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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 9

The New England Patriots play Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers at Gillette Stadium on Sunday November 4th at 8:20 PM.

Another night time game?  Oh boy.  I'm going to need to take a late afternoon pre-game nap after my early afternoon nap.


Our lead running back last week was...  Cordarrelle Patterson?  Is that right?


Hat tip to the 2018 World Series Champion Red Sox.  I'm still available for more World Series talk if anyone wants to continue talking about it before we put baseball away for the winter.

Rodgers Power Rankings:

1) and Hammerstein

2) Aaron

3) Bill

4) Nile

5) Paul


Here are three items to think about about this weekend as you stumble around in a candy induced brain fog:

1) Devin McCourty - McCourty was fast on that interception return.  How fast?  Really fast!

2) Tom Brady - Here's another look at that Brady block vs Lorenzo Alexander  No Tom!  Don't do it!  Life is still worth living. 

3) Trey Flowers - Flowers might be the best player on defense this year.  #98 was all over the place last week. 


Recipe of the Week

Black beans and rice

It can't all be cookies and pie, Folks.

I use chicken broth rather than vegetable broth.  I also like to throw in a chopped up pepper and some curry to this recipe.  Spicy!


My prediction: Pats 7, Packers 47

*****

Fake Bill's Movie Corner

A little classic Spielberg for this weeks' movie corner.  Other than Sunday game film, is anything more rewatchable than old Spielberg movies?

If I understand this film correctly, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is about Richard Dreyfuss being so torn between the two hot blondes in his life that he can't make up his mind and chooses to leave Earth on an alien spaceship.

C'mon People.  We're talking about Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon in their prime here, OK?  Look, this should really be a no-brainer.

He's already got a job that requires leaving the house at all hours of the night and spending time on the road.  If ever a situation called for setting up multiple franchise families in different locations, this was it.

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