Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.
On Mondays during in the fall, the conversation is so dominated by NFL football that the expression “Monday morning quarterback” has entered the vernacular. The phrase is defined by google as “a person who passes judgment on and criticizes something after the event.” With the popularity of fantasy football, we now have Monday morning quarterbacks talking about football from two different perspectives. We want you to be able to participate in this great tradition, so all fall we’ll be running NFL One Liners in our cue cards series on Monday. Use these tiny synopses throughout the day:
NFL One Liners
Dallas 30, Detroit 31 — This was an absolutely crazy game. Detroit wide-receiver, Calvin Johnson, had over 300 receiving yards, which is usually the high-water-mark for an entire team, not one player. The Cowboys blew this game in the last few minutes by not remembering the Alamo.
Cleveland 17, Kansas City 23 — The Chiefs remain unbeaten and look impressive but people will be quick to point out that almost every team they’ve faced so far this year has been in some kind of disrepair. The Browns starting quarter-back in this game was the third best on their roster at the start of the year.
Miami 17, New England 27 — Between the Red Sox in the World Series and the Patriots win, Boston continues it’s streak as an outsize player on the sports scene. Especially for such a small city.[1]
Buffalo 17, New Orleans 35 — I had some New Orleans style etouffee for dinner on Saturday; the Saints had the Bills.
New York Giants 15, Philadelphia 7 — After starting the season with six losses, the Giants have won their second straight game and are shockingly still in contention to win the not-so-good-this-year NFC East division which contains the Eagles, Giants, Cowboys, and Redskins.
San Francisco 42, Jacksonville 10 — The NFL keeps putting games, like this one, in London in an effort to grow the game in Europe. Unfortunately they are games like this lopsided one.
New York Jets 9, Cincinnati 49 — Talking about lopsided games… the thing to say here is “Geno Smith (quarterback of the Jets) really played like a rookie.”
Pittsburgh 18, Oakland 21 — Nine years ago, my friends and I were instructing the non-sports fan in our midst to say “Ben Roethlisberger really played like a rookie.” We’re old and so is he!
Washington 21, Denver 45 — The Broncos had a sub-par day and still beat the Redskins by 24 points.
Atlanta 13, Arizona 27 — With the Falcons falling to 2-5 the story this week will be whether or not they trade tight-end Tony Gonzalez back to the Kansas City Chiefs who he played for during the first thirteen years of his career and where he’d have a better chance than in Atlanta to finally win a super bowl in what is probably his last season.
Green Bay 44, Minnesota 31 — Minnesota has started three quarterbacks this season. Aaron Rodgers has started for the Packers for the last five years and it shows.
- Just kidding all my Boston friends!↵