So, just trying to play a bit of catch-up here. You'll see in the beginning that I reviewed a Patriots and a Giants game and I talked about those games as if the Super Bowl hadn't even happened yet!

Well, that's because it didn't.

Lot's on the slate here, including my first attempt at GIFs, in which you'll see that it's a slow learning process. But... baby steps.

No Seahawks this week, but I will lead with Cardinals and Seahawks in the next edition. It's the only game I have left from Week 3 to watch. It'll be interesting to see how long the rest of the season will take me. You can now read me on SBN Seattle (Thanks Danny!) and as always, keep up to date on KennethAuthor.com. You guys spiked my views to a record number last time and if you want to keep up with my weight loss story, part 4 is up and part 5 is up soon. Thanks again!

Day 21

Patriots at Bills

I accidentally just typed "Patritos" That would be quite different than Patriots.

Through two games, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tom Brady both had 7 TD/1 INT.

Brady's first drive: TD. Fitzpatrick's first drive: INT.

Brady's second drive: TD. Fitzpatrick's second drive: INT.

Fitzpatrick's second INT came on a 4th and 14th in the first quarter.

It's amazing how important Rob Gronkowski is to this team. If he missed the Super Bowl or was limited, that would be huge. He just caught his 2nd TD and it's 21-0 Patriots.

Captain Obvious over here. (Points to self)

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Only eight games watched this week? That's unacceptable.

I did have a busy week. I won an iPad on Thursday, and I've been chronicling my dramatic loss of 150 pounds on my website (if you're interested in that sort of thing.)

But if I want to accomplish this goal of watching all 256 games, I'll have to step up the pace. Perhaps watching on the iPad will help? We'll see. I watched some good games this week, Kevin Walter makes perhaps the craziest play of the year, and a game of Boley-Bradford-Ball-Face. All below, so check it out!

Day 13

Eagles at Falcons

No interesting story-lines here!

Free Agent Focus: Curtis Lofton, MLB, ATL

DeSean Jackson drops a TD and Jeremy Maclin makes a TD catch two plays later. This is only part of the reason I prefer Maclin to Jackson.

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I continue my trek through the entire slate of 2011 games in the NFL. Almost two weeks into it and almost two weeks of football complete. I will want to pick up the pace. Eventually, I will knock out a whole weeks worth of games in one day.

Can't wait for bye weeks!

In this edition, there's a whole lot of games watched, some NFC West action, a look at the Patriots win over the Chargers (Super Bowl relevant) and another look at the Seahawks week two loss at Pittsburgh (Field Gulls relevant!)

You can find the Steelers-Hawks review after the jump, near the bottom. No, I didn't push it down there on purpose, it's just how it worked out! I won't be offended if you skip right to it. I won't make this intro any longer than it has to be. Even though, I did just that. With that sentence too. And that one. And that one. And... Sorry. Here ya go!

EDIT!!!: I have decided to start doing a Free Agent Highlight segment for every game I watch. For every game I'll pick one pending free agent to keep a close eye on! You may suggest players you'd like a closer look at.

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I continue my march through the 2011 NFL season, trying to balance a life of writing, work, a social life, and being a Netflix/movie/television nerd while still watching at least one football game a day.

This is the point in my life that I've worked the hardest. Right now, as I write this, I'm at my peak. I don't know what has gotten into me, but I've never put so much effort into anything as I am currently doing with my career goals. There is a difference between doing stuff because you have to, doing stuff because you want to, and doing stuff because you can't help it.

I have to work because it pays the bills. I want to watch Arrested Development at least once a day because it makes me feel good. And I can't help but write. I can't help but continue to put my thoughts and research on the internet, and it's a crazy feeling when my work helps, entertains, or informs somebody else. This wasn't supposed to be me. My teachers never thought I'd even go to college.

Maybe I have underachieved (or as it's rightfully called: been lazy) my whole life, but the past year and the past NFL season has sparked something. And it feels good. I have a long ways to go, but watching the entire season is a step in the right direction. At least I hope it is. It's going to take at least 127 Hours and if I end up cutting my arm off, I don't have the looks of James Franco in order to overcome having one less limb.

Anyways, sorry for being all serious and stuff lol! It is sort of a diary.

Dear Diary,

Day 4 Cont'd

Week Two

Ravens at Titans

As I write this, the Ravens have advanced to the AFC Championship game, so some interesting things to watch for in this game.

A Matt Hasselbeck throw is deflected at the line of scrimmage for an INT. I'll be paying a lot of attention while doing this experiment to what interceptions were bad throws and which were "flukes."

And just like that, Joe Flacco throws a pick to a well-covered receiver.

So far, some nice throws by Matt. Tennessee killing themselves with penalties, and a shanked field goal by Rob Bironas.

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The quest to watch the entire 2011 NFL season continues with a goal to at least finish week one this weekend. Four games down and 12 games to go as I try to keep my sanity (what's left of it) while still learning a bunch about what happened this season. Oh, what a season it was...

At the same time while I am doing all of that, I also have to watch the four playoff games this weekend. (By the time you read this, it will have already happened.) So I'll be taking a break from watching football by... watching football. It could be worse. I could try to watch every Nicolas Cage movie. Of which there would be some gems but then there'd be a whole lot of Wicker Man too.

Watching games in high speed is interesting, because you do miss some of the fun intricacies of the game, the awesome sound bites, and the sideline goofiness, but condensed version is the only possible way to do it.

I have a date tomorrow. I just want to point that out. I don't live in my mom's basement. A person once told me that I'm "a pretty cool guy." Anyways... just wanted to let you guys know that. :(

Here's part two of my 2011 NFL diary. The Seahawks-49ers game is included. (ALSO: Considering how much work I'm doing, and with a purpose, please share this with people as much as possible as a personal favor to me if you do enjoy it. Thanks so much!)

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I'm not sure where an idea comes from, but sometimes I hate myself when I get one that sounds really interesting.

I think in this case, I was trying to talk about a player or a team, but in my heart I knew that all I could go off of was a box score. A set of numbers on a page. Or maybe a highlight reel. These kinds of things help and advanced statistics help even more, but they only tell part of the story.

It's like watching a movie compared to reading a script. The script will give you an idea of what happens, but the movie completes the experience. Even if sometimes the script was much better than actually having to sit through that junk.

Well, I'm about to sit through a lot of junk.

I'm going to watch every single game from this past season. Every single one. NFL Game Rewind allows you to watch every game and watch them in "Condensed" mode, which takes about 30-40 minutes and makes this whole thing possible. Easy? No. But possible.

I found out about the ability to quickly watch games from Danny Kelly and he led me in the right direction. He also told me that he was going to be watching as many as he could, and when I delved deeper into his psyche (seriously, do NOT go in there) found out that we both wanted to watch every game. I'm taking it to the level of documenting it into a diary but he's going to be my partner in crime on this, and will be contributing as well.

Why am I doing this?

- Not every game is junk. There will be a lot of good games that I'll get to watch for the first or second time.

- Knowledge is power. The more you know. Wonder twin powers, activate! This knowledge will allow me to be a better writer, a more knowledgeable writer, give me a better idea of potential Seahawks free agent targets and signings, and a better view of Seattle's opponents. I want there to be fewer moments where I have to shoot from the hip. I want to be the best NFL writer that I can be and I'm willing to put in the work to do that.

- I'm a little bit crazy. To watch 256 NFL games that can be potentially 40 minutes to watch, it's almost like watching The Simpsons. All of The Simpsons, of which there are nearly 500 episodes, but those are only 22 minutes long. How am I going to do it? I don't exactly know the answer to that, but I'm going to figure it out.

- It's the offseason for Seattle, so while I can still cover the draft, the Seattle season in review, or whatever else happens, there's time to do this while my weekly series are on the shelf.

- I'm single. Which is sort of like a "chicken and the egg" argument, isn't it?

- I'm a completist. I hate seeing only 95% of something. I could watch only NFC West games or only NFC games, but then I'd wonder, "What if?" or "What did I miss?" I thought that The Killing was a terrible show about four episode in, but I still finished because I had gotten too deep into it. I don't walk out of movie theaters and I won't watch only a half of some game or turn it off when it's a blowout... we want the ball and we're going to score.

- I will actually finish. I will. Damn it, somehow I'm going to do this and I'm not going to take six months to do it either. This is going to take as little time as it possibly can.

I won't be posting these every day, though I will be watching games every day. I'll continue to run my diary of my experiences, but what happens next is going to develop completely organically. I've done a little bit of planning but not much, because you can't exactly plan for a project so large that you've never done before. Shit's gonna happen. I just hope it's something you enjoy following along with even though the Seahawks diary notes will only happen as often as any other team, but of course I'll go a little more into review when I watch Seattle.

(Simulcasted on FakeTeams, the fantasy site I write for)

I started last night and watched four games, so "Day One" is actually 1/12/2012. Day one of the end of my life.

Things got kicked off this year with a possible NFC Championship game preview on Thursday, September 7th, 2011....

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