![]() Washington (+3.5) at Philadelphia In his last two games as a starter Eagles QB Nick Foles has thrown for 10 touchdowns and no interceptions, and wide receiver Riley Cooper has caught eight passes for 241 yards and five touchdowns, which is the kind of thing that forces announcers to tiptoe around that crazy racist thing Cooper said way back when. Article content Gregory Shamus/Getty Images This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Last week this space went 8-6, which was oddly disappointing.ĭetroit (-2.5) at Pittsburgh Suddenly there are rumblings that Ben Roethlisberger may want out of Pittsburgh due to concerns over contract and offensive direction, and he’s swearing he wants to retire a Steeler and they are all lies, lies, and basically the whole thing appears to be somewhere between a contract negotiation and a divorce. I wonder if the 1972 Jets and Vikings gather every year and greet one another with good cheer and then guzzle malt liquor and grumble before deciding to deface Mercury Morris’s mailbox again. Those Dolphins nearly lost to the Jets and the Vikings, by the way. Nobody thinks the Chiefs will go undefeated, which means the stupid 1972 Miami Dolphins will gather and drink champagne and gloat about going undefeated. The Kansas City Chiefs are 9-0 thanks largely to road games against teams made up of mechanics and factory workers like the Jaguars and Bills, but this week they play Denver, who looked like they could be undefeated for a whole six weeks before they lost. Now, there is only one hope, and it resides somewhere near the moustache of Andy Reid. They were the only eight games he ever started. By the way, Curtis Painter started eight games the year Peyton was hurt, and went 0-8. They could have gone 16-0, but instead chose to lose in the Super Bowl. Curtis Painter seemed like a nice guy with a surfer haircut and also a degree in advanced sabotage. The Colts were 14-0 in 2009 and then pulled Peyton Manning for Curtis Painter in two straight weeks. So chances at perfection should be cherished. It was as if they started a guy from the local air conditioning repair college. One time Andrew Walter completed 5 of 14 passes for 51 yards and an interception against the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Raiders had 98 net yards, and won. Well, anyway, in football the game is so inherently randomized, with so many ways the ball can bounce, with all those moving, breakable parts, that even teams that start Chad Henne, Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Derek Anderson, Jimmy Clausen, Christian Ponder, Blaine Gabbert, Rex Grossman, Colt McCoy, Tyler Thigpen, Kyle Orton, Joey Harrington, Vince Young, and Andrew Walter can win the odd game.
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