2017 Week 7 Sunday Game Ball

I don’t know what to say about Week 7. I mean three shut-outs in a week? Six teams didn’t score more than seven points. The Falcons continued to looked to be hungover after the Super Bowl, losing 23-7 in New England, and should be 1-5 instead of 3-3. Colin Kaepernick needs to be in the NFL now, with the injury to Carson Palmer, the showing that Jacoby Brissett had on the field yesterday, and the zero-point effort from Denver in Los Angeles against the Chargers (still feels weird). The Chiefs lose for the second week in a row, the Chargers have a three-game winning streak, Cam Newton throw up and dud in Chicago, and the Saints/Rams might be the two best teams in the NFL.

I am not going to make any more predictions, I am even with my picks this week [7-7], and I need the Eagles to cover at home tonight to finally go positive. I am just going to go through the motions and try to make any sense of this.

Trying to make predictions this year is like try to go through a minefield blind-folded. It is almost impossible to get out of this year alive.


So, let’s just get into the game ball this week. My game ball for this Sunday in the NFL goes to Jacksonville Jaguar Running Back T.J. Yeldon. Yeldon stepped in for the injured Leonard Fournette. Yeldon was the golden boy that a lot of people loved last year—thinking that he would take a monster step and be a dynamic top of the line running back. Yeldon went for 122 yards on only nine rushing attempts, and a touchdown. Yeldon averaged 13.6 yards per carry on the road against a porous Indianapolis defense. We have a good Monday Night divisional game in Philadelphia tonight, so let’s rejoice in that, and try and look ahead to some good matchups in Week 8.  

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