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West Coast Craig
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Another Sunday in the books, and while there was snow on the field in Pittsburgh, there’s a layer of ash across Los Angeles. The Northeast is going through cold and rain, but it’s ninety degrees out here. In November. It feels like global warming, the apocalypse, and the yellow-stained smoking room you see in airports all rolled into one. I didn’t get to sit in my usual couch groove all day this week, but I did keep up with the action on a strange NFL Sunday.
Print media may be dead, but I still like the tactile pleasure of grabbing my sports page and taking it onto the throne each morning. It’s a morning ritual…in fact, just seeing a sports section is sometimes enough to get things moving. My words may have the same diuretic effect, but for those of you with laptops, or who can read this on their iPhones and whatnot, please, feel free to take it along with you on whatever your morning ritual is as I try to recap the games. The Jets hung on to win Thursday, which puts them in control in the AFC East…but I can’t help but remember that this is a team that lost to Oakland. Oakland put up a fight against another AFC East rival in Miami, but the Raiders are basically Nnamdi Asomugha and a bunch of scrubs (if that name’s not familiar to you, it’s because he’s one of the best cornerbacks in the entire league on a horrible team, and nobody ever throws his way). It won’t be long before Al Davis finds a way to put him in his doghouse. I’m never betting on a Denver game again…they can’t stop the run, can’t defend receivers, are close to begging Terrel Davis to come out of retirement, and Jay Cutler is reverting back to his rookie ways…and yet they beat a red hot Falcons team in Atlanta. Detroit continued their historic march to 0-16, which is much more likely to happen than Tennessee pulling off the inverse…though how funny would it be for the Titans to run the table after the Patriots couldn’t last year? After pounding the supposedly for-real Ravens, the Giants look like they might get the chance for a second year in a row to stop such a streak…but what if they lose to Kerry Collins?
Philadelphia and Cincinnati tie…and believe me, that sister that got kissed was not hot. Some history that only a numerologist would like happened in Pittsburgh, a game that ended 11-10 for the first time ever (though the refs had to nudge that one a little by taking away a Polomalu touchdown with no time left for a phantom forward lateral. Polomalu, by the way, could be better than Rod Woodson). Herm Edwards didn’t get to go for two this week, and his Chiefs lost again, this time to a New Orleans team that, even when winning, doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere this year. By the way, Detroit may go winless, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than either the Chiefs or the Raiders, and maybe even Cincinnati. I thought Chicago with Kyle Orton coming back could be a team to reckon with, but they got destroyed…and if Ryan Grant keeps playing like that, the Packers are suddenly the easy favorite in that division. Sorry, Vikes, that was a fairly tall order to beat the Bucs in Tampa Bay with Tiger Woods watching from the sidelines. You’re not the first opponent to wither under his glare. Sage Rosenfels didn’t make a complete ass of himself this time against Indianapolis, but the score was remarkably similar to the last time they played. Indy will get in the playoffs again, they have a series of tomato cans lined up the rest of the way until a final game against Tennessee, who may be fielding their practice squad at that point.
The rest of the slate was pretty awful, Mike Singletary gets a win as a head coach, Arizona gets even closer to their first round playoff loss, perhaps to Dallas, who reclaimed at least a tad of their swagger, while Washington and Philadelphia look like they’re quickly fading.
I’ve got no feel for tonight’s game, except that it’s a match-up whose description would surely tax the MtM filter. Has anybody else noticed that the Monday Night games are usually lousy now that it’s been moved to ESPN and NBC gets the far sexier Sunday night match-up each week? All right, I’ve sat here long enough, my eyes are burning but my couch groove is back. Hey, when are we going to see another Matts video?
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Janet
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| Craig, not a great image to imagine first thing on a Monday - you on your favorite chair. They shouldnt allow ties in these games. Finish the job. |
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Cookie
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Yeah... why can baseball go for 21 innings and 7+ hours and these football prima donnas can't end a game. Half the time football goes to OT.. it really looks as if one team, the other, or the ref do something to intentionally blow it so everyone can go home. And they only play once a week.. LAME!!
WCC.. as a Broncos fan... betting on them this year has been very tricky. Cutler looked like the real deal in the beginning of the year. Now he seems infected by the bad play on both sides of the ball there.
The Cowboys won.. but that was all Barber. Romo was not impressive. But.. their next two are against easy teams... so we'll all have to suffer the obnoxiousness of Dallas fans through two wins taking us through Thanksgiving. Tums please.
WCC.. I agree on your Sunday v. Monday night football networks and coverage. And.. i think the Matts should do a video where they interview some sports fans off the street and ask them what sports related thing they are grateful for (team specific or sport general.) |
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Cookie
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| . and of course.. the Matts post it next week.. just in time for Thanksgiving. |
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Ed Nelson
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| Janet, I think you're being presumptive about what WCC looks like on his throne! After all, we don't know what he looks like. Matts - saw you from afar yesterday at Giant game. Are those suits complete with electric heaters? |
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Grote2DMax
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| Ladies - a tie is a result. It will affect the standings as much as a win or loss would have. That Pitt-SD game was a blatant example of how referees can mess with the point spread. A holding call nullifies a Pitt TD with 15 seconds left and then the ref cites a phantom illegal forward pass that he knew SD would protest about so that the final margin of victory would stay under the 4.5 point spread. As my friend Richie always says "there oughta be an investigation". |
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