We hit double digits in the NFL season. Tomorrow we have Bengals vs. Ravens. A rare good match-up on a thursday. Now with daylight savings time over I might be able to watch more than the 4th quarter only. Should be a good one. It's Cowboys vs. Eagles week but no Dak and probably no Ceedee and no Micah either so I don't expect much. The Trey Lance watch is on. Cowboys are still 7-pt underdogs even after the Dak news. So I just hope it's not a blow out. Haven't watched much of the Eagles this year. There's also Giants vs. Panthers on sunday morning which is the worst thing the USA has done to Germany since the Berlin invasion. Not worth waking up early on a sunday.
You guys should get a kick out of this. Before I post my picks for the week, I asked a bunch of readers to submit their thoughts on James Franklin, Nick Siriani, Joel Embiid, Jason Kelce and what happens when you f**k around and find out. Enjoy! SportsChump Sound Off: Athletes, Coaches, Fans, Reporters and Lines Crossed - Sports Chump
Looks like last night was a great game. I wish the Bengals could have pulled it out. What I'm watching this weekend: Steelers at Commanders - Pittsburgh has a really good defense and I'm really hoping to see Daniels struggle against it. I want to see him plummet back down to earth for the Eagles sake. 49ers at Bucs - I'll be pulling for Chump's squad in this one. Despite their start, the 49ers will be a problem once healthy. I need them to keep racking up L's. Eagles at Cowboys - With no Dak the lustre is certainly off of this game. The Eagles have not won in Dallas since 2017 and Cooper Rush beat them last year. It may not be as easy a win for the birds as many think. I really hope I'm wrong though and they can rest some players in the 4th since we have a short week before a huge Thursday game against Washington.
I honestly think that everyone involved in those situations was at minimum "a little" bit wrong. I can't stand fans/reporters who go over the line but I also think that as professionals in today's society you have to expect that some of it will happen. It certainly cannot be easy, but you must maintain some level of composure.
Injury update: Ceedee is good to go, Micah is questionable and will be a game time decision and Dak will land on IR any minute now.
Alrighty, boys and girls, Week Ten picks are in... 2024 Week Ten College and NFL Pick ‘Em: Swoops the Swami - Sports Chump
This season doesn't count. This is probably the saddest, most hopeless Cowboys team of my lifetime. And I was there for 2001-03 and 2015 which were pretty bad, but at least there was some pride, some urgency.
Things went as well as they could for the Eagles. No major injuries and rested their starters late in the game. That's important with a Thursday Night game against Washington for top of the division coming up. I'm so disappointed that the Lions pulled off that game last night. Same thing with the 49ers. Steelers beat the Commanders and that was the most important other game to me, so I'm very happy overall.
Cowboys media, Cowboys twitter, and Cowboys everything have spent way too much time talking about the sun. Nobody is talking about the 45 yards passing THE WHOLE GAME or how atrocious the running game is. Jerry is a freakin' genius. I wouldn't hire him to manage my football team, but I'd probably do it for anything else.
Cowboys are signing QB Will Grier to the practice squad. He started a few games between 2020 and 2022 and didn't do that bad. I would even say he's now the best QB we have. Will probably start in a couple of weeks, when he gets up to speed.
Great read, Chump. I enjoyed it and agree with most of it. What do Joe Biden and Mike McCarthy have in common? They're lame ducks. Just like a lame duck President just cruising to the finish line after his successor has been elected, McCarthy has seen the writing on the wall, knows for a fact this is his last year as Head Coach of the Cowboys and has decided to "cruise" to the finish line...whatever that means in football terms. His successor hasn't been elected and won't be for a couple of months. From the likes of Bill Bellichick and Mike Vrabel to the dark horses like Deion Sanders (who has sweared he'll never coach in the pros but is buddies with Jerry Jones) and (gulp) Kellen Moore. I talked about this a few posts ago. I really think players don't listen to him anymore. I see Trevon Diggs making "business decisons", or Micah Parsons still doing his podcast on practice days...even a future HOFer like Zack Martin has looked completely lost at times this year. If the coach doesn't care, the players won't care either. Why would they? The either have their contracts in place, or are preparing to leave next year. Make a good business decision and take care of that body for the next paycheck. And this is all Jerry's fault. He's doing it again. In 2019, Jason Garrett was a lame duck coach. The team didn't look this bad, but there was also a sense that the Cowboys were punting on the season, looking forward to the next year with a new regime. This is the less football I've watched in over 30 years. I kind of expected it. Watching the Cowboys has been excruciating. I'm spending more time with my family on sundays and looking mostly at tweets and highlights to know what's going on. I'm not even gambling anymore. I might not be the target audience (middle age man in a foreign country) but the Cowboys, and the NFL by extension, are losing me as a customer. None of it will matter if Jerry pulls a Parcells 2.0 and bring Bellichick next year, or even Vrabel. Any proven winning coach will do. I will be back, all-in in a heartbeat. But for now, I really don't care and I don't want to watch anymore.
We're talking going for two in this one, boys. The Bucs didn't, and lost. The Bengals did, and still lost. So what's the answer? You tell me. When You Absolutely, Positively Have to Go for Two: A Constantly Evolving Coaching Guide to the Two-Point Conversion - Sports Chump
Joe Burrow is having an MVP year and the Bengals are 4-7 and I think coaching has a lot to do with that.
They're 4-7 with a +1 point differential. Go figure. They've had a tough damn schedule and lost some heartbreakers. Who do we like this week? I'm having a tough time picking five games I love.
I was surprised to see that the Browns beat the Steelers last night. They also beat the Ravens earlier this year. Division games can be unpredictable. What I'll be watching: Lions at Colts - I'll be big time rooting for the upset for the Eagles to finish with the #1 seed in the NFC. Cowboys at Commanders - I'm actually going to be pulling for the Cowboys. I'll feel dirty doing it. 49ers at Packers - I probably should be pulling for the 49ers for Eagles playoff seeding, but I really want the 49ers out of it. Eagles at Rams - This one worries me. The Rams are healthy and playing well. I fear the Eagles may be looking ahead to the Ravens next week. It's going to be a great test for the Eagles young secondary. A win puts the Eagles in a great position going forward but a loss really makes things shaky for seeding with a tough stretch upcoming.
