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Week 14: Everyday Is Like Sunday
This afternoon, the NFL showcases an exciting match-up with huge playoff implications. It’s a game many of us have been waiting weeks for. I’m talking, of course, about the Cleveland Browns (7-5) at the New York Jets (3-9).
Because the man loves to keep me down, I’ll have to snore my way through the New England Whothewhatsits against the Pittsburgh Somethingorothers (yawn). Fortunately, I’ll be able to follow all the Browns-Jets action with a combination of my parents’ unintelligible cell-phone play-by-play and ESPN GameTracker. You haven’t enjoyed football until you’ve waited three minutes for your computer screen to refresh so you can see “Jamal Lewis: 1 yard rush.”
But enough about me. This is a should-win and a must-win for the Browns. By most accounts, we need victories in three of our last four games to secure a wild card spot. Although Buffalo, Cincinnati, and San Francisco remain on the schedule, the Browns can’t afford to take another Arizona mental vacation.
A lot hangs in the balance: Romeo Crennel’s future deep-fried hoagie budget, Brady Quinn’s body sculpting time, and the continuing saga of the Moose From Scappoose. And for the first time since dinosaurs walked side-by-side with man, the Indians, Cavs, and Browns have a distinct possibility of going to the playoffs in the same year.
The Browns are 2-4 on the road, the Jets have nothing to lose, and the Meadowlands in December could be a tough place to play, but come on. It’s the freakin’ Jets. The same Jets who have a grand total of three wins, two of which came against the D-I-AA Miami Dolphins.
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I agree with your prediction. I agree with your thoughts on the game. I feel that the Browns are a better team and Romeo C. is a better coach/play-caller/football mastermind than his just-as-fat Italian counterpart Eric Mangini, but nonetheless we will inevitably play down to New Jersey’s level and it will be closer than it should be.
Yes, there’s nothing better than losing to a non-conference team with a worse record (Cardinals) to shake everything up for us. It seems like if this were any other team one could casually say, “Yes, we just need to get three of the next four and we’ll be in. No sweat.” as if the W’s was granted and already put down in the books before the game was played. Our efforts in Arizona last week allowed the ‘Cards to sit at 6-6, among two other 6-6 teams in the last NFC Wild Card spot. Crap. We had the chance to be 8-4.
We are still sitting 6th occupying the last AFC Wild Card spot and very well could lose it to the Titans today with a Browns loss and a Titans win. But the Titans have the Chargers so there shouldn’t be a question there. But then again, the Browns do have the Jets and you can’t comfortably assume anything if you are from Cleveland. I’m not even sure where the Sun is going to rise tomorrow. In the north maybe?
MANGENIUS thank you very much. Has Romeo Crennel been on the Sopranos? Has he pulled a knife from his concealed sweatshirt pouch to try to stab Bill Cheat-a-chick? Mangina has nothing to do with the jets sucking.