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NFL Week 3 odds picks Raiders shock Dolp

If the ever decide to construct a Mount Rushmore of sadne s, I'm pretty sure they're the only team in the NFL that could fill the entire thing with faces of guys who have quit the team. For some reason, it's starting to seem like some people are signing a contract with the Bills just so they can quit at the most awkward time po sible, and no one picked a more awkward time than .Davis quit his job at halftime of the Bills game against the on Sunday, decided to retire, and then left the stadium. I have no idea where Davis is going to hold his retirement party, but I'm gue sing it's not going to be in Buffalo. More on the NFL I never thought we'd reach a point in Bills history where the fans would start fondly remembering the team's four-straight Super Bowl lo ses because Gardner Minshew II Jersey it would be le s painful than what they're going through now, but I think we're there.If you're scoring at home, here's what Bills fans have had to deal with so far this season: Their team is horrible, they're not allowed to slam each other through tables anymore, their star running back is injured and their players are quitting mid-game. To be honest, that last thing doesn't even qualify as weird and that's because at least one person in the organization seems to quit on the team every year. Quitters Power Rankings:1) Vontae Davis2) Mike Mularkey3) Kyle Orton4) Doug Marrone5) Anquan Boldin Prescott Ro si (@PrescottRo si) Most teams couldn't put two people in their Quitters Power Rankings, the Bills have five.Of course, the upside to Davis' retirement is that if you ever need to explain irony to someone, all you have to do is show them the tweet below. . I'm going to print that one out and put it on my fridge.After Davis ditched the Bills on Sunday, I thought for sure that could be the craziest story of the day in the NFL, but then I remembered the exist. As long as the Browns exist there will always be a new form of crazy and that form of crazy will always be them finding a new way to lose, which seems to happen every week.This time around, their kicker pulled a Vontae Davis, but only in the sense that neither of them have a job anymore. got cut on Monday after mi Josh Sweat Jersey sing four pivotal kicks against the (two field goals, two extra points).It's too bad the Browns didn't scour Bourbon Street for a kicker to sign over the weekend, because I'm 40 percent sure this drunk Browns fan in the French Quarter is better than any kicker Cleveland has signed over the past five years. Andddddd THIS is how you execute. Tony C (@ajcasanova) The twist here is that drunken French Quarter kicker tryouts might actually be the Browns' best chance to find a succe sful replacement for Gonzalez.Speaking of Gonzalez, the only person who had a worse week than him was probably NFL.com's Marc Se sler. Let me just say that this is why I never promise to drink bleach on Twitter. If Josh Gordon lands with an AFC North team or the Patriots or Milton Williams Jersey Jets I will drink bleach for 1,000 days. Marc Se sler (@MarcSe slerNFL) Also, I've never bought a 1,000 day supply of bleach, but I have to imagine, it can't be cheap. Alright, enough stalling, let's get to the picks.Actually, before we get to my picks, here's a quick reminder that you can check out the weekly picks from every . The reason you should click over and check out the other experts this week is because Pete Prisco bested EVERY other media member in the country.Prisco has been picking NFL games since before I was alive, before you were alive and I'm pretty sure he was also somehow picking games before football was even invented. I think the point I'm trying to make here is that all those years of hard work have finally paid off for Prisco, because he dominated everyone in the country over the weekend with his Week 2 picks. According to , Prisco's record of 12-3-1 was the best showing out of the 117 media members they keep track of. After 78 years of picking NFL games, the tides have finally turned in Prisco's direction. Some day, they will also turn in my direction. Until then, you can secret is to making NFL picks.As for my Week 3 picks, let's get to those now, and just so you know, I promise not to quit on them halfway through. (1-1) at Cleveland (1-0-1)Thursday, 8:20 p.m. ET (NFL Network)If I've noticed one thing about the Browns this season, it's that they basically show up every Sunday with no offensive game plan and then make it up as they go along. Not surprisingly, this hasn't been working out well for them so far and I think people are starting to notice. Browns offense is trash Giuliano Romeo (@GiulianoRomeo) The thing about Thursday games though is that there's not really enough time for either team to implement a great game plan, so not having one at all can actually work out in your favor, which probably explains why the Browns are 2-2 in their past four Thursday games. To put that in perspective, the Browns are 0-34-1 in their past 35 Sunday games, which means that somehow the Browns are actually better when they don't have to go through a full week of practice. In a weird way, that kind of explains the past 20 years of Browns football.Conventional wisdom says never pick the Browns to win a game because they never actually win any games, but I've decided to throw conventional wisdom out the window this week and take the Browns by three points, which actually seems like a horrible decision based Patrick Johnson Jersey on the Browns' track record with last-second field goals this year, but I'm going to do it anyway. If their new kicker struggles on Thursday, the Browns need to hunt down the drunk guy from the French Quarter and sign him. Actually, they should just sign him anyway.The pick: Browns 19-16 over JetsOakland (0-2) at Miami (2-0)1 p.m. ET (CBS)Jon Gruden is only two games into his 10-year contract and his $100 million deal is already starting to look like a worse Quez Watkins Jersey investment than MoviePa s Stock. In a period of just two weeks, Gruden has managed to trade away his best defensive player, he's won zero games and he's even being mocked by opposing punters, which is arguably the closest a coach can get to rock bottom in the NFL. If you're wondering how a punter could po sibly mock a coach, here's a video that former punter made about Gruden. Dear BFF... Marquette King (@MarquetteKing) I'm not sure if there's an Academy Awards for Twitter videos, but if there is, someone needs to nominate that.Oh, and let's not forget about the fact that Gruden also doesn't seem to be . Although everything I've listed so far has been bad, the biggest disaster for the Raiders has been their second-half play. In both games this season, the Raiders have led at halftime, only to get outscored by 36 points combined (43-7) in the second half. To put that in perspective, no other team in the NFL has even been outscored by 25 points total in the second half this year. It'

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