With what he considers to have been one and a half solid picks, a concussed QB and a luck-out, Bokolis manages a 3-1 wild card round. While I didn't watch Saturday's games, I was texting with a group of blokes who were full of tickets and banter. That is also connected to the Sunday update of the lines; the group was in constant uproar for every movement, which influenced me to be current. The Seahawks actually went off at +1, but I felt a second update would've been too much.
After sleepwalking through much of that game, looking like they didn't want to win, just as they did last year, the Texans were in position to close out the fading Bills- whythefuck did the Bills go for it on 4th and 27 with all their timeouts?!?- but nearly pissed it away themselves when, scared to attempt a long-ish FG, they were stuffed on 4th down. The QB had his Eli moment, and they pulled it out. The betting public was nice enough to bet the game down to 2.5, so it's a cash...yaaay! dumb money.
Brady performed suitably shitty, and Derrick Henry was as good as advertised, maybe better. As the Titans were running down the clock, some joker tried to call a pick six, to which Bokolis replied, when Brady gets the ball back? When Brady did the deed, instead of crowing, I wrote, TaInt-ed legacy. TaInt, of course, is how Bokolis refers to what the mouth-breathers call a pick six. It's a pain in the ass to text, even if you're not an iPhone fanboy who can't be bothered to capitalize, so, thankfully, it hasn't caught on.
Bokolis decided pretty early on that the Saints didn't want to win, and was reminded of the Saints' shitty play calling and their equally shitty run-blocking. They had one excellent drive. I'm starting to understand that this is likely related to there being certain throws that Brees doesn't want to make, or can't make. It seemed that the Vikings were taking away his first option, and his response often showed his confusion.
On the other side, this kid Cook is pretty good, but he can't run between the tackles. Keep that in your pockets for next time. When he scored- between the tackles- to make it 20-10 Vikings, Bokolis was quick enough to key out that the Vikings were smart enough to call a draw play, which I later amended to stumbling onto the correct call, before they could rub my nose in it. Besides, I said, he had only performed to expectations- it's just that we expected the Saints to have 30 points by then.
That was a push-off, by the way. The Saints get hosed again.
The Seahawks were probably better, but losing Wentz rendered the Eagles non-competitive. The Seahawks teased everyone by doing the minimum and committing a few penalties. Nonetheless, Bokolis thinks the Seahawks playcalling was a bit better than I've seen from them in big games. They kept themselves out of trouble and didn't have to (overly) rely on Russell Wilson pulling a play of of his ass. I mean, it was the same 17-9 as the regular season, so discussion is done.
That's all the fuck I've got. We go again next time.
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