Week 9 Overview: Have to say I was shocked at the result of the Tampa / Green Bay game…Tampa’s an awful football team and they’re going to lose that game 9 times out of ten times.

The New York Giants are complete failures. They folded like a chair four weeks ago and haven’t won a game in over a month.

The Saints survived another scare…But they play so well in the second half I don’t think that it really matters anymore.

The Bears played poorly, and likely will lose Tommie Harris to either suspension or some mixed martial arts league. Arizona is slowly pulling away with that division.

Vince Young started and won but they sure don’t trust him to throw the ball very much. (12 for 19) It’s interesting because I can kind of see them grooming him to be the same type of quarterback Big Ben was the year of Super Bowl 40. The whole “Look man, don’t be a hero” speech…As long as he can go out and manage the game he’s fine. They got a good rushing attack so that’s cool…

This week will prove to have a lot of lopsided football:

Kansas City Chiefs 24, Oakland Raiders 11

Philadelphia Eagles 37, San Diego Chargers 14

Green Bay Packers 27, Dallas Cowboys 19

Arizona Cardinals 23, Seattle Seahawks 0

Denver Broncos 24, Washington Redskins 16

Buffalo Bills 11, Tennessee Titans 10 (Bad game)

San Francisco 49ers 49, Chicago Bears 14

Pittsburgh Steelers 24, Cincinnati Bengals 10

Minnesota Vikings 35, Detroit Lions 8

New Orleans Saints 37, St. Louis Rams 15

Baltimore Ravens 34, Cleveland Browns 13

Miami Dolphins 23, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7

Indianapolis Colts (Home) 38, New England Patriots 34

Bye Weeks: Houston Texans and the New York Giants

Obviously the Pats / Colts game is the game of the week, but it’ll be interesting to see how close the Bengals can hold the Steelers.

Watch Philadelphia…I’m telling you…

Meehan

Here is the official video for Grizzly Bear’s Ready, Able

Week 8 recap:

The pretenders are beginning to separate in the NFL. I still don’t buy the Broncos and I think it’s gonna be a long Monday night for them coming up against the defending Super Bowl champions. They only scored seven points this past week. I told you they were toy.

My Giants are fading fast and trouble is brewing. No real surprise there. Philly looks like the strongest team in that division now.

Are the Houston Texans legitimate playoff contenders?

The Cowboys and Bears both had good showings but it’s irrelevant because they both played bad teams.

Now here’s this week’s picks:

Seattle Seahawks 23, Detroit Lions 13

New Orleans Saints 45, Carolina Panthers 8

Philadelphia Eagles 31, Dallas Cowboys 26

Tennessee Titans 23, San Francisco 49ers 15

New York Giants 27, San Diego Chargers 24

Baltimore Ravens 26, Cincinnati Bengals 23

Chicago Bears 33, Arizona Cardinals 17

Atlanta Falcons 27, Washington Redskins 17

Indianapolis Colts 34, Houston Texans 13

Kansas City Chiefs 14, Jacksonville Jaguars 10

Green Bay Packers 37, Tampa Bay Bucs 13

New England Patriots 38, Miami Dolphins 17

Pittsburgh Steelers 43, Denver Broncos 20

BYE WEEKS: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams

Things to look for this week: I look for the Saints to rebound from that close game at home against the Falcons and take out their frustration on Carolina, who is a poor example of a football team and the perfect target. I look for the Patriots, Steelers, and Colts all to remain strong with good showings.

This is also the week I believe the NFC East will be decided in the PHI / DAL game, and I believe the Eagles will have the upper hand. Also look for the Packers to bounce back with a big win over an awful team.

More from me later this week…

Meehan

I have my DVR set to record Austin City Limits every Saturday night and this weekend I was able to catch Andrew Bird and St. Vincent.  Andrew Bird played about 6 or 7 songs and then St. Vincent came out.  I had previously seen St. Vincent when she opened for the National and I really wasn’t much interested in her then and I’m still not now.  As you can see from the photo he almost has a Sufjan Stevens look to him.  Tall, skinny, and plenty of indie nerd vibe that makes the chicks go crazy.  His penchant for whistling is evident right from the beginning as he opens with a violin whistling solo then fades into the set.  In the background are some old phonograph extensions two of which are split and facing opposites ends and then they spin as the music crescendos.  The band was on time and gelled together nicely fading in and out of songs seamlessly.  I only had two criticisms of the set.  One negative aspect was that the good material from Armchair Apocrypha wasn’t included much.  Only one song made it into the set that I liked.  Also, the set was rather short,  6 or 7 songs leave you just wanting more.

click here to view it on PBS.

Throw Me The Statue set down 4 songs and recorded a music video at Chessvolt Studios for Luxury Wafers.

Check Out “Written In Heart Sings, Faintly”

Saddle Creek Records

Jason Molina from Magnolia Electric Co visit Daytrotter this week and recorded 6 songs.  2 of the songs were unreleased and the others came from Josephine, Sojourner, and What Comes After The Blues.

Check out “Devil Wings”

In a series of mysterious posts to their twitter account, we are left wondering if the Ghosts and Vodka reunion was DOA?  Then we got more news from their myspace page.

Here are the last three posts:

• # Dead.about 13 hours ago from web
• # Outlook is grim… I’ve got binoculars and can’t see shit up ahead.5:54 PM Oct 22nd from web
• # No practice again… If we actually have a set together by the show it will be miraculous.9:54 AM Oct 17th from Twitterrific

From their myspace page:

“We’re calling it a day.

It was worth a shot, but we have sort of felt like we’ve been pushing a boulder up a hill. We’ve all got a lot going on in our lives right now and it’s just gotten too difficult to pull it together. We aren’t ruling out the prospect of trying again in the future, but as of right now… this ship is sunk.

Thanks so much for the support and kind words while it lasted.

Please check out our other bands / artistic endeavors if you get the chance.”

Well that was fun while it lasted…………….

Starting with,
Week 7 Recap:

The Vikings lost. Thank God. The Giants got it handed to them at home because of countless mistakes. The Steelers are the Steelers. Patriots keep winning.

I’ve obviously been riding the Saints this year, but they’re the best 2nd half team in football. They were down 21 points and STILL won 46-34. I am going to keep rolling with them.

I told you the Raiders were full of shit. Zero points…Dumb prediction anyway…

Here are the picks for week 8:

Denver Broncos 25, Baltimore Ravens 23

St. Louis Rams 22, Detroit Lions 14

Green Bay 34, Minnesota Vikings 32

San Diego Chargers 24, Oakland Raiders 13

Tennessee Titans 28, Jacksonville Jaguars 14

Carolina Panthers 27, Arizona Cardinals 21

Chicago Bears 17, Cleveland Browns 6 (Expect this to be an ugly football game)

Indianapolis Colts 32, San Francisco 49ers 17

Houston Texans 16, Buffalo Bills 14

Miami Dolphins 34, New York Jets 27

Dallas Cowboys 26, Seattle Seahawks 14

New York Giants 27, Philadelphia Eagles 18

New Orleans Saints 36, Atlanta Falcons 14

BYES: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams

This week I look for the Saints to remain undefeated. I look for the Giants to finally bounce back and the Colts to continue to dominate. Dallas can make a move up into that next level of playoff contenders with a win this week. Yes, I picked the Broncos to beat the Ravens. I’ll feel a lot better about it when I’m right. Other than that I expect a lot of teams to stay in the same place.

The only real issue here is the Vikings / Packers game. And it doesn’t have anything to do with that hick “goin’ home” to play at his “ol’ stompin’ grounds” either. Since Minnesota lost this week, the Packers can really make some serious competition with a win in a statement game.

And I do plan on having some bacon Tuesday morning…We’ll see though…

You know you love me…

Meehan

Vampire Weekend recently performed a new song “Cousins” on MTV Canada.