On a related note, it will be interesting how many teams will have 9 or more losses after this weekend, with the Giants now well on their way to being the first team to achieve TEN losses.
It’s touchdown or bust for the Giants now on every drive. Thank you CFL, for NO LEAD IS SAFE!
Nine or more losses after Week 13 essentially means a team has to win out and have something like a certain moon of Saturn align with …oh never mind that BS, it’s not happening, they are all BURNT TOAST for this season, no offense CFL Forum friend Jim Nantz.
For additional holiday cheer today here in the US and for old time’s sake, courtesy of Jim Rome and friends at CBS, here is how things were only a short few years ago, which feels like a whole lot longer, when the New York Giants used their pick at #6 in the 2019 NFL Draft for Daniel Jones:
Huge swing. The play before Love was given a generous incomplete pass ruling on what looked like a fumble that Miami recovered. Bad way for Miami to start.
If a cold weather team is hosting a warm weather team - I always pick the cold weather team.
They are better prepared to real with a cold, stiff, and slick football.
Further to the discussion about the NHL inexplicably scheduling a home game for the Canucks the same day as the Grey Cup in Vancouver, I noticed that this is the first day this season there are no NHL games scheduled, not even in Canada. No desire to compete with the NFL on Thanksgiving.
That is the prevailing wisdom and may turn out to be the case. I went with Miami on the theory that they have the better and hotter QB. That won’t matter if they can’t catch punts deep in their own end.
I noticed a lot more competing theories than usual in our picks for Week 13 for the Turkey Slate. Uncle Jesse of the Dukes of Hazzard even made an appearance this week.
It ended up being an exciting first game. I’m usually like, “how are the Bears going to screw it up this time?”
Then I was like, “It’s the Lions, historically the only worse organization than the Bears.” (except maybe the Browns)
Then the Bears showed me why they are indeed the worst. They found an entirely new and creative way to blow a game against a team of backups.
When video review works. Ref had a brain fart and called a penalty against the Raiders a penalty against KC and marches them back to their 6 yard line.
1 commercial break later - the ball is at the 26 where it should have been as the error was corrected.
The Dolphins lost their last 12 games, including postseason, in which the temperature at kickoff was 40 degrees or lower. Thursday, it was 27 degrees, with 10 mph winds and a wind chill of 18.
It certainly wasn’t as bad as last year’s negative-degree Dolphins loss in Kansas City in the postseason. But Green Bay players said they noticed the difference with the southern club.
Added safety Xavier McKinney: “Obviously, they’re coming from Miami, it’s hot there, and then when you come here and play in that cold weather, you get affected by it. So I think it affected everybody on that team.”
Yup. Fine motor muscles in your hands and arms are the first to start not moving as freely when you get cold so catching the ball is different, which means the ball placement from the QB needs to be different.
Plus - it is automatically colder on your sideline in the second half when you are behind.
There better be more than free hot chocolate involved.
Free food and beer, damnit.
If not, c’mon pay up you cheapskate ownership and NFL.
Like they don’t have enough money to pay for that work so that the show, which will have great ratings this Sunday, can just go on!
