Week 11 Recap (West Coast Style)

Every Monday and Tuesday, when it's time to recap the previous NFL week, the only thing that comes to my mind is "Wow! What a great week of football....". This season has provided some outstanding games and Week 11 was no exception. It's hard to peg the best game of the week...but I'm going to name Cleveland-Baltimore as the game from this week that we'll all remember at the end of the season. My creative name for this game: The Immaculate Deflection. Oh yeah, I just did that.


Seriously, has this ever happened at any level of sport, much less a game-tying field goal at the end of regulation? The officials ended up making the right call but the end of regulation produced 2 major questions:


1. Why are field goals not reviewable?

2. The ref put on the headphones to review the play but was supposedly told it wasn't reviewable. If this happened, how was there enough evidence to overturn the call on the field?


Needless to say, the Browns won the OT coin flip and kicked the game winning field goal on their first possession. Although this would make a completely good blog topic for another time, when is the NFL going to adopt college's version of OT? It's clearly more fair than letting a team that wins the coin flip have an approx. 35% chance of winning the game on THAT drive.


Having action on the game, the ending couldn't have been more exciting. Taking the Browns -2.5 makes me look like a genius or extremely lucky, unsure which. There were other great games (Steelers-Jets, Skins-Cowboys), but for me, the Browns-Ravens game was as exciting as any game I've seen this year. Finally back on track with real money wagers, 3-1 on the week. Indy -14.5 (L), Pats -16 (W), Houston -1 (W), Cleveland -2.5 (W). Taking all favorites, I made it my chalk week. For the season, I'm 20-15-1 in real money wagers. Although I've abandoned my "always bet against the Rams" strategy, I'm still taking the Pats every week regardless.

We're on a short week here at the Bullpen Catcher, so stay tuned for picks due by Wednesday night!


Week 11 results:

Midwestern Flavor: 8-7-1

West Coast Style: 8-7-1



STANDINGS

Midwestern Flavor: 72-78-10

West Coast Style: 80-70-10