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12-09-2007, 01:11 AM
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SBR Rookie
Join Date: 11-27-07
Posts: 21
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Cleveland -3
.....................It's "back to reality" time for the New York Jets. Now that their one-week vacation in south Florida -- and the NFL's closest thing to a guaranteed get-well game -- is history, the league's consensus second-worst team returns to the iced-over swamps of Jersey and a late afternoon visit from everything they'd expected to be this year...a viable playoff contender. A surprising 7-5 through 12 games after a woeful 4-12 experience in 2006, the Cleveland Browns reach Week 14 of 2007 in the driver's seat for the AFC's second wild-card slot -- a race they lead by virtue of tiebreaker over fellow 7-5 Tennessee and by a game over 6-6 Buffalo. But for the Jets, even after their 27-point Mardi Gras in Miami "improved" them to 3-9...reality bites. "It was kind of an insult to everybody," New York's Chris Baker said of the Dolphins game, which winless Miami nonetheless entered as a one-point favorite. "We were hearing, 'This is Miami's chance.' We wanted to show them, 'This isn't the game you're going to win.' That's how we went about it throughout the week." Against legitimate opposition, the road's been a little rougher. New York is a mere 1-9 in 10 games against non-finned opponents, with only a shocking Week 11 upset of the Pittsburgh Steelers standing between them and an ignominy even greater than their already precipitous plummet from 2006 playoffs to 2008 draft board. Meanwhile, the spike in Cleveland has been as dramatic as the dive in East Rutherford. The Browns stumbled to three losses in their initial five games early on, before a 5-1 stretch through October and November got them within a game of the Steelers and the North Division lead. A loss to Arizona last week complicated matters, though, and will force Romeo Crennel's team to decisively take care of business over a final quarter in which the opposition has a combined 16-32 record. Step one...end the Jets' winning streak at, uhhhh...one. |
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12-09-2007, 12:22 PM
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SBR Rookie
Join Date: 11-26-07
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 16
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Two Team 6 point teaser
Cowboys -4.5 Jacksonville -4.5 Then Im going to take the Browns -3 for me 4 oclock play Also thinking about taking the Steelers because the weather in Foxboro is going to be cold, sleeting, and snowing. I smell Close game. |
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