It’s seems like just 48 hours ago we were doing this very thing! It’s as though days just blur into one another, amirite? I’m right. Let’s get at it.

Newsy Notes:

-LSU is pre-emptively kicking themselves out of the Bowl Game carousel because officials have come to realize that OBJ handing out cash to players after last year’s National Champeenship Game is not a good look. There’s far more to it than that of course but that’s a good start. OBJ is truly a full-of-himself, grandstanding idiot isn’t he?

-IU/Purdue, (oh no, we don’t get to find out which is the best team in a lousy football state) Okie/WVU and Texas/Kansas have been canceled among the nine (and counting?) other college games that have suffered the same fate. Parking lot drinking stats are definitely showing a steep decline.

-Paolo Rossi, the fella that led the Dirty Italians to a World Cup title way back in 1982 has passed away. I have some vague memories of watching him and there being some controversy regarding a match-fixing scandal (I had no clue what that was) and his fitness to play. He seemed like an underdog so I cheered for him. I’ve got nuthin else.

-Them Cowboys are getting flexed out of the week 15 Sunday Nighter so that the two-games-under-.500 Giants (as of this writing) can be featured. Oh, did you think that 9-3 Cleveland was the eye-catcher? No, you see, the Browns will be playing their third ever game on Sunday night. The Cowboys have played a mere 47 times.

-Is it too early to do a mock draft? Hell, yes but that’s never stopped anyone, including Walter Football. (I guess he’s obligated, what with that last name) So it’s Jets/QB Lawrence, Jags/QB Fields, Bengals/OT Sewell, Cowboys/DE Rousseau, Chargers/DE Barmore, Eagles/WR Chase, Panthers/TE Pitts, Falcons/DE Hutchinson, Fins/LB Parsons and Broncos/CB Horn.

TO THE GAME!

Pats/Rams:

-Hey it’s a replay of the most boring Super Bowl in recent memory!

-The Pats have been held to under 100 yards passing in two straight games but both were wins. In their last 5 they have all of 545 yards in the air.

-I must say, that’s an awfully cheeky way of nullifying Jalen Ramsey’s impact on a game. Oh, you think he’s going to shut down our wr’s? Nah, we’ll shut them down ourselves! 

-You may see the Pats blitz more often than usual given that Goff is 1-4 when facing that tactic more than 20 times a game. The Fins blitzed him 39 times and he rewarded them with a 53% completion rate and a W.

-It’ll be interesting to see if New England can reign in Aaron Donald’s impact as they did two years ago. They did it using the old double team and some outside zone runs.

-I forgot to look at player props but I wonder how many catches te Izzo might get. He gets the vast majority of the snaps at that position and has been targeted all of 5 times in the last five games.

-Earlier in the year I recall reading/typing that the Pats could be had by attacking the secondary but things might be fixed there. They’ve allowed only 4.4 yards per pass attempt and have not allowed a passing TD in their last two games.

Gimme that good stuff down below.