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Last week certainly delivered with a fantastic Sunday Night finish. This week, no more bye weeks means an extra game on the slate. The key matchups include the Colts at Baltimore, Chargers at Denver, and Falcons at NY Giants.
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By Ryan McGowan
I didn’t sleep much last night. I usually pass out easily on Sunday nights, but this week I kept replaying the final two minutes over and over again in my head. Somehow, I eventually got to sleep—and when I woke up, it all made sense.
Belichick was right. He went for it on 4th and 2 at his own 28 yard line. And I would want him to do it again, no question.
Week 10 of the NFL season brings us some intriguing matchups: Atlanta goes into Carolina to battle a rejuvenated Panthers team. Divisional supremacy is on the line wiht Cinci and Pittsburgh. KC and Oakland battle for best draft pick in the AFC West. And the marquee matchup is New England at Indy.
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We are officially past the halfway point in the 2009 NFL Season. While not the sexiest of weeks, there are some intriguing matchups this week and they are our featured games: Two key divisional matchups in Miami at New England and Dallas at Philly; and two east big time east west teams in SD at NYG and Pittsburgh at Denver. We pick all 13 games this week and discuss the World Series.
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By Ryan McGowan
It’s almost November, and we’re deep into football season. Yes, I realize it’s not exactly the midpoint of the season, but enough marriages have been ended from excessive game watching, friendships strained from fantasy drama, and eyeballs disturbed from staring at electronic screens for hours upon hours of obsessive fandom that we can finally start making sense of another crazy NFL season. It’s also a good time to start to assess our preseason predictions, 90% of which have been completely refuted so far.
We’re about halfway through the season and only a handful of teams are showing themselves to be legitimate contenders for the ring. Meanwhile, the dregs of the league are so bad that Vegas took a bath last weekend because they simply can’t put a spread big enough to cover the ineptitude of the Browns, Rams, Chiefs, Raiders, and Bucs. The featured games this week are Denver at Baltimore, NY Giants at Philly, Minnesota at Green (I think a former player is going back to Lambeau this week or something.) and Atlanta at New Orleans.
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We’re into the heart of the football season and we have only 13 games on the docket this week. There aren’t a lot of strong story lines this week. Mostly we have teams coming off byes trying to figure out whether their team is a legitimate contender this year. The featured games this week are Minnesota @ Pittsburgh, Chicago @ Cinci, Atlanta @ Dallas, and New Orleans @ Miami.
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There should be some slightly better games this weekend despite some double digit spread laughers. Hey, they can’t make the Browns play the Bills again, right? Cleveland beating Buffalo 6-3 was the nadir of the young football season. I feel sorry for anyone who had to watch that. The featured games this week are Baltimore @ Minnesota, NY Giants @ New Orleans, Arizona @ Seattle, and Denver @ San Diego.
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This article is not going to be like anything I’ve ever written before because, quite simply, I’m jealous. And it shows.
Because I’m smarter than almost every head football coach, at least in terms of something as simple as clock management. And while I’m watching people with bigger contracts than the economy of Tuvalu make juvenile errors without anyone pointing out their errors, it makes me sick.
If you’re going to make $2 million a year to stand on the sidelines, eat cheeseburgers, and invent facial expressions that would embarrass even Wade Phillips, then maybe, just maybe you should be able to control the clock.
With the only exclusions of Bill Belichick and, for some reason, Dave Wannstedt, coaches just can’t seem to get it right. Over my decade carefully studying late-game clock management, those two reign above everyone else, calling plays and doling timeouts that used the clock to their advantage, regardless of how good (or in Wannstedt’s case, bad), they were outside of the proverbial final two minutes.
So for the rest of this article, let’s exclude those two coaches from this discussion.
Week 5 features such a crappy lineup of early games that if you need to win some points with the girlfriend or boyfriend, this is the time to schedule some apple picking or antiquing. With a slew of double digit spreads, this should be a snoozefest by 2:00. Make sure you get home by 4 though because there are some intriguing matchups in the late afternoon game. (Readers in time zones other than eastern can do their own math.) The featured games this week are Falcons @ Niners, Patriots @ Broncos, and Jets @ Dolphins. And just for fun, we talk about the UFL, which might have folded during the podcast.
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