I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is here already…
A preliminary to Xmas, we eat the same meal – turkey, gravy, stuffing, pumpkin pie – just add eggnog.
And we have three NFL games, day and night.
The Colts lost QB Andrew Luck, so a Steelers win is all but a sure thing. However they are the road team and are a 9 point favorite. Sounds like a tease game with Dallas. The Cowboys are the best team in the NFL at 9-1 and play at home against a good Washington Redskins team.
But if we tease those two games it’s Dallas -1 instead of -7 and Steelers – 3 instead of the 9.
The early game today is Detroit at home vs. the Vikings at -2 – tough call, but I like the Lions.
The Chiefs don’t play until Sunday night against the Denver Broncos, last year’s Super Bowl Champs minus Peyton Manning.
The Broncos are a three loss team and in second place behind Oakland. The Chiefs fell to 7-3 with an upset loss last week to the Buc’s. So this game may be a make it or break it for KC and Alex Smith.
Smith stunk last week and has not played well all year. Our defense makes plays, but without Dee Ford and Marcus Peters, a win is unlikely. My guess is Peters plays, and Dee Ford is a question mark.
The offense needs injured wide out Jeremy Maclin back. He’s Smith’s safety valve receiver. Without him Smith seems lost.
One reason Oakland and Dallas are tops is their great offensive line work.
Ours is poor to average, thus making an average quarterback in Smith seem to stink.
He needs time to find his number 2 and 3 guys. Smith also needs to start to run the ball himself, something he has not done much all year. If KC loses and they are the underdog here, they fall to 7-4 and battle Miami and others for the sixth wild card spot.
A win gives them hope for a division title.
At this point if the offense doesn’t improve missing the playoffs is a real possibility. Let’s hope not.
Unfortunately, Chiefs fans have to face the fact that this is Marty ball part two with Andy Reid. We just don’t have the quarterback to win in the the AFC. Marty’s teams were much better and more talented than Andy’s. Lets face it Andy and Alex are KC type guys, good people, nice, just not prime time winners. They compete like crazy but fall short.
Love to see that change.
PRO GAMES THURSDAY
DALLAS -1 in a tease over Washington with a STEELERS -3 OVER THE COLTS.
DON’T OVEREAT…HAVE FUN!
I really haven’t been into the NFL this season. I don’t know the baseball playoffs, well at least on the NL side and the World Series was just so great. I’m just now getting into the NFL season.
From the MLB rating the Cubs kicked the NFL’s butt. And yes the NFL’s ratings are getting better I guess you can say the Dallas Cowboys are saving the NFL season. Without them, this would be another boring season.
KINDA, Oakland helps, as does New England…but the rest of the league is kinda average save the Seahawks….Chiefs are their usual, maybe, could be, and oh well.
The 🙂 comedy and tragedy 🙁 of another swiss chiefs season
In this corner, H. L. Mencken tack: “missing the playoffs is a real possibility.”
– oh ye of little faith, CG…
The other, Norman Vincent Peale: “A win gives them hope for a division title.”
– that’s more like it, CG…
Speaking of the smell of turkey in the air… your 2016 swiss chiefs. The rank waft also-ran in the air this Thanksgiving, an cautionary tale Superbowl fiction served up again by not so cleverly disguised as non-partisan media hucksters annually. A small-team / scribe / fandom complex sporting an ever-widening midwestern midsection of defeat: pass the seconds, thirds and 47th’s an consecutive ‘may we be excused the Superbowl table please’ foregone conclusion this season as every, Kansas City.
It could be worse… DET Lions and NY Jets understand. Could also be better. CLEV – soon to be City of Champions, plural. Browns won a Championship (merely entailed them moving to BALT/changing their name to Ravens accomplish said.) Basketball, Cavaliers won a Ring (where’s KC’s, NBA?) Next comes World Series, precipice said reached this year, kick the door in portends 2017.
Such success the case, can the ‘new Browns’ football be far behind? If such be known ‘mistake by the lake’, how refer KC? Here ‘Show Me’ State we like to beef, but moreso spell relief ‘sour grapes… it’s what’s for dinner’. swiss chiefs go through the motions better than any team not Lions or Jets, the troika tale three ugly step-children NFL.
Present, can’t see the mustard and ketchup uni’s being favorites in any their remaining games, home or away. 7-9 looks possible though odds are they’ll manage to finagle one more game, possible for every pretender this mediocrity be NFL. An 8-8 end this year was Kerouac’s prediction preseason, crystal ballin as the case Trump and fraudroyals looks to be another case my hitting the mark dead center.
Happy Thanksgiving…. gobble (hurl) gobble.
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SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
BRONCOS 4,998
swiss chiefs 3.14
🙂
gonna win again.
NICE now we are hot, won both games but counts as just one.