Five Things We Learned in New York

Okay, so that wasn't exactly a stellar start to the year for me and Marco or the New York Giants. Maybe we only get 15 right this week, but as my favorite roommate at the psychiatric ward used to say, "If it works it's intervention. If it doesn't, it's information." Here are 5 things we learned from last night's loss:

1. Either Tony Romo's WAG is uglier than we originally thought, or Eli Manning's wife cheated on her Wonderlic. Or both.

                    
                           Did we mis-judge this one?

2. Replacement refs are fine, but replacement wide receivers are un-freakin'-believable. Eight receptions, 114 yards, and two touchdowns: Ogle Who? Neither we nor Vegas ever saw him coming. The only good thing is that some idiot in your fantasy league will probably pick him up only to find out he has to go back to his D3 junior college.

Side note: During the post-game locker room interviews, perhaps caught up in the excitement of all the attention, came out to his team and the world, screaming, "After all that love, you bet I'm a god-damn Romo-sexual."

3. Rob Ryan, although I'm not sure how you can have an identical twin and still be the ugly one, is a way better defensive coach than Rex.

                    
                   Who's lucky filler in the Ryan sandwich? 

4. Deadspin.com, a wicked awesome website with biting and insightful commentary, must have a boner for the NY Giants because they were way too soft on the defending champs.

http://deadspin.com/5940567/why-your-team-sucks-2012-new-york-giants

The only thing they got right was the fact that "only by the grace of [the Giants] beating the Pats twice in the Super Bowl does the rest of America" not hate them. But losing to Dallas? At home? Really? 


5. The NY Giants will still make the playoffs. With only 16 games in an NFL season, analysts are always going to be prone to hyperbole after an opening game loss, throwing around stats like, "only 25% of teams that start the season 0-1 make the playoffs." That may be true, but fifteen teams start every year like that, which means eleven of them suck and four still make the playoffs.

Example: Last year the Giants opened their season with a 28-14 loss to the Washington. The Redskins went on to lose 10 of their next fifteen finishing in the NFC East cellar, and we all know what happened to the defending Super Bowl champions.

Hope you read our earlier Gambling Tips and didn't bet the farm on that game.

http://www.thespreadzone.blogspot.com/2012/08/important-gambling-tip-2_20.html

Much like the Giants, we intend to use that opening game loss to fuel our run to supremacy. Stay tuned for our Picks ATS for the rest of Week 1.

Vinny and Marco