Alright, its been a while.  I’ve had the craziest summer of my life, traveling from coast to coast, then back again.  I spent practically no time at home over the past 5 months, and now I’m back at school and still busy.  Let me rephrase that: I’m still busy and I’m still lazy.  To be honest, I  could have found time in my schedule to throw up an article or two a week at least.  I just lacked that itch to get back to it, but now with this web publishing/design class I’m taking and the NFL season starting back up, I’ve got the urge to write again.  So sorry for dangling my few loyal readers along, and I’ll do my best to stick with it this time around.

That being said, here are couple quick thoughts that I have on the young NFL season:

The 49ers are who we thought they were. Maybe some people were surprised by how effectively San Francisco’s defense stifled Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in Week 1, but many also expected Harbaugh’s team to rebound after a disappointing loss in the NFC Championship game, myself included.  Through 2 weeks, the 49ers are one of a only a few teams that looks just like they did last year.  They have the same smash mouth mentality on both sides of the ball that last year’s team had, and they’ve built upon that.  The defense is a carbon-copy of last year’s group and Alex Smith still epitomizes the ultimate game manager.  Usually it doesn’t catch my eye when a team doesn’t change from year to year, but seeing sizable differences in teams like New England and New York makes me think a little longer about consistency.  The season is in diapers right now, but the 49ers are the scariest team out there simply because they are the same as last year.

Michael Vick still isn’t a Quarterback.  This may be a little bit of the New York Giants fan talking, but it still baffles me how someone can look so lost on passing plays after 9 years in the league.  Anytime I make a comment on his ability to throw a ball, apologists start talking about how strong of an arm he has and how dynamic of a playmaker he is.  Those are great perks for a QB to have, but there has to be fundamental quarterbacking skills underneath that.  Mike Vick is all frosting and no cake, and nothing about that has ever changed in my eyes.