HOUSTON - The Unabashed Blogorrhea shaking and stirring while serving up pugnacious NFL and BMOC picks each and every week. Entertainment purposes only. Money back not guaranteed.
The rules each week: fearlessly (or not) forecasting the Texans and the Cowboys always plus four other games from the weekly professional slate which supposedly allegedly offer particularly promising prospects. Then whatever figures to highly impact the semi-professionals in the BCS derby. Thems the rules.
And the picks this week so prestigious The Unabashed is spilling the specs over two days. Previously, the BMOC Division. Right now the supreme hard knocks.
The National Football League – where 20-point bounce backs are becoming routine – a record five already and still counting with the season’s second half still to come.
The National Football League – where at the mid-way point the Lions and 49ers are on pace for double-digit wins and the playoffs. The Lions. The 49ers. And quite possibly the same for the Buffalo Bills by season’s end. The Buffalo Bills. And of course, your Houston Texans.
The National Football League – where those very same gold-rushing Niners have served up a ground chuck TD seven straight games while not allowing so much as one measly grizzled portion.
The National Football League – where one thought-to-be elite (aka the Saints) can rack and roll-up 62 points one week and be first-half shutout the very next and eventually beaten by an aimless winless bunch of Rams.
That National Football League – where Chris Johnson should be collecting his sizable checks cloaked in a ski mask.
Another week without Andre. Face it, we won’t see him until after the bye week. We hope. In the meantime, Wade’s Way is providing quick returns but …
But there’s no underestimating the particularly papurtrid (pathetic x putrid) “attacks” his demolition defense has silenced and victimized so far.
The four wins already registered against Jax (No. 32 in the league in octane), Indy (No. 30), Tennessee (No. 24) and Miami (No. 21).
The Browns bring in the league’s No.25 outfit. Guys and dolls, that’s a trend.
Upcoming the rematches with the Jaguars and Colts. Plus the Bengals (No.22). Any question this is a bullet-train to 10 wins and the breakthrough to the playoffs?
In a word - no. Just as The Unabashed has preached since the spring. The next leg a somewhat runaway Sunday at Reliant completely spoiling Colt McCoy’s homecoming.
Time to get well with a rub-it-in rout in the wake of complete collapse and utter no-show in a divisional show-down.
First encounter since Eli staged that perfect Super Bowl comeback to crash New England’s perfect season. Neither team has won a playoff outing since. Manning the Younger in the midst of his best quarterbacking since that fateful playoff season. Brady has won 31 consecutive regular-season games at home, the longest such streak for a quarterback in NFL history. Oh, and he’s beaten 18 straight NFC on the friendly turf. He’ll stretch the streak to 19 but the patsy Pats defense can’t carry the cover. And David Tyree will be somewhere watching. And remembering.
Are there enough points to sway with Denver? On the road? To be hesitant to buck against the Broncs? In a word – no.
Are there enough points to take up with Indy? Even at home? To sense any sort of comeback, spread or otherwise, from the Colts? In a word – no.
A pick ‘em and the pick is Buffalo. Bills are better. And upstate New York is headed to the playoffs and Noo Joisey New Yawk is not. Let King Rex roar about that. In fact, the Bills will end their 12-year post-season drought right here at Reliant.
In fact, this is how the city’s own grand return to the playoffs plays out:
First, the Texans welcome in their first-ever brave new post-season world on the final day of 2011 in a largely cathartic exercise over the franchise that once called Houston home.
Then, they beat up on the Bills in a largely cathartic exercise to somewhat balance if not erase one of the darkest days of previous Houston football lore. Somewhat. You know from what The Unabashed speaks.
(BTW, that Ryan Fitzpatrick fellow, quarterbacking the Bills. You realize that’s the same Ryan Fitzpatrick fellow whose NFL debut was an off-the-bench 310-yard emergency relief job in 2005 erasing a 21-point first-half deficit including two touchdowns tossed in the final :30 of regulation before finally delivering the dagger – a swing pass into the left flat that Kevin Curtis turns up, up and away and into a break-away sideline overtime scamper for the game-winner reducing the home team to a dreadful 10 losses in 11 games. You realize that, right? You should. It was right here at Reliant, the final Sunday of November, 2005.)
Alas, there will be no third rung of demon exorcizing redemption for the Houston gridworld. In Pittsburgh,
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