Sunday Line Chatter, Week 6: Games We Might Want to Watch
Dallas (-5) at Arizona
Dave: I like a five-point dog to keep it close when it´s playing at home and has scored 76 points in its last two games. I'll just hope that Dallas doesn´t score 76 in this game alone. Cardinals.
Matt Bonesteel: even if pacman plays, the cowboys' pass defense is wretched.
bielerd: the thing is, I could easily see the Cowboys putting things together and drubbing the Cards. but as a responsible picks-maker, I just can't overlook how much better Zona has been playing in its new crib under Whisenhunt.
Matt Bonesteel: 8-2 at home over their last 10.
bielerd: the Pacman thing is great. Mainly because it allows us to stop calling him Adam
Matt Bonesteel: too bad the bodyguard didn't knock him out. we coulda started calling him Glass Joe.
bielerd: who brawls with his bodyguard? isn't that like sniffing glue with your teacher?
Matt Bonesteel: i'll continue my all-underdog mentality and ride with the cardinals. they have too many weapons for dallas to stop.
bielerd: this is not the Cardinals of old, who looked out at a sea of Cowboys jerseys in the Sun Devil stadium bleachers. Not with Whisenhunt and Warner begging fans not to sell their tickets to Dallas fans!
Matt Bonesteel: bet it's at least 40 percent dallas fans, still.
bielerd: yeah, probably. but I'll take the Cards, too
Philadelphia (-5) at San Francisco
bielerd: Dave: I´m torn between thinking the Eagles will play desperately and win handily and realizing that it´s crazy to pick 11 or 12 road teams in a given week. Eagles.
bielerd: It would be nice to know if Westbrook was going to play in this game
Matt Bonesteel: philly inky says westbrook is looking likely to play with fractured ribs. he also still is recovering from a strained right ankle. I'm guessing the injuries will keep moving up his body, and this week he'll come down with pink-eye.
Matt Bonesteel: reggie brown hurt again yesterday, tho.
bielerd: hmmm. the Eagles don't seem to have it quite all together, and they're now being asked to cover a large-ish number across the country
bielerd: on other hand, I don't think this Niners team is very good, and it will be like vacation for the Eagles to go from the rigors of the NFC East to the marshmallow-like NFC West
Matt Bonesteel: for some reason, east coast teams going west do better than vice versa.
bielerd: aww, heck. If I can take the Cards to cover against the Cowboys at home, I suppose I can take the 49ers to keep this thing close.
Matt Bonesteel: gotta break my underdog run somewhere. eagles.
N.Y. Giants (-7 1/2) at Cleveland
Dave: Is it Christmastime already? I mean, don´t we usually have to wait till well into November to get one of these Monday night matchups that looked fine when the schedule was drawn but is a total dog come game time? Giants.
Matt Bonesteel: we should totally pretend it's christmastime when larimer gets back. mess with his mind.
Matt Bonesteel: keep offering each other various nogs.
bielerd: I don't want to know what kind of a lump you're putting in his stocking
Matt Bonesteel: they don't call me Lil' Najeh for nothing.
bielerd: not Deuce Bonegalow?
Matt Bonesteel: wow. did you hurt your brain coming up with that? it hurt mine.
bielerd: nope, tortured jokes come rather easily to my brain
bielerd: My brain is hurting a bit contemplating the possibility that the Giants are due for a loss.
Matt Bonesteel: Browns DT Corey Williams on the Giants' running game: "'There ain't nothing physical about them."
Matt Bonesteel: except for the part about Brandon Jacobs stepping on people's souls.
Matt Bonesteel: other than that, nothing physical at all.
bielerd: they do have quite the metaphysical ground attack
bielerd: three yards and a cloud of essence
bielerd: I'd like to take the home team here, but New York is just too hot. Giants, please
Matt Bonesteel: giants, also,
St. Louis (+13 1/2) at Washington
Dave: Leave town for two weeks and the market nosedives while the Redskins become the biggest favorite in the league. On top of that, I´m suddenly incapable of picking a home team. Everything´s backwards these days, even the way the toilet flushes. (I know I keep mentioning that, but I can´t help it.) Might as well try to reverse the one trend I can: Redskins.
Matt Bonesteel: double-digit favorite has yet to cover this season.
bielerd: the Redskins are looking at a major letdown game after the two wins they just had, and then there's that key stat you just produced
Matt Bonesteel: it's a lot of points.
bielerd: and the Rams are about to experience the Haslett Effect.
Matt Bonesteel: There's also this headline, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Haslett was 0-1 vs. Zorn as an NFL Player" Now that's a pertinent stat!
bielerd: ooh, he will want revenge for that slight. wasn't haslett doing 'roids with the steelers at the time?
Matt Bonesteel: actually, he was on the bills at the time. don't know if he was doing 'roids or not.
bielerd: well, here's hoping he's been pretending it's christmas time in the Rams' locker room and dropping lumps of the clear and the cream in their stockings. they'll need something illegal to stop being so terrible
Matt Bonesteel: they should get some jarts, then. they're both illegal and fun for the entire family.
bielerd: good idea! then they could toss the jarts at Jason Campbell
Matt Bonesteel: in any case, the rams haven't scored more than 14 points in a game this season. can't seem them surpassing that point here. redskins.
bielerd: I'm going to toss a jart at the board and pick... the Rams!
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Desmond Bieler
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October 10, 2008; 2:31 PM ET
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