Season Record 6-3 +240 Streak Lose 1

6 Point Teaser

Pittsburgh Steelers +9 (-115)
New England Patriots -1 (-105)
Atlanta Falcons -1 (-110)

Time for a review

ATL -1 if they can't beat MIA at home I deserve to lose. As for Atlanta, they just need to run the ball, make a few plays downfield and keep Penix from getting crunched. He got beat up pretty good in the last game and I wonder where his mental state is. He never had that happen in NCAA and up until last game, not in the NFL.

Well I guess we deserved to lose. Forget Penix, forget Cousins, the game plan put forth in this game by ATL was just in a word atrocious. I don't know if they felt if they just showed up they were winning or what the thought process was here. Now I'll give MIA credit, they played the nearly perfect game. The best game they have played all season and it took 8 weeks to show up.

Miami had 16 more plays and yet ATL had one more drive. MIA 141 yards rushing, say what? ATL only 45 yards say what? Atlanta had a total of 49 plays in the game and 31 of them were passes. They started passing and just kept passing because they had to. If they would have led with smash mouth running with Robinson, it may have been a different outcome. Oddly enough the key play of the game is when Robinson fumbled down at the MIA 10 yard line or so as he bounced the ball off his knee while running in the open. Have you ever seen a RB do that? In a way I'm glad ATL lost and I'll talk about that later.


NE -1 - Ok people are all over CLV here. Why? They had 200 yards of offense in their game against the a fore mentioned Dolphins. Gabriel will progress and I just can't see the Browns going into Foxborough and beating the Patriots. Maye should have a field day here. I see them having a big time of possession edge in this game. CLV will be very limited in what they are going to be able to do.

CLV had a total of 213 yards of offense. Maye went 18/24 for 282 yards passing and 3 TD's. NE had the ball nearly 12.5 minutes longer than CLV and only ran 13 more plays. CLV was outscored 29-6 after the first qtr in which CLV led 7-3 at the end of the first. This played out exactly as I thought it would.

PIT +9 - I can't see GB winning by 10 in Blitzburgh and this should be a tightly played game. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see PIT win SU.

16-7 at the half, 19-14 after 3 with Pittsburgh out front. The fourth qtr GB won the game outscoring PIT 21-6 to win by guess what 10!

I don't know what took place in the PIT locker room at halftime but it sure didn't work. They came out of the gate pass, pass, pass and I could probably write it 100 more times. Why they went totally against what was working and their strong suit is beyond me. Rodgers looked like a statue the majority of the time and hell he made Michael Penix look like a natural born running QB and that's impossible to do but Rodgers did it. The PIT defense looked like they had too much to drink at halftime as they couldn't get any pressure on Love who played the role of a surgeon and sliced and diced the PIT defense.

I want to touch upon why I said I'm glad ATL lost early because if we would've got to this leg +9 and up 5 at the end of the third. Would you have thought we could lose? Don't get me wrong we did but let's go to the final PIT score and at the time they were down 16. So if you came into this up 5 getting 9 and all of a sudden your down 16 and losing you have a WTF moment. But let's talk about the TD, it was one, even thought it took replay assist to correct the error by the refs on the field. How would you have liked your money coming down to a 2 point conversion and you see your guy make the catch and you start clapping, woo hooing, cheering or whatever just to see him lose it and it just drop to the ground.

That would have been pure agony in itself. Don't get me wrong, I pride myself on my results here and even I wanted to see him catch it and lose by 8.

9 teaser plays this season and this is the first one where there was more than one loss. The prior two losers only had 1 leg misfire and it was fluky kind of things that cost us. Could you imagine if ATL won and it would've lost like this. Holy smokes, but still it sucks for sure.

Even if we had played a 10 pt teaser, we would've lost but only 1 leg. ATL. This loss sucks but at least it was just 1 unit with no juice.

There will be many more opportunities as we move forward and if you've played every play posted this year, you're ahead and that's the bottom line.

Until next time.................

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