There will be a new facet to the health care debate if the NFL decides to add two more games to the regular season schedule. If it's up to me (It most definitely is not), the preseason schedule gets reduced by one or two weeks and the regular season schedule remains the same. Yeah, the extra games will create more jobs and more money for the NFL and the players but it will also create more broken bones, more season-ending and career-ending injuries, and two more weeks worth of concussions. For money? Just not worth it, guys. It aint broke. Don't fix it.
This Monday night's Saints game versus AFC heavyweight New England is the most losable game on the schedule. Much too early to look at playoff positioning but people are. The Saints are vying for homefield advantage for the playoffs with the Minnesota Vikings, who have lost one game to an AFC opponent and are rudely not letting up. They don't play the Vikes this season so if the two teams end up tied record-wise, the first relevant tiebreaker will be conference record so an AFC loss is preferable. Tiebreakers get stupid and unmanageable after conference record. That said, I want them to win this game more than any other. I'd rather give up homefield to the Vikes than lose Monday night. The Saints and Vikes both play indoors and it will undoubtedly be no picnic for either team should they end up playing each other. Monday night's tilt should be a great game. Oh, and one more thing:
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Quote of the Day
Next Week: Oprah announces she will come out of retirement if she's traded to the Minnesota Vikings.
Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN.com
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Just think, at this time next week we'll be celebrating the #patriots knocking the #saints from the undefeated ranks." And I'm not just saying that."
At this point I'm just content to see both teams play well. Undefeated or even only two or three losses are still tall orders in the NFL. That said, home field could be pretty critical if those two teams end up meeting this year.
Heh@the QOTD. I wonder where Childress would put her?
I think both teams can chalk up a bye if they get to 12 but it will probably take 14-15 to get home field. Great for the NFL but thoroughly ridiculous to this biased Saints fan. 12 was good enough last year for home field.
Oprah definitely has to go on offense. I think I'd have put her on the offensive line early in her career but I think I'd want to get her the ball now. Maybe a wideout.
Hmmm. I would put her in the backfield for pass protection. If anyone gets through the line she could just put up her hand and say, "Oh no, honey, you stop right there. Let's talk to Dr. Phil about this hostility of yours'"
Favre would never get sacked again.