Week 11, 2019

On Tuesday the NFL announced they were sponsoring a workout day for Colin Kaepernick.  This surprised everyone involved and it seemed that it was hastily thrown together.  Honestly, I'm not sure why the league waited until the 11th week of the season to do this.  Preliminary reports are that everything went okay, even though the location was moved to a different location on Saturday (16th).  The moving of the location was to allow some from the media to be present.

People were skeptical, stating the NFL was only doing this to save face.  To me, the timing is just odd.  Trade deadline is a couple weeks gone, some teams are making their playoff pushes.  No clue what will come of this development.  Curious if Kaepernick is willing to not kneel for the national anthem, or if the NFL will just ignore this and allow him to exercise the freedom the national anthem talks about.

Games of the week...

Los Angeles Rams (12) @ Pittsburgh (17) -- Pittsburgh seems like they're moving in the right direction with their 2nd year quarterback in Mason Rudolph.  The Rams looks like they're trying to find where they are.  They have left a lot from what we saw last year.  Maybe they're still reeling from not scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl.  They face the Bears on Sunday night, maybe we can see some improvement.

Carolina (16) @ Green Bay (24) --  The Packers were not happy to lose to the Chargers last week.  Fighting the snow and cold in Green Bay, they held off the Panthers pretty easily.

Minnesota (28) @ Dallas (24) -- Dallas could not get a running game going against the Vikings.  So, the logical course of action with that is, when the game is on the line, keep trying to run.  Dak Prescott had no issues connecting with his receivers so not real sure why the coaches kept trying to run when they were not able to.  I'm going on the record right here stating I think the Cowboys will have another coach on their sidelines next season.

Seattle (27) @ San Francisco (24) OT -- This game is one of the reasons I love watching football.  Two dominant teams playing to the absolute end.  Experience won out with Russell Wilson besting Jimmy Garoppolo in an overtime thriller.  This is going to be a fun rivalry over the next several years.

Games to watch...

Pittsburgh (5-4) @ Cleveland (3-6) -- Yeah, I know I typed this up after this game was played.  These are two teams going in different directions.  The Steelers had won 4-straight prior to this game, while the Browns had won one, but they had three wins, which is 300% more than they had at this point two years ago.

Houston (6-3) @ Baltimore (7-2) -- Two legitimate MVP candidates battling each other.  Young quarterbacks that are both very, very good.  They have each led their teams to the playoffs and I'm thinking this could be the new Brady-Manning that we get to see in the playoffs.

Chicago (4-5) @ Los Angeles Rams (5-4) -- Both teams are trying to find themselves, the Rams are still reeling from their loss in the Super Bowl.  The Bears, it seems are still trying to figure out if they really trust Trubisky as their quarterback.  I don't think they trust him, he's inconsistent at best and struggling mightily.

Usually I put the "What to watch for" section here, but since I'm about 5-days late I'm going to bypass that and just end it here.  Have had some technical issues this week that have forced me to use a backup computer.