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Arkady Renko

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Bills (+5.5) over COWBOYS

 

Q: Suppose it's the pre-Viagra era and you are basically impotent. Once a year your wife gets all dressed up and goes out "with the girls", but is always dropped off the following morning by a guy with a mullet driving a Cadillac. While deep down it bothers you, you really don't want to say anything because you know that if she leaves you, you're definitely not getting anyone else. Isn't this what it's like being a Buffalo-resident Bills fan during that week when your team heads to Toronto?

— Chris, Louisville

 

SG: Pretty much. If you combine that e-mail with Buffalo's schedule right now (next three: at Dallas, at Miami, at the Jets), we might have to stop circling the wagons just to be safe. The good news: Vegas bumps every Dallas line because they're a "public" team, and the Bills looked so awful last week that everyone unfairly jumped ship on them (when, in fact, the Jets may have just been a bad matchup for them). You can almost see the "Buffalo 10, Dallas 0" first quarter coming. Hey, did you know Fred Jackson has 1,194 rushing/receiving yards right now, giving him a decent chance of (a) breaking Chris Johnson's all-time record (2,509 yards in 2009), and (b) finishing with three times as many rushing/receiving yards as a healthy Chris Johnson did two years later? Dumbfounding.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7220622/welcome-national-mailbag-league

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