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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 12

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 - Either they're saving him for the playoffs or he's really almost done.

3) The Celtics - I'm not panicking yet... but I'm thinking about it.


Did Rob Gronkowski play last week?  He did not!


Recipe of the Week

Buttermilk Cornbread

You do keep buttermilk in the house for baking, right?

(silently judging you...)


Essential mid-period Bowie Song of the Week

Cat People

(disclaimer - DO NOT attempt to put out actual fires with gasoline)

*****

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 leftovers and pie options readily available to you.

I've moved on to Detroit.  I'm a head coach now!  I'm actually working on Thursday this year...  But I'll always love Thanksgiving in New England.  I'm still thinking about you guys.

Being a head coach is hard work!  There's so much more to think about.  I'm hardly getting any movie time in these days.

(If you're looking for a good Netflix watch between naps and football games, I recommend The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.  I love me some Coens.  Or Green Room.  Green Room is total ownage.)

OK, I guess I'm still getting some movie time in.  Just not as much as I'd like.

And I don't even know what's going on with video games and craft beers these days.  Jeesh!

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