Sunday bloody Sunday
After going 9-7 against the spread last week, I took a severe beating yesterday. The NFL owns me. I'm washing its car and running errands for it. I'm paying for its beers and ordering it more nachos.
I'm its...well, you know the word.
I went 4-9-1 yesterday, and I took the Eagles and the points (+7) tonight. If you're smart, you'll load up on the Cowboys. And then you'll send me to fetch another beer for you. It's on my way.
The Bengals lost at home to the Titans? I know they can't play defense, but come on! Man up for one week. It's your home opener, for crying out loud.
The Redskins have flat-out stunk for weeks, going back to the pre-season, and they get a late touchdown - I'm calling it flukish - to beat the Saints.
The Chiefs are pathetic, but they HAVE to win at home against the pathetic Raiders...don't they?
Of course, they were down to their 12th-string quarterback in the first half. I could have sworn I saw Len Dawson warming up in the third quarter.
The world got to meet Tyler Thigpen yesterday. The world will be screening his calls.
Tyler Thigpen? Didn't Francisco Rodriguez break his single-season saves record on Saturday?
Actually, Thigpen played football at Coastal Carolina, which leads me to ask: "They play football at Coastal Carolina?"
Who's their homecoming opponent, UMBC?
The Seahawks lose at home to the 49ers, the Jags lose at home to the Bills, the Patriots win on the road without Tom Brady, and I'm wondering why I keep jumping into this football pool every year.
Roch you joke but Coastal Carolina is actually playing Towson on family weekend this saturday.
Hey now. Don't bash CCU. For a program that hasn't been around very long they have done pretty well. Better than Notre Dame lately. Come on down one week and I'll take you to their campus, and then we can go have some real fun. It involves lots of ones and a bailbonds company on speed dial.
Redskins win a fluke or the pass a fluke? Sure, they didn't do that well in their last two pre-season games and then the Giants game. But their first three, they did well. And I would think that if you exclude the special teams, the Redskins dominated the Saints. And, they practically bottled up Reggie Bush in the first half.
The post game report explained that the Redskins changed the blocking assignment at the last minute to pick up the blitz, and Campbell eluded the pass rush to throw that pass to Moss, who practically schooled the rookie, Porter, to haul in the TD.
How about Darren Sproles of the Chargers whose team lost to the Broncos? He piled up 317 all-purpose yards on 14 touches. He had a 103-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the first half and a 66-yard catch-and-run for the go-ahead score with 4:22 remaining.
Do you know how many variables you need for these kinds of plays?
Coastal is playing Towson on Saturday. I go to Towson and my brother goes to Coastal so it be a great game.
Amazing previous entry-- an Albert and Costello and "Gus" reference! My brothers and I like to throw around the mule reference when a team is down by 3 or less and at their own 10 yard line with only a few seconds left. That mule was money.
Late comment on the Garrett Olson situation-- I think his stuff is good enough to stay at this level as a .500 pitcher. That is not an insult, in fact, we need a couple of those guys. Trembley needs to back off of the commentary about him just needing to get his head straight and stop getting nervous. That should be the team psychologist's job (if they still have one which they did back in the late 70's and 80's). Talking about someone's anxiety problems publicly night after night is not likely to reduce his anxiety.
DT is also sending extremely confusing messages to the young pitcher: 1) it's just pitching-- why get so nervous? 2) if you don't pitch well, you are going back to the minors (even if I say you are staying up to pitch in relief) 3) we'll give you an opportunity to pitch through difficulties to learn 4) we'll pull you after 4 innings if you get into a jam.
Oh yeah, you make 5 million/year if you can continue to pitch at the major league level or you try to take that Cal Poly degree and make $50K a year. No biggie, right?
CCU is playing Towson this year. Care to make a little wager?
Roch-
That sucks! I know how you feel...yesterday on my fantasy team I had Ryan Grant (22 yards), Larry Johnson (22 yards), Braylon Edwards, Jerricho Cotchery. They all stunk yesterday!
I'm guessing you didn't watch the Redskins game, Roch.
If there was anything fluky about the game, it's that the Saints were ever leading in a game where they were completely dominated on both sides of the ball.
The only reason the Saints were in the game at all was special teams. The Redskins missed two field goals, fumbled a punt return on their own 20, and had terrible punting that resulted in a return for a TD by Reggie Bush (although I think George H W Bush could've run that one in).
Now, the Redskins are probably no better than an average team, and they have a bleak playoff outlook in their division, but give credit where credit is due.
Thankfully the Ravens didn't play this week, so I get a reprieve from skimming through long blog entries about some guy named Flacco looking for Orioles news. I stopped reading Schmuck's blog due to the Ravens obsession - don't let it happen to you, Roch. Stick to the O's.
Speaking of the O's, what's the scoop on Spoone's shoulder surgery? How long have the O's known about the labrum tear?
Perhaps you should take my approach:
There are two seasons in the year, baseball and winter.