I would like to say that I didn’t see that
Baltimore loss to the Raiders coming but then I’d have to go back and edit my
last article where I posted that game as my trap of the week.
Well played Vegas. Well played.
Still, I’ll take a 3-1 week against the
spread any day.
You know who else would
take 3-1? The Browns. You know who won’t see it this year or any
other until they get their head out of their butts? The Browns.
Week 3 unscheduled
Rant: Cleveland is Stupid.
God hates Cleveland and deservedly so.
Everybody knows this.
Still, watching the Browns organization take
the first glimmer of hope that their fans have had since the Eisenhower
administration and stomp it out like an errand cinder from a big, inept,
campfire is enough to make even the almighty cringe just a little bit.
Illusory as the hope in Manziel may be in the
long run, he just turned in an electric performance in leading his team to a
resounding home victory that lifted the folks of Cleveland from deep shame to a
level resembling slightly less than deep shame.
So what does the leadership do?
That’s right!
Bench him and put in a guy who is painful to watch with absolutely no
upside.
I can hear them in the boardroom now. “If we go with our #1 draft choice who just
turned in the best QB performance for our franchise in 5 years, we may end up
going 4-12 instead of a much more boring 4-12 if we go with the career backup.”
Yep. That’s
why they call you the Browns.
Tampa Bay
Buccaneers @ Houston Texans (-3 ½)
How is it, you may ask, that I can so confidently pile back on Jameis
Winston after his competent performance from last week?
The answer is quite simple. He
does really stupid things. Often.
Now take “Winston does really stupid things” and combine it with “J.J.
Watt in your face every play” and you have a recipe for baboonery on a monumental
scale.
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| All 245 Tampa fans are said to be burning a candle for their young QB |
17 interceptions is not out of the question this week.
The fact that they don’t even have a QB notwithstanding, Houston gets
off the schnide this week and covers.
San Francisco
49ers @ Arizona Cardinals (-6)
Is
Carson Palmer hurt yet?
No?
Then
they are going to kill the 9ers.
Cincinnati
Bengals @ Baltimore Ravens (-1 ½)
Just like my Buffalo pick from week 1, people
are luke-warm to my selection of the Ravens.
If ever a must-win game there was, this is it
for the ravens who, incidentally, are almost undefeatable at home (Only Green
Bay and New England have better home records over the last 5 years).
The Bengals have always expected to drop this
game and can actually afford to.
Philadelphia Eagles @ New York
Jets (-1)
Which brings
us to the Admiral Akbar trap game of the week.
There are so
many reasons to bet against Philly here that my laptop battery would never
survive the listing effort. Here are
just a few of the more important considerations:
1.
Philadelphia’s
multi-million dollar running back only barely has more rushing yards this
season than I do.
2.
Chip Kelly’s “Fire
everyone who doesn’t suck” plan is really starting to come together.
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| Head Coach Chip Kelly pitches his plan to the good people of Philadelphia. |
3.
Their
offensive ineptitude came against defense much crappier than the Jets.
As always, I
am falling right into this trap
Last Week: 3-1
Season Record: 7-1
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