The sweetest song I've heard this season is the chanting of the Cleveland Browns crowd yelling "OVERRATED! clap clap OVERRATED!" to an undefeated Giants team with 4 minutes left in the game. And no Picasso painting is more masterful than the view of Eli Manning's hanging head mixed with Tom Coughlin's famous scowling face that screams "HUH??"
I'm a die hard Cowboys fan, so after their performance against the Cardinals (and the Bengals... and the Redskins) I'm relieved to see the 'Skins and now the G-Men fall in the same week. But this just shows one real thing.
Hype sucks.
The NFC BEAST... really? I want to regurgitate every time I hear that phrase. Interesting enough however, the so called "experts" have become a little more conservative on throwing out that description. And thank God for that. Being reminded you're the best doesn't help you be the best, and that was apparent with the collapse of the 3 "best" teams in the division. Since the NFC Beast has become the NFC least, who's the best team in the NFL now?
It used to be the Cowboys, until they turned into the Yankees of the NFL. It is beyond me why Superstars can't play... oh wait there it is again... the hype. There was an argument for the Redskins, but nope they screwed it up. Oh yeah and the reigning / already crowned by many 2009 champs looked no better than a powder puff football team. (Sorry ladies, we're level with men on many things, but our play on the gird iron isn't one of them.)
The same thing happened to the Patriots last year and it's happening again. You're crowned the best and BAM - out of no where you're kicked in the gut by a bunch of nobodies.
But hold up a second? What about that undefeated team? Who? You don't know? The Titans... who are they?? You wouldn't know, because no one seems to talk about them. But I've yet to tune into the NFL Network since Sunday, so we'll see who the royalty of the league is. If it is the Titans, then odds are things many not bode too well next week... even though they face the lowly Chiefs.
And as for my Cowboys... for a lack of a better term... they stink. And I hope they pick up a paper and read about it soon. Because right now, they're the cockiest third place team I've ever seen. They should be sent to the grave yard by everyone now with Romo and Felix out. But maybe, just maybe, with the media counting them out, Big D can manage to (for once) put away a team this year (even if it's with a 56 year old QB).
Dallas travels to the STL to face a 1-5 Rams team... a Rams team that just beat who?? That's right, the Washington Redskins. Not the match up you thought it'd be, eh? It should turn out to be another interesting week in the National Football League.
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