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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 15

The New England Patriots play The Ben and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field on Sunday December 16th at 4:25 PM.

Plenty of positive takeaways from last week... well, until the last play (Gronk didn’t want to get in the way of a 69 yard touchdown).

Gronk shouldn't have been out there on the last play.  There's no way a gimpy Tannehill was going to chuck one 70 yards.  Harrumph.

Powers Power Rankings:

1) Boothe

2) Austin

3) Stephanie

4) Vested in me

5) Bleeding 

6) (Irish whiskey)


Here are three things I'm feeling good about this week:

1) Josh Gordon - Gordon has been better than expected so far.  Can you imagine the numbers Gordon could have put up if he had been here his whole career (and, well, sober)?  Guh.

2) James White - James White rules.

3) Jacob Hollister - I thought this was going to be Hollister's breakout year...  So far, he has 4 catches for the season.  There's still time!


Did Rob Gronkowski play last week?  He did!


Recipe of the Week

Gingerbread Cookies 

I could eat a few dozen of these at a time.  And I will!


My prediction: Pats 28, Steelers 31

*****

This week we have Fake Matthew Slater filling for Fake Bill Belichick.

Hey Folks!  Patriots special teams captain Fake Matthew Slater here.

I'm proud accomplishments on the field.  I'm excited about my charity work....  But my real passion is my Tuesday night Caddyshack role playing group.

A bunch of the special teams guys come over to my place.  I'm the Game Master.  I set the rules and the story lines for each week.   You can be Al, Ty, Carl, Danny... even Judge Smails!  (Ebner is usually Lacey.)

Do you try to win the caddy tournament?  Or try to buy Bushwood outright?  It's entirely up to you.

Do you play golf?  Or tennis?  ("You're playing golf and you're going to like it!")

You rolled a two?  Double turds.

And if you like betting on every little interaction, we're looking for a new Lou Loomis.

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