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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 14

The New England Patriots play Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs at Gillette Stadium on Sunday December 8th at 4:25 PM.


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Golden Power Rankings:

1) Path

2) Girls

3) Goose

4) Child

5) Egg Nog

6) Colorado

7) Tate

8) Fang


Here's three things I'll be watching for Sunday afternoon:

1 - 3) Sony Michel, Rex Burkhead and James White.

I thought they ran the ball fairly well last week. One of the few positives.

The defense should be fine. The passing game will be meh to meh plus.

If the Patriots are going to control this game, it will be by running the ball.

(Of course, now that I've predicted this, they'll throw the ball 55 times.)


Perfect Season Watch 2019

The Cincinnati Bengals went ahead and won themselves a game, thus ending Perfect Season Watch 2019.

The 2008 Detroit Lions and the 2017 Cleveland Browns crack open a case of room temperature Natty Ice in celebration.


Here's Week 14 of The Buck Stops Here, featuring some of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck's tastiest riffs.

Orange Crush

(Thought I had already done this one. Guess I hadn't.)


Did Jakobi Meyers have a catch last week?

Yes, three. But in a loss.

/slow version of Mad World


My prediction: Patriots 3, Chiefs 30

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Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow


Tough loss at Houston last week.

Road losses are extra painful because I can't walk off the hurt after. Well, I suppose I could. But I would just be walking up and down the aisle of the plane. Then McDaniels yells at me to go back to my seat. Not a very enjoyable walk if you ask me.

I couldn't even get into my favorite program on my streaming service of choice on my portable device.

I tried to get into my snack. Then TB12 gave me the stink-eye when I offered him a strawberry.

I threw back a diet whiskey and hung my head in shame.

(Also - the Sox aren't really going to trade Mookie, are they? That's a bunch of crap, if you ask me. This offseason is going to be murder on my liver.)

Time to grind.

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