NFL Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous NFL thoughts and observations.

I had a friend at the Patriots game last night and he said everyone went into the stadium with a big chip on their shoulder about the cheating brouhaha. The Patriots certainly played like a team with a chip on their shoulder and the big ovation Bill Belichick got at the end of the game as he walked off the field I think shows how most New England fans think about this whole thing... Once again the Ted Knight Theory of Betting prevails. In the old Mary Tyler Moore Show Ted Baxter flummoxes Lou Grant by knowing nothing about sports but still managing to successful pick NFL games against the spread. Ted's system was to simply choose the teams getting 10 or more points under the rationalization that both teams were professional and how much difference could there be between two professional teams? Well what my friend calls the Ted Knight Theory of Betting would have been 3-4 in picking games yesterday with the only big favorite covering the spread being Pittsburgh... I remember the guys at ESPN joking about making sure you benched all your fantasy players who play for the Browns yesterday morning. 51 points later that "expert" advice sure looks stupid now. I doubt that there's a league anywhere where a guy hasn't made a waiver claim on Brown's QB Derek Anderson last night or this morning after Anderson threw for 328 yards and 5 TD's... Some people will wonder what kind of number Randy Moss could have posted in his career if he always had a QB like Brady to throw to him. I wonder what kind of ungodly numbers Brady would have had if he was able to throw to receivers like Moss his whole career instead of trying to make stars of of hardworking marginally talented players. People would be comparing Montana to Brady and not the other way around...