Buffalo Dave

I am proud to be an American today and proud to be from Buffalo also.  It was really nice to see the United States pull off that victory last night against team Canada in Olympic hockey.  The Canadian team was devastated.  You could tell by the looks on their faces.  That is not why I enjoyed the win.  I think Canadians are awesome. But, it does prove just how important the sport of hockey is to Canadians.

The USA team obviously lacks the offense that the Canadians and some of the other teams have.  In goal though, the USA team is really tough.  We got some absolutely outstanding goal tending from Miller.  He is making Buffalo proud. 

Team USA was outshot something like 45-22.  Still Miller refused to let the superior Canadian offense take command.

This leaves team USA in a nice position going into the medal rounds.  I am looking forward to some more outstanding American hockey.  Let’s get a few more pucks flying at the other teams’ net though.

I just hope Miller isn’t worn out when the Olympics are over.  Buffalo is in a good position to make a run deep in the playoffs this year.

The Colts will host the Jets again.  This time it is for the AFC Championship though.  The Colts could have knocked off the Jets a month ago when the Jets last went to Indy.  If you remember though, the bonehead coach of the Colts decided to pull his starters and essentially throw the football game half way through the third quarter.

Can you imagine how stupid that coach is going to look if the Jets pull out a win?  He will be the bonehead of the year.  In my opinion he already is.  There is no way he should have thrown away the opportunity to go undefeated the whole way.  This team could have rewritten NFL history.  They could have set the ultimate record.

So, as much as I want Indianapolis to win this game, I won’t be completely disappointed if they lose.  At least then the Colts’ coach will be exposed for making the bonehead call of the year.  With the way the Jets’ defense is playing, anything is possible.  This is yet another reason why a team should try to win every single game and not take anything for granted.

I thought that the New York Jets were a chump team after watching them play for much of the year.  But, after watching them play Sunday night against the Cincinnati Bengals, my opinion is changing.  It appears that the Jets might actually be for real.

I thought for sure that the Jets were going to blow their opportunity to make the playoffs.  Instead they blew out the Bengals in a game that Cincinnati can only refer to as a humiliating defeat.  I personally hold a very high opinion of the Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer.  I think the guy has all the talent in the world.  He is an incredibly accurate passer.

But, these guys were not ready even for basic blitz packages that the Jets used.  The Bengals should have been able to make the Jets pay dearly for blitzing all the time.  They never did though.  Most of the time Palmer threw a bad pass.  The times when he threw a great pass, his receivers refused to catch it.  If you didn’t know better, you might think that they were trying to lose the game.  How utterly humiliating.

Well, we shall see for sure whether or not the Jets are for real when they travel to Ohio for a rematch in round one of the AFC Wild Card playoffs.  I can’t believe that the Bengals are a 3 point favorite going into this game after having been beaten like rented mules this past Sunday.  There is no way I would touch this game from a betting perspective.  It could go either way.  Right now you would have to think the Jets have an advantage.

This Bengals team was not even close to being ready to play the Jets.  Poor coaching maybe?  That is my guess.  How could you lay an egg like this heading into the playoffs?  Is Cincinnati ever going to be really good?

They say that defense wins chamionships.  This Jets team definitely has a good defense.  They could make these playoffs very interesting.

I just cannot believe that the Colts coach Jim Caldwell chose to pull Peyton Manning and the rest of the offensive stars in the third quarter.  There is no way they lose to the Jets if he doesn’t pull them.  This was a total fiasco.

Peyton Manning never gets hurt.  Was the coach really that worried about an injury?  Come on.

How many opportunities will an NFL team really have to go totally undefeated?  If I was a Colts fan, I would be raging mad right now.  Now I am just mad because they gave an easy win to the Jets who I would have like to have seen lose.  Seeing other AFC east teams lose makes me happy.

Thanks Caldwell.  You bonehead.