Bye Week

So I'm finally off on a Sunday afternoon, and of course it's the Bills' bye week. With no one else home, therefore, I'll provide my incisive football commentary on the Broncos-Saints game. Actually, I don't remember whether I ever made my 2016 predictions. I expect a call from Roger Goodell as the season winds down so that he can figure out what everyone's records are supposed to be.

Saints start with a punt, and their punter was hit and injured. Apparently the league just isn't going to protect kickers anymore. Perhaps, with the increased need for quarterback protection, the league decided award those protections which would have been used for kickers and punters to pocket passers. (But not mobile quarterbacks, of course.)

Trevor Siemian is on the field. I should feel some loyalty to him as a fellow Northwestern product, but I can't say that I ever went to a football game while I was there, or to be honest, noticed that they had a football team. I'm not sure that even the football team noticed that they had a football team. They might have thought their Saturday afternoons were a particularly violent form of astronomy lab.

The Denver running back is Capri Bibbs. I would have thought that capri bibs were a sort of toddler napkin that was slightly more form-fitting and only about 3/4 length of a regular bib.

Delvin Breaux on the tackle for New Orleans, 2016 winner of most-New-Orleans-name. He might just geaux to the Preaux Beauxl.

There is very little to like about Odell Beckham, Jr. I don't like his attitude, or his hair, or the fact that he's probably better than Sammy Watkins, or the fact that even if he's better than Sammy Watkins, he isn't nearly as good as A.J. Green or DeAndre Hopkins or any number of other receivers who are consistently more dominant but don't have the good fortune to live in the New York/New Jersey market. But here's the thing that's least likeable about him--he's made his entire media fortune based on one spectacular catch. The one handed catch comes up in all of his advertisements and gets shown ad nauseam in NFL ads. But the New York Giants already HAVE an amazing franchise-defining one handed catch moment. Tyree's helmet catch in the Super Bowl was just as amazing a play, and guess what? The Giants won that game. Beckham's catch came in a Sunday night game that the Giants lost to the Cowboys. So yes, great catch, Odell Beckham, Jr. But that catch means exactly as much as the Aaron Schobel sack reel vs. New England.

This Denver defense is a thing of beauty.

Looks like about one hour is my attention span for non-Buffalo football..