This was the week that Adrian Peterson won the MVP award. AP broke off another 212 yards on the ground as Minnesota improves to 8-6, moving one step closer to a playoff berth.
Forget about the infamous booing of Santa Claus by Philly fans, ol’ Kris Kringle might get waterboarded at the Linc this Sunday once the Eagles inevitably fall behind the Redskins.
A win by Indy in this game would have put them just one game behind the Texans in the AFC South – with a rematch scheduled in the regular season finale. But as we expected, the Colts are not ready for primetime just yet.
After a very soft 9-2 start, the Ravens are hurtling back to earth. Losers of three straight, they face playoff contenders in the final two weeks (Giants and Bengals) and are in danger of not even making the postseason.
What should you have been doing for three hours on Sunday instead of watching Miami/Jacksonville? Anything else.
The Terry Robiskie Bowl! Kirk Cousins has proven himself to be adequate and effective as a quarterback the past two weeks which means that in the 2012 draft alone, the Redskins drafted not one – but two quarterbacks that are better than any of the quarterbacks on the Jets, Cardinals, Browns, Jaguars or Chiefs.
You just knew that the Saints would be all fired up during a week that saw them receive some measure of vindication for Bountygate.
Can we all stop talking about how disrespected the Falcons are? Yes, they’re 12-2. Yes, they just thrashed the defending Super Bowl champs. But their true test is winning a playoff game or two. Until that happens, the disrespect will continue. End of story.
Green Bay has won eight of nine games and after getting Greg Jennings back a few weeks ago, now bolsters their defense with the returns of Clay Matthews and Charles Woodson. Don’t look now, but the Pack could be the best team in the NFC.
It’s pretty trendy to jump on the Seattle bandwagon right now after they’ve scored 108 points in the past two weeks. But couldn’t the Alabama Crimson Tide score 108 points against the Cardinals and Bills? Seattle’s three best opponents so far this season have been the Patriots (who they beat by a point at home), the Packers (who they “beat” in the game that ended the referee lockout) and the 49ers (who beat them). Let’s slow our roll on the Seattle love for right now…
Will either of the coaches in this game have their job in 2013? Has the Philip Rivers-to-the-Cardinals-for-Patrick-Peterson discussion started yet?
Pop quiz: What would you have rather done on Sunday? Watched the entire Miami/Jacksonville game followed by the entire Oakland/Kansas City game – or masturbate with a cheese grater for six hours? The fact that you even had to think about that question says it all.
Really Detroit? Really?
At 8-6, Dallas controls their own playoff destiny which means they just need to win the last two games and they’re in. With Jason Garrett managing the clock and Tony Romo under center, what could possibly go wrong?!
This game is exactly why Jim Harbaugh chose Colin Kaepernick over Alex Smith. San Francisco could have won 12 games this year with Smith and entered the playoffs with an offense that had a ceiling of around 25-30 points. Instead, Harbaugh risked an extra regular season win or two and chose Kaepernick – who gives the offense a ceiling of at least 40 points – in anticipation of playing teams with high-scoring offenses like the Packers, Falcons and Giants in the playoffs. With the best defense in the league, the only knock on the 49ers was that they couldn’t hang offensively with teams like the Patriots in a shootout. Clearly that knock is no more.
Mark Sanchez has turned the ball over fifty times in the last two seasons. That was not a typo. Mark Sanchez has turned the ball over fifty times in the last two seasons. Once more for your viewing pleasure, is the absolute best of those fifty:
Give Me Liberty 