Week 15 Musings
The Grazianimal Rambles On.
The playoff picture is coming into focus. The Colts are in and so are the Seahawks. That leaves 10 spots to be decided and uncountable Fantasy Championships to be awarded. Most leagues are down to their final four so consider yourself blessed to still be setting your line up. Lucky for most Fantasy players, with playoff hopes alive all across the league there will be few teams resting their studs in week 15. Even the Colts are playing for history so coach Dungy should let his boys post some numbers before putting them out to pasture.
It is not professional sports if some spoiled millionaire is not whining about something that the rest of us would give up our first born to endure. This week it was Aaron Brooks’ turn to give us all a little insight into how insulated from reality pro players are. I am not going to dignify his remarks with a quote. Dude, your city was destroyed. A nuke could have gone off in New Orleans and fewer people would have been displaced then after Katrina smashed the gulf coast. Get a grip. As if the Saints would not have sucked anyway. They are the Saints. Their home games are not on TV in the Big Easy. Haven’t been for years.
Last week I was a crappy flag away from another winning week almost calling that Brown upset. The officiating in this league is at an all time low. My favorite press conference all week is Mike Pereira on the NFL network explaining all the brain dead decisions. I am always incensed after it is over. The replay chickens have come home to roost. The zebras are afraid of their own shadows and must stare at each other looking for affirmation on the simplest of plays. Hey, what do you think the super slo-mo replay will show on this one? That I am incompetent, lost, and blind? Let them call these games in real time. Replay is stupid. Unless you like your football with ambivalent decision making, extra delays, confusing reasoning and a big old helping of second guessing from pencil necked announcers.
On to week 15. The chips are all on the table. By my count every team but the Jets has a shot, so we should see some desperate football. Games start on Saturday so set those line-ups early. There are all sorts of huge games this week, lets look at the big ones.
The Skins host the Cowboys in what might shape up to be an elimination game in the NFC East. Everybody remembers the Injuns winning in Dallas on two last second TD bombs to Santana Moss. Washington has been as inconsistent as any team in football, scratching their way back over five hundred with a two game winning streak. Dallas laid an egg in New York and then needed a penalty to save their cookies last week against Kansas City. These teams are coached by Hall of Famers so this season is against type for both of them. Anybody that says they know what will happen is full of malarkey. Here is what will happen. Drew Bledsoe makes everybody on the opposite sideline look good with yet another late season flop. There is a reason he keeps having to look for work.
Mike Tice looked so lost it was like he got to Minnesota by airplane crash. Dead black kids were telling him he was canned for sure in backwards mumbo jumbo speak and then disappearing into the mist of 10,000 lakes. There was a curly haired fat kid wandering around the practice field in a daze. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the unemployment line. His superstar QB went down for the season and all of a sudden Mike had his team back. Brad “Rodney No Respect” Johnson showed why he has one more Super Bowl ring then the Vikings franchise and the purple people eaters pounded out six wins in a row.
Now Mike is on the short list for Coach of the Year, the Vikes are staring the playoffs right in the face and Koren Robinson looks like the player so many of us drafted way back when. The Vikes are one game out of first place after the Bears stumbled in steel town. Did anyone see this coming when the press was in a swing party induced feeding frenzy back in week Love Boat? Kudos to the Long Island boy Tice, what else can you say? Pittsburg wins this week in Minny.
I am more tired of talking about the Colts than Terrell Owens. But they refuse to lose and this week they have a shot to put the knife into San Diego. The Chargers are trying to go golfing as bad as any team in the league. The Texans have more fight. Nick Saban said he could care less about wins 3 weeks ago and the Bolts went and handed him another one. Frerotte to Chambers is not Peyton to Marvin. The Colts are at home and that means Dungy ties Shula.
Picking the Colts does not even count anymore. So here is a bonus pick.
Chi-town vs. Hotlanta. The Birds looked great last week beating New Orleans and the Monsters looked sad in steel town. I am not worried about Mike Vick’s injury today as much as the injury he will get on Sunday night. On the other side Kyle Orton looks terrible when they win and last week he looked as bad as a NY Jet in the loss. Can he return to his winning ways? Will he get a chance or will we see the first of Rex? The Bears can’t let up because the Vikes somehow are right behind them. The Dirty Birds need this one too, so we will finally get some good football at 8:30. Home cooking wins this one. Da Bears.
I got the Redskins to stay relevant, the Steel Curtain to snuff Miracle Mike, the Colts to make some history, and the Bears to put the hurt on MV.
Somebody please e-mail grazianimal@columnist.com
The playoff picture is coming into focus. The Colts are in and so are the Seahawks. That leaves 10 spots to be decided and uncountable Fantasy Championships to be awarded. Most leagues are down to their final four so consider yourself blessed to still be setting your line up. Lucky for most Fantasy players, with playoff hopes alive all across the league there will be few teams resting their studs in week 15. Even the Colts are playing for history so coach Dungy should let his boys post some numbers before putting them out to pasture.
It is not professional sports if some spoiled millionaire is not whining about something that the rest of us would give up our first born to endure. This week it was Aaron Brooks’ turn to give us all a little insight into how insulated from reality pro players are. I am not going to dignify his remarks with a quote. Dude, your city was destroyed. A nuke could have gone off in New Orleans and fewer people would have been displaced then after Katrina smashed the gulf coast. Get a grip. As if the Saints would not have sucked anyway. They are the Saints. Their home games are not on TV in the Big Easy. Haven’t been for years.
Last week I was a crappy flag away from another winning week almost calling that Brown upset. The officiating in this league is at an all time low. My favorite press conference all week is Mike Pereira on the NFL network explaining all the brain dead decisions. I am always incensed after it is over. The replay chickens have come home to roost. The zebras are afraid of their own shadows and must stare at each other looking for affirmation on the simplest of plays. Hey, what do you think the super slo-mo replay will show on this one? That I am incompetent, lost, and blind? Let them call these games in real time. Replay is stupid. Unless you like your football with ambivalent decision making, extra delays, confusing reasoning and a big old helping of second guessing from pencil necked announcers.
On to week 15. The chips are all on the table. By my count every team but the Jets has a shot, so we should see some desperate football. Games start on Saturday so set those line-ups early. There are all sorts of huge games this week, lets look at the big ones.
The Skins host the Cowboys in what might shape up to be an elimination game in the NFC East. Everybody remembers the Injuns winning in Dallas on two last second TD bombs to Santana Moss. Washington has been as inconsistent as any team in football, scratching their way back over five hundred with a two game winning streak. Dallas laid an egg in New York and then needed a penalty to save their cookies last week against Kansas City. These teams are coached by Hall of Famers so this season is against type for both of them. Anybody that says they know what will happen is full of malarkey. Here is what will happen. Drew Bledsoe makes everybody on the opposite sideline look good with yet another late season flop. There is a reason he keeps having to look for work.
Mike Tice looked so lost it was like he got to Minnesota by airplane crash. Dead black kids were telling him he was canned for sure in backwards mumbo jumbo speak and then disappearing into the mist of 10,000 lakes. There was a curly haired fat kid wandering around the practice field in a daze. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the unemployment line. His superstar QB went down for the season and all of a sudden Mike had his team back. Brad “Rodney No Respect” Johnson showed why he has one more Super Bowl ring then the Vikings franchise and the purple people eaters pounded out six wins in a row.
Now Mike is on the short list for Coach of the Year, the Vikes are staring the playoffs right in the face and Koren Robinson looks like the player so many of us drafted way back when. The Vikes are one game out of first place after the Bears stumbled in steel town. Did anyone see this coming when the press was in a swing party induced feeding frenzy back in week Love Boat? Kudos to the Long Island boy Tice, what else can you say? Pittsburg wins this week in Minny.
I am more tired of talking about the Colts than Terrell Owens. But they refuse to lose and this week they have a shot to put the knife into San Diego. The Chargers are trying to go golfing as bad as any team in the league. The Texans have more fight. Nick Saban said he could care less about wins 3 weeks ago and the Bolts went and handed him another one. Frerotte to Chambers is not Peyton to Marvin. The Colts are at home and that means Dungy ties Shula.
Picking the Colts does not even count anymore. So here is a bonus pick.
Chi-town vs. Hotlanta. The Birds looked great last week beating New Orleans and the Monsters looked sad in steel town. I am not worried about Mike Vick’s injury today as much as the injury he will get on Sunday night. On the other side Kyle Orton looks terrible when they win and last week he looked as bad as a NY Jet in the loss. Can he return to his winning ways? Will he get a chance or will we see the first of Rex? The Bears can’t let up because the Vikes somehow are right behind them. The Dirty Birds need this one too, so we will finally get some good football at 8:30. Home cooking wins this one. Da Bears.
I got the Redskins to stay relevant, the Steel Curtain to snuff Miracle Mike, the Colts to make some history, and the Bears to put the hurt on MV.
Somebody please e-mail grazianimal@columnist.com
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