After the 62-7 domestic violence that occurred between the Saints and Colts this past weekend, I think it's evident that we are in full fledged tanking mode for a few teams. You may have heard the common phrase "Suck for Luck" which refers to teams trying NOT to win in hopes of landing the supposed can't miss Stanford QB who is expected to be the #1 pick. Players will constantly announce that they won't throw games being that a lot of them have performance based incentives in their contracts. Management, on the other hand, will say the same thing but their actions can prove otherwise. It's clear the Colts entire organization gave up on the season (also the reason I will bet they won't ever cover a spread this year) and Miami is still playing hard but it's head scratching how you manage to lose a game when you're up 15 points under 4 minutes to play. Lose your starting QB for the year? We'll play the backup even though there are a handful of veteran free agent QBs better. This usually occurs in the NBA but now that the NFL has a rookie wage scale, the #1 pick is again coveted. I haven't seen this blatant an attempt since the Spurs sat David Robinson down for the entire season and landed Tim Duncan. There's only 16 games in the NFL and no ping pong balls to determine the order. Lowest number wins and it looks like a few are content to stay on zero to see if they can get lucky (bad pun). Only downside is Luck may not be as good as they think. There's no recent evidence of #1 QBs being busts though....right?
I thought streaking died when Will Ferrel went on a naked jog down the street in Old School...this college senior found a creative way to bring it back (he still went to jail though). (slight issue with the blog video...linkage to youtube below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g325BVLWm8U
That was a skull dragging last week and I see the samething happening to rams this week. I wish I could've been there but there will be games next season. I really belivie that the colts are tanking the rest season now in hopes to get luck which he has already been giving the same crown that the media gave laborn. We don't even know if he will be as good as Elway only time will tell (same goes for Tebow) lol. The season so far has been really good and interesting. I can't wait for next weekends big prime time game LSU VS BAMA. That will be the game to watch
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