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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 4

The New England Patriots play Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay at Lambeau Field on Sunday October 2nd at 4:25 PM.

For an all timer, shouldn't Rodgers have been to more than one Super Bowl by now?

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Hold on. It's about to get bumpy.

It looked like Mac Jones got hurt pretty bad late last week. The Patriots are saying "day to day", but I'll be shocked if he's out less than six weeks. The slim chance of the Patriots making the playoffs this season is juuuust about closed. It's probably OK to not watch the game this week. Go spend time with your family! Or if you don't like your family that much, go spend time with somebody else's family!  You're freeeeeee!

If Mac is out for a while, long time boring person Brian Hoyer will probably get the nod (But he knows the offense!). Here are five guys I'd rather see play quarterback than Hoyer:

1) Bailey Zappe

2) Jareth the Goblin King

3) Mr. Meeseeks

4) Whoever is sitting in section 212, row L, seat 23.

5) Hans Moleman


Here are three things that didn't completely suck in the loss to the Ravens:

1) Rhamondre Stevenson - Looked fairly impressive both rushing and receiving last week.

2) Nick Folk - Consistent, if not exciting. I'll give him that.

3) No third thing.


Did the Patriots finally score 20 points in a game?

Yes!


90s Jam of the Week

Coolio - Fantastic Voyage 


My prediction: Patriots 3, Packers 42

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This week we have a contribution from Fake Ernest Hemingway.

He was an old man who coached a run down wreck of a team in the North Atlantic and he had gone 1,335 days now without winning a playoff game. 

For the first 20 years there was a boy who had played for him. He played well. But The Boy moved on to win playoff games on his own with a new team.

The wreck of a team tried to replace The Boy with someone new. But it was not the same. The team was thin and ill and a shadow of its former greatness.

"You have just had a run of bad luck, that is all," said the old man's large bearded friend. Many of the old man's friends had abandoned him when The Boy left and the playoff wins stopped. But his large bearded friend came back when no one else would take him in. "The winds will shift. We will be lucky again."

"Will they?" the old man asked. "I fear both the Bills of Buffalo and the Dolphins of Miami." 

"And the Jets of New York?" the large bearded friend asked.

"Never the Jets of New York," the old man said. And they both laughed.

"We still have a chance. Haven't we?"

(An excerpt from The Old Man and the Season.)

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