It was another good week of watching football, and all I can say to the N.B.A still not having any agreement and being in danger of having no season at all is that I won't miss you till February anyway. Hope you're around by then. If not your loss.
I had a good time with my usual Sunday ritual of hanging out at Applebee's and enjoying $.25 wings and free refills of soda. I know for the usual bartender, though she's very nice and we're friends, it is a pain for her to have to keep going to the back to get me another orange soda-the soda fountain is in the back. I'm like the one guy hanging out watching football on a Sunday not reaching for the beers but the oragne sodas. Though my Giants didn't play this week there was plenty of good games.
The Massey-Peabody beat the Vegas line this week 9-3 to 7-5, with the Baltimore game tonight still pending. Both of them missed Denver beating Miami 18-15 as well as the Falcons upsetting Detroit 23-16. Only Massey had the Jets beating San Diego and Houston beating Tennessee. For my part it wasn't shocking that Houston won but it was that they were this dominating, a 41-7 win in Tennessee.
The Cowboys blew out the Rams but lets face it, they are supposed to do this if they are in any way deserving of being considered a serious contender as many assume they are. The Giants got help from the Panthers who knocked out the Redskins, 33-20.
The Packers continue to look like the reigning champions they are in beating the Vikings 33-27. The Vikings are one of those teams that always look like a contender but never are as they have now dropped to 1-6, though many of these losses have been close as was yesterday's defeat at the hands of the undefeated champion Packers.
Check the box scores in almost any week, and you'll see that the team with the greater amount of rushing yards usually wins; on the other hand the team that throws for more yards consistently is just a little under .500 week after week. The Packers however defy this statistic as they are not a very good running team, coming into the game averaging under 100 yards per game. What they do well is defend the run, coming in they were allowing only about 83 yards per game. However, yesterday they gave up 218 rushing yards to Minnesota while gaining only 114-that's what happens when you face Adrian Peterson. One certainly can't blame him for the loss. So there the Pack goes again winning another game in which they are majorly outrun. That shows that Rogers is the great equalizer. He had what was technically an almost perfect game at QB.
He was 24 of 30 for 335 yards for an 80 percent completion rate, and 3 TD passes and 0 picks. His QB rating at 146.5 while off the charts is not technically perfect, a perfect rating is 158.3 which makes you wonder what you have to do in the N.F.L to be perfect. He was sacked 4 times, that's the only glitch I can see. While the team that runs for more yards usually wins, so does the team with the QB who has the higher rating. So you can say that while the team with the QB who throws the most yards doesn't necessarily win, the team whose QB played better usually does.
I got to say I feel bad for the Colts after the drubbing they took last night, 62-7, Drew Brees looked truly fearsome. It must be hard to after never having Peyton miss a single game missing the whole season. Certainly hope Oakland's Darren McFadden is all right. You hate to see a talent like this be lost due to injury. The Raiders without him were lost yesterday being blown 28-0 out to the Kansas City Chiefs a team they were supposed to beat and that has been blown out too many times itself this year to count. After such a rough start-the Chiefs opened the year losing 41-7 to Buffalo and 48-3 to Detroit, they have clawed back to 3-3. Yesterday the Chiefs had a stunning 6 INTs in the win.
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