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Week 19 in the CFL. The final week of 2008. Bring on the playoffs… please…

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Leave a comment

Thank goodness it’s over. After all, with the exception of the battle for playoff positions in the West, the CFL hasn’t been particularly interesting for the past three weeks.

Could it be that 18 games are too many?

 

This week, we will get to find out whether it will be Saskatchewan or B.C. playing host to the Western semifinal. And that’s it. On Pro Line, three of the four games are considered blowouts this week. Winnipeg will play host to Edmonton in the Eastern semifinal at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg (1 p.m. CST on TSN) while Calgary and Montreal have each wrapped up first in the West and East respectively.

 

Other than that, the only worry this week is who or how many will be banged up and unable to perform in the playoffs.

 

In the meantime, let’s take as close a look as we possibly can at Week 18, a week that look an awful lot like pre-season…

 

Saskatchewan Roughriders (11-6) at Toronto Argonauts (4-13)

 

Thursday, 6:30 p.m. CT, TSN

 

Michael Bishop is back in Toronto for a rare end-of-season Thursday night game, even though there is a chance he might not play all that much. Riders head coach Ken Miller also has Derian Durant and Steven Jyles and who knows? All three of them could play. As Saskatchewan gets more of its players back from injury, the team just could be playing its best football of the year (judging from last week’s 55-9 demolition of Edmonton, they probably are). Kerry Joseph, meanwhile, has been a bust in Toronto, ever since he was dealt from Saskatchewan to the Boatmen before the season began. Last winter, GM Eric Tillman lost his Grey Cup-winning quarterback (Joseph just wanted too much money and was too old) and his Grey Cup-winning coach (not many people thought Ken Miller would be a significantly better coach than Kent Austin) and his team is even better than it was last year at this time. But who knows? Prhaps the Argos will win one for coach Don Matthews. Or, maybe not.

 

Pick: Saskatchewan

Montreal Alouettes (11-6) at Edmonton Eskimos (9-8)

Friday 8 p.m. CT, TSN

Hard to imagine what’s worse. Last week Montreal was beaten 24-23 at home by the then-6-10 Winnipeg Blue Bombers while Edmonton went on the road and lost 55-9 in Regina. In their own special ways, both games were lopsided upsets (Montreal should have won by three TDs) and both losing teams left the field embarrassed. The Eskimos have been blitzed in their last two games and have allowed 98 points. The Edmonton defence is ready for an overhaul except that there is only one game in which to do the overhauling before the Eskies haul ass to Winnipeg for the Eastern semi (isn’t there something odd about an Edmonton-Winnipeg Eastern semifinal?). Marcus Brady is set to start at quarterback for Montreal.

Pick: Edmonton (holding my nose)

Hamilton Tiger-Cats (3-14) at Winnipeg Blue Bombers (7-10) 

Saturday 1 p.m. CT, TSN

Wouldn’t you love to be Marcel Bellefeuille? He was the interim head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, went 1-6 in the job and because of all that success, had the interim tag removed from his title. His record isn’t as good as the guy the ‘Cats fired, but Bellefeuille got the guy’s job anyway. Poor Charlie Taafe should sue for unlawful dismissal. The ‘Cats are awful and Bellefeuille hasn’t done much to make them any better. Winnipeg, meanwhile, has improved dramatically since the addition of Jason Armstead, Kai Ellis, Zeke Moreno and Joe Smith. Brendan Taman should be executive of the year. The Bombers have won five of their last seven and should win again this week.

 

Pick: Winnipeg

B.C. Lions (11-6) at Calgary Stampeders (12-5)

Saturday, 4 p.m., CT, TSN

If Calgary actually tries, the Stamps should blow away a B.C. Lions team that is pretty good, but not that good. If Toronto happens to upset Saskatchewan (which they won’t), the Lions could be playing for home-field advantage in the Western semifinal. As they probably won’t be playing for anything at all, this will simply be a battle of two of the league’s superstars: B.C. defensive lineman Cameron Wake and Calgary quarterback Henry Burris. I like Burris, if he plays more than a quarter.

Pick: Calgary

Last Week: 2-2

Season: 41-19

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Don’t believe stories based on “un-named sources”

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Leave a comment

Now that just about everyone in the National Hockey League has denied that anyone at any level of the game has ever discussed, even informally, the prospect of having two NHL teams at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, it might be time to remind ourselves that you can’t believe everything you read.

Especially if the premise of the story comes with “Un-named Sources.”

 

The cornerstone of the Globe and Mail story (and don’t worry, when we originally read the story on the news at 92-CITI-FM last week, as always, we went out of our way to credit the Globe for their fine reporting), Joe Aiello and I discussed the fact that we couldn’t believe that the NHL would really, truly consider putting another team in Toronto.

 

Both of us contended that if RIM’s Jim Balsillie — the Blackberry inventor who would very much like to buy a chunk of any NHL team and move it to Ontario — actually did realize his dream, his best bet would be to build an arena on the 401 near Kitchener and draw from a huge fan base in Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge, Brantford, Brampton, Georgetown, London, Fergus, St. Thomas, St. Mary’s Stratford etc., etc. 

 

But a second team in Toronto? Who said that?

 

Evidently, nobody.

 

Commissioner Gary Bettman immediately denied the story, but hey, most Canadian hockey fans tend not to believe Bettman at the best of times. However, when everyone from MLSE’s Richard Peddie to the general managers of just about every team in the NHL denied EVER having even suggested or heard a suggestion that the league might put a second team — an expansion team no less — into Toronto’s ACC, it was the embarrassing end for a newspaper reporter’s best friend, ol’ Un-named Sources.

 

Ultimately, this story was a lot like most NHL trade rumours you hear (or Hockey Night in Canada‘s made-up yarn that Tampa owner Len Barrie went into the Lightning dressing room and started writing up plays on a chalkboard). Until the trade deadline rolls around and GMs actually talk publicly about potential deals, none of those rumours are true. They are all based on “un-named sources,” which means they were probably made up over copious barley sandwiches.

 

So here’s a tip, don’t believe any story based on “un-named sources.” Especially, when it comes to our favourite rumour (one that always seems to be full of Un-named Sources): The Return of the Jets.

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Week 8 NFL Picks: Perhaps now we’ve figured it out…

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Scott Taylor| 1 Comment

Whew! 10-4 in Week 7. Not great, but certainly an improvement over four wonky near .500 weeks.

 

Perhaps now, we have this crazy National Football League figured out.

 

There are plenty of big stories this week. The Chargers and Saints will play in London, England; the Giants will meet the Steelers as Eli Manning goes toe-to-toe with Ben Roethlisberger; and the Tennessee Titans will try to get to 7-0.

 

In his 15th season, Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher is the longest-tenured head coach in the NFL and his undefeated team is off to the best start in franchise history at 6-0.

 

With a win on Monday night against his team’s arch-rivals, the Indianapolis Colts, Fisher can join Pro Football Hall of Famers Tom Landry and Don Shula as the only head coaches in history to start a season 7-0 in their 15th year of coaching or later. In fact, Fisher could seal his trip to Canton with a win this week.

 

With all that going on, let’s take a close look at Week 8…

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Week 18 in the CFL. Will Saskatchewan or Edmonton be the crossover team?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Leave a comment

The six CFL playoff-bound teams are all set: Montreal and Winnipeg will play host to post-season games in the East. Calgary, Edmonton, B.C. and Saskatchewan have all made it in the West, but we still aren’t sure who will play whom.

That’s because one of those Western teams will morph into an Eastern team and play the Eastern semifinal in Winnipeg on Nov. 8. That team will be Edmonton if they lose to Saskatchewan on Saturday night, but the Roughriders have been so ravaged by injuries this year that it’s hard to imagine them beating a good opponent anytime soon. And Edmonton IS a good opponent.

 

Frankly, if I were Edmonton right now, I’d throw the game, rest my stars and finish last in the West. Playing in Winnipeg in the Eastern semifinal on a cold, November Saturday as opposed to playing in Calgary or Saskatchewan in the semifinal would be a lot more inviting. When you consider the West is 22-6 against the East this season, playing the Bombers would be a lot better than playing against a Western rival.

 

So that’s it. All that’s left in the CFL regular season is to determine which team finishes in which spot in the West.

 

So does all this sound familiar to you? It should. The league has been like this for almost the entire season and now the CFL is finally — we’re told — discussing a change to the concept of divisional alignments.

 

In fact, I’ll be on the Saskatchewan Roughriders pre-game show this Saturday evening (around 5 p.m. CDT) with host Roger Currie, discussing my column in last week’s National Post where I suggested the CFL needed to go to an non-divisional, eight-team format as soon as possible.

 

In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at Week 18…

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London, England, Brees and Rivers and bad Cowboys: Week 8 in the NFL should be intriguing

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Leave a comment

It is Week 8 on the NFL schedule and while there are a number of great matchups this weekend, the biggest will probably be the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants in Pittsburgh to face the Steelers.

Both quarterbacks, Eli Manning of the Giants and Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers were 2004 first-round draft choices who have both won Super Bowls and they have already faced off against each other — way back in their rookie seasons. Roethlisberger won 33-30. This should be the Game of the Week.

 

Meanwhile, the National Football League heads to London, England this week. It’s the New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers live from Wembley Stadium and aside from the international impact, this one comes complete with a shot at revenge.

 

It will be the first time Saints quarterback Drew Brees will face his former team (remember, he signed with the Saints as a free agent in 2006). His understudy for those final two seasons in San Diego will be across the field from him on Sunday — Chargers quarterback Phillip Rivers.

 

Not surprisingly Brees leads the NFL in passing with 2,224 yards while Rivers is fourth at 1,697. Rivers has been slumping and has much to prove. Brees would love to stick it to the Chargers. This will be a great game.

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I don’t like ‘em. I’m sorry, but I just don’t like ‘em.

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Scott Taylor| 1 Comment

I have to admit, I don’t like sports officials at the best of times. I believe that there is no one anywhere who can referee anything properly at anytime.

My battles with basketball referees, subjective sport judges (every subjective sport judge on the planet, doesn’t matter if it’s figure skating or gymnastics, is crooked) and hockey officials have become legendary and, for the most part, I’m not proud of many of them.

 

However, I have no remorse. Everytime I yelled at an official, he deserved it. Every technical foul I took, I rejoiced in it.

 

Among my favourite shots directed at umpires have come from baseball fans. Here’s one from a well-known New York heckler named Bill Ferraro. This was a man who hated umpires almost as much as I do: “Hey, Blue! How about using some Windex on that glass eye!”

 

And another: “Hey Blue! I’ve had better calls from my ex-wife!”

 

And one of the greatest of them all: “Hey Ump!!! Damn good thing you don’t have three choices!”

 

Ferraro’s heckling brilliance was first chronicled by the New York Daily News. The Daily News loved this one: “Hey Blue! Don’t ever think about donating your eyes to science. They don’t want ‘em!!!”

 

Then there was this classic: “Can I pet your seeing eye dog after the game!”

 

And this one: “Come on Blue!!! Pull the good eye out of your pocket!”

 

Oh yeah, and this one: “Lenscrafters called…they’ll be ready in 30 minutes!”

 

Now, that’s harsh. But true.

 

This past weekend, I sat in my big-ass easy chair and spent almost 20 hours screaming at the TV.

 

First of all, we got dreadful homeplate umpiring in the ALCS. I know EVERYBODY loves the Boston Red Sox, but you can only squeeze the strike zone so far until somebody notices. I noticed. I threw things. I really didn’t care all that much if Tampa won the ALCS, but the freakin’ homeplate umpires made me cheer out loud for the Rays. Good on ‘em, Tampa got screwed and still prevailed.

 

Not so for the Minnesota Vikings in Chicago on Sunday. A second-half pass interference call in the end zone that resulted in first-and-goal at the one instead of loss-of-ball-on-downs, fried my shorts. By no definition — and I am reading the NFL rulebook as I write — was that pass interference. Two players fell down. Period. It cost the Vikings the football game.

 

That call was so bad, in fact, it appeared as if the fix was in. If crooked NBA ref Tim Donaghy went to jail, that whole NFL officiating crew in Chicago yesterday should have been locked up. If was as if they all had the Bears on their Vegas parlay ticket. 

 

Gawd, I can still smell that gas bomb.

 

Officiating in every sport is generally awful. Frankly, it should all be done in the booth, with video replay. 

 

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Week 7 NFL Picks: Quitting is for losers…

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Comments Off

Yep, quitting is for losers. Which is probably a good reason for us to quit, right?

 

But no-o-o-o-o-o, despite another disappointing week in Week 6, we’ll keep battling.

 

And here’s why: If you ever needed proof that in a football game, you must play for 60 minutes, just take a look at what’s happened in the NFL so far this season. 

 

Through the first six weeks of the season, 28 of 88 games (31.8 percent) have been decided by a fourth-quarter comeback. That puts the 2008 season on pace for the highest percentage of games with a fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history.

 

Never give up, never surrender.

 

And neither will we.

 

On to Week 7…

 

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

San Diego (3-3) at Buffalo Bills (4-1)

Trent Edwards will play so suddenly I like the Bills at home.

Take Buffalo

 

New Orleans Saints (3-3) at Carolina Panthers (4-2)

The Saints’ Drew Brees leads the NFL in passing yards (1,993) and probably has more tools around him than Jake Delhomme, but I just love the Panthers in Charlotte.

Take Carolina

 

Minnesota Vikings (3-3) at Chicago Bears (3-3)

If the Bears shut down Adrian Peterson, they’ll blow the Vikings away.

Take Chicago

 

Pittsburgh Steelers (4-1) at Cincinnati Bengals (0-6)

Ben Roethlisberger might be the toughest player in the NFL. Sunday, he might have an opportunity to put up numbers he never dreamed of.

Take Pittsburgh

 

Tennessee (5-0) at Kansas City (1-4)

This will be an interesting game. Trouble is, Larry Johnson is sitting out. Still, it’s hard not to like K.C. at home.

Take Kansas City

 

Baltimore Ravens (2-3) at Miami Dolphins (2-3)

The Dolphins are a better football team. 

Take the Miami

 

San Francisco 49ers (2-4) at New York Giants (4-1)

After getting blasted by Cleveland on Monday Night, the Giants will be angry and ugly and they WILL show up.

Take NY Giants

 

Dallas Cowboys (4-2) at St. Louis Rams (1-4)

If Tony Romo plays, you have to like the Cowboys, but he’s still doubtful and the Rams were terrific in Washington last week.

Take St. Louis 

 

Detroit Lions (0-5) at Houston Texans (1-4) 

Dan Orlovsky?

Take Houston

 

Indianapolis Colts (3-2) at Green Bay (3-3)

Looks like the old Colts are back. 

Take Indianapolis

 

New York Jets (3-2) at Oakland Raiders (1-4)

Oakland is done. Maybe they should move back to L.A.

Take NY Jets

 

Cleveland Browns (2-3) at Washington Redskins (4-2)

Can the Browns, on a short week, do to Washington what they did to the Giants. Wouldn’t bet on it. 

Take Washington

 

SUNDAY NIGHT

Seattle Seahawks (1-4) at Tampa Bay (4-2) 

It’s Seneca Wallace vs. Jeff Garcia. After last week, I’ll take Garcia.

Take Tampa Bay

 

MONDAY NIGHT 

Denver Broncos (4-2) at New England (3-2) 

This is potentially, one of the best Monday Nighters of the year. This could also be Matt Cassel’s coming out party, 

Take New England.

 

Last week: 7-7

 

Season: 45-43

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Week 17 in the CFL. All that’s left is the crossover team.

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Comments Off

The six CFL playoff-bound teams are pretty well determined: Montreal and Winnipeg in the East and Calgary, Edmonton, B.C. and Saskatchewan in the West.

 

One of those Western teams, however, will morph into an Eastern team and play the Eastern semifinal in Winnipeg on Nov. 8. That team is beginning to look like Saskatchewan, a team that has been so ravaged by injuries this year that it looks more like the Hilltops than the Roughriders.

 

Montreal has the East by the cojones, Winnipeg could finish 6-12 and still play host to the Eastern semifinal. The West, however, remains a competitive quandary. Will Calgary hold on or will Edmonton catch its hated rival? Will B.C. or Saskatchewan get to make the trip to Winnipeg as opposed to say, Edmonton?

 

Frankly, If I were a slumping Western team right now, I’d rather finish last in the West than third. Playing in Winnipeg as opposed to Calgary or Edmonton in the semifinal would be a lot more inviting.

 

All that’s left in the CFL regular season is to determine which team finishes in which spot in the West. 

 

So let’s take a closer look…

 

B.C. Lions (9-6) at Edmonton Eskimos (9-6)

 

Friday, 8 p.m. CT, TSN

 

The B.C. Lions appear to be playing like a team that is trying desperately to finish fourth in the West. They were dreadful last week against Edmonton in their own barn and it now looks like they’d much rather play Winnipeg than the Eskimos. And why not? The Lions are 3-5 against the West and 6-1 against the East. The Eskimos are about to get a home-and-home sweep under their belts. And, oh yeah, Ricky Ray has never looked better. 

 

Pick: Edmonton

Montreal Alouettes (10-5) at Toronto Argonauts (4-11)

Saturday 2 p.m. CT, TSN

This game isn’t fair for two reasons. No. 1 Don Matthews is 69 and he hasn’t won a game since his return to coaching this season and No. 2, Anthony Calvillo is the best player in the CFL. Tough combination for a wonky Argos team that would have a lot of trouble beating the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Calvillo has already thrown for 5,097 yards this season and Ben Cahoon will soon become the third leading all-time receiver in CFL history — even though the current No. 3 (Milt Stegall) is still playing. This Montreal team should win the Grey Cup.

Pick: Montreal

Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6-9) at Calgary Stampeders (10-5) 

Saturday 5:30 p.m. CT, TSN

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are so convinced they’re finishing second in the East, they started selling playoff tickets to the general public today. In fact, if Montreal beats Toronto (which they will), the Bombers could clinch that No. 2 spot in the East before the game begins. Calgary is a 10 1/2-point favourite and for good reason. If the Stampeders defence is even marginally decent, the Stamps will win by two touchdowns. But then again, that defence has more brain farts than Brain Fart Burris.

 

Pick: Calgary

Hamilton Tiger-Cats (3-12) at Saskatchewan Roughriders (9-6)

Sunday, 2 p.m. CT, TSN

This could be the best game of the week. Neither team is very good and the Saskatchewan slump prompted one Blue Bombers defensive player to say this week: “I wouldn’t mind another shot at Saskatchewan. That team is on the way down.” They’re on the way down because they have no players left. No team has suffered more injuries to key starters this season than Saskatchewan and last week, in a 43-5 shellacking at the hands of Calgary, they looked like a junior team. Derian Durant will get the ball this week, replacing Michael (The Bust) Bishop. The Tiger-Cats, despite some decent vibes from young QB Quinton Porter two weeks ago, were awful against Montreal last week and are the worst team in the CFL for the fourth consecutive year. Since the West always beats the East at home, the Riders will get their groove back.

Pick: Saskatchewan

Last Week: 3-1

Season: 36-16

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Was the hype unfair for Stamkos?

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Comments Off

Saturday night in Tampa, I had the opportunity to get my first glimpse of No. 1 draft pick Steven Stamkos live in the flesh in an NHL uniform.

 

Must admit, I didn’t see much. Stamkos was virtually invisible in Tampa’s 4-3 overtime loss to Carolina – a game in which the Lightning blew a 3-0 lead — a game they dominated for the first two periods (Barry Melrose has a lot of work to do there).

 

I must admit, I saw Stamkos a couple of times in junior last winter when I worked as the host for Shaw’s coverage of Soo Greyhounds hockey, and the kid was good, but never great. He had a lot of trouble with that big tough Greyhounds’ defence last year and I wondered if he’d be able to take the pounding a forward gets every single night in the NHL. Especially against teams like Carolina, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Atlanta.

 

As an NHLer, Stamkos doesn’t have a point yet and he’s a minus-one. I worry about whether this guy really has what it takes to live up to the hype.

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Week 6 NFL Picks: This is the week… I, ah, promise?

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Scott Taylor| Comments Off

Two teams, the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants, will head into Week 6 with unbeaten records and there is absolutely no doubt that one of those teams will still be unbeaten heading into Week 7.

 

The 4-0 Giants will face the 1-3 Cleveland Browns on Monday night and it’s very likely the Giants will be 5-0 by Tuesday morning. However, the Titans have a bye this week, so it’s absolutely certain that Jeff Fisher’s boys will be 5-0 by the time we enjoy Thanksgiving turkey. 

 

Unlike the Giants and Titans, we struggled last week, but we intend to make like an unbeaten team this week.

 

On to Week 6…

 

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Chicago Bears (3-2) at Atlanta Falcons (3-2)

Through his first five games with the club, Falcons runningback Michael Turner has rushed for a league-leading 543 yards and six touchdowns. He should do well again this week.

Take Atlanta

 

Miami Dolphins (2-2) at Houston Texans (0-4)

The Dolphins appear to be real. The Texans do not. 

Take Miami

 

Baltimore Ravens (2-2) at Indianapolis Colts (2-2)

Peyton Manning won a lucky one last week in Houston. He won’t need luck at home. He’ll need to be good.

Take Indianapolis

 

Detroit Lions (0-4) at Minnesota Vikings (2-3)

Apparently Jon Kitna is hurt. Ahhh, so?

Take Minnesota

 

Oakland Raiders (1-3) at New Orleans Saints (2-3)

The Raiders are in disarray. Meanwhile, the Saints won’t ever lose again the way they did last week.

Take New Orleans

 

Cincinnati Bengals (0-5) at New York Jets (2-2)

Brett Favre, who threw a career-high six touchdown passes in Week 4, has thrown 12 TDs through four games, putting him one away from the record for touchdown passes by a veteran quarterback in his first five starts with a new team. This week he gets Cinci. Consider the record broken.

Take the Jets.

 

Carolina Panthers (4-1) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-2)

Apparently Jeff Garcia is starting at quarterback for the Bucs. Meanwhile, the Panthers are chasing their first 5-1 start since 2003 when club advanced to Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Take Carolina

 

St. Louis Rams (0-4) at Washington Redskins (4-1)

The Redskins have not committed an offensive turnover this year. Their only turnover this season came on special teams. If they don’t turn it over against the Rams, they might score in triple figures.

Take Washington

 

Jacksonville Jaguars (2-3) at Denver Broncos (4-1) 

The Jaguars MUST run the football if they expect to win. Trouble is, it’s not easy to run the football against the Broncos at Mile High.

Take Denver

 

Dallas Cowboys (4-1) at Arizona Cardinals (3-2)

I still love Arizona, especially at home, but Dallas has enough offence to play the shootout. 

Take Dallas

 

Philadelphia Eagles (2-3) at San Francisco 49ers (2-3)

Donovan McNabb said this week that he’s disgusted with his play this season. Expect him to get his act together this week. 

Take Philadelphia

 

Green Bay Packers (2-3) at Seattle Seahawks (1-3)

Aaron Rodgers didn’t throw at practice much this week and he’s questionable for Sunday. Regardless, it’s hard to ignore Mike Holmgren against his old team in his own yard.

Take Seattle

 

SUNDAY NIGHT

New England Patriots (3-1) at San Diego Chargers (2-3) 

Even with Norv Turner as head coach, the Chargers will get it together eventually.

Take San Diego

 

MONDAY NIGHT 

New York Giants (4-0) at Cleveland Browns (1-3)

Yeah, right.

Take the Giants.

 

Last week: 6-8

 

Season: 38-36

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