Sunday Line Chatter, Week 4: Games We Might Want to Watch
Atlanta (+7) at Carolina
bielerd: Let the pattern resume: Falcons crush a hapless foe at home, then go on the road and get schooled by a foe with a healthy amount of hap
David Larimer: Too many points, but I'll take the better team and honor my bride's home state: Panthers. It's also something blue!
bielerd: If only Julius Peppers was repping your bride's home state as well as she does
Matt Bonesteel: panthers. for no other reason than my cats told me so.
bielerd: my fiancee's cats just moved into our new place. we transported them a in a cardboard box. which one of them very nearly clawed her way out of before we got there. that was fun.
Matt Bonesteel: they must hate you with the passion of a thousand suns.
bielerd: I just hope the inordinate amount of meowing they did last night while I was trying to sleep was an aberration
Matt Bonesteel: yeah, you keep on hoping that.
bielerd: and you keep on hoping you'll wind up with the best record in this thing.
David Larimer: welcome to cat chat, folks. this is awesome
San Francisco (+5) New Orleans
Matt Bonesteel: saints keep losing all their skill players. they told them not to go to the quarter, but nooooo, they didn't listen.
bielerd: At this point, the Saints are like Seahawks-lite with all their receiver injuries
David Larimer: I don't trust New Orleans's defense to keep even the 49ers from keeping this close
Matt Bonesteel: one-fifth of the saints roster is on the injury report, acc. to the times-picayune.
David Larimer: I dunno, the Saints just need this one more. I'll take them, and turns this back over to the Cat Fanciers.
bielerd: Just because the Saints need it more doesn't mean they'll win by 6. Frank Gore and the Niners for me.
bielerd: J.T. O'Sullivan may not exactly be for real, but those are some formidable smoke and mirrors in Martz's offense.
bielerd: Doug Henning would be envious
Matt Bonesteel: Or GOB on "Arrested Development."
bielerd: I moan the passing of that show almost as much as I moan the passing of Tyler Thigpen
David Larimer: Me-ow!
Matt Bonesteel: well, you did wear that handmade DB+TT=BFF shirt to work yesterday. Lots of stares, I presume. Anyhoo, make it the Niners.
bielerd: that TT stood for Terry Tate (office linebacker) and you know it!
Minnesota (+3) at Tennessee
David Larimer: Titans. Poor, poor Gus.
bielerd: These teams are very similar. Except for the fact that Tennessee is better, and it's at home.
Matt Bonesteel: the titans haven't faced an offense that ranks higher than 24th. Minnesota's is ranked 17th. so by my impeccable logic, they could be seven times more challenged.
bielerd: There won't be a worse crop of wide receivers on any other NFL field
David Larimer: This is true, Des. But, unbelievably, there WILL be an older crop of QBs
bielerd: older, and slightly more accomplished
David Larimer: yes, that too. Two Super Bowls and five MVP awards more accomplished
Matt Bonesteel: there also won't be an nfl stadium with more zygis in it.
bielerd: okay, let's follow matt's attempts to rope this conversation back to the game at hand. Titans for me.
Matt Bonesteel: titans lead the league in interceptions and will step on gus's face with, um, a sensible loafer. titans.
bielerd: Was that a shot at Haynesworth?
Matt Bonesteel: does haynesworth wear sensible loafers? he seems more like a classic nike guy to me.
Matt Bonesteel: or, seeing as how they're in tennessee, some sort of line-dancing shoe.
Matt Bonesteel: does such a thing exist?
bielerd: yeah, I hear Big Albert is HUGE into the boot-scootin' boogie
David Larimer: this is reining it in?
bielerd: let's try this instead...
San Diego (-7 1/2) at Oakland
Matt Bonesteel: The fact that Rivers is the NFL's top-rated passer troubles my soul.
bielerd: Dave, no interest in locking this one? They're gonna do it for Lane, right?
bielerd: and by 'they', I mean the Chargers, and by 'do it,' I mean pummel the Raiders
David Larimer: Well, they will in the sense that they'll lose, and since the bye week awaits, it's the perfect time for Lane to get fired. Which is really what's best for Lane
David Larimer: Yes. I take the Chargers
Matt Bonesteel: imagine if somehow the raiders go to the super bowl and can't fire kiffin.
bielerd: so the question is whether Oakland will go all out in a farewell tribute to their boyish leader, or if everyone will just mail it in.
Matt Bonesteel: true. they've been on the spunky end lately. so I'm gonna take the raiders. do it for lanie!
Matt Bonesteel: i'm the only one he lets call him that.
bielerd: the last time Oakland faced a divisional foe at home, they got clobbered by the Broncos. and we know the Chargers are better than the Broncos, since they WON at Denver (kind of)
Matt Bonesteel: people are still talking about that? jeez, get over it.
bielerd: NEVER! anyway, I'll give the points and get an offense that can run and throw, thanks
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David, Des and Matt
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September 26, 2008; 1:44 PM ET
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