Bye Week Update: New England Patriots

The New England Patriots head into their bye week with the best record in the NFL at 7-1. They are better than your favorite team. Their quarterback has an infinitely better life than yours. Their fans remain insufferable as hell. They once drafted a murderer. And despite the sheer annoyingness

The Carolina Panthers Bye Week Special

And by "special", I do mean "short bus" special. Let's get this straight right now, I am not a Panthers' fan.  So I really don't have a horse in this race.  If they never win another game, my only reason to care is that I'll have to hear about it from

Vikings Bye Week Update: Week 6 and The Living is Easy.

What we've witnessed so far for the 2016 Vikings season has been a mix-up of inspirational, tragic, head-scratching, awe-inspiring, ferocious and a lot of goddamn fun. The Vikings enter their bye week as the last undefeated team in the NFL at 5-0. First of all, what the fuck is it with these

2016 Green Bay Packers Bye Week Update

The Green Bay Packers, a football team in the NFC North, are 2 - 1.   They have defeated two bad teams (Jaguars, Lions), and lost to one good team (Vikings).  Their offense appears to be rounding into shape, and their bend-but-don't-break defense is the same defense as it has been the

2016 Philadelphia Eagles Bye Week Update

Once in a great while, we sad sacks, we perpetually and correctly pessimistic schlubs, we grown-ass adults who overpay for garish shirts with zoo animals on them...once in a great while we see a glimmer of hope that tells us it might all be worth it. That's what it's been like

2015 Pittsburgh Stillers Bye Week Injury Report

STILLERS BYE WEEK RECAP   WCS: 6-4 and in the Wild Card position. Not too bad considering the Stillers look more like a triage unit during an outbreak of EbolaAIDS. /DeAngelo Williams' ankle explodes The Stillers have started four kickers since the preseason, three quarterbacks, lost All-Pro center and Aaron Hernandez Fan Club president

The San Diego Bye Week Report: A Fantastic Journey (To Last Place/Angeles)

[Deep within a hospital, a patient lies prone, still, and hooked up to many medical devices and machines that whirr, beep, and occasionally print out some esoteric bit of information to be collated later. There are no flowers, no evidence of visitors. A doctor stumbles into the room.] Dr. David Chao:

Waiting For Godot: Your Baffling Buffalo Bills Bye Brief

So I gave my two cents regarding the unreliability of preseason predictions back in my Pats Preview, although my revised conclusion the God is Dead seems be holding in that TAWM TERRIFIC has not yet succumbed to Stage 3 Spontaneous Combustion. But with regard to the Bills, we all thought we