Posted on 01/14/2011 8:18:27 AM PST by jpf
It's been a bad week and frankly I don't really care that much about this weekend's games because my Eagles will be watching them on TV. Still you might care, so.
The Armageddon bowl, so called by the Ravens secondary, pits the Steelers against the Ravens. It's probably the best game of the weekend and it happens first, 4:30 PM ET Saturday on CBS. The Steelers are a 3½ point favorite and that seems about right to me. The Steelers are home and their QB is better.
At 8 PM ET Saturday on Fox the Packers visit the Falcons. The Falcons are only a 2½ point fave, which probably tells you something. Why does the NFL force the Packers to play on a short week? Why? Shall we call this The NFL Scheduling Mystery Bowl?
When a team knocks your team out of the playoffs do you root for them on the theory it makes your team look better? Or do you take the bitterness route and root against them? I've always been kind of bitter myself, but I think the Falcons could be a fraud. I'll flip a coin before kick off.
Meanwhile Seattle gets an extra day to prepare for da Bears. Won't matter, this week the Seahawks find out that 10 point underdogs actually do lose sometimes. Bears are home, Bears are hungry, Bears are well rested. That's 1 PM ET on Fox. I call that one the Toilet bowl, I don't think it's going to be a very good game.
Last, but not least, is the Sunday 4:30 PM ET game on CBS between the Patriots and the Jets. The Patriots at home, in the playoffs, and the Jets just keep talking anyway. What shall we call this? The Foot Bowl? The Big Mouth Bowl? (as if we're sponsoring it)? How about the Foot In Mouth Bowl? Vegas says Pats by 9 and Vegas maybe right.
Okay, listen, last week we put up polls so you could pick the games and like 2 of you decided to take part. Hundreds of page views and 2 stinkin' votes. It doesn't cost anything, you're not risking your kid's lunch money or anything like that. You won't suddenly be flooded with e-mails for online gambling. It takes about 5 seconds. I'll put the picks up in the sidebar, please feel free, because it is free and it will just spoil all the fun if you don't.
Have a good, non-eventful weekend.
link http://flood-mybigmouth.blogspot.com/
Nicely done... ;^)
copy cat... lol
I owe you a coke.
Hey, I’m a Falcons fan. So you know what I’d like to see.
But if the Falcons don’t go to the superbowl, I’d love to see Seattle make it. And given the way they are playing at the moment, I don’t see why they couldn’t. They would have to beat Chicago, then Green Bay at home. Certainly possible.
And of course, nothing would be sweeter for Seattle fans than to meet the Steelers again in the superbowl and beat them with a 7-9 team.
Of course, the game probably will be in prime-time. Funny though how we both came up with 1 PM.
If Hasselbeck was healthy all year, Seattle would have won at least 9 games.
“Do you really want to compare agony with a Texans fan? “
I feel your pain. My ATT U-verse showed a series of CFL football games that I’m looking forward to watching . . . kinda’ neat watching the fast-paced, 3-down has-beens and could-have-beens play football, hey?
It’s not the NFL’s fault the current Browns stink. The league didn’t tell the Browns to spend lots of money drafting iffy QBs and never bother to equip them with an offensive line of WRs.
The Ravens’ continuing success comes from fixing their problems. When they got tired of being a defense only team they picked up a coach with a real (not flashy) offensive mind, got him a good QB, gave that QB a good line, and this year gave him some guys to throw to. 3 years in a row in the playoffs.
I remember last week all y’all experts telling us the Seahawks couldn’t win...Jets over Pats 26-24.
Long as the Packers lose, I’m good.
Ah, delusions of grandeur ... must be nice being able to avoid reality so easily. The Falcons are for real, the Seahags are not. Chicago is for real, and the Packers are on the verge of greatness ... and may stay ‘on the verge’ for a few more seasons. And I’m a dyed in the wool cheesehead ever since the days of Thurston, Taylor, and Starr. And yea, they played like a law firm, too. Grinding, ever grinding.
I have never watched CFL - one of my fav college players went to the Canadian league and is now #3 QB for the Packers - I never got to see the different rules/play for the Canadian league though -
If the refs continue to allow Jets receivers to push off, they might have a chance.
I am of the opinion that Aaron Rodgers is one of the very best GBs in the league. His problems usually center on his inconsistent line, who do a fabulous job two or three plays, then allow some DB to sack Rodgers and end a drive.
Well when people picked the Saints over the Seahawks (which I didn’t fully, I said it would be a one score game and who knows who wins that) they were going largely on rep. When people pick the Pats this week it’s because fairly recently the Pats beats the Jets in ways that are illegal in 10 states. It is an Any Given Sunday so in theory anything is possible, but the probable is that the Jets lose by at least 20 points, again, like they’ve been doing in MA lately.
Think he learned that one from Michael Irvin.
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