42 minutes with zero turnovers Yep, that will do it. 

Rex Ryan - Calls a timeout at the same time that Geno Smith is throwing a monster tying touchdown, and then tries to pretend he didn't. He too didn't learn anything from that Ray Rice video. Psst...Ryan...those cameras?...they are everywhere..

Tampa - So close and yet, right where they always are; ahead until the end. Heartbreaking. They lost their main defensive player and still played some great defense. They had their normal amount of penalties and it still resulted in less yardage than their opponent. Yet, in the end? 0-2. 

Ending - Tampa might have had a chance as the clock was running down, but a Tampa player went down faking injured with .08 seconds left and guess what? No time outs means ten seconds off the clock and ten minus eight means game over. Bucs lose. Again.