Sunday, January 11, 2009

Gameday Number 18: Pittsburgh Steelers

These jokes are 12-4. Which means they are 3.5 games ahead of the Chargers in the standings. Guess who else was 12-4.

Still, you don't win 12 games by accident. You win 4 of them by playing the Browns and Bengals. And their defense has simply pushed around the vast majority of the AFC, with their offense good enough to beat good defenses. They might be the only team to ever go 6-0 in the AFC North. Troy Polamalu is sick. Etc.

Brief break: the dancing/gloating robot in Fox NFL things is beyond awful.

Positive buzz from multiple sources about the Chargers' chances today. First, Seth Wickersham gave five points why the Bolts should win this game.

[ESPN]

I was pretty pumped after reading that. Then I looked at the obnoxious BS stuff spewed around the page, saw another playoffs pick 'em, and was horrified to realize he picked the Chargers to win.

[Vomit]

TMQ and BS differ in key ways, as the most popular Page 2 writers on ESPN. TMQ is usually right about the football aspects, but his space/politics rants are often off-base. BS shows an incredible lack of skill in picking important game, but he's more connected to fandom and the pop culture aspects of generation X. Which is probably why he gets really annoying.

At any rate, I sincerely hope both are right and it comes down to special teams. Otherwise I won't be able to show my face in the office tomorrow.




Ravens visit the winner of this game. Meh.

Cardinals humiliate Panthers. Wtf.

Eagles beat the Giants. Barf.

That's about as much effort as I can muster to cover those teams. Maybe Will will post or something?

- Matt

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