“Nice coat.” “It’s my bench-warming parka.”
It was a great weekend to bet on road teams in the NFL. Home teams went 3-11 yesterday, getting outscored 415-305 in the sucktastic process. So bully for you, Baltimore, Dallas, and Atlanta: you’re the only home teams that defended your turf yesterday.
But that’s all the praise I’m allotted in the Suck-Off. Let’s look at some of this week’s contenders for shittiest on-field performance:
Titans receivers. Granted, most of the credit for smudging Tennessee’s perfect record should go to the Jets for their excellent performance, but it’s time people started talking about how having a shitty receiver corps is a genuine weakness. And the drops were team-wide yesterday: RBs, TEs, and WRs all contributed to a shoddy first half that saw five drops in just over a quarter of play.
Brady Quinn, Donovan McNabb. One’s a youngster making his third start, one’s an All-Pro with Super Bowl experience. No matter: they both sucked yesterday, and they both got benched for it. Quinn threw two picks and was generally awful at home against the Texans; McNabb saw Quinn’s two picks and raised him a fumble in one half of play against the Ravens, who allowed only a return TD in their 36-7 shellacking of the Eagles.


J.T. O’Sullivan prepares to suck enough to get benched
Plenty of suckiness to go around yesterday, especially if you had the misfortune of watching the dreary
It was the Sunday of the large squandered lead, as the 