Frey's NFL Picks Week 8: Wow Broncos. Just....Wow....

I have always found that a coupling of humor and perspective is a fool-proof formula for the lifting of spirits.

This week, the Denver Broncos were kind enough to provide me with liberal amounts of both.

In most circumstances, a 2-2 week of prognostication would generate disappointment and/or consternation.  In lieu of recent events, however, I thought I would measure this against the week the Broncos just enjoyed.

·        Plausible and verified trade rumblings involving DT and Bradley Roby surface suggesting that the team may be packing it in.

·         Our head coach denies that any such talks are occurring making him look like a puppet at best and nincompoop at worst.

·         CBS reports that, due to Case Keenum’s continued struggles, backup QB Chad Kelly will begin getting meaningful snaps in games.

·         Von Miller throws a Halloween Party for teammates whereupon 2 prominent players dress up like cocaine addicts and waive bags of white power around.  The videos are promptly posted to social media.

·         That same evening, QB Chad Kelly (dressed like Woody from Toy Story) gets hopped up on goofballs and starts trying fight everyone at the party.  Team security escorts him out to cool off but, as expected, he valiantly escapes the tacklers and takes off down the street to freedom.

·         Seeing a young woman nursing her child on her couch, Chad makes the only decision that seems appropriate at the time and enters the home to sit down next to her so that he might engage in some friendly incomprehensible rambling and occasional shouts of “There’s a snake in my boot!”

·         Her concerned husband comes out and beats Woody with an aluminum vacuum tube until he departs the house so that he can be promptly arrested.

·         Chad Kelly is fired the next day and an agitated Vance Joseph acts like nothing happened.

·         The team boards a plane to Kansas City.

You can't make this stuff up.  Even Buffalo is laughing at us.

Yep.  I’ll take the 2-2.

Denver Broncos @ Kansas City Chiefs (-9)

Do I really even need to elaborate on this one?

You know what’s going to happen here and so do I.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Cincinnati Bengals (-3 ½)

Fans of the NBA might remember a guy named Alex English who played for the Denver Nuggets in the 80’s.

After a game would end, you’d look at the box score and say, “Wow.  English had a great game.”

Then you’d think back and start to remember a quiet but extremely effective 30 point night.

Jameis Winston is similar in this respect.  After the game ends, you look at the box score and notice some pretty solid numbers. 

But then you think back about the game you just watched and realize that he kind of sucked the entire time and it still doesn’t make any sense how he put up the numbers.

If this were fantasy football, I’d say look to Jameis to do some damage.  Since it isn’t, take the Bengals to cover.

Green Bay Packers (+9) @ Los Angeles Rams

That the Rams are a much better football team than Green Bay is not in dispute.

That having been said,  tepid fans and a negligible home field advantage make giving up 9 points to a Hall of Fame QB is a sucker’s bet.

The Pack covers here.

Cleveland Browns (+8 ½) @ Pittsburgh Steelers

When selecting this week’s picks, I simply could not force my brain to stop coming back to this game.

Pittsburgh is definitely playing better of late and the Browns are….well….exhibiting some very Brownesque tendencies again.

Still, in week 1, Cleveland was an abysmal Tyrod Taylor performance and 4 missed chip shots away from coming away with a win.

A spread this large looks trappy to me which means it probably is but I’m going to hold my nose and take the Browns anyway.

Week 7:  2-2

2018 Record: 15-12-1

Trap Game Record: 4-3