Even by NFL standards—and lord knows the league sets a high bar for crazy—Week 9 really ratcheted up the insanity (it jumped up a notch). Colt McCoy, who, as America learned Sunday, still plays professional football, completed 84.6 percent of his passes for 249 yards in a win over San Francisco, doing so without the help of his two best receivers, DeAndre Hopkins (hamstring) and A.J. Green (COVID). And it didn’t even crack the top 10 of absurd things that happened last week.
Besides glove-toting Teddy Bridgewater outgunning Dak Prescott at Jerry’s World—where the Cowboys hadn’t lost since last Thanksgiving—what other anarchy ensued in Week 9? Where to start. The Bills no-showed at Jacksonville, the Derrick Henry-less Titans stream-rolled the Rams in enemy territory, Jets fossil Josh Johnson (who is so old he played for Jim Harbaugh … at the University of San Diego) keyed a fourth-quarter scoring barrage in Indianapolis and the Jekyll and Hyde Saints, a week after giving Tom Brady the business, rolled over and played dead for the Falcons. And that doesn’t even account for the off-field havoc stirred up by chaos-seekers Aaron Rodgers and Odell Beckham. Week 9 was all the way off its rocker, an Espresso shot of mayhem pumped directly into the bloodstream.
It’s going to be a tough act to follow, but if anyone can out-crazy itself it’s the NFL, a wildly-compelling soap opera deceptively marketed to us as live sports. Still trying to rationalize the chaotic events of last week, Jordan Cohn and Chris Emma joined me to grind waivers, survey the streaming scene and churn out another freshly-prepared batch of stealthy starts on the Audacy Sports Fantasy Football Show. Bon appétit (chef’s kiss emoji).
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