Taking a few minutes out from lounging on the beach to bring you some Week 3 thoughts…

I’ll let The Dragon explain himself when we get back next week, but when Deuce McAllister went down with an obvious blown ACL, he was jumping and cheering. Suffice to say he’s not a big McAllister fan. As for me, I freely admit to being happy that Sean Payton now has no choice but to let Reggie Bush play running back, especially since his team has gone to pot.

Let’s talk about the several QB changes week 3 brought us…

Jake Delhomme messed up his elbow. I see no official word about his injury yet, but it didn’t look good. He went down clutching his elbow after making a throw; he wasn’t touched on the play. It looked reminiscent of a pitcher blowing his elbow. It might not be THAT serious, but it’s bad news for the Panthers. Delhomme is no great shakes, but David Carr is awful, and if he has to shoulder the load for the long term, opposing defenses are going to eat him for breakfast.

J.P. Losman left with an injury and the Bills offense basically experienced no change after switching to a nondescript J. Random Rookie QB. The Patriots defense is a real drag to have to play against under any circumstances, so Trent Edwards acquitted himself reasonably, given the circumstances. I doubt Trent Edwards is anything special. It just highlights how bad J.P. Losman is.

The Vikings may apparently be ready to scrap the ugly Tarvaris Jackson Experiment. Well, they won’t scrap it yet, especially since Kelly Holcomb didn’t exactly look like vintage Donovan McNabb en route to losing to the Chiefs, of all teams (more like vintage Kelly Holcomb, if you ask me). But a few more weeks for Holcomb to settle in and a few more weeks of Tarvaris Jackson making us all put paper bags over our heads (Jackson against Green Bay’s defense next week is going to make you want to jab forks into your own eyeballs if you’re a Vikings fan), and that will be that. Tarvaris Jackson isn’t even a #2 quarterback at the NFL level. Drafting him was stupidity, drafting him in the third round was horrendous stupidity, and playing him to justify the draft position is stupidity upon stupidity. At some point soon Brad Childress will be forced by his fading job security to junk the thing.

As predicted in this space, Steve McNair just isn’t going to be healthy this year, and for better or worse the Ravens are in the hands of the Kyle Boller Project. This is very good news if you’re a Steelers fan. Please, when you watch the Ravens next week, on every offensive play, watch Boller’s feet. Every time I do, I get more amazed. Boller’s footwork reminds you of a cerebral palsy victim. I’ve never seen anyone that calls himself an athlete, at any level, in any sport, with worse footwork than Boller. Not even Shawn Bradley. Boller cannot complete a five-step drop without tripping himself and stumbling. He can’t turn his body to complete a handoff without nearly losing his balance. This man’s footwork is simply so bad that he can’t play QB in the NFL.

Ken Whisenhunt is apparently trying to make us believe it was the plan for Kurt Warner to come in and play half the game. No word on whether it was the plan for Matt Leinart to further confuse the defense by sucking, but in any case, if you believe that, Ken Whisenhunt has some beautiful oceanfront property in Saskatchewan he would like to sell you. Leinart just isn’t developing at all, and there is, for the short term, a quarterback controversy in Arizona. Not for the long term, mind you; Warner won’t be able to last three games without either hurting himself or turning the ball over five times in a half. But Leinart really needs to show something. In particular, he just seems to lack ‘oomph’ on his passes. His arm strength seems good and his accuracy seems OK, but he’s just lacking enough in both compartments to make him unable to consistently complete passes that any NFL quarterback ought to complete. Leinart’s level of performance since entering the league is simply unacceptable when your receivers are Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. I think the NFC West is winnable, even for the Cardinals, and I think that until Warner hurts himself, he’s the better quarterback. If I were Whisenhunt, I would bench Leinart.

I’ll let The Dragon take most of the pleasure of dissecting this one for you, but it’s way, way beyond obvious Rex Grossman isn’t going to hack it in the NFL. He’s good enough to be a backup QB, but the Bears need to go ahead and hand the team over to Brian Griese and then try to find another decent QB before Griese inevitably hurts himself.