DOLPHINS UPDATE Teddy Bridgewater is injured. He is out. Skylar Thompson, rookie Kansas State, 7th round pick, is your Dolphin QB. Now it's LWOB.
Good NFL Sunday to you. It's the start of LWOT for Miami Dolphin Fans (Life Without Tua). Tua was having the season Dolphin fans were anticipating when he was drafted. Tua was throwing deep, throwing with authority, hitting receivers in tight windows and he had receivers who could add YAC (yards after the catch). In first place, Tua was having the kind of season that could have taken Miami deep into the playoffs. All of that is a distant headache, as Tua sits in concussion protocol and the Dolphins turn once again to Don Strock Teddy Bridgewater for a bridge over troubled waters. It as sound as the Russian's bridge to Chechnya (which Ukraine blew to bits Saturday).
In a nod to our post yesterday we rank the games by food.
Eagles at Cardinals. Filet Mignon. Philly is -5.5 on the road. It's a big number. Arizona won on the road last week (but at Carolina so it barely counts). Ride or die with our Super Bowl pick. It's worked so far. Philly -5.5 and over 49.5.
Bengals at Ravens. Ribeye. Ravens giving a measly three at home. They lost two close games and Cincy is having the post super bowl blues. Many teams repeat (but LA won't this year) but it's harder to bounce back after a SB loss. Ravens -3.
Dolphins at Jets. Cuban Sandwich/Nathan's Hotdog. The Jets are a home hot dog- getting 3.5. Their QB Wilson -back from injury - won on the road last week in his first start of the season, having a great 4th Q. The Jets had a great draft and those players are having an impact. If Tua didn't have these concussion issues this would be the first of many shootouts between two top QBs in the AFC east. Alas, all is not what we would want it to be. Many a yacht has been bought by betting home dogs. Jets +3.5.
Lions at Cheaters. Chicken Drumettes. Detroit is starting to gel. They have an enthusiastic coach and some players. The Cheaters are in disarray. Couldn't happen to a better coach. We will take the three because it's always a pleasure to root against the evil genius.
Cowboys at Rams. NY Strip. The Cowpokes didn't miss a beat when their QB went down. But they've been winning with gum and string and clips and a good play here and there. Which is what teams need to do when their starting QB goes down. LA is hurting. They are giving 4.5 and that number has our attention. Why? Because we think the line should be 3. So what does that tell you young Jedi? It tells us the Books are forcing people on to the Dallas gravy train while the sharpie money is on LA. Trust the force Luke and take LA at home -4.5 to bounce back.
SURVIVOR POOL
Update- Your NY Football Giants upset the Packers after the Gints rallied from a halftime deficit and won the game in an upset in London. The Surprising Giants are 4-1. The Packers are not. And your fav Survivor appellate ace Dan Tibbet takes the PCA loss and is out.
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We love you Rump. Every year since we started dating my GF and I follow one of your picks. Two years ago we bet against the Dolphins like you said and turned 500 into almost 8K and that allowed us to take a glorious Thanksgiving trip up north. This year, we are now engaged, and we have been taking the Eagles. We are up 3500 and this will be part of our down payment for a house. My brother in NYC places the bets on his phone with DraftKings. Thanks so much.
Rump yesterday I wrote you about a conversation that turned into a dispute with my GF who with her Ivy league education thinks she is smarter than everyone else. You settled it as we knew you would and no one won or lost. Very Solomon like.
We continued our Watergate discussion and both of us agree Alexander Butterfield who spilled the beans about Nixon taping people in the WH is a hero. Here is our question- without Butterfield and the disclosure of the tapes does Nixon resign?
Easy one. Absolutely not. The tapes sunk him. he survives without the tapes. Resignation/Impeachment was a very very unusual and serious chain of events that challenged our government in a way perhaps not seen since the civil war. The tapes gave cover to Republican senators to not support the president of their party. When Senators Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott along with congressman and house minority leader John Rhodes went and saw Nixon and told him to resign and that he didn't have the votes, it was because of the tapes including the infamous smoking gun tape. No tapes- No resignation. No resignation, but even if he serves out his term, Ford probably still gets the nomination in 76 and then the question is without the pardon hanging over his head does Ford beat Carter? If Ford beats Carter we do not get the Reagan 80's and Bush overseeing the fall of the Soviet Union and without Bush we probably don't get Clinto and GW Bush. So the tapes had a very profound effect on American History.
Rump let me explain something to you.
Miami has the Dolphins.
THE greatest football team.
Period
They take the ball from goal to goal
like no one's ever seen.
In the air.
On the ground.
They are always in control.
Do not mistake that.
Because when you are talking Dolphins
You are talking
Super
Bowl.
Get it?
Ahhahhahahahahahahahahahaha Tibbet tinks he is smart. takes Packers. he is OUT OUT. I am smart. use my bye dis week and I say bye bye to everyone because i vill vin dis even dough I am dead. I am deee best.
Lova ya Rump
Rumpole I hang vith a very eclectic crowd here. JFK, Guy de Maupassant, Stephen Hawkings, Henry Ford, and a bunch of French shopkeepers from many years past. Dey all say I should be humble in victory. I should not taunt Tibbett for losing to a dead man. And I tink about dis for a moment or two. Maybe we should all get better and more mature even post death.
So I contemplate dis. Der are some past Dalia Lamas and dey try and counsel me.
And I try, but I am who I am.
HAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAhAHAHA you pick Green Bay you dope. Vhat a fool you are. I am deee best. Even Ali look over when he hear me scream dis and he smile at me.
I love the Hanzy and Coco discussions on all issues about life and living well. Those two are just class acts. I saw them recently at The Forge with Anwar. Wasn’t Hanzy “Mr. Love 94” also?
Listen Fake Alex you of all people should know that sometimes pocket Kings lose to 7-2. Sometimes Aaron Rodgers loses to the Giants. Not often, but it happens. My favorite real Alex story was when I saw him rear end a bus outside the PDs office. He got out of the (very nice to my then-PD eyes) car and started ranting in RomEnglish at the bus driver about how it was his fault that Alex rear ended a city bus. Maybe it was. He probably could have convinced a jury.
Dan Tibbitt
Dan as a fellow poker player, I love the 7-2 reference.
Phil
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