Burn, Baby, Burn 2.0

As a matter of fact, I did read it in 'Sports Marketing for Dummies'.  David Stern loaned it to me.  For some reason he had already marked up the whole section about how, if you can get the referees to go along with it, a league will never have bad ratings for the finals as long as they make sure one big-market team is playing -- hmm, weird?  Anyway, back to the matter at hand, HOW can you say the Saints undefeated season is going to be stopped by the Falcons?  The only things the Falcons have shown consistently this season is how inconsistent they are.  Hold the Dolphins to 7 points, then lose to the Pats, beat the Bears, then get blown out by the Cowboys, and then the Saints beat them two nights ago.

I hate to say it, but the team that's going to play spoiler for the Saints is going to be the Pats.  I know they're playing in the Superdome, but Tom Brady on Monday Night Football?  The Saints d-line can wrap themselves in bubblewrap and will get called for 'roughing the passer' every time one of them accidentally breathes in Brady's direction.  It's not going to be fair, but it's going to be how the undefeated streak ends.

As for the Colts, I'll never say that team has "no shot" as long as Peyton Manning is taking the snaps.  While I don't think they'll go undefeated either, I think they'll last longer than the Saints.  Although I'm gonna mix it up a little and not predict it to be to a big team like the Pats or Broncos.  Instead I'm looking at a team who's season has already gone to crap and are switching to the college football mindset of playing spoiler.  Which team do I speak of...?  The Tennessee Titans.  That's right.  Week 13 in Indianapolis no less.  Jeff Fisher is taking a lot of heat over that episode when he wore a Peyton Manning jersey.  He knows how to beat the Colts and that game really might be the only chance he has at saving his job (especially if the Colts are undefeated).  I'm going out on a big limb here and it most likely is going to backfire on me, but what the hell, it's the Burner.

-Dave