The Bills lost 5 of their last 7 games so they are 5-5 overall. I previously expressed cautious optimism and predicted a 9-7 final record. This is further proof that I am an idiot.
The games that once appeared to be bunnies on the schedule now look like pitbulls. Matt Moore is playing very well over the past 6 games (8 TD vs. 2 INT), during which time the Fins are 3-3 and +62. Seriously:
And everyone knows what's going on with Tebow in Denver. Throw in season ending injuries to Fred "Action" Jackson and Kyle Williams, and suddenly the Bills could very well lose out the rest of the schedule.
The Jets are also 5-5. TR recently noted that their remaining games, including today's, are BUF, @WAS, KC, @PHI, NYG, @MIA. They ought to be 8-5 when they travel to Philly, and if they can one one of those PHI/NYG games they have a good shot at 10-6. Whether that's enough to make the playoffs remains to be seen. They still need to get their running game going (no Jet averages more than 3.9 yards per carry) but if they can do that soon they could make some noise at the end of the season.
Our teams thus appear ready to launch in opposite directions from their current state of win-loss equipoise, but our waistlines are launching similarly outward so there's some commonality between us. Before we dine on burgers from TR's kickass portable webber and drink High Lifes from TR's kickass cooler, we will assume our kickass alter egos (Tony DiSpangola from Ronkonkoma and Evan Weisswasser from Mamaroneck), debate which route to Yankee Stadium is most kickass (yoo gaaaahdda take da Mosholu!), and discuss our kickass window treatments while being whisked to the game in high style in this kickass limo:
Few things properly capture the tone of what is perhaps the league's schlubbiest game (Bills at Jets) like a late 80's Lincoln Town Car limo with the late 80's Jets logo stencilled on the side. Except of course for Zubaz.
Final score: Bills 10 Jets 24
That's quite a limo.
ReplyDeleteWorst 1:00 slate of games this season. Bills/Jets actually holding my interest more than the others.
ReplyDeleteRams/Cardinals is an abomination.
ReplyDeleteIgor, all these games are now pretty good.
ReplyDeleteClose games, but my NFC East bias has me struggling to find a rooting interest in any of these games.
ReplyDeleteRed Zone Channel is keeping my ADD sated, as usual. Just a glorious channel.
I turn RZC on at 12:59 on Sunday, don't even grab the remote. It stays on until all games end.
ReplyDeleteFuck you, Mark Sanchez.
ReplyDeleteGailey reads Barnwell.
ReplyDeleteSanchez reads Seuss
ReplyDeleteJags fulfilling the disappointment.
ReplyDeleteLeinart out now w a sore labia. 3rd stringer Tj yates in. His name is TJ ya'll.
ReplyDeleteYates driving down the field. Great.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame the Jags don't play the Redskins this year, just for the pure awfulness that would ensue
ReplyDeletei think the jags should play notre dame in the champs sports bowl.
ReplyDeleteTR almost got his ass kicked in the bathroom for picking on some dude in a Tillman jersey.
ReplyDeleteDid you two catch Stevie Johnson's TD celebration?
ReplyDeletePatrick Peterson is good at the returning of punts
ReplyDeletemark sanchez really isn't all that good at the quarterbacking
ReplyDeleteGabbert benched. Jags have no future.
ReplyDeleteThis game will end on a fumble or I perception.....or a sack.
ReplyDeleteNewt keeps calling our house.
ReplyDeleteJags lose another. Del Rio will probably get a 5 year extension.
it was a great celebration, though, jabar
ReplyDeleteKicking game continuing to make strides in the quest for a top 3 draft pick. Go Skins.
ReplyDeleteSkins have missed 20 field goals in their last 27 games.
ReplyDeleteThree commercials in a row used the descriptor "epic." I think we might need to provide the Webster's definition to these overusers.
ReplyDeleteTebow Time...
ReplyDeleteand if you haven't seen Caleb Hanie's attempt to quarterback in the Bears game, you're missing some good comedy.
The Eagles appear to have no chance at stopping Tom Brady.
ReplyDeleteOf stopping Tom Brady.
ReplyDeleteMe grammar suk.
don't be so hard at yourself, teej
ReplyDeletethis redskins/seahawks game should've been played on friday night with metal bleachers
ReplyDeletePerhaps it can end in a homage to Gheorghe, tied 7-7...
ReplyDeleteand grossman can smash his head against a wall
ReplyDelete...in a different kind of homage
ReplyDeletei had a 5-point lead and 4 players going in the afternoon games, while my opponent had only tom brady. i now trail.
ReplyDeletecarry on not giving a damn about my fantasy team.
I do not believe that j-lo drives a fiat.
ReplyDeleteNot even one with gucci seat belts.
ReplyDeleteDoes desean Jackson know that he's supposed to catch the ball?
ReplyDeleteDenny might be a better QB than henne.
ReplyDeleteOr hainie. Whoever the guy on the bears is.
ReplyDeleteThese 4pm games are entertaining and atrocious all at once
ReplyDeleteWait, are the Redskins going to win this? Because it sure feels like they should lose. Also, the Ron Pitts/Jim Mora Jr announce team bloooooows
ReplyDeletebernie fine fired by syracuse. jim boeheim, please pick up the white courtesy phone. only thing that will save him is if he can prove lack of knowledge of fine's activities.
ReplyDeleteteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebowwwwwwwwwwww!
ReplyDeletethis is beginning to get weird.
Those teams deserved to tie. That was an awful game. And OT was even worse than the first 60 minutes.
ReplyDeletein don hewitt's defense, they'd never done a program like that before
ReplyDeleteGregg Doyel has a Bernie Fein/Boeheim article coming soon...I imagine it might be just a tad critical of the Cuse head coach.
ReplyDeleteJust a tad.
"I have never been in Bernie fine's room in my life."
ReplyDeleteNo mention that God apparently still hates Stevie Johnson?
ReplyDeleteJesus Quintana hates Stevie Johnson.
ReplyDeletewhat did bruce boudreau know about bernie fine and when did he know it?
ReplyDeletecoastal carolina lost their first game after being ordained our adopted team. we're pretty good at this.
ReplyDeleteAlso in the men's room: a 60+ year old man in a Simpson jersey. I don't think it was supposed to be ironic. I didn't take a photo because he was using the urinal. Everyone looked at him with disdain and heckled him a bit. I suggested that he replace it with a Thurman Thomas if he's really into Bills RBs. He said nothing to anyone.
ReplyDeleteCan we adopt Duke next?
ReplyDeleteso what scenarios get us any national championship game other than bama/lsu? does the rest of the season matter at all from a championship perspective?
ReplyDeleteMike Francesa opined that LSU will be the national champion even if Bama beats them (unless it's a blowout in which case Bama would be the champ) and noted that this means that the "championship game" won't really be a championship game.
ReplyDeleteHow does that work? The structure of the current system favors heavily the teams that lose early and rewards the teams that keep winning late. I assume that would translate to the final game of the season and do not see a reason that it wouldn't. Sounds to me like Francesca is just trying to stir up more BCS haters, if that's possible at this point.
ReplyDeleteI don't see a team coached by Saban losing to the same team twice in a season.
Francesa claims to know voters who told him that they would vote for LSU even if they lost, provided it was another close game.
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