Any Given Take

What a week of football! This week had it all, we've got comebacks, unretired slingers, playoff clinching, teams eliminated from playoff contention and a team that has pulled off back to back upsets. So I thought I would react to this fantastic slate of games today. Let's start with Philip Rivers If you would have told me last week that 44 year old Philip Rivers was going to be playing a football game in the NFL I would have laughed in your face, but here we are. And Rivers actually looked pretty good for his first game back, especially considering the defense he was playing. The Colts did end up losing the game but it was not because of Philip Rivers.  Patriots vs. Bills The Patriots got out to a 0-21 lead on the bills in the first half and looked like the dominant team for the entirety of the 1st half. The Bills (for the second week in a row) had a hole to climb out of in the second half trailing 7-24. To start the second half, the Bills put up 21 unanswered points ultimately...

This week I would like to highlight the extremely competitive NFC playoff picture. As of now, there are 10 teams battling for the 7 playoff spots as well as no clear front runner in any division. I am going to highlight each division today and make predictions for how the NFC Playoff picture will look when everything is all said and done.  NFC East Possibly the weakest division on this list, the Eagles at 8-5 and Cowboys at 6-6-1 are in a race for the division. Both teams have proven to be extremely inconsistent with neither proving it's true supremacy. I don’t believe both teams will make the playoff as the Wild Card picture is extremely tight this year. So whoever wins the division will make the playoffs.  With the two already splitting their season series we also won’t see a late season matchup to determine the division. I predict that the Cowboys will win all 4 of their final games and end with a 10-6-1 thus winning the NFC East over the eagles who will end with a 10-7 rec...

The saying "the season doesn't start until after thanksgiving" (Bill Parcells, not Bill Belichick) is now in full swing, as we are starting to see the real teams step forward and the fake teams take a step back.  Today I will talk about a few headlines that still need to be answered as football has started, as opposed to what I was planning on talking about this week (again). Who's winning the AFC north? The AFC north flat out stinks this year, there's no other way to put it. After week 12 there is a tie for 1st place in the AFC north that will be broken on December 7th between the Ravens and Steelers, who are both 6-6. Both teams have looked bad (to say the least), with no real evidence that either would do much of anything in the playoffs. However, the 4-8 Bengals are getting healthy at the right time and could make a comeback for the division. Now holding tie breakers to the Ravens and Steelers, there is a real chance that the Bengals could win the division. As...