PINNED: Bullseye, we miss you. Our feeble attempts to provide insightful commentary and engagement to the AFCSouth pale in comparison to the work you've done before us. We hope you can join us again soon.

Welp. Close losses are still losses, and many of us fell for the guise of a 24-0 beatdown on our home turf as an assurance that we'd be able to bring out the brooms against the supposedly inferior horseshoe team. A select few disloyal participants chose against their fandom for the sake of a cheap victory, @and they deserve all the mockery you dish out against them.@

For this week's slate, we have 3 contests, which, if you're like me, just means more opportunities to fail miserably. To the games!

nyg @ JAX - The former Coughlin team is 5-1, and is winning in spite of assumed liability in the most important position in football. Is their record for real, or are they getting lucky against middling teams? The other former Coughlin team has lost 3 in a row, but have kept every loss close. When they win, however, it's been in big fashion. Which team shows up this week?

clots @ tacks - is it too much to ask for a meteor? indynoplace found a scheme that picked apart the Jags last weekend, do they keep running those plays until any team figures them out? The tacks are poop and butt, I don't care who's on the roster, what their record is, or whether they match up well with anyone. Poop. and. butt.

tinhorns @ Vegas - The tinhorns are coming off a bye. The Raiders moved to a city named after a crappy Chevy from the '70's, and have played like a rustbucket this season. This game is either gonna be a thriller or an insult to the game of football.

For the year, I'm 8-8-1, and offer the following poor choices:

DUVAL 23 nyg 20 - If the team forces Jones to be a passer, we can force mistakes. The team does well when we win turnover battle. The last time Daboll was in Duval, things didn't go so well for him, either, no reason not to keep that streak going.

clots 20 tacks (home) 19 - Reich is figuring out how to work with his statuesque QB, and I don't think vrabel's goons can adapt and stop them. The clots continue to ride the high they've had since upsetting the chefs.

VEGA 37 tinhorns 28 - thoughtful comment goes here.

Good luck, folks!

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