Week 10 Rambling Drill

Some thoughts on last week:

Put $5 on the Niners, -3, last night; they still found a way to give me a heart attack at the end of the game.  Thank you, Jay Cutler, for sucking (he threw his 9th Red Zone INT yesterday!).  My friend Rahul said it best about this abortion of a game: “First thing I do when I get home to to make sure this game video never gets played in my DVR, again.”  Talk about two terrible efforts by two mediocre bad teams setting HD football back 10 years, geesh!

Good blow-by-blow commentary from DCSports Bog on the DeAngelo Hall vs the entire Falcons sideline Royal Rumble from last Sunday’s game. The best part of all of this is the post game comments by Hall (who may sue Falcons staffers for harrassment, lol).  Talk about one paranoid athlete who still holds grudges.

Apparently, only in the NFL, you can fine Chad Ochocinco $20K for having a little fun (granted, a bit inappropriate, but still hilarious) at the referees expense, but yet when you take a cheap shot at a lineman’s face, causing potential career and life threatening injury while he can’t defend himself, you ONLY get fined $7,500 dollars. WTF?

Granted it was entertaining, but the Final Table of the 2009 WSOP sure won’t help the “poker is a game of skill” cause!  What a monkey-poo flinging contest!

Here is one of my favorite articles: The Not-SO Madden A 2010 Team.  Great line on WR Yamon Figurs, an overall 39 in the game:

Most embarrassing stat: 40 rating for Awareness.  With that kind of Awareness rating, I’m surprised Yamon even remembers to bring his helmet to the game.

Wow, I didn’t know women’s soccer could be so chippy.  Watching that video reminded me of the Celtics/Sixers-Piston-Lakers brawls of the late 80’s.  Maybe DeAngelo Hall could get some tackling tips from the New Mexico defender.

Onto the picks:

NCAA:

I am contemplating taking the first half under of South Carolina vs Florida game (22).  It still may be too low for my tastes, but the Gamecocks are good at keeping things close at the half, and then imploding like Steve Spurrier trying to get out of the sand bunker on 15.

NFL:

TB@MIA Over 43

I think the Ronnie and Ricky show could beat this by themselves with Tampa’s piss poor defense.  Miami is also prone to giving up a big play or 3.

NO -14 @ St. Louis

Simmons convinced me here.  Plus I also had a nice big win putting 45 on Indy -13.5 earlier in the year vs the Rams, who lost 42-3.  Yeah, I’ll take the motivated favorite here who didn’t play their best vs Carolina last week.

6 Point Teaser of the Week:

Arizona vs Seattle –2.5

Cincinnati @ PIT +13