imminent. But the No. 1 overall pick in this years draft has to be watching this and wishing he were a part of it.The Vikings de

After three weeks, its important to keep in mind that this NFL season is still just a baby. It cant yet feed itself or dress itself or tell us why its crying. Some truly amazing things have caught our attention, and when this season heads off to school for the first time or gets its drivers license, well look back on these first three weeks and laugh at all the stuff that made us worry or got us too worked up.That said, theres always something to learn. Each week in this space, we sort through the most recent slate of NFL games to try to figure out whats real and whats just a phase.So enjoy, but dont call the doctor just yet.Jared Goff must be like, Come onnnnnnnTrevor Siemian, Dak Prescott, Jacoby Brissett, Cody Kessler, Trevone Boykin, Terrelle Pryor and, of course,?Carson Wentz all played quarterback in the NFL in Week 3. Of those, the only ones whose team didnt win were Kessler and Pryor, who play on the same team and lost in overtime after their kicker missed three field goals. Rookie quarterback is the new black, yet Goff cant stop the Rams coaches from handing him a clipboard and a headset on Sunday mornings. With L.A. now 2-1, no change seems imminent. But the No. 1 overall pick in this years draft has to be watching this and wishing he were a part of it.The Vikings defense does not careThey dont care whos playing quarterback for their team. They dont care that Adrian Peterson is hurt. They dont give one single rats rear end that theyre down 10-0 on the road to the reigning MVP and a team that went 15-1 last season. The Vikings outscored the Panthers 22-0 while outgaining them just 208-201 over the final 50 minutes of Sundays game in Charlotte. Theyre 23rd in the league in time of possession, and their offense has scored only three of their six touchdowns. The Vikings are?3-0, and why wouldnt it be sustainable?The Browns probably will win at least one game this?seasonDont laugh. This represents a change of one of my more deeply held preseason opinions. And its no sure thing, because the Browns front office has clearly made the collection of future draft picks its No. 1 priority. You dont run out a Week 1 roster that includes 18 guys whove never played in the league if youre trying to win games. But just because the front office is focused on the future doesnt mean the coaches and players who are out there every Sunday arent trying. And the game plan Hue Jackson devised Sunday against the Dolphins, with Pryor doing his best Kordell Stewart impersonation, bore the mark of a man who cares. So did Pryors performance in his sensationally variegated role. At some point, the Browns are going to run into an opponent thats just mailing it in, and theyll squeak one out because they care more. I am quite confident Cleveland will pick first in next years draft, but I dont think the 2008 Detroit Lions should assume theyll soon have company.Ryan Fitzpatrick is a ticking time bomb, and the Jets best chance was last yearWhat in the absolute depths of colorblind heck was that? A full 10 days after blistering the Bills and being named AFC Offensive Player of the Week, Fitzpatrick showed up in Kansas City on Sunday and fired off six?interceptions. For everyone who spent the summer asking why the Jets werent more eager to re-sign Fitzpatrick, this is your 72-point, all-caps, flashing neon answer. Because this is a guy who can look as good as anyone in the league one week and then, out of nowhere, single-handedly burn an entire game plan to the ground. Not knowing when the latter will happen is a huge problem. And with the Seahawks, Steelers, Cardinals and Ravens on Fitzpatricks October schedule, theres no way a Jets fan can have any faith that this wont happen again.The Steelers can probably shake this one off ...When you roll into a season on as muscular a hype train as the Steelers did, you dont ever expect to look as all-around bad as Pittsburgh did in Sundays 34-3 loss to Wentz and the Eagles. Some players and coaches will look at a game like this and just throw it away as a fluke. And while the Steelers do have some injury issues on defense and in their pass-catching corps, LeVeon Bell is back this week and there are still plenty of teams that would trade for Pittsburghs problems. I dont think Sunday was a real alarm bell for this team, but well see.... but the Cardinals need to regroupDavid Johnson told me this in August about Bruce Arians coaching philosophy: Every play he makes is set for that certain defense. Theres always a route or theres always a certain play that we should be able to win with against that defense. And usually, most of the time -- I was talking to the players -- and they say its the players that mess up. Look, theres no bigger Arians admirer than me. And Im all for a coach who holds players to high standards in an era that too often tilts toward coddling. But something has looked way out of whack with that Cardinals offense in two of three games, and Buffalos defense isnt good enough to make them look that bad. A lot of people in Arizona need to think about whether theyre approaching things the right way, and Arians is among them. Not saying Arians necessarily needs to make things simpler -- just more coherent than theyve looked so far. Scarpe Balenciaga a Poco Prezzo . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. Outlet Balenciaga Online . Catch all the action on TSN2 at 11pm et/8pm pt. The nine-time Big 12 champion Jayhawks are positioning themselves for another title, as they have run out to a flawless 6-0 mark in conference play thus far. http://www.balenciagaoutlet.it/ . The International Olympic Committee released the official list of bid cities on Friday after the deadline for applications had passed. The candidates -- all previously announced in their own countries -- are: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Krakow, Poland; Lviv, Ukraine; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm. Balenciaga Outlet Italia .C. -- Chris Thorburn thinks one of the reasons the Winnipeg Jets have been successful under new coach Paul Maurice is that theyre playing together as a team. Scarpe Balenciaga Offerta . -- PGA TOUR Canada member Steve Saunders took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the Web. Before we get to Damian Lillards expectations for his Portland Trail Blazers this season, we need his reflection on his hopes for last years team, the one everyone thought was headed to lotteryville after losing LaMarcus Aldridge, Wesley Matthews, Nicolas Batum and Robin Lopez.Make the playoffs, Lillard said. Last year I said we were going to make the playoffs, and we did that.Ok, so maybe it wasnt as bold a proclamation as Lillard makes it out to be. On media day last year his first reaction when the playoffs topic was raised was, I dont see why not. Then he added qualifiers, as if wary of producing a headline for a story he wasnt sure he could write.Im not sitting here saying that, Were going to make the playoffs, Lillard said that day. I would like to, and I think thats what our goal is, but its not as far-fetched as some people would make it seem.At least he isnt going around bragging that he knew the Trail Blazers would be in the second round of the playoffs, which is where they found themselves against the Golden State Warriors after bouncing back from a 2-0 deficit in the opening series while the Clippers dealt with injuries to Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.He has earned the right for us to store his 2016-17 expectations in the reality room. Hes neither selling his team short through artificial modesty, nor ordering law enforcement overtime pay to block off the championship parade route.This year I want to get to the Western Conference finals and give ourselves a chance to get to the [NBA] Finals, Lillard said. I think its possible.It is, especially if the Trail Blazers wind up away from the Golden State Warriors side of the Western Conference playoff bracket. The Oklahoma City Thunder are weakened from the loss of Kevin Durant. The Clippers have yet to prove that they can get past the second round. The San Antonio Spurs are, if not necessarily worse, different without Tim Duncan. Besides, there havent been many points in time over the past 20 years when the Trail Blazers could say theyve won as many playoff series as the Spurs over the past two seasons.Unlike last year, the Blazers brought their core back, even if it was a very expensive way to stay the same. While other teams, even the heavily stocked Warriors, need a discovery period, thee Trail Blazers already found out what they needed to know in last seasons playoffs.ddddddddddddWe learned we had some fight in us, Lillard said. We wanted it.He doesnt consider the Clippers series a fluke. He notes the Clippers were at full strength when the Trail Blazers beat them in Game 3, and Portland had the lead when Paul and Griffin went down in Game 4. And speaking of having the lead, did you know that after the Warriors controlled Game 1 of the second round, the Blazers held the lead for 137 minutes to the Warriors 61 minutes the rest of the series? They just couldnt close out games the way the Warriors did.We couldve easily laid down, even against Golden State, Lillard said. We couldve said: All right, we got out of the first round ... this [Warriors] team lost nine games. We could have laid down, but we didnt.The Trail Blazers could get credit for that last year. Not just credit, but hefty contracts for returners C.J. McCollum, Allen Crabbe,?Meyers Leonard?and?Moe Harkless, and an extension for coach Terry Stotts. All that cash means no more credit. Teams dont commit a third of a billion dollars in new contracts to be content winning five playoff games again.Two things bode well for the Blazers. First, their best player is getting better. Lillard is only 26, on the cusp of his prime, and in his fifth season he says the game is slowing down for him, making more sense, even getting easier. Second, the NBA is coming around to the Trail Blazers style of play. They used to be criticized for being perimeter-oriented, then were forced to grow even more so when Aldridge left for San Antonio. But the league as a whole shoots more 3-pointers now, and the Trail Blazers are better at it than most teams; their .370 three-point shooting percentage tied for fourth best in the NBA last season.Stotts is trying to present this season as a continuation of last season, rather than a separate entity. Retaining so much of the roster allows him to do so. His point guard sees it the same way.Lillard also sees this team playing deep into May. We never talk about vision as one of Lillards best attributes. Maybe thats about to change. ' ' '