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.

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.

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 of Field Gulls, where this is being simulcasted, and he led me in the right direction. He is also going to be watching every game. Power in numbers!

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! From a fantasy perspective, this is going to give me more knowledge on players and teams that I ever could have had before. I think I did pretty good in my predictions this year, but with this power, hopefully I can take it to the next level. To a point where my head is the size of a giant medicine ball.

- 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.

- 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 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....