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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 14

The defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots play Jay Cutler and the Miami Dolphins at Joe Robbie Stadium Pro Player Park Pro Player Stadium Dolphin Stadium Land Shark Stadium Sun Life Stadium Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on Monday December 11th at 8:30 PM.

Late night Monday Night Football, eh?  I probably won't be able to watch the game with my sons Han and Chewie.


"Use your harpoons and tow cables. Go for the legs. It might be our only chance of stopping them"

Lee Power Rankings:

1) Bruce

2) Christopher

3) Geddy

4) Eric

5) Fields

6) Tenacious

7) Jamie Curtis

8) -lee Sobieski

9) Massachusetts

10) Pace

11) David Roth


Decent game last week.  Thursday Morning Third Down Back Game Balls (TM) go to :

1) Eric Lee (who?) for having the game of his life against his former team last week.  Interception!  Sack!

2) Dion Lewis - Dion had 92 yards on 15 carries for a gaudy 6.1 yard average. 

3) Rex Burkhead - Rex also averaged over 6 yards per card and added two touchdowns.  That's a great rushing attack!

My prediction: Pats 24, Dolphins 17

*****

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

Hello Carbon Based Lifeforms.  I hope this correspondence finds you well.

Did you guys get some snow this weekend?  Whenever I have to drive somewhere in the snow, I like to pretend I'm Luke on Hoth flying a T-47 airspeeder.  Whoosh!

I don't really get to take many personal days in my line of work.  It's going to be a struggle to fit Last Jedi in to my schedule, what with back to back road games this week and next week.  Might have to find one of those 3:00 AM movie houses.

Unless I decided to bring the whole defensive unit and call it an offsite team meeting.

Hmmm...  That might be the right call here.

Fake Matt's Recipe of the Week:

Home made Moose Munch

I made this right before Super Bowl XLIX.  So good.

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