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PATRIOTS 22/JETS 17 It is getting harder and harder to call the Jets-Patriots rivalry 'a rivalry.' If you wanted to see a real rivalry, you were better off watching the Kansas City Chiefs-Denver Broncos game; at least those two teams are competitive and good. Here the Patriots have dominated the Jets for well over a decade, and Sunday was no different. The game felt like a big tease with Gang Green jumping out to a 10-0 lead, and holding a slim 17-16 lead late in the fourth quarter. You knew it was only a matter of time before Tom Brady figured things out and beat the Jets, which he did. Jets Mistakes : The Jets made a number of costly mistakes in this game against New England. When facing the Patriots, a team like the Jets can ill afford to make mistakes, and it came back to cost them in the end. The first mistake came with 9:59 to go before the half when Robby Anderson fumbled the football at midfield after a 25-yard completion. The Jets were ahead 10-3. This is not t...

GIANTS 27 / BROWNS 13 Big Blue's ugly ways continued this week, and it almost led to the Cleveland Browns finding a way to get their first win of the year. While Big Blue won this game by two scores, had the Giants not cashed in on a couple of huge turnovers this ugly win could have easily become an ugly loss. Tis the life of Ben McAdoo's Giants. They love living on the edge of disaster and greatness. They are good enough to win six straight ball games inspite of their painfully obvious deficiencies. Let's break it down. Invisible offense returns: The Giants offense was once again invisible for large chunks of this game against Cleveland. Midway through the second quarter the Giants mustered only 65 yards of offense against the Browns, which is totally inexcusable. At times the play calling was ultraconservative; in other instances, Eli Manning was just flat out off his game, throwing a handful of dreary incompletions and was sacked in the opening quarter. Even wh...

GIANTS 22 / BEARS 16  It was ugly, but the Giants still found a way to get the win. Where have we heard this refrain before? Just about every week for that matter when it comes to the New York Giants. No I didn't copy and paste from Monday's recap of the Bengals-Giants game, although it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Sunday against the Bears was ugly, but in the end it didn't matter, because Big Blue found a way to extended their win streak to five games. Bears Dominate First Half:  A lot of people tapped this match-up as a trap game for Big Blue, and for the entire first half it was coming to fruition as the Bears were flat-out dominating the Giants. Jay Cutler was extremely poised in the Bears opening series as he guided Chicago to a game opening touchdown pass to Zach Miller to take the early 6-0 advantage. The Bears would score on their first three possessions of the football game, with tight end Zach Miller and tail back Jordan Howard killing the ...

After the best week of football this season, the dust has finally settled on week 10 of the 2016 NFL season, and, boy, did we have a landmark week. Of the 12 games played this weekend, the four highlight matches: Broncos vs. Saints, Panthers vs. Chiefs, Cowboys vs. Steelers, and Patriots vs. Seahawks all lived up to the hype. How did Week 10's results affect our power rankings? Let's dive in. 1) Dallas Cowboys (8-1): The Cowboys have knocked the Patriots from their perch atop the power rankings for this week. And why not? The Cowboys earned a hard fought 35-30 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Ezekial Elliot absolutely dominated the game, rushing for 114 yards, and adding 95 more yards on the receiving end. All told, Elliot scored three touchdowns on the night, including the final two scores of the day to push Dallas over the top. The Cowboys are rolling with Elliot and quarterback Dak Prescott, and it appears that nothing can stand in their way -- at least right n...

GIANTS 21/BENGALS 20 One thing has become commonplace for these 2016 New York Giants, they know how to win ugly. Monday night was no exception. The Giants found a way to hold-off the incredibly putrid Cincinnati Bengals 21-20 to push their winning streak to four games. At 6-3, the Giants are firmly in control of one of the  two NFC Wild Card slots. Let's look back. Early Fireworks: It looked like we were in store for a shootout at MetLife Stadium. The Giants opened the game on a thunderous 8-play 80-yard drive that ate up 3:55 to take a 7-0 lead. The Benglas quickly responded with a 3-play 80-yard scoring drive that culminated in a Andy Dalton touchdown pass to A.J. Green. The Bengals and Giants made it look real easy -- as the game had 45-38 written all over it at this point. Little did we know that the defenses would step it up. Eli Manning struggles: It was not the best of days for Manning and the Giants offense. After their long opening touchdown drive, they went into a c...

No surprise here. The November 27 contest between the New York Jets and New England Patriots has been flexed out of the Sunday Night Football schedule in favor of a match-up of AFC West rivals, the Broncos and Chiefs. With the Jets at 3-7, and destined to basically tank the rest of the season to find out who will stay and who will go, there was no room for NBC or the NFL to leave such a dead match-up in primetime. Everyone expects the Patriots to plaster the Jets in this game, and with the league's primetime TV ratings already suffering, this was a no-brainer. It is slightly surprising that Broncos-Chiefs was left available to NBC. Usually, CBS and FOX have the ability to flag certain games they would want to keep on their air. A battle between the 7-2 Chiefs and 7-3 Broncos would have likely sufficed as a game CBS would want to keep. The other possible match-ups to get flexed were the Cardinals-Falcons game or the Panthers-Raiders game. Either match-up would have been good...

RAMS 9 / JETS 6 Ugly is an understatement when it comes to describing this football game between the New York Jets and Los Angeles Rams. Inserting Bryce Petty under center didn't prove to be the shot in the arm New York was hoping for when he was named the starter hours before kick-off with Ryan Fitzpatrick still dealing with a knee injury. Instead Petty was just meh, while the Jets offense looked lifeless thanks in part to Chan Gailey's ultra-conservative play calling, and in part to the Rams stout front seven. Meanwhile, the Jets defense didn't play well at all. A hard sell when the scoreboard reads that the Rams scored only 9 points, but consider the fact that the Rams were chewing up yards and third down conversions at will, it was not a good afternoon. Let's break it down. Bryce Petty: Petty was just average in his first start as a NFL starter. He didn't make a lot of big plays, but wasn't awful. He made some bad reads, and missed a wide open Robby...

CUBS 8 INDIANS 7 CHI wins World Series 4-3 The wait at long last is over for the long suffering fans of Chicago's North Side. The Chicago Cubs are world champions of baseball after holding off the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a wild and crazy 10-inning marathon that was Game 7, a game that will go down in history as one of the best ever to be played. It is hard to put into words exactly what happened on Wednesday night in Cleveland. What we all saw as a United States of baseball fans was two teams who were both equally unwilling to give in to the other. We saw a Cubs team earn the hardest 27 outs, and, in this case, 30 outs a baseball team has seemingly ever had to get. This wasn't just winning a World Series. This was ending a stigma of losing that had held an otherwise proud franchise and city hostage for well over a century. Admit it, when Rajai Davis' two-run homer cleared the wall in left, you thought for a second that the Curse of the Billy Goat was meant to...

CUBS 9 / INDIANS 3 Series tied 3-3 There will be a Game 7 after all.  The Chicago Cubs punched their ticket to the Fall Classic's deciding game with a thunderous 9-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland. This sets up this tantalizing scenario: Either the Cubs 108 years drought will end, or the Indians 68 year drought will end. That is it. 9 innings, 27 outs, 1 Game will decide which suffering franchise will get to celebrate!  The Cubs put this game away early. A combination of a slumbering offense finally awaking for the Cubs, and an Indians team that was clearly pressing, the Cubs jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead. Kris Bryant who hit a monster home run in Game 5 to help push the Cubs to victory, got the party started on Tuesday night with a long solo home run over the giant left field wall for the first run of the day.  Three batters later, Addison Russell skied one to left, but center fielder Tyler Naquin got crossed...

We are at the unofficial midway point of the 2016 season, believe it or not, in what has been quite an eventful first half.  We have seen our fair share of ups and downs this season. From great starts by the Vikings, Cowboys and Falcons to the rapid decline in NFL TV ratings and apparent discontent among fans over the quality of play in the League thus far. It's been interesting to say the least. So lets dish out some power rankings as we look at the League through Week 8. Top 10 Power Rankings 1) New England Patriots (7-1): When the season started the Patriots were without their future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady, who was serving a 4-game suspension for his involvement in Deflategate. The Patriots surprised with wins over the Cardinals and dominated the Dolphins and Texans to open the season with Jimmy Garapolo and Jacoby Brissett at quarterback. Once Brady came back the Pats have been on fire. Brady has thrown for 1319 yards, 12 touchdowns and no interceptions. ZERO...