Thursday Morning Third Down Back

The New England Patriots play either Sam Darnold or Josh McCown and the New York Jets of New Jersey at MetLife Stadium on Sunday November 25th at 1:00 PM. Everybody rested and energized after the bye week?  Great!  Let's go! This is the least good 7 - 3 team I can remember.  They embarrass themselves on the road.  They forget to play defense for long stretches at a time.  The 2018 offense is the Diet Berkley and Jensen Cola version of the Patriots offense... ...and yet they've still got a decent chance at the two seed and a first round bye. Side Dish Power Rankings: 1) mashed potatoes 2) stuffing 3) bread / cornbread / rolls 4) everything else ... 11,997) Butternut GIVE ME ALL THE STARCHES. Here are three things I'm ready to get offensive about this week: 1) Chris Hogan - I thought for sure this was going to be Hogan's breakout year.  And yet he's averaging under 2.5 catches per game.  I'm baffled. 2) Rob Gronkowski - Eit...

The New England Patriots play Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on Sunday November 11th at 1:00 PM. Beauty, eh? Ahhh... finally a 1:00 PM game.  Phew. Flowers Power Rankings: 1) Trey 2) for Algernon 3) in the Attic 4) King of Carrot 5) 1-800 Here are three things I enjoyed from last week's win over the Packers: 1) Flea flicker?  Flea flicker!   If I was an offensive coordinator, I would call five or six of these per game. 2) Edelman pass . Trick plays for everybody! I don't know why everyone doesn't try to convert college quarterbacks to wide receiver... 3) ...then you can have your other WRs play RB. "Having position players play their normal positions on offense?  That's so mainstream"  -- Hipster Patriots Did Rob Gronkowski play last week?  He did not! Recipe of the Week Whoopie Pies There's probably very little nutritional value in these.  Just a giant blob of sugar and cocoa an...

The New England Patriots play Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers at Gillette Stadium on Sunday November 4th at 8:20 PM. Another night time game?  Oh boy.  I'm going to need to take a late afternoon pre-game nap after my early afternoon nap. Our lead running back last week was...  Cordarrelle Patterson?  Is that right? Hat tip to the 2018 World Series Champion Red Sox.  I'm still available for more World Series talk if anyone wants to continue talking about it before we put baseball away for the winter. Rodgers Power Rankings: 1) and Hammerstein 2) Aaron 3) Bill 4) Nile 5) Paul Here are three items to think about about this weekend as you stumble around in a candy induced brain fog: 1) Devin McCourty - McCourty was fast on that interception return.  How fast?  Really fast! 2) Tom Brady - Here's another look at that Brady block vs Lorenzo Alexander   No Tom!  Don't do it!  Life is still worth li...