The Single Barrel never had a chance The Big Guys wedding was an all timer. Not the wedding really. That was pretty standard fare. The pre-party, the reception and the post party were the real treats. We snuck in some Four Roses Single Barrel to a supposed Baptist reception. It never made it past the cutting of the cake.
Not that I saw that. I was down at a sports bar with Big Bruce and Little Bruce watching the Falcons. I came back to Mrs. Doofus giving me the furry eyebrow. She was not nearly as mad as the bride when the trolley went to the wrong First Baptist Church.
Plenty of great stories to tell(hen we all get together at the Go Jumbo trip (if I remember them, they’re kind of blurry already, closing down the post party at 4:30am will do that to you) my favorite being the one with Middle Bruce (yes, there were plenty of Bruces) and Nick corralling Little Bruce who was on the prowl for their daughters.
And the kicker was I went 3-1 with my picks. Hopefully that success will continue.
Atlanta -2.5 @ Philadelphia – Back on the last Go Jumbo trip I put a quatloo on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl. They were laying waste to the NFC behind Carson Wentz and a ferocious defense. Then Wentz went down and in came Nick Foles.
Foles has gotten progressively worse each week bottoming out against Dallas in week 17. That game saw him hit rock bottom, going 4-for-11 in the regular-season finale for just 39 yards. An interception left him with a pathetic quarterback rating of 9.3. Berg, who can barely see over the center’s buttocks could do better than a 9.3. It was Fole’s fourth straight game under 70.
Behind an incompetent Foles, Philadelphia has not scored a TD for 7 straight quarters going back to Christmas Day. And now the defense started showing cracks in the secondary. It allowed a decrepit Eli Manning throw for 434 yards, his season best.
Not that I saw that. I was down at a sports bar with Big Bruce and Little Bruce watching the Falcons. I came back to Mrs. Doofus giving me the furry eyebrow. She was not nearly as mad as the bride when the trolley went to the wrong First Baptist Church.
Plenty of great stories to tell(hen we all get together at the Go Jumbo trip (if I remember them, they’re kind of blurry already, closing down the post party at 4:30am will do that to you) my favorite being the one with Middle Bruce (yes, there were plenty of Bruces) and Nick corralling Little Bruce who was on the prowl for their daughters.
And the kicker was I went 3-1 with my picks. Hopefully that success will continue.
Atlanta -2.5 @ Philadelphia – Back on the last Go Jumbo trip I put a quatloo on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl. They were laying waste to the NFC behind Carson Wentz and a ferocious defense. Then Wentz went down and in came Nick Foles.
Foles has gotten progressively worse each week bottoming out against Dallas in week 17. That game saw him hit rock bottom, going 4-for-11 in the regular-season finale for just 39 yards. An interception left him with a pathetic quarterback rating of 9.3. Berg, who can barely see over the center’s buttocks could do better than a 9.3. It was Fole’s fourth straight game under 70.
Behind an incompetent Foles, Philadelphia has not scored a TD for 7 straight quarters going back to Christmas Day. And now the defense started showing cracks in the secondary. It allowed a decrepit Eli Manning throw for 434 yards, his season best.
Julio is catching fire at just the right time It will be under even more pressure as Matt Ryan and Julio Jones finally got in synch towards the end of the season. Jones reeled in nine receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown last week against the Rams, and has had his way with the Eagles. He had 10 catches for 135 yards in the teams' last meeting in 2016 and has 428 receiving yards in four contests with the Eagles.
And while the Eagle’s defense has begun to falter, the Falcons D has picked up the pace. In their last five games, they’ve allowed just 16.8 points; keeping in mind three of them have been against the high-powered offenses of the Rams and Saints. During that stretch, the Falcons also have five interceptions and three fumble recoveries, a full half of their season totals.
Both teams figure to pressure the opposing QBs. In the Falcons only loss since December, the Saints DL pressured Ryan who got sacked five times and never looked comfortable in the pocket. The Eagles DL better than the Saints.
Meanwhile, Foles is a stiff making him an easy target for LB Deion Jones who recorded his third straight game with 10 tackles and has 52 over the last five.
They Eagles are the first #1 seed to be an underdog to a #6 seed in NFL history. I’m not phased. I’ll take the Falcons for a Mega Bet. They are on a roll covering seven of their last ten. Make it 8 of 11.
And while the Eagle’s defense has begun to falter, the Falcons D has picked up the pace. In their last five games, they’ve allowed just 16.8 points; keeping in mind three of them have been against the high-powered offenses of the Rams and Saints. During that stretch, the Falcons also have five interceptions and three fumble recoveries, a full half of their season totals.
Both teams figure to pressure the opposing QBs. In the Falcons only loss since December, the Saints DL pressured Ryan who got sacked five times and never looked comfortable in the pocket. The Eagles DL better than the Saints.
Meanwhile, Foles is a stiff making him an easy target for LB Deion Jones who recorded his third straight game with 10 tackles and has 52 over the last five.
They Eagles are the first #1 seed to be an underdog to a #6 seed in NFL history. I’m not phased. I’ll take the Falcons for a Mega Bet. They are on a roll covering seven of their last ten. Make it 8 of 11.
Get ready for a big day from the Gronk New England -13.5 vs Tennessee – Over in the AFC, the #1 seed is nearly a 2 TD favorite. And the reason is simple, Brady loves torching a weak Titans secondary. Over his career he has 13 TDs and no picks versus Tennessee. He’ll toss a few deep with success setting up his effective dink and dunk. Gronkowski will have a field day picking up where KC’s Kelce left off last week.
Belichick is the master of taking away your best player. For the Titans that is Mariota. The key is to keep him the pocket. Throwing the ball this year, Marcus had more picks (15) than TDs (13). Let him throw. Don’t let him run.
Last week KC jumped to a 21-3 half time lead before Tennessee mounted a massive 22-21 comeback win. This week the Pats will jump to that same lead and then increase it in the second half.
Over the last 15 years there have been three teams that have been favored by 13 or more points in the playoffs. Those teams went 3-0 straight up and 2-1 ATS. All three of those teams were the Patriots. They’re used to this. Forget all the controversy about from ESPN (it may be a Belichick ploy all along) I’ll put a mini mega on New England.
Belichick is the master of taking away your best player. For the Titans that is Mariota. The key is to keep him the pocket. Throwing the ball this year, Marcus had more picks (15) than TDs (13). Let him throw. Don’t let him run.
Last week KC jumped to a 21-3 half time lead before Tennessee mounted a massive 22-21 comeback win. This week the Pats will jump to that same lead and then increase it in the second half.
Over the last 15 years there have been three teams that have been favored by 13 or more points in the playoffs. Those teams went 3-0 straight up and 2-1 ATS. All three of those teams were the Patriots. They’re used to this. Forget all the controversy about from ESPN (it may be a Belichick ploy all along) I’ll put a mini mega on New England.
Two picks sixes again? Nah, but Jacksonville will keep Big Ben in check Jacksonville +7.0 @ Pittsburgh – Antonio Brown is back for the Steelers but it won’t make that much of a difference. Big Ben has faded this year and this week he will be under tremendous pressure. Jacksonville has a great pass rush and the last time he got a lot of pressure he threw five picks against this very same Jaguar defense.
I hate putting money on Blake Bortles. He was awful last week. He threw for a meager 87 yards last week against Buffalo. But he did rush for 88 yards as he tried to get over the playoff jitters. The play is really on Leonard Fournette versus a Steeler defense missing Ryan Shazier. Since he has been gone the Steelers are 1-4 ATS.
Fournette rumbled for 181 yards against a solid Buffalo defense. He will have more yards than Le’Veon Bell this week.
I’ll put a quatloo on Jacksonville and a quatloo on the under 41.0. With Bortles in charge, Jacksonville scored only 10 points last week becoming only the third playoff team to score 10 or less and move on.
I hate putting money on Blake Bortles. He was awful last week. He threw for a meager 87 yards last week against Buffalo. But he did rush for 88 yards as he tried to get over the playoff jitters. The play is really on Leonard Fournette versus a Steeler defense missing Ryan Shazier. Since he has been gone the Steelers are 1-4 ATS.
Fournette rumbled for 181 yards against a solid Buffalo defense. He will have more yards than Le’Veon Bell this week.
I’ll put a quatloo on Jacksonville and a quatloo on the under 41.0. With Bortles in charge, Jacksonville scored only 10 points last week becoming only the third playoff team to score 10 or less and move on.
Stefon Diggs will have a big day against a depleted Saints defense Minnesota -5.0 vs New Orleans – It’s the Pros versus the Joes in this game. Despite nearly 70% of the action on Brees getting the points, the spread has risen from -3.5 to 5.0
It’s a rematch of these teams season opener but much has changed since then. In week one, Minnesota won 29-19 with Sam Bradford under center and Dalvin Cook toting the rock. Now its Case Keenum is QB after a dark horse MVP season with Latvius Murray taking the handoffs.
New Orleans traded RB Adrian Petersen and made the decision to go with Mark Ingram and rookie Alvin Kamara. Smart move as they became the first pair of RBs to go over 1,500 yards in the same season.
What hasn’t changed is that Minnesota has a fantastic defense. Brees may have had 291 yards throwing in the first game but most of it was in garbage time. At the half he had a mere 71 yards.
New Orleans’s defense is much better this year but is missing Alex Anzolone and Kenny Vaccaro. That should allow for Keenum to hit Stefon Diggs out of the slot.
This is my least favorite pick of the week. One, is backing a playoff rookie QB in Keenum. Two, is that Brees could be down 10 and get a late back door cover and, three, is that no team hosting the Super Bowl has ever made it to the Super Bowl. In fact, they have never made it past the Divisional Round. Last year Houston lost in this round.
I’ll still back the Vikings as HC Mike Zimmer is 8-2 ATS with a week off but no quatloos.
It’s a rematch of these teams season opener but much has changed since then. In week one, Minnesota won 29-19 with Sam Bradford under center and Dalvin Cook toting the rock. Now its Case Keenum is QB after a dark horse MVP season with Latvius Murray taking the handoffs.
New Orleans traded RB Adrian Petersen and made the decision to go with Mark Ingram and rookie Alvin Kamara. Smart move as they became the first pair of RBs to go over 1,500 yards in the same season.
What hasn’t changed is that Minnesota has a fantastic defense. Brees may have had 291 yards throwing in the first game but most of it was in garbage time. At the half he had a mere 71 yards.
New Orleans’s defense is much better this year but is missing Alex Anzolone and Kenny Vaccaro. That should allow for Keenum to hit Stefon Diggs out of the slot.
This is my least favorite pick of the week. One, is backing a playoff rookie QB in Keenum. Two, is that Brees could be down 10 and get a late back door cover and, three, is that no team hosting the Super Bowl has ever made it to the Super Bowl. In fact, they have never made it past the Divisional Round. Last year Houston lost in this round.
I’ll still back the Vikings as HC Mike Zimmer is 8-2 ATS with a week off but no quatloos.
