Alright team, here we are, week 10. Isn’t it hard to believe we are already this far into the season? In the middle of summer when we have nothing to watch but baseball doesn’t it feel like football season will never come? And that things like week ten are light years away? Then you find yourself in the middle of week 10 with a 2-8 fantasy record, a last place Lions team, and down 7 billion units in gambling and you say to yourself “man fuck this football shit.” Then another Sunday fires up and you do the same shit all over again. It’s beautiful.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve been ice cold in the last few weeks of the NFL. I started out hot, gradually fell to .500, then fell slightly below…..then I stopped keeping track of my record because it was depressing and quite honestly I lost count. Pretty soft of me, I understand, but that’s the reality. Also the reality of this week is yaaaaa boiiii hit on Thursday Night Football with the Colts at -1, so that obviously means we are back, and we’re back in a big way. Trust the system, stand in the box, find your pitch, and hit it.

TAMPA BAY -5 (-125) @ Carolina Panthers 1pm EST: Brady and Bucs got absolutely embarrassed at home by the Saints last week. You know Brady was seeing red the entire week and lit an absolute fire under his teams ass and is coming for blood no matter who was in their way week 10, it just happens to be a divisional matchup at Carolina. Godwin, Evans, Brown, and Gronk are all healthy and ready to air it out in a big way. Bucs only had 5 rushing attempts last week at New Orleans, everything changes this week and the Tompa Bay Bucs roll. Also, bonus for Bucs bettors, no CMC for the PanDaddy’s once again.  Final: Bucs 34, Carolina 18. 

CHARGERS +1.5 @ Miami, 4:10pm EST: There are SIX, count’em, SIX four o’clock afternoon games today, which is just odd in general. Normally I am locked in for the 1’s then get antsy and start bouncing around during the 4’s but that may be the reverse this week as the meat of the action comes in the afternoon. Look, this line makes zero sense. None. This line should be Miami anywhere from 4 to 6 points, but at home they are only 1.5 point favorites? Part of me wants to go Chargers ML. This is fishy. Chargers love close games and Herbie vs Tua will be a tight one as they compete for who has the bigger dong. Final: Chargers 31, Dolphins 29

STEELERS -6.5 vs Cincinnati, 4:30pm EST: Steelers have been my go-to team all year, and while last week they let me down vs the lowly Cowboys, I am still riding with the Curtain. Even though they won last week, I know it left a bad taste in their mouths and Mikey T ain’t happy with that shit. They got something special going on in the ‘Burgh and they keep it rolling this week at home vs the last place divisional rival. Final: Steelers 31, Bengals 13

TEASER OF THE WEEK: 

7 point teaser – Guys, I’m dabbling in and O/U for maybe the first time this year. I don’t know why I don’t fuck with these more but something about picking a team and riding with them is a little more fun to me than rooting for a point total. But this morning I did watch Barstool Sports Advisors and Big Cat, dressed up like a pirate, told me the over of the Raiders/Broncos game at 51 was a mortal lock, so in my big dumb gambling brain I said to myself, man wouldn’t 44 be a lot cooler? So that’s what I did. Then I paired it with the best team vs worst team match up (my teaser specialty) and we end up with BRONCOS/RAIDERS OVER 44 with PACKERS -7. 

Our Lions :/ 

Well here we are team. 3-5 and the basement of the NFC North with the Packers surging. Ho-hum. This year has been a pretty typical Lions year. They do just enough to keep us coming back every week and have us looking at the schedule after every win or loss trying to calculate our wins/losses and chances to make a wild card. It’s sickening. It’s literally the definition of insanity. Seasons like this are worse than the 0-16 by a country mile. Cause at least with 0-16 you knew it was ass. There was no hope. You’re essentially watching to see if they’re going to historically lose every single game. With a team like this, it’s like a dangling carrot you can never get to, they have flashes of awesome-ness (Atlanta, Arizona) and a lot of ‘fuck this team’ times (New Orleans, Colts). And after the ATL win, hope was alive. Weak schedule ahead and a .500 record with the Bears fading and the Vikings looking like a perennial basement team….then they proceed to get absolutely destroyed by the Colts at home, then never really contend in a road division game vs said basement team. It’s done. It’s over. Last year the Lions played Washington in what was one of the most pathetic games in recent Lions history, and the Washington Ass-Skins beat the Leo’s 19-16 (puke at that score). That’s going to happen again today. I hate to say it, I know we have Stafford and we didn’t last year. But I think this is it. This is the week Patricia gets fired. I’m saying it right here, right now. This is the rock bottom game of the season. The Lions are going to lose this one in some hard to watch painful fashion by some obscure score, and they are going to have some weird fucking stat come out as well. Washington is going to recover two onside kicks or something or it’ll be the first time a punter has thrown for two TD passes on the road in a dome. It’s going to be something weird, painful, and so so Lions. Final: Football Team 26, Lions 22. 

Good luck today team.

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– Frank