The Wild shamrock Pick-em’s for week 13 in the NFL.
THE THURSDAY NIGHT GAME
MATCH UP OUR WINNER
REDSKINS AT COWBOYS REDSKINS
We have been doing the pick-em the last three weeks on this blog.
LAST WEEK
The Wild Shamrock Crystal Ball was perfect over Thanksgiving 3-0
Our total record for Thursday Night is perfect at 5-0
WEEK TWELVE PICK EM
SUNDAYS SLATE
MATCH UP OUR WINNER
BILLS AT CHIEFS BILLS
BROWNS AT BENGALS BENGALS
BUCCANEERS AT FALCONS FALCONS
DOLPHINS AT PATRIOTS PATRIOTS
BEARS AT EAGLES EAGLES
PANTHERS AT JETS PANTHERS
SEAHAWKS AT 49ERS SEAHAWKS
SAINTS AT RAMS SAINTS
JAGUARS AT CARDINALS JAGS
BRONCOS AT RAIDERS RAIDERS
PACKERS AT STEELERS STEELERS
TEXANS AT RAVENS RAVENS
MY THREE LOCK DOWNS
STEELERS OVER PACKERS
EAGLES OVER BEARS
PATRIOTS OVER DOLPHINS
MY UPSET OF THE WEEK
SAINTS OVER RAMS
MY SURVIVOR PICK
STEELERS
Week Twelve power ranking and I’m all hooped on deep fried Turkey and White Castle stuffing mixed with cranberry sauce and a few too many beverages. However I hammmed and yammed it through another week of NFL power rankings.
RANKING TEAM RECORD UP/STAYED PUT/DOWN COMMENTS
#1.PHILADELPHIA 9-1 SAME Eagles continue to soar as they demolished the Cowboys last week and probably insures that they have their own division wrapped up as they would now be seeking home field throughout the playoffs.While Philadelphia is number one, it gives us a chance to tell you how we rate all the Rocky Movies. #1.Rocky #2 Rocky 3. #3. Rocky 4. #4. Rocky Balboa #5.Rocky 2 and #6 Rocky 5
#2. NEW ENGLAND 8-2 Moved up one spot. I got an email that it was cute I had the Rams last week before the Patriots. Yes, I was being cute on that. I was holding off as long as possible moving New England up. Of course the Rams made a fool out of me by the Vikings. The Patriots as usual were written off by many people when they were at 2-2. I think people just want to see them go down in flames. Now the defense has been fixed. It seems all the pieces are in place for them to get back to the Super Bowl and defend their crown. Just writing that just gave we the wet willies.
#3.NEW ORLEANS 8-2 Moved up one spot Last week the Redskins were up on the Saints by a few scores heading to the fourth quarter. Then the comeback was on as the Saints somehow tied it up at the end of regulation to win the game in OT. When things like that happen you know the football gods are on your side. All great teams have this type of game where they are playing, ugly then put it together and end up winning a game they probably should have lost. They are making comebacks. They are winning on the road. The defense has been playing well.
#4.PITTSBURGH 8-2 Moved up one spot.Last few years the Steel Curtain has been pretty much non existant. Everyone knows Big Ben and company have a great offense. This year the defense has risen from the ashes of the NFL. The only unit that has not allowed 20 points scored on them in regulation. The unit ranks near the top in all the major categories. As long as they figure out what to do during the National Anthem, this team will make the AFC championship.
#5.MINNESOTA 9-2 Moved up two spots. They held off the Lions yesterday on Thanksgiving which should win them their division. Case Keenum has been a great story at quarterback for the Vikings. The last three games he has a QB rating of 100 or more. The only way any of the other Vikings QBs see the field is if Keenum gets hurt or in mop up duty. They will be set up very nice when the playoffs start with their quarterback situation. Bradford will be back by then. Plus Bridgewater has been back the last few games. They have some nice insurance policies set up just in case. I love the Viking receiving core. Jarius Wright, Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs. Plus the big tight end in Kyle Rudolph. The Vikings have quietly assembled a cast of characters that are not talked about a lot.
#6. LA RAMS 7-3 Dropped 4 spots. Rams have another tough game this weekend, this time against the Saints. This game will be another measuring stick to see where they are at in the thick of things against some of the NFC elite. The loss against the Vikings is not walking on ledge time. Even if they lose two in a row they still will win their division. They have a young team. I want to see how they respond. If they can give the Saints a fight to the end in a loss, I think they will rebound nicely. Obviously a win would be huge. But if they get blown out, that could let the sails out of them as they could plummet into the pool of other crappy teams in the NFL.
#7. JACKSONVILLE 7-3 Moved up one spot The Jags continue to play awesome defense. They might be one of the top defenses in the league. Their offense has not been doing anything special. Just doing enough to get by. The Jags held off the Chargers in a close one. However they only beat the Browns last week 19-7. I worry that will not be enough offense when it comes time for the playoffs. This week they meet their old friend Blaine Gabbert. If you dissected both Bortles and Gabberrt and combined their talents as one quarterback, would you still get the same type of Jacksonville quarterback?
#8.CAROLINA 7-3 Moved up two spots. Carolina had a bye week and I have moved them up as the team is starting to come together. First they play the Jets which they should win that game and get their eighth win. Plus their tight end Olsen is ready to come back which he’s a big part of that offense. They got some rest with the bye week after they destroyed the Dolphins on Monday night. If Cam can keep his head level, which I know that is a big IF. I like McCaffrey becoming a pivotal part of the offense. Reminds me of a Danny Woodhead type. Plus Riverboat Ron has that defense playing well which is the biggest key since his quarterback lacks spidey senses. As long as they don’t look ahead of the Jets to the Saints the following week, that will be a huge match up .
#9. ATLANTA 6-4 Moved up two spots. Don’t look now the Falcons are back in the thick of things. Finally popped a few Excedrin and maybe indulged in a few bloody Marys to get rid of that Superbowl hang over. Wow they really did some binge drinking. The Saints are looking at the Panthers in their rear view mirror. While the Panthers are looking at the Falcons in their mirror. Might be the toughest division. Is it possible to have three playoff teams from the same division? That would suck to be a Tampa Bay fan. However can Fitzpatrick lead the Buccaneers over all three of these teams? Another round of shooters while I continue to write nonsense.
#10. SEATTLE 6-4 Drops one spot. Watching Pete Carol fake field goal implode on him on Monday Night as they lose to the Falcons by three points. Oh poor Petey as they also missed a game tying with a field goal at the end. Oh poor Petey. The Seahawks are the most penalized team in the league. That’s poor coaching Petey, I want to be your friend, coach. Finally all the cheap shots are probably being called this year. The Seahawks better go to the 13th man as the 12th man is not quite that loud these days. Seeing Ricard Sherman on a scooter on the sideline, oh Poor Petey. I feel like you might be on the bubble not making the playoffs at the end of all this.
#11. LA CHARGERS 5-6 Moved up seven spots. Do you remember those army ants in the cartoon Tom and Jerry where the head ant yells CHARGE!!!? Then the ants take the picnic basket. The LA Chargers are moving up to take the picnic basket from the Chiefs in the AFC WEST. Yesterday they destroyed the Cowboys and that’s coming off a week they destroyed the Bills. Is it just they are playing crappy teams. The Chargers have been in all close games before these recent two games they have played. They could easily have a better record as they lost a few games by missed game winning field goals at the end of the games. Rivers still leads the league in kids. However that defense is led by Joey Bosa who has 10.5 sacks already this season. If they stay hot the rest of the way, watch out.
#12. KANSAS CITY 6-4 Dropped six spots. They lost to the Giants last weekend, you’re lucky I did not get them kicked out of the league. Besides that this team has been spinning out of control after starting 5-0 for the year. They have lost 4 out their last 5 games. If Chiefs lose to the Bills this weekend, you know fans will be chanting for Patrick Mahomes. During this free fall in this crappy division, the Chargers are the hottest team right now. They are breathing down the Chiefs neck. They say this is Alex Smith last year in a Chiefs uniform. Can you imagine him playing for the 49ers next season? Do you think by that time Jimmy Garoppolo has played in any games for Niners?
#13.DETROIT 6-5 Same. They usually play very tough on Thanksgiving. They did make it a game and had chances to steal one away from Minnesota yesterday. However they lost and break their winning streak of crappy teams they have been playing against. The Lions are a team that can come back. I find them getting behind too early against good teams and always have to claw themselves back in the game and come up short in the process. Last weekend against the Bears they had to come back and if Barth did not miss the field goal at the end of the game, who knows they might have lost in Overtime.
#14. TENNESSEE 6-4 Same. It seems like the Titans have not played a game in years. Since they got destroyed by Pittsburgh, they’ve been quietly waiting for this weekend to get back on track against the Colts. The Titans find themselves still in a good position as they have the number one wild card spot right now. They could easily be 7-4 after this weekend. However first they have to exercise their own demons as they have a nine game losing streak at Indianapolis.
#15.WASHINGTON 5-6 Moved up one spot I moved up the Redskins because they broke the Giants winning streak at one game yesterday. I moved them up because I think they would beat the Cowboys if they played them right now. This team is a team where one week they win, the next week they lose. They can’t string a few wins together. I think their whole organization is in disarray.
#16. DALLAS 5-6 Dropped 4 spots. Just a few weeks ago I had the Cowboys in the top ten. However I admit I was sniffing glue. The league finally suspended Elliot and now the Cowboys feel like a Turkey gone wrong in a deep fryer. They were humiliated by the Chargers on their home turf on Thanksgiving yesterday. Then the Eagles destroyed them on National telecast on Sunday night. Jerry Jones probably plotting an assassination attempt on the commissioner of the NFL. Why don’t the two just meet by the bike rack after school?
#17.BUFFALO 5-5 Dropped two spots Buffalo has been free falling as now they have lost three in a row. They have been destroyed as nothing has gone right. They switched QBs last week and that insulted the Chargers defense. I thought the kid Peterman was going to be pretty good but he was rattled for 5 INTs as the Chargers killed the Bills last week. The Bills defense has disappeared in the last three games and that is not going to help many QB’S not named Brady. They still are in the playoff picture. However it’s a must win against another team on the down slide to the Chiefs this weekend. The Bills lose and they might as well start eyeballing the QB’S in next years draft
#18. OAKLAND 4-6 Dropped one spot Oakland were at one of their homes away from their homes in Mexico City last week where they got destroyed by the Patriots. The Raiders made the playoffs last year because of Carr and their great offense. Last year their defense was very good as well, but this year the defense has not been able to stop anybody. They fired the defensive coordinator which will not save their season. However I do like the Raider guy in the Christmas commercial. Wearing a Christmas sweater that lights up at a table of Chiefs fans.
#19. BALTIMORE 5-5 Moved up 5 spots. Do not let the five spots they jumped fool you. This team will go 500 because of their defense. Plus there are still many bad teams and the Ravens can feast on them. Flacco just needs a small amount of points and the Ravens will look like world beaters one week, then get beat by the good teams. They will hang around in those games until the defense runs out of gas for being on the field too long.
#20.CINCINNATI 4-6 Moved up one spot Remember when the Big Guy and Herb Dropped the Turkeys from the Helicopter on the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP? They thought they could fly. But the birds hit the pavement AND WENT SPLAT. Bengals won last week. But Marvin Lewis will be the latest turkey to go splat when the season is over.
#21. GREEN BAY 5-5 Dropped two spots Ravens blanked them last week. Now they play the Steelers this week, during which they will continue their down slide. It will be too late even if Rodgers returns at the end of the season. No Hail Marys will happen and the Pack will be packing for the off season as it will be the year without a Santa Claus in Cheesehead land.
#22. NEW YORK JETS SAME 4-6 Jets stay the same since they were on a bye week. Do Jet fans miss Geno Smith? Would they be better off with Smith than McCown? Maybe when it comes to next season’s draft order. I think watching the Jets this year has been very exciting. They should call the Jets the island of misfit toys. It’s a roster of players probably nobody wanted around the league. McCown is the jack in the box leader as he’s been springing the ball down the field. While Forte is the train with square wheels and not able to play the whole games. Maybe Santa will find them all new homes next season.
#23. CHICAGO 3-7 SAME The Bears QB Trubisky had a great run to get the Bears into field goal range at the end of the game against the Lions last week. Then to see Connor Barth miss the tying kick to send the game in to OT. What a shame as it was the worse kick I’ve seen. The Bears cut him. Barth has rejoined Wayne playing the air guitar on the couch in the basement for the rest of the regular season. Meanwhile the Bears will hopefully stop buying their players from the Tampa Buccaneer Costco.
#24.TAMPA BAY 4-6 Moved up 3 spots. Winston was reportedly grabbing some woman’s tush in Arizona. What’s with Arizona and pro athletes? The Oakland A’s catcher holding a gun at a female food delivery person. It might not be true with Winston, but when you first hear it, you think yes he totally did it. Arizona, it’s a dry heat. Women walk around in Daisy Duke cut offs. It does something to a man’s brain. Or perhaps they are just scum. Meanwhile another veteran quarterback has gotten McCown streaky. Fitzpatrick has gotten the Buccaneers a two game winning streak.
#25.INDIANAPOLIS 3-7 Same. The Colts stayed in the same spot after having a bye week. Colts fans are probably looking through the Black Friday ads for help next season. I’m sure they will be waiting for Black Monday when they ax their head coach. They’re probably dreaming that sugar plums can repair Luck’s shoulder over the holidays. At least they have Pacer Basketball. That will not work. They can always pop in Hoosiers in the dvd player if they a reason to get away from the pro teams sucking.
#26. HOUSTON 4-6 Moved up two spots. The Texans moved up two spots after beating the Cardinals last week. I do not know if Savage is your answer at back up quarterback for next season. Next off season, I think they should address the need for a back up quarterback just in case Watson has an injury. I would also get another big name defensive player just to play along side Watt and Clowney or who can take over for Watt just in case of another injury. The Texans have lots of talent on the roster. It’s a shame that if the main cogs go out, their season derails with it.
#27. ARIZONA 4-6 Dropped seven spots. I did like the way Blaine Gabbert played last week. He could be a nice back up quarterback option for the Cardinals next season. The Cardinals would only have two wins if they did not play the 49ers twice a season. This team has been free falling faster than Tom Petty could sing the words. Palmer is too old he is done. They’ve got the spanking machine who has sprung an oil leak. Maybe AP could go in porn business after football. He can be the principal and spank white women.
#28. NEW YORK GIANTS 2-9 Moved up 3 spots. Finally the G-MEN prevailed over the Chiefs last week. They played a strong game yesterday as their defense has finally shown up. This team has taken on many injuries this season on both sides of the ball. They have some talent, but this is a team that will need a make over next season. Too many egos. Laurence Taylor would say, “a bunch of crazed dogs out there.” The Giants have too many of Mike Vick’s dogs in cages ready to rip each other apart.
#29. DENVER 3-7 Dropped 3 spots I still wonder why they even signed Brock Osweiler. Your season was already in the crapper. Finally they are going to give the keys to Paxton Lynch, a guy they drafted not too long ago. He has a few starts under his belt. Find out what you got. Give him the rest of the starts this season. Next year in deep draft of QBs if Paxton is not the man, you draft a guy.
#30. MIAMI 4-6 DROPPED ONE SPOT I blame the signing of Jay Cutler on the collapse of a playoff team from last year. Miami offense ranked 31st in points scored. Cutler is ranked 25th among 35 quarter backs who have started games this season. Cutler did not really want to even play football this year. Plus you paid him TEN million dollars for what? To throw picks. Once the Miami ship hits the iceberg, Cutler will be pushing women and children out of the way to be first off the ship. Miami fans should watch for the good ole days when your team was going well. Ace Ventura and Dan Marino looking for the missing Dolphin.
#31.SAN FRANCISCO DROPPED ONE SPOT Only the 49ers can drop one spot on the bye week. Do you remember the guy they called Stork in Animal House?
He says to Blutarski when things are going South, “What are we suppose to do you damn moron?”
Stork is the 49ers brass. Since the Germans bombed Pearl harbor. Since now the 49ers record is 1-9. I think they need to see what they got in Jimmy Garoppolo. What are they waiting for the damn morons?
#32. CLEVELAND 0-10 SAME The front office needs to be put down. Since they probably had to neuter all their fans. Because who would show up to watch this disaster every week and not get angered. The Dawg pound has lost their bark out there in the stands. All the males that walk through the turnstiles immediately get snipped snipped so they can’t pea on management. Now it’s a controllable environment for management not to feel any kind of backlash. Now a days the DAWG pound fans are cheering cross legged and tame as they were stripped of their man card. The Browns, I’m running out of things to say about this sorry franchise. Let’s go down memory lane in Brownland and let’s recall my favorite 3 Cleveland running backs of all time. Peyton Hillis, Touchdown Tommy Vardell, and Kevin Mack. Three backs that could bruise their opponents.
The last two weeks we have gotten both Thursday night games correct. Lets see if we can nail down the Thanksgiving games.
STRAIGHT PICK-EM
THE TURKEY BOWL GAMES
Match-Up Our Winner
VIKINGS AT LIONS VIKINGS
CHARGERS AT COWBOYS COWBOYS
GIANTS AT REDSKINS REDSKINS
Record so far on Thursday 2-0
This smell was not coming from the urine in the garbage cans. Nor the puke in the sinks. This bad smell was not even coming from the kick that sailed not even close to those yellow uprights. This stench was coming from the Bears brass. Ryan Pace. I will even throw Coach Fox under the bus too, as that stench is clearly coming out of his pores. The stench of failure. The stench of we have no idea on how to stop this uncontrollable bus out of control we call a football team. Yes, if the Bears go under 50 mph, the bus is going to blow up to kingdom come.
Why was Connor Barth still on the team against the Lions? He should of been gone before the season even started. Finally the Bears send Barth back to Wayne’s World where he can watch the rest of the NFL season from his couch with his buddy playing the air guitar. Connor Barth came off his worst year of kicking in 2015 with the Buccaneers. He was no good last year as well. He was 11-15 before he shank the 46 yard attempt last week with a chance to tie the game. He was 2-6 for the year from 45-49. He had missed 5-15 kicks.
At the end of the 2015 season, the Bears cut their all time leading kicker who was Robbie Gould. He was Mr. Reliable when it came down to a game winning kick or even a game tying kick. Robbie Gould kicked it through the uprights. He was a fan favorite and he got the job done. Especially the conditions he kicked under. Kicking at Soldier field is far from kicking in Denver or in a dome. However, he managed to get a high percentage through at Soldier field battling cold frigid temperatures along with swirling winds. So why did the Bears cut him? He was not the highest paid kicker in the league, but he was paid pretty well. During his last years in a Bears uniform, he was struggling at the end of the season. Overall he finished the year with a pretty good percentage, 84.6.
It’s clear the Bears do not think a kicker is that important. How about ask the Buffalo Bills back in the 90’s when Scott Norwood’s heart wrenching kick went wide right? Look at the Patriots with their dynasty going on when they had Adan Vinatieri, a great kicker. Then they replaced him with another great kicker, Stephen Gostkowski. Bears are shopping the Target dollar bin or haggling for a kicker at the local flea market. Especially having a rookie quarterback like Mitch Trubisky. He ran for his life on that play that got the team into field goal range to tie the game. Instead of watching Mitch engineer a game winning drive in overtime, Barth misses the kick. For christsake you give him no receivers and a crappy kicker. What do you want from Mitch? A one man army? The more wins Mitch gets this year and the more overtimes he has success in, the confidence will sky rocket.
Meanwhile Robbie Gould last year was perfect with the New York Giants. This year Robbie is playing for the crappy 49ers in which he is 19-21 so far this season. He is 14-15 from 40 yards or more. He is 6-7 from 45 yards or more. Plus Robbie is 2-2 from 50 yards out. The Bears are lucky Watson got hurt from Houston. Lots of conversations were getting to the boiling point on how the Bears could have gotten Watson without trading all those draft picks to the 49ers for Trubisky. Before Watson got hurt he looked like the better quarterback than Trubisky.
It’s tiresome seeing the Bears shop for players at the Tampa Bay Costco. They have failed miserably at that store. Totally back fired in their face with Mike Glennon this year. The last two years with Connor Barth. They even had the kicker who Tampa Bay cut. The Buccaneers drafted Roberto Aguayo in 2016 very high. He was a total bust. Then immediately Ryan Pace swoops in to pick up this guy who was out on the curb. He competed with Connor Barth in the preseason. Roberto Aguayo is probably washing dishes somewhere as he was a disaster that only saw the preseason. Shocking they could not find a better kicker then Barth all these weeks. Finally they signed Cairo Santos who’s not from the Buccaneers. Hopefully the X Chief can help. Hopefully someone realizes higher up that they need a cleaning crew to get rid of the bad B.O that is clouding up the skies on Lake Michigan.
LAST WEEK RESULTS
STRAIGHT PICK EM SUNDAY’S SLATE 7-6
MY 3 LOCK DOWNS 3-0
MY UPSET OF THE WEEK 0-1
WEEK 11 SUNDAY’S SLATE PICK EM
MATCH UPS WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER
LIONS AT BEARS LIONS
JAGUARS AT BROWNS JAGUARS
RAVENS AT PACKERS PACKERS
CARDINALS AT TEXANS CARDINALS
BUCCANEERS AT DOLPHINS DOLPHINS
RAMS AT VIKINGS RAMS
CHIEFS AT GIANTS CHIEFS
REDSKINS AT SAINTS SAINTS
BILLS AT CHARGERS BILLS
BENGALS AT BRONCOS BENGALS
PATRIOTS AT RAIDERS PATRIOTS
EAGLES AT COWBOYS EAGLES
FALCONS AT SEAHAWKS FALCONS
MY THREE LOCK DOWNS
CHIEFS OVER GIANTS
PATRIOTS OVER RAIDERS
JAGUARS OVER BROWNS
UPSET OF THE WEEK
LA RAMS OVER MINNESOTA
SURVIVOR PICK OF THE WEEK
KANSAS CITY
This is our second week doing the NFL power rankings. We might need another season or two to get this down to a science since the league is watered down these days. However we will still throw down the field on our comments, not holding back. We don’t believe in the prevent defense. We never punt.
RANKING RECORD UP/STAYED PUT/DOWN COMMENTS
PHILADELPHIA 8-1 SAME MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!!!! Jim Schwartz was a boob when he was the head coach of Detroit. He was the guy that tried to pick a fight with Jim Harbaugh after a game. Now he is the defensive coordinator for the Eagles and they are playing well. In 2014, he was defensive coordinator for the Bills and had that side of the ball playing one of the best in the league for the Bills . Then Rex Ryan came in and ruined it all. No Elliot for the Cowboys this week. It’s all Spaceballs on Sunday night.
#2. LA RAMS 7-2 SAME I scratch my head when the youngest guy hired as head coach in the league, Sean McVay, has the Rams offense executing well design plays. While a team I root for in the Bears are still coming up with their plays on the ground as Trubisky is the bottle cap and his wide outs are the sticks and you go that way and he goes that way. Rams have a tough contest with the Vikings could be a playoff preview.
#3.NEW ENGLAND 7-2 SAME Here they coming walking down the street, hey hey we’re the Patriots we are not going away!! The Pats are the monkeys on everyone’s back. I kept the Rams at number two, but my stomach felt funny about it. Maybe it’s more the Pats that give me bathroom problems. Plus the Patriots were a part of the big miracle last week. Poor Marty Bennett had an injury that he could not get on the field for the Packers. He was even thinking retirement. Patriots claim him, Belichek gives him a deep dark oil rub down, while Brady makes him swallow a few vitamins. TA DA, Marty is back on the field Sunday Night catching balls. It’s a Thanksgiving miracle. Maybe Tom Brady will have my bathroom problems when he drinks the water in Mexico City when the Pats meet the Raiders there this weekend.
#4.NEW ORLEANS 7-2 UP from 7th spot They went on the road to Buffalo and demolished the Bills. Saints always have been a team to win big at home and struggle a bit or just plain suck on the road. They have won seven straight. It’s like Sean Payton and Drew Brees are playing their last year together as coach and quarterback as a mission to win it all or bust. I like their two headed monster at running back. Some great young talent on the defense as well. Last time Saints were in the Superbowl, it was a very exciting game. Sean Payton is one of the brightest minds in the game.
#5.PITTSBURGH 8-2 Same spot I had Pittsburgh in the same position because of what they did to the Titans yesterday at home. Even though last week, they had to take it to the limit against the Colts on the road. Like I said last power rankings, they need to get home field advantage in playoffs. I like their chances of beating the Pats in their own stadium instead of going there and getting embarrassed like in the past.
#6.KANSAS CITY 6-3 SAME SPOT This is where the Chiefs soar or continue to fall flat on their faces. Andy Reid pretty much owns any team when his team comes off the bye week. I think Alex Smith has lot to prove as this could be his last year in a Chief’s uniform since they drafted a quarter back in round one and he’s waiting patiently. This week they will feed off the Giant misery in New Jersey.
#7.MINNESOTA 7-2 Moved up one spot. This is the week we find out if the Vikings and the Rams are real or pretenders. This is a game that should be the clash of the titans in week 11. Detroit is rolling and Green Bay is showing some life so this would be a big win to keep them at the top of their division by multiple games. Bridgewater is now moving up the charts as he is the number two waiting just in case something goes wrong with Case Keenum who has been playing very well.
#8.JACKSONVILLE 6-3 Moved up one spot. If the Jaguars had a top five quarterback they would be unstoppable. Maybe Mark Brunell will come out of retirement. The defense has been stopping people in their tracks. Leonard Fournette has been a beast in his rookie year.
#9. SEATTLE 6-3 Moved up one spot. I don’t like wishing anybody hurt. What comes around goes around Richard you are a douche bag Sherman. Out for the year and hopefully signs of this team sliding down the big slide of Chutes and Ladders. Sherman known as a cheap shot artist in his career with many other questionable hits as well. Him and Pac Man Jones could be like Beavis and Butthead and host their own show in the playoffs on some dark web and talk about all their feelings about how bad they think they are. How many white bitches they have scored on.
#10. CAROLINA 7-3 Moved up two spots. Love River Boat Ron’s defense. They destroyed a bad Dolphin team last week but the whole team gave a well balanced attack in this one. Even Superman had a great night. Probably went out to the bar to pick up chicks after the game. Then tell them he’s Superman and the greatest quarterback. Gets them interested then insults them telling them stay in the kitchen where you belong. Or How dare you think you know about a man’s game. Cam Newton needs a Wonder Woman to knock his figs out with her lasso.
#11. ATLANTA 5-4 Moved up three spots. Finally the Atlanta Falcons played very well with all their talent they have. They gave the Cowboys a butt whipping to send a message the dirty birds are not quite done. The Cowboys without Elliot were like shell shocked. Atlanta exposed some of Dallas’ weaknesses they have without their star running back. This game was a must win for the birds to keep them off life support if they lost.
#12. DALLAS 5-4 Moved down 8 spots. Dallas was the team that moved the most spots from last week. They were a different team without Elliot. They played very poorly. If Elliot is out for five more games they might find themselves on a slow ride down the slide to 49er land. Now they play the Eagles next week which is not going to go down well. Meanwhile Jerry Jones is getting backlash from other owners about the whole commissioner thing. When it rains it pours as Dallas might do a total 360 in the second half of the year.
#13. DETROIT 5-4 MOVED UP 3 SPOTS. LIONS TIGERS AND NOW THE BEARS OH MY!! The Lions are feasting on the field with teams that have been taken out to the shed and shot. If they beat the Bears they will have a three game winning streak established. You don’t make your own schedule, all’s you can do is beat the teams you play on any given Sunday and that’s what they are doing.
#14. TENNESSEE 6-4 Dropped one spot. They won last week against the Bengals. Then yesterday got killed on the road in Pittsburgh. I think Tennessee is still a good team and could still get in the playoffs. They had a bad game. Lots of teams do bad in Pittsburgh especially in a short week as well.
#15. BUFFALO 5-4 Dropped down 4 spots Two weeks in a row the Bills have not been able to stop anybody. The defense has played great all year and the Saints throw a 40 burger on them at home in Buffalo. Only thing going well on offense last week was a streaker from the crowd. He was wide open, cheeks and all. However like in Star Wars NEW HOPE, Taylor finally was benched and I hope it is permanently because he was Rex Ryan guy and he knows nothing about quarterbacks. My evidence, the butt fumbler, yes Dirty Sanchez. The new young Jedi, Nathan Peterman, can throw the ball down field.. Yes his father is J. Peterman from Seinfeld.
#16. WASHINGTON 4-5 Dropped one spot. The Redskins are a team that cannot string a few victories together. The Vikings turned the Redskins into Deadskins last week after Washington beat the Seahawks the week before. Redskins are stuck in the middle with clowns to the left and jokers to the right. The clowns would be the owner. The jokers would be the people that got rid of all of Cousins’ receivers. They still have not signed Cousins to a multiple year deal. He will be franchised again and get a payday as one of the elite quarterbacks which he’s middle tier.
#17. OAKLAND 4-5 Same spot. With the bye week I kept them in the same spot. However before they move to Vegas. I’m sure they will drop several spots next week in the power rankings after they play the Patriots. The Pats will win big and crush the silver and black hopes of making it to the playoffs two seasons in a row.
#18. LA. CHARGERS 3-6 Same spot. If the Chargers managed to play a full game instead of giving it up late or getting down early, which results in the comeback falling short. They might be in the thick of things especially the way the whole division has been playing . In the beginning of the year they missed a few winning kicks right at the end of regulation. You play in a soccer stadium and you can’t find someone to kick the ball for you. I still love that they had San Diego all to themselves. Then they moved to LA and now are the second fiddle to the Rams.
#19. GREEN BAY 5-4 Moved up 8 spots. All Green Bay needs is Chicago on their schedule. That is when Green Bay turns their season around. The Bears made Brett Hundley look all pro with 110.8 passing rating. This week Green Bay has another winnable game against the Ravens and are at home. They could be 6-4 after ten games. You knock out the big cheese and then the little cheese with bits of salami in it, haunts you.
#20. ARIZONA 4-5 Moved up 4 spots. Arizona has plenty of talent. But they are a weird team, one week they play tough like they played against the Seattle Seahawks. Then they get blown out. In the Terminator movies they had one called the Rise of the Machines. I want to see the rise of the X Jacksonville quarter backs. We start in Arizona with Blaine Gabbert who looked pretty good in Preseason. Gives the team that quarterback that escaped the belt whippings of Adrian Peterson. It will be an epidemic across the league X Jaguar quarterbacks will rise up and defeat the fox robots.
#21.CINCINNATI 3-6 Moved up one spot. Even though they lost they have moved up one spot because they still played Tennessee tough. They still have talent on this team to stay in games. However they are not going anywhere. Should they play their second string quarterback AJ McCarron to see what you have? Cleveland wanted him and could of had him but forgot to fill out the proper paper work which is priceless. What if AJ does not do well then his stock will drop and you might get nothing for him. What if he is better then Andy Dalton? Bengals need a new direction.
#22. NEW YORK JETS Dropped three spots. I was raving about the journeyman McCown as he is the big reason why the Jets have wins. It was going to be the year where the team was going to tank it all. As they gutted their team. Last week they lose to Tampa Bay. It’s like they told McCown you lose or you don’t get to keep your jersey at the end of the year. As you know McCown collects jerseys from around the league as he has almost played for each team. It’s like not completing the page of stamps or missing a few key cards from the series.
#23. CHICAGO 3-5 Dropped 3 spots. You had Green Bay in your own building without Rodgers. Your team was playing well. What the hell happened? Maybe the Bears have a cheese phobia where they see the color and immediately go into their fetal positions. You can probably put Osweiler and Savage in a Green Bay uniform and the Bears would still lose. Take the training wheels off Mitch Trubisky. Let the youngster throw down the field more. Mitch threw a nice tight perfect spiral that floated right to Rock Hands Bellamy and he caught it. I still can’t believe he is still out there. The new guy from the Chargers, Inman looked good. Fox should get the ax too.
#24. BALTIMORE Moved up 2 spots. The bye week helped Baltimore in these power rankings. I’m sure that lack luster offense they have will send them back to the scrap yard where they will be the rest of the season waiting to melted down.
#25.INDIANAPOLIS 3-7 Moved up 4 spots. The NFL has too many bad teams. The Colts took the Steelers last week to the brink. They lost in over time and now they get to move up 4 spots. With the bad roster. They still are better than many of these other crappy teams. This will probably cost them a higher draft though. I see them getting rid of Chuck Pagano as he was a great story. However it seems to me Bruce Arians did way better than Chuck filling in for him when he was sick.
#26.DENVER 3-6 Dropped 5 spots. When you lose 5 in a row, you lose 5 spots in the power rankings. What happened to the Broncos defense? The year Brock Osweiler came in for injured Peyton Manning and had that one really great game against the Bengals on Monday Night. Who do you think made more money for one good game they had in their career which resulted in big juicy steak of a contract, Brock or Matt Flynn?
#27 TAMPA BAY 3-6 Moved up one spot. I was surprised when they beat the Jets who I think would win 2-3 if these teams had the best out of three series. I should have realized Fitzpatrick had a revenge game on his mind, as he played with the Jets two years and had that magical year almost leading them to the playoffs. Then Jets did not want to pay him the following season and low balled him. So Fitzpatrick tanked that season and then gave the Jets some more medicine to complete his revenge plans he had planned out for a few years and it unfolded in his favor. Don’t mess with a Harvard man that can probably fix his own concussion on the side line with a needle and thread.
#28. HOUSTON 3-6 Dropped 3 spots. What a quarterback can do for your team is either make you or break you. Tom Savage is horrible. Think about that he was the one that beat out the 70 million dollar man in Osweiler. Someone call Tom’s brother, Fred Savage, to see if he can play quarter back. At least we can see how Winnie Cooper is looking.
#29. MIAMI DOLPHINS 4-5 Down six spots. The Dolphins slid down the stripper pole in a very ugly way. Next season Cutler will be all dressed up and nobody to blow at this time of the year. All the talent, the arm strength, however dumb as a rock at the same time. It’s like he owed Luke Kuechly money as he threw right to him. Merry Christmas happy Festivus to your family as well.
#30 SAN FRANCISCO 1-9 Up one spot. CONGRATS YOU JUST WON THE TOILET BOWL WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? I’m going to Denny’s whoot whoot. Heard some whispers Jimmy is going to be behind center soon. I was watching some reruns of Sons of Anarchy and they have a rival Mexican biker gang called the Mayans. For some odd reason I thought they were calling them the 49ers.
#31. NEW YORK GIANTS 1-8 Dropped one spot. Giants lost last week to the 49ers. If college called a bowl the Toilet Bowl. this would of been it. Giants are that ugly girl in high school desperate for a makeover. I think it’s time to trade Eli Manning and see if you can get some old worn out shoulder pads for him. That might be asking too much.
.#32. CLEVELAND 0-9 SAME Last year Cleveland could have landed Watson. Will it be the same old song and dance in next year’s draft as well? Find the lemon of the whole group of quarterbacks and pick the one that will be the next Johnny Football. In a town where the Cavaliers and the Indians have been playing very well the last two years, you feel like saying, “You are the weakest link good bye.”
It was October 17, 2017 when Bobby Portis’ punch was heard around the Berto Center. The beatdown of Niko Mirotic was so bad he had to go to the hospital. Two bones in his face broken. Add a concussion as well. Immediately Bobby Portis was sent home on a timeout. The league then suspended Bobby Portis for 8 games. Since then Niko Mirotic has been recovering. He is able to do some light workouts. Only when the team is not present. Meanwhile Bobby Portis served his 8 games and has come back and played very well. Seems like the rest of the team are giving their support to Portis. While stories out of Mirotic camp are he wants to be traded one day and the next day he’d like to play for the Bulls.
“Both Niko and Bobby are on our roster right now and Niko’s getting cleared to do more. This obviously is coming to a position where it’s going to have to be resolved between the two.”
Words spoken by the Bulls President of Basketball Operations, John Paxson. Again since October 17 and it’s the middle of November now and the Bulls do not have this situation taken care of. BRAVO again for a job not done. I guess Bobby Portis tried to reach out with texts and voice messages. Nothing has happened. The Bulls way is let it linger instead of cleaning the stink out and moving on to the regular season and day to day basketball operations.
I know the Bulls are in position just to release their players as it’s a team with a lot of young and unproven players who need time to get better. Both Portis and Mirotic will have to be on the court at some time. Bobby Portis is a young player that has still been developing so not really a trade market on his ability as player yet. Meanwhile Mirotic had some interest from other teams in the off season but not much as no one offered him a big contact. They kicked the tires on him and left him to another lot down the block. No one is going to want damaged goods either. If Mirotic wants a trade, he will have to get on court and show the whole league he can rebound after his face got beaten in and play well like he did towards the end of last year’s regular season. He’s got a very good stretch of games where he caught on fire.
Seriously what in the world does John Paxson or Gar Forman do over there? They should have handled this already. I know the players are adults they are dealing with, but some way they should have these two in the office and lay out all the facts for them and tell them how this will play out. Where’s the Coach in this? Is Fred Hoiberg’s job only to come up with offensive schemes to shoot the ball from the outside? If you have to lock these two guys in a room until they kiss and make up, then do that. Maybe the Irish way, go out have some drinks and sweep this mess under the rug, so the story goes away. I do not expect them to be riding a tandem bike singing “my buddy.” However they just need to coexist on the court and take it from there. Meanwhile someone put a sign on the Berto Center, “HELP WANTED apply with in” to take over Bulls’ management. I would even take the guy that runs the local Dairy Queen. He might be off at this time of the year as it’s their off season. Dilly bars for everyone when the team scores over a 100 points. DILLY DILLY!!!
STRAIGHT UP WEEK TEN PICK EM PREDICTIONS
SUNDAYS SLATE OUR WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER
BENGALS AT TITANS TITANS
BROWNS AT LIONS LIONS
PACKERS AT BEARS DA BEARS
CHARGERS AT JAGUARS JAGS
VIKINGS AT REDSKINS REDSKINS
SAINTS AT BILLS BILLS
COWBOYS AT FALCONS COWBOYS
JETS AT BUCCANEERS JETS
STEELERS AT COLTS STEELERS
TEXANS AT RAMS RAMS
GIANTS AT 49ERS GIANTS
PATRIOTS AT BRONCOS PATRIOTS
MONDAY NIGHT
DOLPHINS AT PANTHERS PANTHERS
UPSET OF THE WEEK
BUFFALO BILLS OVER NEW ORLEANS
MY THREE LOCKED DOWN GAMES
RAMS OVER THE TEXANS
STEELERS OVER COLTS
LIONS OVER BROWNS
BEST SURVIVOR PICK FOR POINTS
LA RAMS
READ OUR POWER RANKINGS. WE TELL YOU ABOUT EACH TEAM, THE WILD SHAMROCK WAY. WE THROW CONVENTION OUT THE WINDOW SINCE THE NFL IS SO WATERED DOWN. IT’S A FREE FOR ALL. WE MIGHT JUST BE RIGHT.
OUR FIRST POWER RANKINGS OF THE SEASON. I HOPE YOU ENJOY
RANKING TEAM Record comments
#1. PHILADELPHIA 8-1 Does Donavan McNabb understand the overtime rules yet from his playing days? Stellar defense/ adding Jay Ajari gives their back field a thunder & lighting combo with smoking Blount. I want a team of all guys from the Dakotas like the Eagles Quarterback. Can you imagine the supply of chewing tobacco and spitoons you would need on the side lines?
#2. LA RAMS 6-2 How pissed I would be if I lived in St. Louis right now. Oh they are texting each other WTF. They need to bring back Fred Dryer and make a new Hunter. Maybe bring him back as a coach. Rams are for real. They are firing on all cylinders. Goff is making Buffalo reject receivers look like all pros.
#3. NEW ENGLAND 6-2 WHY CAN’T THIS TEAM GO AWAY!!! Brady is still a menace. Maybe Bill Romanowski has giving his secret case of vitamins to Brady to keep him performing at this kind of level. Sammy Sosa called them Flintstones Vitamins. With Belichek scheming in his sleep, he gets that defense into shape. Bunch of bastards.
#4. DALLAS 5-3 OH MY GOD!! I HAVE TO SAY IT, HOW ABOUT THOSE COWBOYS? Will their running back ever serve his suspension.? He probably still would play even if he’s wearing McFadden’s jersey. Cowboys are looking well balanced and playing some excellent football. I say Jerry Jones and the Commissioner battle it out to the death in the Thunder dome since both them are not getting along.
#5. PITTSBURGH 6-2 They need home field advantage in playoffs. Do not trust them on the road. They seem to have figured out what to do on the National Anthem so that will help. They have to put a muzzle on their bitchy receivers. At least they have some bitches playing that position, not like the ding dongs in Chicago.
#6. KANSAS CITY 6-3 Zack on Saved by the Bell says time out and Kansas City can enjoy a bye week. They have plenty of work to do because they’ve been free falling like the great Tom Petty would say I’m giving these guys a high ranking still because the Walrus Andy Reid will get them playing strong when they return from their bye week. They are a team that will string six to seven in a row like how they started the season.
#7. NEW ORLEANS 6-2 The Saints are marching right now. They have a thing called a defense. Is Bounty gate back ? They found some ballers that can play defense. Drew still got the high powered offense rolling like a well oiled machine. In a division with dirty birds and a Superman who’s been sniffing the kryptomite and Tampa Bay in the toilet they can steal their division.
#8. MINNESOTA 6-2 THEY GOT SPUNK!!! I HATE SPUNK. Not a very impressive div. Taking advantage of Rogers being out. I like the defense. However they’re playing who’s on first with the quarter back position as Bridgewater is back practicing.
#9.JACKSONVILLE 5-3 FINALLY WITH ALL THE TOP DRAFT PICKS THEY HAVE COLLECTED, ARE DOING THINGS. The Jaguars coach Doug Marrone will probably quit after he gets the division title.
#10. SEATTLE 5-3 Raise your hand if you hate Pete Carol. Lots of thugs lead by that slime bag Richard Sherman. Talk about such a Jekyll and Hyde team. One week they score 40, the next week they can’t get of the teens. Overall I do not trust this team. It’s another team I would love to see go away.
#11. BUFFALO 5-3 They played their first bad game of the year last week. I love them at home where they have been taking it to their opponents. This is a team where they need to have the lead to win the game. Do not trust Taylor when he’s down a few scores. He has precision with the dink and dunk passing. But when it comes to throwing down the field he sucks. If they want to get to playoffs and break that long drought, they need to step up their game quickly. They need to rebound from the loss and beat a tough Saints team coming in hot. Hopefully the Buffalo temperatures can freeze the Brees. Oh do I miss Jim Kelly.
#12. CAROLINA 6-3 They traded one of their best receivers away. However they are still in the thick of things. Their quarterback may be Superman but is lacking the spidey senses. Loved when the Bears defense kicked Newton butt all over the field and did their best imitation of their superman pose. Poor Newton will go make fun of a female reporter when the times are grim or walk out of press conferences when the questions are little tough.
#13 TENNESSEE 5-3 Nashville has a factory of country bombshells of beautiful long legged blonde girls walking the streets. Music City is ringing in my ears as I think they will get into the playoffs this season. Dick Leabeau has the defense playing well. Love linebacker Woodyard, he’s one of those grinders that never gives up on the play.
#14.ATLANTA 4-4 What the hell happened to the Falcons? The NFC south seem like they take turns every year. Last year the Falcons this year the Saints and maybe in 2018 we give the Buccaneers a whirl. They need to start winning now, it’s do or die for a team with that amount of offensive talent to be at 4-4.
#15.WASHINGTON 4-4 Another team I have no idea what they are going to do every week. I’m still shocked Kirk Cousins does not have a long term contract. The guy is a very good quarterback especially when you got rid of all his receivers from last year.
#16.DETROIT 4-4 The Lions had a great start to the season. They still have hope after Rodgers is out in Green Bay. They need to string a few wins together this second half. Stafford can not do it himself. They need to get some kind of a running game established to be a well balanced attack, especially against the Vikings defense.
#17. OAKLAND 4-5 Who can cause more damage, a Mack truck or Mack on the Raiders defense? He seems like the only guy on the defense this year. I think this team will claw their way back with Carr. Not impressed with the skittlles addict Lynch, as the other running backs have done a lot better recently. They are on their bye week so they have time to iron things out and come out strong in the second half of their season.
#18. LA CHARGERS 3-5 If Rivers continues to have the amount of kids he has. Plus when his kids have kids. Will LA’s second team or are they the soccer team in town have established a big enough fan base to stay there?
#19. NEW YORK JETS 4-5 If it was not for the play of journeyman quarterback McCown, they would be at the bottom. I loved McCown when he was with the Bears doing some great things when he took over for Cutler. However the Bears stuck with Cutler. The Jets have been in every game. They could have a few more wins as they lost some close ones. Look at them to continue to rise in the charts. I’m Dickie Kasam.
#20. CHICAGO 3-5 DA BEARS!!! The defense has been playing lights out. They have no receivers but the rookie Trubisky continues to improve. They have a weak schedule this second half. The way they started, this team I thought would win one game. But I can see them getting to 500. They get a chance to kick around the Packers at home this weekend, so let’s hope it does not come down to Connor Barth kicking the game winner for the Bears as he has sucked.
#21.DENVER 3-5 The music chairs of quarterbacks continues. As their old friend who could not manage to stick with the Browns will get his second start of the year. Osweiler who took 70 million dollars away from Houston gets the nod over the guy they drafted a few years ago. Talk about things to do in Denver when you’re dead.
#22.CINCINNATI 3-5 The team with the most convicts. At least AJ Green continues to scratch and fight as this team has no pulse. Bengal fans are better to watch reruns of WKRP in Cincinnati instead of watching the rerun of the Bengals play each Sunday. It’s time to clean house there. Enough of the Pacman Jones and the head coach has to be axed.
#23. MIAMI 4-4 When you put all your eggs in Cutler you’re dreaming of a white Christmas in Florida which is not going to happen. A playoff team last year have already waved the white flag after trading their star running back to Philadelphia.
#24.ARIZONA 4-4 Their offense has gotten ancient. Maybe they need to move from Arizona and come back to Chicago play at Guaranteed rate field where the arrow is always going down. Actually I knew one person from Chicago that was still a Cardinal fan since they moved decades ago. That bar now is out of business where this guy was. I wonder what he will do now? Another bar or does he hope the owners will relocate?
#25.HOUSTON 3-5 HOUSTON WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM AT QUARTERBACK. This city saw a Hurricane wipe out their city. They seen Watt go out with another year ending injury. Then they were hopeful when Watson was lighting up teams. Then he falls to a season ending injury. Pour salt on wounds as people want you to sign Kaepernick. At least the Astros won the World series.
#26.BALTIMORE 4-5 Where is the offense? It’s like asking the question where’s the beef is what they are dealing with in Baltimore. You pay Flacco the most money on the team. Maybe it’s time to pull the plug on him.
#27.Green Bay 4-4 When the Bears are favored to beat you this week, you know you have hit skid row. Christmas came early in Chicago this year. Anybody for some Cheese whiz?
#28. TAMPA BAY 2-6 Only if they played the Bears every game this season. If Winston is out, at least Fitzpatrick can continue to pad his stats for the most games played by an Ivy league quarterback. Plus he is good for a few picks a game as well.
#29 INDIANAPOLIS 3-6 NO LUCK THIS YEAR. One of the worst rosters assembled, but they have three wins. The owner is a moron. Bright spot Jacoby Brissett. Usually when QB’S leave New England they are horrible. This guy has been pretty good. Could be a valuable back up to Luck when he returns next year.
#30. NEW YORK GIANTS 1-7 The fall of the G-MEN is perhaps another bright spot of the season. Bunch of dogs at the receiver position. Beckham actually pees on the goal post after touchdowns. Brandon Marshall continues to bring teams down. This year it is probably not his fault but still look at the resume.
#31. San Francisco 0-9 Maybe they should bring back Colin Kaepernick. They trade for Jimmy Garoppolo and they seem like they are not going to play him. The Niners and the Browns are at the bottom for idiots running the show while they both have not won a game.
#32.CLEVELAND 0-8 They continue to hit rock bottom as they forgot to file some paper work in a trade for a quarter back. Sell the team to Bernie Kosar. At least he could parade his hot porn daughter in the press conferences. Weekend at Bernie’s is always a cult favorite.
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