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Monday Night Observations

Full disclosure: I have two more days in Berlin of which I'd like to make the most, and given I couldn't get the 40-minute condensed version of this game to load (and the score was 28-3), I picked the five-minute edited highlights over the three-hour game. One of the perils of watching the next morning is you know the likely quality of the game in advance. Let's just say it would be a very bad thing for the NFL's business model if everyone knew the quality in advance.

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(The shuttered Tempelhof airport, half a mile from our apartment, now a park where you can bike on the runways. Above, Anna Durkes ice cream parlor, ranked No. 2 on the list we plowed through. Top: my office for the last three months.)

• If I were drafting today for the rest of the year, David Johnson would be my No. 1 overall pick, even in an NFFC 3-WR/FLEX PPR. While Odell Beckham or Julio Jones makes more sense structurally in that kind of league, Johnson's consistent production, skill set and upside are too much to pass up.

• Larry Fitzgerald saw nine targets, John Brown seven and Michael Floyd only two, though he did catch a TD. The game flow did none of them any favors, but with five targets over the last two games Floyd is droppable if you need to make tough choices during the bye weeks.

We ranked Ben Roethlisberger and Carson Palmer lower than the consensus this preseason because we couldn't give either of them 16 games. Sure enough, both have missed time already, and now Palmer has a hamstring injury, one week after returning from a concussion. Between those two and Tony Romo it's hard to say who's taken the worst beating over their long careers.

• The Jets have to be in the discussion for worst team in the NFL. It's time to pull the plug on Ryan Fitzpatrick and let Geno Smith have more than eight minutes in a blowout. Or Christian Hackenberg/Bryce Petty.

• Given the game flow, I'd have expected more than six targets for Brandon Marshall.

• Matt Forte got nine ineffective carries and three ineffective targets. The Jets should be trying to deal him for anything to a contender in need of RB depth.