Only three games on the docket and there’s not much to choose from.
To The Games!
Jags/Raiders:
Someone has to play in this spot and I guess it’s the Jags and Raiders. Jax is one game over .500 as their middling offense (15th) and defense (21st) would indicate. Brady’s Raiders are already playing out the string and looking at their remaining games I see potential wins vs only the Browns and Giants. That spells out a 4-13 season which seems just about right.
Saints/Rams:
Shough around and find out? The rookie QB is going to have a hell of an interesting time with the Rams pass rush. Los Angeles in a walk.
Chiefs/Bills:
This tilt is being called an AFC Champeenship preview but I don’t see it. Buffalo’s defense is incredibly suspect and needs to improve dramatically. As well, they seem shy about giving Cook the rock for 20-25 touches. But when they do they have great success. Maybe they’re saving him for the home stretch/post season?
There you are.
a few years ago the las vegas raiders went to the playoffs and thought “you know what, we are being too successful. we need to hire a bill belichick scrub to tank our franchise for years to come! and nobody does it better than josh mcdaniels!”
If I hadn’t made a deal with the universe to preserve my fandom (after they fired Gruden and were dead in the water I swore that if they failed to make the playoffs I was allowed to quit them, but if they pulled it I was stuck with them forever) I would have abandoned the franchise after that disaster.
so very, very raiders
Seriously. Why not take MOST GLORIOUS TIE?
Feel like I should bake them a cake.
(sigh) Thanks for reminding me the Bengals defense didn’t get a cake.
Thanks Dok!
Good idea!
DDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on, successful hail Mary plus missed XP
NOW THAT was a loud DOINK (volume 4?)
DOINK!! with his siren song in Buffalo
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE MOST BILLS-IAN DOINK!!!
Would Vegas go for 2?
They should if they get the chance
Oooh, they are! Excellent!
That’s betting on Geno, though. But yeah, at 2-5 you might as well. FUCK I LOVE DRAWS, though.
Pete once again denied victory at the goal line.
#LooseChange
Some jet fuel woulda cut through that goal line.
I need the Jets in Geno to make an appearance here.
A tie would be delicious
No way Raiders are kicking for the tie here. Not at home.
“Rico Dowdle is our entire offense and somehow the Panthers are still winning.”
-Tom Grossi
Trammel is another one of those good football player names, though I would have thought better for a defensive player
Time for the first egg nog of the season.
Is it the stuff your brother makes?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6xIJQARRo
Jaguras OT. Is this the abyss staring back at me?
The abyss spit me out. I was bumming it out.
Wow. Jacksonville and Las Vegas both scored over 20 points?!
Bonus football probably! Will the Raiders Raider? Or will the Jags Jagura?
bonus: the bills are billsing!
I was told that nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills?
As usual the worst matchups on paper provide the most fun.
Long live incompetence!
Speaking of Gambler, I watched the Colin Farrell Netflix movie ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ recently. There is a great twist towards the end, worth the parts in the middle where things sort of of drag. Would recommend.
Gamblor has just run a train on me today.
They don’t build casino palaces on losses.
BUT I HAVE A SYSTEM!
Ironically the only bet that won for me today was Caleb Williams related.
My Super Sneaky Panthers wild card prediction pick has more life than ever!
I like the Rams’ chances to win this game.
Good news, folks, I apparently have a 1% chance to make up 53.5 points using Dak Prescott, Jake Ferguson, and less than one quarter of Kyren Williams.
/doesn’t look at hole cards, closes eyes, shoves entire chip stack into middle
I like those odds!!
I love The Odds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49a6uxGhVPk
The Odds and Kids In The Hall mashup that doesn’t get any likes? I’m feeling as pathetic as Brick right now!
I liked it.
Patty ending up on the ground more often than a stereotypically drunken Irish immigrant from the 1880s!
Damnit, ChatGPT, when I said that I wanted to see a young Will Smith going at it with Bieber, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-JWnS3QG0
Tuten! Sitting him in favor of Vidal is my second lineup boo-boo of the day, after dropping Loveland for Ertz
“semi-pick play”
*sees a full ass basketball pick*
that was such a moving screen that draymond green is gonna give the chiefs a high five
Mahomes watching his offensive line handle the Bills pass rush, artist’s depiction:
I saw a Geno jersey and a Steve Largent jersey at the second (fine, third) brewery stop and I now think we should shoot Seahawks fans into the sun.
HOX!
A Largent jersey would be a classic Seahawks jersey and therefore cool, even if Largent turned into a right-wing asshole.
It’s DC. I’m not giving that guy the benefit of the doubt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnzBO6odgw&list=RDBbnzBO6odgw&start_radio=1
I have done many manly things today.
-fixed the chainsaw, with only a minimal amount of swearing
-used the chainsaw on a bunch of of dead wood, with only minimal blood loss (got a splinter picking up some shrapnel)
-hiked in woods with dog
-went to gym with Mrs. Horatio, 45 minutes on elliptical while watching Halo on Netflix, even though I know it got canceled after two seasons and is too expensive to be brought back, so there’s really no point watching but hey, aliens go plooey!
-sawed a 6′ length of dead apple tree trunk from our* backyard for a friend who does a lot of carpentry, then delivered it and had a beer.
-mowed lawn without checking gas tank level or making sure I had gas in the gas can for refills, (and it doesn’t get more manly than that), ran out after finishing 95% on lawn.
Now it’s time for my favorite manly activity-sitting around in sweats drinking beer and watching sports while making dick jokes. HOW THE FUCK YOU DOING, DFO!?!?
*not really clear it’s our backyard, but I did bury a dog there so I think that trumps any property line bullshit
Is dead wood a euphemism here?
No, the old apple tree in our* backyard finally came down in a couple of stages during various windstorms, and I’ve been slowly clearing it away. Today was the day I went after the trunk.
*eh
Is you going after the trunk a euphemism?
This conversation is going to end when Godot gets here to pick up some applewood lumber, isn’t it?
Just wait
Did you give it a name? I felt a lot better about pulling up that bamboo after I started calling it Kronos.
No, I didn’t feel too bad about cutting up fallen deadwood, (LITERALLY CUTTING UP FALLEN DEADWOOD, BFC!!!), but with your permission when I go after the Russian olive trees that are starting to encroach on our* property I will call them The Kronos Quartet.
*really, what is property anyway?
Almost like getting Jeanty the ball in space is a good fucking idea, old man.