Snowball Fight In Vegas

Hot chocolate and Irish coffee couldn’t fix a cold betting day in the NFL this weekend. If you count the Ravens road win in Dallas on Saturday night, there were 9 upsets in week 16. While some games were a coin flip, others had playoff ramifications and were dubbed as “must wins”. Gridiron Experts seemed to avoid the betting disaster, going 2-2 in our week 16 edition of Money Where Your Mouth Is.  Kansas City broke our hearts (again) on the final drive of the game, which made us go .500.

With calling the Seahawks and Chargers wins, you’d think we’d be having a good week, but when teams like Denver and Philly blow chances at playoff opportunities, you really have to wonder who is going to the playoffs.

Last year, all anyone would talk about week after week was the Patriots. Tom Brady this and Randy Moss that; this year it’s hard to find a team worth talking about for more than a couple of weeks, as playoff runs fall apart in a matter of seconds. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were my sleeper team; I took them to beat the Carolina Panthers 3 weeks ago, thinking the Bucs could  hand an NFC South team a loss at home…man, was I wrong. At the time, it seemed very possible; Carolina had been frustrated by Tampa Bay’s defense in their first meeting, only managing to put up a field goal. Now, I wouldn’t bet on the Buccaneers to beat a high school football team. The offense has vanished, while the running defense is a joke.

The Broncos are also falling apart. You know that as hard as the coaching staff tried to hide the score of the Chargers win earlier that day, they found out. So you would think that after the Broncos caught wind of  their division rival’s win, their game vs. the Bills  would turn into a must win for them.  The Broncos are very streaky and unreliable; they don’t deserve a playoff wildcard spot. The sad thing is, the Chargers don’t deserve one either.