TUESDAY TIDBITS: Which Team Earns the Label "Road Warriors"

By TJ Troup 

Just finished doing my yearly podcast for Matthew DiBiase and his show "The Packaged Tourist" where we play out a mythical Super Bowl. This year was the 1964 Buffalo Bills against the Cleveland Browns in Tulane Stadium. After 272 regular season games we begin the tournament. 

Hopefully you are not tired of hearing me ramble on each year about the simple fact that every year since the Wild Card began there has been at least one road victory. 

Ok,folks who wins on the road this year? 

Does not have to be this weekend, yet really believe the Houston Texans will be challenged by the Chargers, and the Rams will have a difficult time beating the Vikings twice in one season.

 The last time the Detroit Lions finished first in the defensive passer rating category was 1954, and with a rating of 82.0 they demonstrated vast improvement over last year in defending the pass. 

Last summer purchased "Lindy's Pro Football" magazine and Howard Balzer wrote up his predictions for the year. Very easy to criticize his picks, yet his write-up for the AFC North is without a doubt a failure. He "picked" the Steelers to finish 4th and last, and the Browns to finish 2nd. While the Bears, Jets, and Jaguars are directionless—the Cleveland Browns are a major disappointment. 

The look on Myles Garrett's face on the bench late in the game tells all. The superb analysis by Orlovsky and Riddick during the broadcast shed light on the sad state in Cleveland. Stefanski keeps his job, and he dismisses some of his assistants as scapegoats. How damn sad. Just damn sad, since the Browns quarterback is in the playoffs with a home game for the Buccaneers. Oh, Baker Mayfield is not on Cleveland? 

Baker Mayfield

Though I could write a book the size of "War & Peace" on the cuddly little soft bears of Chicago, I will make one last statement. My favorite Bears player is in Baltimore at linebacker. Baltimore continues to make superb player personnel decisions, while the Browns could have made the Bears an offer to acquire Mr. Smith. 

Roquan Smith

Enjoy the games this weekend.