Editor's Note--As I sat on a picture perfect day in North Miami, on the 45 yard line behind the J-E-T-S bench, on New Year's Day, I cursed them more than once for 1) looking like crap (I'm a follower of the Jets), and more importantly, 2) for not LOSING with grace and getting a late TD, to "push" in the wagering world, while losing by a "mere" 2 points. Little did I know, this would be the only mere blemish for the rest of the day, for the man known as Big D. Yessir. 4-0-1 for the baddest handicapper on the planet!! Now, oh master, all the teams NEEEEED the game this weekend, but I am not even going to ask if you have further tricks up your sleeve. All I know is that I have the best kind of money--in my wallet that I cannot close--HOUSE money. Courtesy of my bookmaker via Large Richard. The sagest of the sage, the coolest of the cool, the baddest of the bad, go forth. As I order another bottle of bubbly. At 8 a.m. Goooooooooooo!--R.B.
Well, Richie, funny you should mention those J-E-T-S. I've been thinking about how they've wrecked our perfect week. Cause you see we DO dwell on the losers and forget the winners around these parts. We ain't been doin a lot of dwellin lately, have we? Um, no we have not. Wild card weekend begins.......Here goes...........
What do we always say about CINCINNATI? It's best to take the underdog in their games. Of course, except if they NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED the game, as CINCY did last week, and when they lost, they became another of the MANY Big D winners of the week. This time they have a team, Houston, that is making its first playoff appearance. Sure its at Houston but CINCY might just be able to hang with their fancy defense and Houston's QB "sitch". CINCY snuck into the playoffs with a 9-7 record, but quick, if they didn't play powerful (back then) Pittsburgh and Baltimore 4 times, you know what their record would be? 9-3. Um, Houston ain't no Pitt or Balt, pal. TAKE.
Lotta talk about the G-men, now that they have made it to the playoffs, they are going to ramble into the Super Bowl. Oh yeah? Well, riddle me this batboys and batgirls, How many home playoff games have the "illustrious duo" of Tommy Coughlin and Eli Manning won in their Giant careers? Nada. Zilch. ZERO. Not sure why, but it always seems Eli plays better on the road. Sure the G-men looked good in their conquests of J-E-T-S and "America's Team" (ha!) Dallas. But those teams are what we refer to as "NON-playoff teams". ATLANTA is a playoff team. People talk of their QB getting nervous in the big games. I wonder if the ATLANTA defense gets nervous. Because when it's a little rainy and 42 degrees and windy, the Giants will need BIG games out of Bradshaw and Jacobs. You puttin your cash on that? Big D ain't pal. TAKE!
Finally, quickly now, quickly.....there have been 5 instances where an NFL team has made the playoffs with an 8-8 record or worse (last year's 7-9 Seattle team. Memba them?). Guess what those 5 teams are against the spread? 5-0. Guess how many games they have won outright? 4 of 5. Now quick again, what do the numbers 13, 3, 13 represent? Those are the points scored by the Pittsburgh team their last 3 on the road. Those were against Cleveland (stinky team), San Fran (playoff team), and KC (non-playoff team). Um DENVER, is coached by a man named FOX. Do you know what FOX's background is? DEFENSE. You heard of a cat named ELVIS DUMERVIL? I think you will by 7pm eastern time Sunday night. He will be in the Pittsburgh offensive backfield a lot. Problem for Pittsburgh is, he plays DEFENSE for DENVER. Oh the line you ask? The line?!?! Pittsburgh -9.5. AT DENVER pal. AT DENVER. Mile High Stadium. With a wobbly QB, no starting RB, and a safety named Clark who has the most tackles on the team, unable to play. Would Big D question your sanity if you took close to 4-1 odds for DENVER to win outright? No he would not. For our purposes, we'll play it safe and just name it "Big D's Wild Card Weekend Lock of the Year". TAKE pal. TAKE. DENVER plus the points pal. And Big D is willing to wager that was the ONLY analysis you have read about this game all week that didn't mention the DENVER QB, right? Big D is smarter than the average honey badger, baby.
So we hope you had a snappy New Year celebration. We know we did. With money comin out of everywhere. We keep the money train rollin down the tracks this weekend with CINCY+3 @ Houston, ATLANTA+3 @ New York Giants, and our lock of the weekend DENVER+9.5 vs Pittsburgh. Good luck and god bless.
Ownzzzz. Ownnzzzz...
Posted by: Fletch | January 07, 2012 at 09:55 PM