Week 5 Picks

Double Deuce is in Vegas and should come back with tons of blogable material. As for now I will bless you all with my picks without the Deuce's commentary.

Panthers (+3) over Saints

CHIEFS (+2) over Jaguars

Lions (+3.5) over REDSKINS

Titans (-8) over Falcons

Dolphins (-5.5) over Texans

Steelers (-6) over Seahawks

PATRIOTS (-16.5) over Browns

Cardinals (-3.5) over RAMS

Jets (+3.5) over GIANTS

Colts (-9.5) over Bucs

Chargers (+1) over BRONCOS

Ravens (-3) over NINERS

Bears (+3) over Packers

Cowboys (-10) over BILLS

On another note, the Detroit scene theme party is only 5 months away!

Update
Week 6-8-0
Season 33-38-3

Chiggy v Chigozie

Seeing that Chiggy is on the ridiculous “You know people eat dogs” side of the argument, Chigozie has to run down this Roy Williams situation from the rationale part of view. “Letsgotosmokes” has decided to install a new segment to become a more diversified information source. This segment will be called Chiggy v Chigozie. Chiggy is very reactionary and emotional. He tends to side with Prima Donnas, Rock Stars and other boisterous figures. Chigozie on the other hand tends to look at information rationally and dissect information based on logical analysis.

Fact: The average salary for a server in America is $14,612.

Mr. Williams is slated to make $1.5MM this season. That equates to roughly $30,000 every week. Obviously Mr. Williams can’t afford to slip anyone a Washington for their service.

Fact: The average server would rather receive a Benjamin for their service than a kind word.

Mr. Williams tries to mitigate his cheapness by juxtaposing it with his kindness.

Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.

What?!? Whats going on here? This argument is WAY too obvious.

De-Troit...Foot-Ball!

I am glad I am not a NFL player. While all the "Letsgotosmokes" readers know that I would love to emulate Travis Henry; I have found another player who I can relate to. Roy Williams recently got in the press with the following quote:

"I am cheap, I’m a cheap date. Get you some McDonald's, and maybe you will get some cheese on it but that's it and I’m just really cheap, man. I’m very low key, I like to stay home. I like to go bowling on Monday nights and I go to the casino every once and awhile. Other than that, you won’t see Mr. Williams out at all."

This has shades of my gum comment to Robby Dodd.* And while Robby wont let me live it down, I will never make the headlines for stating the same principals. (Maybe this is because Big Roy conveyed his point more eloquently than i did. He made it seem like it was a privilege to get him to spend the extra 30 cents for cheese, that's just cold.)

"There’s no such thing as a tip. But I am really polite and I say ‘Thank you sir.’ … The pizza man knows, when he comes to my address, he’s coming for free."

I used to have conversations on these things, I have slightly different theories now but I just love the mental image of the pimple faced nerdy high schooler bringing the pizza to the Williams mansion and cursing his life because hes making $2 an hour bringing pizzas for free.

He then follows all of this up with a Red Lobster blast.

"I might just take her to the casino and get her a free buffet. If I did take a date out to a nice place, I’d take her to a nice place, like a Red Lobster or something. It wouldn’t be Morton’s or nothing like that."

Where is he finding a free buffet!?!?! When I go to Vegas I am pleased when I find a buffet for under $20. Maybe being an NFL Player DOES have some perks.

Now what did we learn from all of this? Roy Williams was exactly who we thought he was, and the boys here at "Letsgotosmokes" want to crown him so we will crown his ass and let him off the hook.