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Slick’s Week 17 Overreactions – The End and New Beginnings

Slick’s Week 17 Overreactions – The End and New Beginnings
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It’s over. That applies to just the regular season for half our teams, 2016 for one and quite possibly the larger dumpster fire you won’t find this side of San Francisco. The Bills opened the week by firing their head coach. Now no one really expected Rex to survive (I was actually surprised that he lasted this long), but it was really the manner in which he was fired that is the most appalling- reports are that the Pegulas canned him because he refused to bench Tyrod Taylor when Kim and Co. told him that they didn’t want to risk him getting hurt and having to guarantee him $30MM for next season. But hey, according to Doug Whaley, Rex picked the interim head coach. To the game. The Bills had their minds on the beach and even those who were auditioning for next season clearly were hoping that the Bills would not want to bring them back and hopefully they could get a fresh start in some city that is not Buffalo. Yeah, they lost the game.
 
Now to our second loser, the Miami Dolphins. I could hear the cries coming from South Beach, “Waaaa, no fair, the Pats are trying!” The Fins looked completely outclassed for most of the game, elite backup QB Matt Moore was continually driven into the turf by Tre Flowers and company and it think poor Tony Lippett is still looking for that truck. The only player on the Fins that really showed any fight was resident Dirt Bag, Suh. Who took cheap shot after cheap shot because he was incapable of doing anything else. If that’s what the Fins intend on bringing to Pittsburgh this weekend, you can rest assured that the playoff victory drought will continue for another decade or so. I don’t really have that much to say about the Dolphins, they looked like a team that didn’t belong on the field.
 
Now the winners, if you can call the Jets that. The Jets did beat the Bills which was only an accomplishment because it hurt their draft position; I’ve said it before, only the Jets could screw up sucking. The most notable news to come out of the Jersey Swamps was the news that the Jets would be retaining both their GM and Head Coach. Sounds as if paying Revis the GDP of a third world nation is taking a bite out of Woody and he may not have the liquid assets to absorb the firing. I mean what other explanation could there be? Changes are coming to the Jets, but we can really all expect that they will be nothing more than cosmetic and the Jets will suck again in 2017. (You know, until they add “The best available Free agents”) As you can tell, I was not the least bit interested in the game that was played between these two putrid teams. Get the mock drafts out, time to see what terrible picks the Jets will make.
 
And on to the Pats. Yawn, the Pats are 14-2 and the #1 seed in the AFC. Their divisional round opponent will arrive in Foxboro with a back-up QB (or worse, Brock Osweiller) for the annual Tomato Can Game, thus ensuring a 6th straight AFC Championship game appearance. To the game. The Pats ruined the Dolphins and more than likely the hopes and dreams of the 25 or so fans in attendance. New WR Michael Floyd first embarrassed the Dolphin defense by carrying 5 or 6 of them into the endzone, then absolutely ruined Tony Lippett’s life on Julien Edelman’s longest TD catch of his career. Tom Brady set the record for TD/INT ratio and Legarrette Blount became the first NFL player to rush for 18+ TDs in about half a decade. Ho hum, let’s go to the playoffs. (and book your rooms in Houston)

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