Old Man

Picks in order of descending confidence: Ravens over Texans. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t seen the Ravens play. Neeners over Packers Lions over Bucs, but only if they play like they want it Erratic Bills over lackluster Chiefs. I want to believe

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Both teams had the dropsies in that game. I think the Bucs had half a dozen drops just in the first half. It was a frustrating game to watch.

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50% is a landslide result for an Iowa caucus. I can't find an example of any other non-incumbent candidate winning more than 30% there in modern history, D or R. The only hope for Trump's competitors is that the Iowa weather kept all the sane people home.

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I'm inclined to give the Fins a bit of a pass after they lost five starting LBs over the previous two weeks, as well as Jaylen Waddle and Xavien Howard. And then played a playoff game in weather cold enough to shatter helmets. Otherwise I only felt bad for the Rams, who played well but just had a lot of things go wrong. And they still only lost by a point. Next week I'm inclined to root for Houston, Buffalo, and Detroit, all for the same reason--a long stretch without any Superb Owl appearances. Houston's not gonna beat Baltimore though.

For me the main justification for firing Sirianni would be the total lack of ideas or morale on the team. They made no changes on offense at all, and there's been plenty of press coverage of both the players and coaching staff having no idea how to fix it. I'm semi-watching this game, Tampa is in man coverage basically all the time and Philly has two running quarterbacks and I didn't see a single designed run. No attempt to get running backs involved in the passing game, no pre-snap motion. I'm like, dude, put in Mariota or try a wildcat or something. The whole thing reminds me of the McCarthy days in Green Bay where the coach calls endless vanilla plays and expects the players to do all the work.

Man it's like the Eagles gave up four weeks ago.

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Jeez, Eagles. Tampa's defense isn't even particularly good.

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I'm not sure they should have shown the replay on the Higbee hit. Knees are not supposed to have that particular range of motion.

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I doubt it, but it's still delicious to see him humiliated by his former team in the playoffs.

Wasn't gonna watch football today but Dallas is losing at the moment and that's always nice to see.

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As I am in Tua's hometown I'll probably listen to the game. I'd love to actually watch Football On Ice, but not enough to subscribe to yet another streaming service.

44-14 and there's still most of Q4 to play.

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Poor Flacco. He's better than this.

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