Frey's NFL Picks Week 9: More Reasons to Rant

In order to cleverly steer the conversation away from my less than stellar 1-3 record last week, management has decided that I should follow up last week’s unscheduled Broncos rant with an unscheduled Broncos rant.

You might think that I would complain about the offloading of DT while the season is still salvageable; that trading a quality player who is an excellent locker room presence and (by all accounts) a good human being sends a bad message to both the team and its fans.

True my rant is DT related but it’s probably not what you think.

1)      First and foremost, the season is not, in actuality, salvageable.

2)      We were never going to pay Thomas 14 million dollars next year in this or any other universe so getting a 4^th round pick and offloading the contract is nothing short of a minor miracle.

3)      Wide Receivers do NOT win championships.

My actual displeasure is two-fold.

Why did it take 8 games for this coaching staff to figure out that the bad-ass 2^nd round pick who schooled Chris Harris and dominated the preseason (and makes like 10 million less a year) needs to get more involved in the game plan? 

I can’t shake the feeling that the only way these chuckleheads were going to make this the Sanders-Sutton show was if DT was offloaded or injured.

But do you want to know what really puts a snake in my boot? 

The fact that we trade our most seasoned Bronco to the team we are playing this week and then act like there is no advantage to be had by our opponents.

Even if the specific game plan is not known to the departing player, a set and specific set of calls are made at the line of scrimmage on most plays depending upon personnel and formation.

In order to avoid a circumstance where the Texans know 80% of everything we’re going to do, we’d have to change up a system that has been in place for months whereupon Garrett Boles will get 700 yards of penalties before simply passing out cold in the middle of the field due to the intellectual strain.

If Denver is going to win this game, we’ll have to do it with Houston knowing what were going to do half of the time and, with this offense in particular, that does not bode well.

OK Houston.  Let's do this....

Enough of this though.  Let’s pick some games.

New York Jets @ Miami Dolphins (-3 ½)

I cannot recall having ever seen a .500 team fail the eye test worse than this year’s incarnation of the Dolphins.  

Somehow they look bad even when not looking bad.  

I can’t really explain it with any degree of coherency so I’ll focus on the other team instead.

The Jets are terrible.

Irony:  a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.

I don’t like the ½ point kicker (I’ve been getting killed by the half-point this year) but I’m taking the Fins in their own house.

Green Bay Packers @ New England Patriots (-5 ½)

As expected, the demise of the New England Patriots has been exaggerated yet again.

As long as Uggs and the woman from Throw Momma from the Train are running the show over there, they are going to be good.

Belichick and Brady continue their long and fruitful partnership to the expense of us all.

Conversely, year in and year out, pundits fawn all over the Packers, paying no heed to their multiple blemishes.

I’m taking another position on the Pack.  

The franchise has been criminally inept for 26 years.

Green Bay has benefited from having Hall of Fame QB’s (some will argue Rodgers and Favre are 2 of the top 5 at their position who ever played) every season since 1992.

Only 2 Super Bowls in 26 years with 2 of the best players in history at the most important position in sports is laughable.

Anyone else would have won 6 or 7 championships with those guys.

As far as this game is concerned, the Pack are 0-3 on the road, are playing a superior team, and shot off their collective blunderbusses last week against the Rams.

The cheaters roll here.

Tennessee Titans (+6 ½) @ Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys are the gift that just keeps on giving. 

No level of sub-mediocrity is sufficient to get people to stop betting on these clowns.

People like this enable Casinos to build huge buildings

Tennessee is getting healthier and coming off a bye week. 

Dallas may win since it is a home game, but it is bad policy to pick below average teams to win by more than 4 unless they’re playing the Raiders.

Detroit Lions @ Minnesota Vikings (-4 ½)

Unless the Vikings were out on that “special boat” from a couple years back, this spread is far too low.

Moreover, Rubius Hagrid just proved that he is yet another asswagon in a long line of Belichickian asswagons by bullying a reporter abut poor posture.

It sounds to me like Matt Patricia sees a lot of slumping and eye-rolling in his locker room and simply took his frustrations out on someone who can’t tell him to go bugger himself.

If it looks like a trap and it walks like a trap and it quacks like a trap….

Week 8:  1-3

2018 Record: 16-15-1

Trap Game Record: 4-4