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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 11

The defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots play Derek Carr and the Oakland Raiders at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Sunday November 19th at 4:25 PM.



Deputy Director Cole, Agent Preston and Agent Rosenfield look in on the corpse of the Broncos.


Cracker Power Rankings:

1) graham crust

2) -jack

3) Stoned Wheat Thins (underrated!)

4) Kerosene Hat

5) Triscuits

(Ritz would have been up here few years ago, but I feel like they've changed the recipe since Kraft sold the brand off.)

Looks like we won't have to worry about a playoff game in Denver this year.  Brock Osweiler was not so good for the Broncos last week.  Right after Cris Collinsworth came out with  "He looks sharp out here tonight!", the Brocketship immediately threw this beauty

Bonus Brock gif!  Watch out, Blue Jacket Guy!

Here's three things I liked about last week:

1) Rob Gronkowski - That was definitely a touchdown.

2) Dion Lewis - Love Dion Lewis.  That return TD was a thing of beauty. 

3) Rex Burkhead - Any time you catch a touchdown AND block a punt you're going to get a mention here.


My prediction: Pats 34, Raiders 21


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This week we have Fake Matt Patricia filling for Fake Bill Belichick.

Hello Carbon Based Lifeforms.  As always... Hope this correspondence finds you warm and comfortable with a variety of snacks and craft beers readily available to you.

You guys let Bill do the Halloween week post?  Oh wow.  Ok... Just that... Wow.  I was going to compare each member of the defense to a different Halloween candy, but... OK.

Moving on.

Continuing our discussion of Veronica Cartwright movies, I wanted to talk about Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi classic Alien.

We've had more success with our defense this year since we've simplified things a bit.  Alien is so effective because it's a relatively simple movie.  Not a lot happens.  But what does happen on screen is sufficiently terrifying.

Like the crew of the Nostromo, we've been losing members of the defense one at time.  Although unlike the crew of the Nostromo, we might get a few members of our crew back this week.

I'd also argue it's more horror than science fiction, but that's a topic of conversation for another time.

Fake Matt's Recipe of the Week:

Alton Brown's Soft Pretzels

(So good.  If I don't eat them all right when they come out of the oven, I freeze them later and reheat them in the oven.)

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