Flynn Files -- Week Six: Are You Ready for Some Football?

Bow down to Billiam, whose 10-4 record makes him week five's AYRFSF champion. Home teams are in caps. All picks are against the spread. Here are my selections: Bengals -3 over CHEIFS, Texans +6.5 over JAGS, BROWNS -4.5 over Dolphins, BEARS -5 over Vikings, Eagles -3.5 over JETS, RAVENS -9.5 over Rams, Titans +3 BUCS, PACKERS -3 over Redskins, CARDS -5 over Panthers, Patriots -6 over COWBOYS, CHARGERS -10 over Raiders, SEAHAWKS -6.5 over Saints, and, on Monday Night Football, FALCONS +3.5 over Giants. Make your picks in the comments section.

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Houston
Cleveland
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Tennessee
Green Bay
Carolina
New England
Oakland
Seattle
New York (Giants)

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BROWNS
THA' BEARSS
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RAVENS
Tennessee
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CARDS
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SHAWKS
Gints

Hey Ralphie, are you giving us the T.O. silent treatment before the big game? Haven't heard from you since the Boyz' sloppy MNF performance. Discuss.

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The only thing that worries me about the NE game is that one of our starting corners (both of which are very good) is out with an ankle sprain. As a result, a journeyman corner (Reeves) will likely be facing Moss for a good portion of the game. That is not a favorable matchup. Hopefully, Wade can pressure Brady like he did in his SD days.

NE will not be able to stop T.O. (in the Superbowl two season's ago, T.O. dominated the NE secondary) and Witten (and if these teams face each other in the SB, you can add Terry Glenn to that mix), and the massive Dallas O-line will exhaust the Pats' front seven over the course of the game.

We'll see. Just remember: there's no crying (or rationalizing) in football. ;-)~

No crying, agreed, but why no rationalizing? Anthony Henry, Dallas's injured CB, was leading the NFL in interceptions (with four, which earned him NFC defensive player of the month for September) before he got hurt. He hasn't yet been a Pro-Bowler, but if he can get back on the field he's on his way this season.

Henry would have been matched up on Moss most of the game because, as good as Henry is, he's not as good as Terrance Newman (by most accounts, one of the top ten corners in the NFL). Now, a corner that is average at best is being asked to defend one of the league's best. Call it a rationalization, but given how important Moss is to the NE offense, it's a big factor.

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Monday Night

Giants

TO will take care of himself. The man drops balls like it's his job. However, this NE team, including its defense, is far and away superior to the 2004 squad.

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BROWNS,
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O.K. Here's my concession. The Pats ended up blowing the Boys out. No doubt about it, NE is the better team, and Dallas is not yet in their class. However...

(1) The game was in doubt at the beginning of the fourth. NE lead by a touchdown, and Dallas had the ball at the 50. That holding penalty which changed a first down to a punt was the beginning of the end.

(2) Wes Welker was the difference in the game. He was being guarded by 2nd and 3rd string CBs. If Anthony Henry had played, things would have been different. (I might add that Dallas adds Tank Johnson to the D-line in a couple of weeks.)

(3) Dallas moved the ball pretty well against the Pats after the 1st quarter, but not well enough to win a shootout. NE was good at limiting Witten and T.O. with double coverage on each. If these teams meet again, Dallas will likely have Terry Glenn (a 1,000-yard-receiver last season) back on the field.

In other words, we'll be ready in January (and we won't forget that Bill ran up the score at the end).

The game was never in doubt.

The Pats' top two running backs and their best defensive player were out and you're whining about a D-back and a number two receiver. C'mon now.

Terry Glenn is a Pats reject who had a 1,000 yard season largely as a result of being Bledsoe's favored receiver in those early games. Tank Johnson will fit in well on a team with Glenn and Owens (and owned by a guy who sorta still looks like Jerry Jones).

Ran up the score? They handed the ball off repeatedly to an undrafted fourth-string running back from Navy. Running dive plays is not running up the score.

Never in doubt? What about when NE was down by three in the third? What about when NE was up by a touchdown with Dallas at mid-field?

All of your running backs are mediocre, so missing them is not quite on a par with Dallas missing Henry, the league leader in INTs.

Two points about Glenn. A "number two receiver," Welker (11 catches for 132 yards and 2 TDs), is the reason NE won the game tonight. Last season Bledsoe played 6.5 games (he was pulled at halftime against NY). During that time he threw to Glenn for 358 yards. After that, Romo threw to him for 689 yards.

I don't care who they handed it off to. When you're up by two TDs, and you go for it on fourth down at the one-yard-line with 30 seconds remaining, that's running up the score.

Backing up my claim about your running backs, before Morris went out he had 14 yards on 10 carries. Dallas's run defense stuffed him. And this season, Morris has been better than Maroney (Morris has averaged 4.9 a carry to Maroney's 4.7).

OMG Ralph. You can't just walk away from this with the reality that the Pats are an elite team and the Boyz are merely a good team?

Rationalize with petty details all you want, but the Pats were superior in every category but running back and the Pats defense took care of that.

You sound childish. Get real Ralphy.

The fact is, the game was closer than the final score indicates.

On offense, Brady did most of his damage throwing to Welker against our second and third string corners (Moss was pretty much a non-factor). And the touchdown to Stallworth in the 4th that put Dallas away (NE led by only a TD before that) was completed against Reeves, Henry's backup. Obviously, the Pats are the last team you want to face when you're short-handed in the secondary.

On defense, this was the first game that Dallas really missed Glenn. Glenn would have prevented NE from doubling up on Witten.

Look. NE is the better team... for now. They beat Dallas at home in impressive fashion. But don't be fooled by the score. NE won by two TDs (the classless garbage touchdown after Dallas had already conceded is meaningless) and the game was in doubt in the final quarter. Sorry if the details bother you.

See you in February.

Better team for now? Wow, you really are in denial.

Hey, I'm a Romo and Boyz fan and I typically route for them as they are a very good football team. But they barely squeaked out a win against the lowly Bills and were pretty much dismantled by the Pats.

As your and our old coach used to say: "you are who you are".

But let's get real here: when one team needed to kick it up a notch, the Pats were able to do it. The Boyz could not. They are clearly just not good enough. Yet.

As long as Brady remains upright, the Pats would beat the Boyz five out of five in any month you choose.

The Bills game is irrelevant. Every team stumbles in the course of a 16-game season. Dallas stumbled in Buffalo, but was good enough to salvage a win.

I'm not in denial. Ask yourself, what was the difference in the game? Moss? No he was contained and matched by Owens. The Pats' running game? Stuffed all night by the Boys D. Clearly it was Welker (all game) and Stallworth (in the 4th). Your second and third receivers combined for over 300 yards and 3 touchdowns. You don't think it's relevant that Dallas was missing a starting corner who leads the NFL in interceptions (despite not having played for two weeks)?

That said, I'm in agreement that Dallas is not good enough to beat the Pats... yet. But the difference is not as great as it may appear.

One other comment I need to address. I'm sick of hearing about this "classless" move by the Pats where they supposedly ran up the score.

What are they supposed to do, give up the ball on downs just to be nice guys? He, even Philips called a timeout. And why? He was thinking, let's get the ball back and try to win. But, I suppose the Pats just should have said aw’ shucks, we don’t want to embarrass anybody and given up the ball on downs?

So Belichick plays football. He uses his fourth string running back and on fourth down, pumps him into the end zone to finish the game.

Ya know cowboy, this is not a game for nice guys and the nastiest, meanest and ugliest guys win. That’s the reality.

In the NFL these days, the difference between teams is that some whine and some just come to play. That would be the Pats.

So Belichick was just making sure that the Cowboys didn't drive 99 yards, score a touchdown, recover an onside kick, and score another touchdown in under 30 seconds with no timeouts? Don't be ridiculous.

Yes. You've got it. I've never observed any time where Belichick takes anything for granted.

The Patriots did not run up the score. If a practice player, who may not be in the league in a couple of weeks, works his but off he deserves the chance to score an NFL TD. That is why Pat's players work so hard for Bellicheck. As far as players being out, Seymour is the be DL in the AFC. Maroney is a projected 1,000 yard rusher both did not play. Dallas will be lucky to get past the Packers, Seattle or even Carolina if they can get healthy. Dallas is an above average team. They will be at the Super Bowl if they buy a ticket.

Please define "running up the score" in such a way that it excludes the Pats final score. Who scored it or whether they "deserve" to score it is irrelevant.

Ralph, stop whining. It doesn't suit you.

The fact that you don't have an answer on the running up the score or the relevance of Henry's absence to Brady's success shows that I'm right. I'm comfortable with being whiny and right.

Ok Ralphy.

Good. We're in agreement, then.

If you say so Ralphy.

I do.

48-27

*48-27

*7 of those points were running up the score against a team that had already conceded.

48-27. In Da' Boyz houz in front of Da' Boyz own crowd. Pretty impressive.

Impressive, no doubt. Irreversible, not hardly.

Ralph: I already answered your nonsense claim about running up the score. Running dive plays to a fourth-string, fourth-string, fourth-string, fourth-string running back is not running up the score. Had they thrown Hail Marys or run double reverses, that would be considered running up the score. Had they kicked a field goal, even, that might be considered running up the score. But handing the ball off to a running back out of Navy is not running up the score. Add to this the points that Gro and ASDF make--that Dallas had recently called a timeout and that the player who scored was a practice squad guy until Maroney got hurt--and your claim really looks weak.

So, too, do your claims about the Pats' "weak" running game. Who needs to run when you throw five TDs? What got exposed in the game is Dallas's defense. Dallas has an excellent offensive line, an very good running game, very good receivers, and a promising young quarterback. But their defense let up 48 points. They are a great defense against the St. Louis Rams and the Rex Grossman-led Bears. But they've been pretty mediocre against everyone else.

You act like the game was close (it was for a little while) but it was in fact the biggest blowout in the NFL this weekend. That's right, New England beat Dallas by the widest margin of all games in week six. They did this on the road. They did this without their best defensive player, their top two running backs, and without the aid of cameras.

P.S. The Cowboys' janitorial staff is still cleaning the popcorn out of the visiting team's locker room.

Theres no such thing as running up the score. You have 1 hour of game time to score as many points as you can. If you don't take every opportunity you get, you are being unprofessional to your players by denying them stats boosts, and you are being unprofessional to your fans by denying them the show they have paid good money to see. If you don't like that, don't watch football. It's a business as well as a game.

Theres also no such thing as a game which is closer than the score indicates. Only the entire game, taken as a whole, matters.

The Cowboys showed this week that at best they will be the NFC's sacrificial lamb in the Super Bowl. I am confident NE, Indy, or Pittsburgh would all shred them.

It also showed that an NFC Championship for the 'Boys is no sure thing. Green Bay could compete with them.

We have different definitions of running up the score. Running up the score is scoring unnecessary points at the end of a game that is already decided. Who scores those points is irrelevant.

It was not the biggest margin of victory this week. Dallas lost to NE by 14. That's equal to the margin of victory in one other game and less than that in three games.

Dallas lost to NE for one reason. Their starting 2nd and 3rd receivers were better than Dallas's back-up defensive backs. If the starters are in, it's a different game.

And you have any proof of this whatsoever?

Excuses are like @$$holes, everybody's got one and they all stink.

Your disputing that the league leader in INTs is better than a career backup? Or that better players play better than worse ones?

That they were the difference in the game. As in; had they played, the Cowboys would have won.

Or perhaps you have a "different definition" of "the difference in the game" than everybody else on Earth.

Ralph: Dallas lost to New England by 21, not 14. That was the largest margin of victory by any team this week. We can disagree about what defines running up the score. But disagreeing on the actual score? I don't think so. Also, 48 points is one of the largest point totals of any team this season. You point to receivers and D-Backs as the keys to the game. They weren't. Tom Brady was. It's not that Dallas couldn't stop Randy Moss, or Wes Welker, or Kyle Brady, or Donte Stallworth. They couldn't stop Tom Brady. He's too good and he has too many weapons. Good luck in your quest for the B-league championship against the likes of Green Bay and Washington. The A-league, to second Ben's point, just has too many scholarship players this year. Pittsburgh? Indy? New England? A revitalized San Diego even? I don't think the barely-beat-the-Bills-Boys would fare too well against any of those teams.

"It was not the biggest margin of victory this week. Dallas lost to NE by 14. That's equal to the margin of victory in one other game and less than that in three games".

- Ralph

Ok, I'll bite.....again.

Mathematical subtraction says that the Pats beat the Boyz by 21 points. Now, you ridiculously and childishly dispute the last touchdown as what? The fact that the Cowboys defense couldn't stop a fourth string fill in running back from scoring on fourth down?

Ay carumba, that's weak man.

Here's what I'm saying. In sports, there is such a thing as a game being closer than the final score indicates. There is also such a thing as a game that is not as close as the final score indicates.

An example of the former from football: Team A is losing by a touchdown to team B in the final seconds of a game. Team A has a first-and-goal. On first-down the QB throws an interception that is run back for a touchdown. The final margin of victory is two touchdowns, but the game was closer than the score indicates.

An example of the latter from basketball: Team A is losing by 40 to team B going into the 4th quarter. Team A's coach empties the bench. Team B leaves its starters in and cuts it to 15 before game's end. The game was not as close as the final score indicates.

There are many other scenarios that fall into these categories. The Pats final touchdown is an instance of the former because it was not scored while the game was still being played in earnest. It was a garbage-time score that made no difference to the outcome of the game.

Alright, then consider the reality that the Boyz offense scored only two touchdowns and two field goals. So Dallas really only scored 20 points. We're just going to throw out the defensive touchdown as a mistake. Ok?

So let's now say the final score was 41-20. Make you feel better? Same math but this score looks better, don't it?

See how foolish that sounds. I'm sure you don't, but it does.

Look Ralph, if it makes you feel better to take away a moral victory from this, take it. But please don't try to assign pretzel logic to a reality that you just happen not to like and in the meantime try to convince others that you’re right.

As Austen Powers once said….and, I’m spent.

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