For those about to rock, we salute you! And the first two teams the Watchdog will salute today are BYOB and Semi-R, each at 8-2 now and essentially both have wrapped up a playoff spot. One win in the last three games will secure the first round bye for SR, while BYOB has already locked that up too. Before we get to saluting each team, I want to take time out for a quick note of a different tone:
"I was born by the river, under a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since, it's been a long time coming but I know a change gonna come." I don't want to get all political up in here, but I just want to take a minute and acknowledge what happened last week. If you've ever seen the movie "Talk To Me" when Martin Luther King gets assassinated and Don Cheadle's character plays this song - as a country, we have come a long, long, long way. That's all I have to say about that.
"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all, but I know my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall." Semi-R - not really sure how this relates to Semi-R, but it is one of my favorite lines in any rock song ever and I had to put it in here somewhere. Anyway, the writing on the wall tells me Semi-R is headed to the Enchilada!
"I can't complain but sometimes I still do, life's been good to me so far." - Team Brokerage of course, who despite their complaining pulled to within 19 points of Dale's Doormats for high points for the season and have an inside track on the second seed in the tough Canes division. Led by Cutler, Forte and Tony Gonzalez, they're looking like a Mazerati doing 185.
"I want to kill, kill, kill! KILL! I want to see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth! Eat death & burnt bodies, I mean kill! And the seargent came over pinned a medal on me said 'you're our boy'." Hundering Turd, who according to Coach Ken are 0-4 without Drew Brees and 6-0 with him in the lineup. Clearly, he's their boy. I'd confirm this stat, buy my fact-checker was recently let go due to budgetary reasons.
"Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger, sometimes you're the ball, sometimes it all comes together, sometimes you're going to lose it all." Fatties have nearly matched Dale's record, winning high points out-right once, tying once and this week missing by 1 point, yet they find themselves with just four wins on the season. With games remaining against Gump, Brokerage and the Ds, they may need to run the table to assure a playoff spot. Two out of three ain't bad, but it may not be enough...
"Just looking into your eyes, I can tell you have the legs of a dancer." Mighty E-Head - when I look at this team on paper, they look mahvelous. Peyton, Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Steve Slaton, Dallas Clark, Dolphins D, but Coach Dennis, don't be a shnook, it's not how they look, it's how they play. Do you understand the term 'full-grown midget'? Must be me.
"Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wang Chung tonight." Pep & Cheez may as well Wang Chung tonight, they are 88 points behind the Mavs for 13th place in points scored, but 1/2 game out of a playoff berth. However they recently said they'd be fine with Delhomme and Hasselback at QB, declining a trade to upgrade.
"And she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century, and every one of those words rang true and burned like glowing coals, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you, tangled up in blue." - Team Gump - seems like destiny, or at least deja vu, which is completely appropriate for the Gumpsters, not only for their ability to get to the post season almost every year, but also for their legendary drafting prowess.
"I was 18, didn't have a care, working for peanuts, not a dime to spare, I was lean and solid everywhere, like a rock." - BYOBs have McNabb (tied for 8th in points for QBs), T Jones, Bush and Barber (4th, 14th and 5th in points for RBs respectively), S Moss, Cal Johnson (4th and 6th in points for WRs respectively), Witten (tied 3rd in points for TE), Ravens D (2nd in points for D) and Akers (2nd in points for K) - that is solid everywhere.
"Is this the world we created, we made it all our own? Is this the world we devestated, right to the bone? If there's a God looking down from up above, what must He think of what we've done to the world that He created?" - Killer Ds - by the way, my guys are 3 for 3 in outscoring the guys we traded so far, and my team is 0-3. Maybe they just weren't that good?
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need." - Mavs continue to run 13th in points scored and have a full game lead on three would-be playoff teams. Mick was right: they may not score what they want, but they score what they need.
"If it comes too quick, I may not appreciate it, is that the reason behind all this time and sand? If it comes too quick I may not recongnize it, is that the reason behind all this time and sand?" Dale's Doormats have finally won a couple games in which they didn't score high points for the week. Still clinging to high points for the week and now they get Romo back. Will he lead them to the Promised Land?
"If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all, born under a bad sign." Sprockets are DFL in points against, sitting in 6th place, closer to the Ds than to a playoff spot. Ouch.
"Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. Relax said the night man, we are programmed to receive, you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." the Red Bandits desperately need Tomlinson to find the passage back to the player he was before. With Rogers, Mewelde Moore, Welker, Cooley, Jets D and John Kasay, they have the ability to make up the 1 game that separates them from a playoff spot - if Tomlinson regains form. Tough 1-point loss to Gump this week and the decision to bench Welker for Greg Camarillo may come back to haunt the Bandits.
"I don't know if she's loving somebody, I only know it isn't mine." Wombats currently have half a game lead on 3 teams and a 1 game lead on the Bandits, but when three of their top 6 scorers for the year are all WRs and two of the other 6 are QBs, it tends to point to a lop-sided team. I know I love their bodies, I only know I don't love their team.
By the way, for those of you who doubted the assessment of the relative strengths of the two divisions, the Quakes division has one team with more than 786 points - the Canes Division has 5 with more than 800 points.
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