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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 16

The defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots play Tyrod Taylor and the Buffalo Bills at Gillette Stadium on Sunday December 24th at 1:00 PM.



"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love."


Winter Power Rankings:

1) Warmer

2) Soldier

3) Solstice

4) Alex

5) Olympics

What a roller coaster of emotions that Pittsburgh game was.  Oh my.  It may have taken me a while to calm down after that.

Here's three things I liked last week.

1) Malcolm Butler - Butler made a HUGE tackle to keep his guy in bounds on the play before the final play last week.  That's a big part of the reason why the Steelers looked like a disorganized fire drill.

2) Duron Harmon - Nice interception!  Timely!

3) Rob Gronkowski - That whole last drive.  Whoa.  A guy that big shouldn't be able to move that well.  Also... Pittsburgh - that guy was KILLING you the whole second half. I dunno...  Maybe put an extra guy (or three) on him?  Also, the Bills are going to take a shot at Gronk aren't they?

My prediction: Pats 24, Bills 21

*****

This week we have Fake Matt Patricia filling for Fake Bill Belichick.

"Were you here, I would willingly confer with you as to the plan of our conduct; whether we should eve in our usual way, or, to avoid singularity, both take a better supper and throw off the toga."

-- Seneca the Younger

Wooo boy.  I may have overdone it last night at our Saturnalia party (with the traditional Roman menu of beer and donuts and steak sandwiches).

I'm going to be moving a little slow today.  Hopefully the crowd won't be too loud.

Usually I like to start game day with a little Battlefront time to get myself into the right mindset.  But the bright lights and loud noises and explosions were not working for me at all this morning.

You know what?  I'm going to go lie down for a bit.  I'll talk to you guys again next year.

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