NFL WEEK 10
Thursday Night Selection
Selection – Game To Avoid
Winner –Minnesota
We wondered which Washington team would show up and fortunately for Minnesota's players it was the terrible version. It must be extremely frustrating for Philip Rivers and the Chargers the way that bad teams like Oakland and Washington play their very best against them and then go on to give up 7 TD's or make a QB like Ponder look good on paper. Leslie Frazier did everything he could to lose this game as well, starting Ponder, refusing to let Cassel throw on first down, throw down the field or throw to Greg Jennings and then when that didn't work he started calling timeouts for Washington. Jennings had to be restrained as his frustration is reaching the crack up point. A star free agent brought in for big bucks, Jennings has 2 TD's from Cassel, who has not been allowed to throw more than 75 times all year, and has otherwise been wasted. How a team can have a back like Adrian and not call a play action pass on first down on long drives in a close game is incomprehensible as Mussgrave must be aware of the concept. The ridiculous thing about it all was the way the whole team reacted when Cassel came in. AP was literally dancing, the defence upped its game at least 2 notches and the sideline was jubilant until Frazier started calling the time-outs for the other team. Zigi the owner is either a moron, which is tremendously unlikely, or the driving force behind the almost every game losses because he is convinced that someone in the draft can put his team over the top. The irony is that he already had that this year by dishing out about 10 million for Cassel and Jennings and left them sitting. It is driving the Viking players crazy.
Winner –
We wondered which Washington team would show up and fortunately for Minnesota's players it was the terrible version. It must be extremely frustrating for Philip Rivers and the Chargers the way that bad teams like Oakland and Washington play their very best against them and then go on to give up 7 TD's or make a QB like Ponder look good on paper. Leslie Frazier did everything he could to lose this game as well, starting Ponder, refusing to let Cassel throw on first down, throw down the field or throw to Greg Jennings and then when that didn't work he started calling timeouts for Washington. Jennings had to be restrained as his frustration is reaching the crack up point. A star free agent brought in for big bucks, Jennings has 2 TD's from Cassel, who has not been allowed to throw more than 75 times all year, and has otherwise been wasted. How a team can have a back like Adrian and not call a play action pass on first down on long drives in a close game is incomprehensible as Mussgrave must be aware of the concept. The ridiculous thing about it all was the way the whole team reacted when Cassel came in. AP was literally dancing, the defence upped its game at least 2 notches and the sideline was jubilant until Frazier started calling the time-outs for the other team. Zigi the owner is either a moron, which is tremendously unlikely, or the driving force behind the almost every game losses because he is convinced that someone in the draft can put his team over the top. The irony is that he already had that this year by dishing out about 10 million for Cassel and Jennings and left them sitting. It is driving the Viking players crazy.
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The NFL season kicks off the second half of the season with Week 10. Things are starting to become more clear as the league rationalizes and teams begin to take on their true colors. Can KC continue to milk their soft schedule and at the same time have one extremely fortuitous break after another continue to manifest as if on cue to keep their improbable streak, now at 9, going? Is Brady poised for another amazing statistical second half after putting up the most points (55) on the decorated Steeler "D" (ranked 2nd in the league against the pass going into the game) in their 80+ year (since 1933) history throwing for over 400 yards with 4 TD's and achieving a 151.8 passer rating going into his bye week with his team 7-2? Will Denver continue to put up huge numbers now that their schedule toughens up? How good (or bad) are Seattle and San Francisco going to prove to be in 2013 as their schedules also become more challenging? Can Phillip Rivers return all the way to his former glory and rally his Chargers past KC and Denver after their amazing starts? Can Eli Manning lead his Giants on yet another playoff run after dropping their first 6 games in a row? Or will Nick Foles/Tony Romo/Bob Griffin pick up the ball and run with it? Can Josh McCown lead the Bears on their own playoff run with Aaron Rodgers hurt and Matt Stafford as unpredictable, good & bad, as ever? Or will Jay Cutler return and ruin everything? Is Carolina just beating up on bad and unlucky teams or can they give Drew Brees and the Saints a real run for their money? With the Patriots, Jets & Dolphins all above 0.500 and Buffalo unlucky not to be has the AFC East regained its former dominance and will they supply both 2013 AFC wildcards? Has Tennessee improved enough to challenge Indy in the AFC South or will Case Keenum duplicate his college form and run the table with the Texans? Can Jason Campbell supply the Browns with enough offence to overtake the sputtering Bengals? Or Joe Flacco in Baltimore? All this and more will be revealed in the next 8 weeks!WEEK 10 PICKS
Long Shot Selection – Woof Woof Go!!!
We were absolutely stunned last week when Case Keenum was playing a wonderful game against the Colts and had done enough to win when the officials stepped in and stole the victory away from Houston Seattle
Selection – St Louis
Primary Selection
Last week the San Diego Chargers did just enough to win however an errant call by the replay official took their winning score off the board and they ended up losing in overtime on the road in Washington. Turnovers were the key to the loss for a second time this year with the Chargers margin for error now getting sliced extremely thin. Denver Denver San Diego
Selection – San Diego
Secondary Selection
Selection – Atlanta
Tertiary Selections
The Steelers lost a tough one to the Patriots last weekend as with less than 3 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter they were down only 6 points before New England exploded and put up another 31 points. Pittsburgh New England but we expect them to try. Interestingly, whichever QB they go with will most probably give them a chance to win. The 5/9 Steelers have the home field yet 8/5 Buffalo Pittsburgh
Selection - Buffalo
Selection - Chicago
Case Keenum played the lights out last Sunday night and had Luck and his Colts soundly beaten when the officials took it upon themselves to make the Colts win/Texans lose. We have never seen anything like it and have to wonder if the officials are indeed bought and paid for by the multibillion dollar sports betting community. If the officials leave this one alone Keenum and his 11/10 Texans (he went to U Houston where he set every NCAA passing record) should annihilate Carson Palmer and his 10/13 Cardinals, and if they don’t we may need to find a new pastime.
Selection – Houston
Other Selection(s)
The Big “D” travels to the Big Easy where it will be anything but off of a desperate win over the desperate Vikings. New Orleans, having the relative misfortune of drawing perhaps the leagues strongest division this year in the AFC East, comes out the other side of it 2-2 and stands at 6-2 overall but is still a game and a half behind Seattle (with the exact opposite type of schedule) for NFC top seed. The 23/10 Cowboys are 0.500 over the last 20 years, 20 games – Pick a period, any period – and come in here at 5-4. The 10/27 New Orleans Saints should have no trouble winning the NFC South title unless we are terribly wrong about Carolina and should have no trouble sending Dallas home at 5-5, old familiar 0.500 on the nose.
Selection – New Orleans
Games To Avoid
This Florida battle (Jacksonville/Tampa would be better) pits the ridiculously troubled Miami Dolphins against the incredibly troubled Tampa Bay Bucs in yet another MNF match that looked a lot better in August than it does right now. Tampa Bay almost won a game; against NFC top seed Seattle at home no less, last week while the Dolphins got back on track outplaying some (other) people’s idea of AFC title contender Cincinnati. Tannehill must somehow deal with losing an entire side of his OLine and going up against Revis while the Miami Miami
Selection – Game To Avoid
The 13/15 Bengals have lost most of their luster losing to Miami and falling to 6-3 just in time for a couple of divisional matches that will either open daylight on the pack for them or drag them back into the scrap that is the AFC North personified. In 2 weeks they could be 8-3 and in control but they could also be 6-5 with Cleveland and these very same Ravens only half a game behind with make-up games against Jacksonville & Minnesota respectively. The Ravens have been incredibly inconsistent this year with just a so-so passing game and a 29th ranked running game so they cannot afford to fall behind by much. Fortunately for the Ravens Cincinnati doesn’t score much with Dalton Baltimore Cincinnati
Selection – Game To Avoid
It just goes from worse to even more worse for the Jaguars as coming off their bye they lose likely their best receiver to rehab and find Chad Henne is still their QB. Meanwhile the Titans have re-ignited their renaissance, climbing back to 0.500 after the Ryan Fitzpatrick debacle, and would be one game out of first place had the referee not engineered the Colt’s comeback on national TV Sunday night. Tennessee
Selection – Game To Avoid
The 2-6 New York Giants are prohibitive favorites over the 3-5 Charger-beating Raiders? Yes, and with good reason too. Pryor no doubt thought he was something last week after stealing a “W” from the desperate Steelers despite his horrendous 25.7 passer rating while the Eagles, playing like one of the worst teams in the league of late, had Nick Foles who only threw 7 TD passes in a real laugher lying in wait. The 5/16 Giants should be much improved with Jacobs and Webster back after their bye, being at home and desperate. The 13/5 Raiders and Pryor should rebound. Normally we would see it as skilful to select Oakland
Selection – Game To Avoid
Nick Foles will almost certainly get the start for the 11/10 Eagles after earning a passer rating of 158.3 last week when he threw for 7 TD’s, 0 Int’s and over 400 yards with an almost 80% completion percentage. Seneca Wallace will almost certainly get the start for the 10/13 Packers after earning a passer rating of 53.4 last week when he threw for 0 TD’s, 1 Int and just over 100 yards with an almost 58% completion percentage. To be fair to Seneca he had no reps in practice and hasn’t started a game (Rodgers played the first couple of minutes Monday night) since Week 17 of the 2011 season (he hadn’t played either) nevertheless his throws were terrible. Josh McCown had no trouble picking the Packer defence to pieces and Nick Foles is probably as good as McCown however Nick cannot count on his group of prima-donnas at WR to perform consistently, especially in a hostile environment like Green Bay, Wisconsin, about as far away from the ‘hood as you can get. We can’t see Green Bay
Selection – Game To Avoid
As already stated, we think very little of the Panthers as the teams they have beaten have terrible records and were playing terrible at the point they faced 11/5 Carolina. 5/13 San Francisco, another team we believe to be overrated, has played extremely well at times however their last 5 games were against less-than-stellar opposition versus many of the teams the Panthers also faced. We cannot see Carolina
Selection – Game To Avoid
Which Washington Redskins team will show up? The one that beat San Diego (with help from the replay official) or the one from the week before that got killed in a game they were winning 21-7 in the third quarter? Meanwhile Minnesota Washington San Diego
Selection – Game To Avoid
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