Malik-
Good to see you from Covers. Way back when you probably remember me bashing Michael Vick and Byron Leftwhich, the way I bash Jason Campbell today. Everybody was calling me a "hater", but how did that turn out? I was 2/2 on those, and I was fading vick when people actually liked him. I knew from personal contacts at Virginia Tech that he was " white trash". It sure is great to see him behind bars.
They were just reading off all the shit he spent his money on in the last 3 years because he filed for bankrupcy. He spent 18 million dollars, they were naming off the houses he bought for his mom, 3 of his baby mama's the cars he bought them, the cars for himself ( must have been about 20). Boats, cars, jewlry, he bought a 45,000 dollar fish tank right before he went to jail, he bought a 99,000 dollar Benz on a debit card and drove it to jail. He started a bunch of illigit businesses that all failed... the only one that worked was the illegal dog fighting. Oh, and he spent 1 million in cash. I am sure it was all drug money. The dude is bankrupt now, and ESPN was talking abot Matt Ryan vs Vick, and how much he means to the fans down there etc. etc. etc.
Brian Greise isn't a stud, but he is a decent backup who can fill in. I don't think he is a huge drop off from Garcia. In the last matchup earlier this year, the Bucs won 24-9, and that D shut down Atlanta's strong run game. The only problem ( as we saw last week), is that Tampa's defense is MUCH better at home than they are on the road. Take oout Gaines Adams out of that lineup and it could be even worse. The Bucs had real problems stopping Carolina, and Atlanta has a strong run game as well. I am a Buc better, but I am probably laying off this one. If you want to tease it up to +10, that should work though. Last week was the only game this season that Tampa lost by more than 4 points. The other losses were 3 and 4 point losses. I haven't watched Atlanta as much this year, so I am not too much of an expert on them.
I'd rather tease the Pats down than the Dolphins. I was looking at the Jets/Fins because those 7 point lines work nice for teasers, but who knows. The Pats D was banged up and looked like shit last week vs Senecca Wallace, but Wes Welker looked awsome. The Pats played a lax game, and had that bad deion branch call, and still pulled it off. The Raiders are a terrible football team. I might end up going Pats/Jets, because they should bounce back vs Barfalo. I'll let you know.
Green Bay is the better team, but they are on the road, and I want to play every single home dog. The Jags are in dissary, but the thing that I do like actually about the Jags, is that Green Bay's run defense is a joke. If the Jags just let David Garrard play game manager ( not throw), and hand off to his 2 solid RB's, then he won't have to win the game. Mobile quarterbacks need the game dumbed down for them.
