Rookie QB E.J. Manuel is injured for the third time this season so Practice Squad QB Thad Lewis gets to start this week against the Dolphins. This game has Playoff implications for the Dolphins while the Bills are just playing out the string. Bills fans were hoping for a blizzard to intimidate the Miami Dolphins, but instead both teams will be playing in cold rain. The temperature should be around 50. This game didn’t sell out (shocking!) so it’s blacked-out in Western NY. How is your favorite NFL team going to do today?
Seahawks at home should win, but they’ll be up against a team that needs the game worse than they do. A tossup.
The Giants will be “playing for pride” so I expect them to be blown out in Detroit.
The Saints meet the Panthers today in Charlotte. Although both teams have identical 10-4 records and although the Saints beat the Panthers earlier this season, the Saints are not performing well in away games, so this game is a toss-up. After spending the last few days canceling debit cards because we used them at Target and doing my last-minute shopping with cash because new cards won’t arrive until after Christmas, my nerves have had enough. I may just put on my headphones and listen to a Christmas Cantada.
The Saints baffle me, Deb. They should have had their division wrapped up. Unfortunately, we don’t get that game. We get the Jets at 1 and the Giants at 4, plus the “national” game (New England-Baltimore) at 4:25.
Bob, the Seahawks are invincible at home.
Jeff, the Giants and the Bills are in the same boat: no motivation.
Deb, the Panthers thirst for revenge for the last loss to the Saints. This could be a close game. TARGET is getting trashed on FACEBOOK. This credit card fiasco could cost them $100 million. And lost sales on top of that!
The ironic thing is that we might shop at Target a couple of times a year. A couple of weeks ago, one of my daughters wanted to use a Target gift card she had from her birthday–she was $7 short, so my husband covered it with his debit card. Even though I didn’t use my debit card there, our bank recommended we both get new ones. All for a $7 charge. Sigh!
Anyway, go Saints!
We rarely shop at Target and didn’t this year as the people for whom we get gift cards there wanted other things. We’ve checked our accounts and all appears okay.
Seahawks are eager to win home field throughout, so I hope they win. We get Colts-Chiefs at 10:00 (alreadyon) and Saints-Panthers at 10:00 (already on). The Seahawks game is at 1:00 and the Patriots-Ravens game is at 1:30. Then the Bears-Eagles at 5:30. All times PST, of course. Pretty good line up today, and some playoff slots will be decided.
Rick, you’re right about the Playoff picture coming into focus. By the end of today, many of those Playoff slots will be determined.
The Bills are up 10-0 as we speak. Can they hold up?
Unfortunately, we get the home teams who are both out of it and no longer of interest.
Jeff, the rain, wind, and fog completely dispirited the Dolphins. The Fish only had 14 rushing yards! But, of course, this is a meaningless game for the Bills.
The listings were wrong, they aren’t showing the Saints game after all and the time of the Broncos game is wrong. Damn newspaper listings. Or more likely, damn Comcast incompetence. Anyway, Colts are winning and Seahawks about to start. A good day to watch football, and I guess I’ll do my Christmas shopping tomorrow or Tuesday.
Saints lose. Oh well, Merry Christmas.
Sorry, Deb. But the Saints are a different team on the road. The Saints can’t be beaten at home.
Rick, Time-Warner messes up the listings, too. The Patriots are beating the Ravens soundly. But, the Ravens do have the capability to Comeback.
Well, the Giants outplayed the Lions in the first half anyway.
Unfortunately, Tony Romo saved the coaches’ jobs for one more week (at least) with the last second touchdown in Washington.
Seattle loses, looked awful, didn’t deserve to win even if there were some bad calls. I’ve been saying they looked lousy the last few games, but this time they had NO OFFENSE. Three points in three quarters? Ten in the whole game? What happened? Bah.
Jeff, the Lions may miss the Playoffs because of this game. Eli looked like the Eli of old.
Rick, the Seahawks had little to play for. They’re saving their A-Game for the Playoffs.
The Seahawks sucked, and the officiating wasn’t much better.
Bob, the Bills legendary coach, Marv Levy, had a standard answer to poor officiating: “Score more points.”