2017 Week 9 Sunday Game Ball

On a week where the Jets played on Thursday, the Patriots and Steelers had a bye week, and the product on the grid iron looking like it did last year—it was a tough Sunday to watch for a casual football fan.

On a Sunday after the game lost the newest young star, Deshaun Watson, to a season ending non-contact ACL injury; the NFL needed a good week. The week that we got was instead a week where we saw two teams put up 50 points, a week where probable playoff teams lost games they shouldn’t have lost, and three fights on the field.

I cannot remember a week of football where three fights broke out on a specific Sunday. So far as I am writing this, Mike Evans has got suspended for one game, A.J. Green and Jalen Ramsey will not be suspended, and there has been no word on who will be suspended in the incident in San Francisco. For me, this is just another example of the ineptitude of the NFL league office. How do you not suspend both A.J. Green and Jalen Ramsey? This was the worst fight on the field since the Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan in 2010. I would have suspended both players three games and $10,000. Same to Evans and anyone who was in the scrum in San Francisco. A statement must be made to the players about what type of personal conduct will be tolerated in the league, and this type has no place in the game of football or sports for that matter. In a season where the happenings of the league office has been put under a microscope, the NFL (once again) has not done themselves any favors.

Roger Goodell needs to be relieved of his duties because he is just a joke of a commissioner. Every single situation that comes across Goodell’s desk is comparable to just handing a baby a hand grenade. The inability to handle suspensions for fighting on the field is just another topping on top of the poop sandwich that is the National Football League.


Bringing some light on an overall tough Sunday of football, without further ado, here is the game ball for Week 9. There was a couple good games yesterday [Washington-Seattle, Atlanta-Carolina, and Kansas City-Dallas]. If you like scoring; you had two 50-point games to watch during the 1PM EST games. My game ball goes to Philadelphia Eagles Running Back Jay Ajayi. Ajayi is the newest member of the best team in football, the Philadelphia Eagles. Ajayi got to Philadelphia on Tuesday after being traded at the trade deadline. Ajayi is the only player that played following the trade deadline and played well. He didn’t have a career day, but being that he just got to the team five days before a game against one of the best run defenses in the league, the Denver Broncos. Denver kept one of the best young running backs, Kareem Hunt, to 46 yards on 22 attempts and kept him out of the endzone. Jay Ajayi ran for 77 yards on eight rushes and a touchdown. This a nice stat line in a trumping by Philadelphia on a Sunday that will always be remembered for the fights that have been mishandled.     

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