{"id":17697,"date":"2012-11-10T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17697"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:09:03","slug":"the-two-scotts-nfl-picks-beat-up-on-buffalo-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/the-two-scotts-nfl-picks-beat-up-on-buffalo-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Scotts&#8217; NFL picks (beat up on Buffalo edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not nice to pick on <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/11\/09\/nfl-picks-week-10-bikini-photos-now-37-more-gratutious\/\" target=\"_blank\">poor, defenceless Buffalo<\/a> &#8230; but that won&#8217;t stop either Scott:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Buffalo (plus 11) at New England<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Feschuk<\/strong>: As a Bills fan, I\u2019ve so far refrained from criticizing QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, largely because he represents a genuine upgrade over guys like Trent Edwards and J.P. Losman. Remember Losman? You couldn\u2019t find a more incompetent quarterback if you took Ryan Leaf\u2019s brain, stuffed it inside Matt Leinart\u2019s skull and handed the skull to JaMarcus Russell to throw 12 feet over the head of a wide-open receiver. But enough is enough. Fitzpatrick just isn\u2019t getting it done and the fact that he graduated from Harvard and probably knows how to use a protractor does not make up for the fact HE NO CAN THROWY MR. OBLONG. Right now, the only thing that will save 2012 for Buffalo fans is if it turns out that the Bills\u2019 season syncs up perfectly with <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>. Fingers crossed. <strong>Pick: Buffalo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Reid<\/strong>: Breaking News &mdash; the Buffalo Bills, whose defence has allowed an NFL all-time high forty squinjillion points, has fired its entire defensive team and replaced them with the Muppets and Wall-E.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Chan Gailey explained that, while unconventional, the technically lifeless Muppets would still represent a substantial upgrade to most positions. \u201cGonzo played a little Division II ball before he got into show biz and Kermit has great instincts around the ball &mdash; as long as we can keep that pig away.\u201d New free safety Animal had this to add in an interview with WNY Sports, \u201cLurrghh.\u201d In other news, the Bills denied that they\u2019ve been negotiating with Tennessee for the rights to field goal kicker Stuart Little. <strong>Pick: New England<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not nice to pick on poor, defenceless Buffalo &#8230; but that won&#8217;t stop either Scott: Buffalo (plus 11) at New England Scott Feschuk: As a Bills fan, I\u2019ve so far refrained from criticizing QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, largely because he represents a genuine upgrade over guys like Trent Edwards and J.P. Losman. Remember Losman? You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57],"tags":[152,626,179],"class_list":["post-17697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","tag-buffalobills","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Br","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17699,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions\/17699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}