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
Seattle 33, Atlanta 10 — One of the fun things about sports is that they are such an opinion-heavy world that almost no matter what happens in a game, it can be seen as confirming what “everyone” thought. Everyone thought that Seattle wasn’t as good as everyone thought they were. Looks like everyone (the second everyone) was right.
Detroit 21, Chicago 19 — The Lions last three games were decided by a combined six points. Exciting and in first place!
Philadelphia 27, Green Bay 13 — Talking about exciting, Eagles quarterback Nick Foles followed up his seven touchdown break-out from last week with a three touchdown performance in today’s win.
Jacksonville 29, Tennessee 27 — The Jaguars win! The Jaguars win! It’s worth saying twice because it probably won’t happen twice this year.
St. Louis 38, Indianapolis 8 — In the “what-the-bleep” game of the weekend, the last place Rams slaughtered the first place Colts. That’s quadruped on quadruped crime.
Oakland 20, New York Giants 24 — The Giants are basically like the villain in a horror film. Don’t assume they are out of it, even after a 0-6 start of the year. They’re now 3-6 and only two games back from the division lead.
Buffalo 10, Pittsburgh 23 — The Steelers would like the previous paragraph to be about them… but I just don’t think they have enough going on to catch up in their division.
Cincinnati 17, Baltimore 20 — This game went into overtime after receiver A.J. Green caught an absolutely absurd last second, desperation heave into the end zone.
Carolina 10, San Francisco 9 — Somewhat unsurprisingly, two very good teams that are known for their defense played a close, defensive game. I love this type of game in principal but in practice, I tend to switch over to the kind of games the Lions have been playing.
Houston 24, Arizona 27 — The Texans have now lost their star running back to a back injury, their starting quarterback to a mixture of not being good anymore and an ankle injury, their head coach to what is being called a “mini-stroke,” and seven straight games. Ouch.
Denver 28, San Diego 20 — Ho hum, another weekend, another Broncos victory. That said, it has to be concerning for Broncos fans that their quarterback, Peyton Manning, who is 37 years old and only a year removed from neck surgery, is getting progressively more injured with each victory.
Dallas 10, New Orleans 49 — Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees is absolutely, unbelievable at… beating my fantasy football team. Oh yeah, he’s pretty good at real football too.
I would like to add it’s time for 49ers fans to start worrying. ..
You think so? I think they’ll be just fine.