Hondo showed signs of emerging from his betting coma in Week 11, bagging seven winners against five losses and three pushes. As a result, he closed the gap between last place and first from 24 games to 23, which, if he continues to gain at that pace, will bring him even with the leader sometime in early May.
Jets over Ravens: The Jets’ alternating progression of win-loss-win-loss, etc., started out as a trend, became a statistical oddity and now has progressed to lock status. Somebody might want to inform Blezow of this development; it could enhance his godawful record in that area.
Giants over Cowboys: Count on either Elite Eli & Co. running it up against the league’s 32nd-ranked defense, or Romo playing well until crunch time then throwing a key pick that results in another gruesome setback for America’s Chokers.
After Dallas’ Superdome debacle, Hondo hears Jerry Jones was considering replacing his elderly defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin with someone more experienced. Unfortunately, Jones was turned down by former “D” guru Bill Arnsparger, 86.
Lions over Buccaneers: Emailer Lenny Power on the mystery teen girl who procured a boob job with a stolen credit card and driver’s license: City cops are going all out to catch her before Bill de Blasio takes office, because they want to be able to use the stop-and-frisk.
In other words, it will be harder to catch her if they kick the cans down the road.
Emauler Ed Buckmir writes mayor-elect de Blasio plans to stay in contact with his supporters using all forms of communication, but especially through socialist media.
In other mayoral news, Toronto’s Rob Ford this week told the Today Show: “I am not perfect.” Really, Rob? Not many crack-smoking, obese, drunken, family-embarrassing national disgraces are.
Jaguars over Texans: Members of al Qaeda mistakenly cut off the head of a rebel who belonged to an allied group in Syria, which isn’t so much a “friendly fire” incident as a “friendly beheading.”
Vikings over Packers: Obama distributed Medals of Freedom Wednesday at the White House, including one to Bill Clinton. The former President grew especially nostalgic when he was also given a special receptacle to take the medal home in: One of his old cigar boxes.
Also receiving a medal was Ernie Banks, who has something in common with Clinton: Mr. Cub was known for his expression: “Let’s play two,” while Bill frequently said of the interns: “Let’s do two.”
Chiefs over Chargers: Obama’s approval rating is plummeting so fast that, according to a poll, he would lose to Romney in a presidential election. Unfortunately, the poll didn’t consider the probability Romney would have found a way to screw it up, probably by not bringing up the health care rollout in a debate.
Panthers over Dolphins: According to a probe of Barneys for Barneys by Barneys, the store was not at fault for the recent racial rousting of customers. Rumor has it Richie Incognito and Riley Cooper may have been part of the investigating team.
More from Emauler Ed: Given the content of Incognito’s text messages to Jon Martin, if his football career is finished, he may have a future as a rap star.
Steelers over Browns: Angry Alec Baldwin, who pushed Post reporter and ex-boxer Kevin Fasick last week while being interviewed, declined an offer from Fasick to slug it out in the ring for charity. Sources close to Raging Bulldwin said he likes the fight-for-charity idea but would prefer to take on another reporter he tried to bully last week: Ch. 5’s Linda Schmidt.
If the fight comes off, oddsmakers say Schmidt will be a 2-1 favorite.
Bears over Rams: If MSNBC decides to make the suspension of Baldwin’s “Up Late” permanent, it will be as much for his pathetic ratings as his inability to act like a human being. Angry Alec reportedly was drawing a grand total of 395,000 viewers, and most of those were people who had fallen asleep while watching Rachel Maddow.
Speaking of ratings in the toilet, Al Jazeera averages 13,000 viewers a day. They would do better if they set up a table and chairs and talked on a New York street corner.
Raiders over Titans: ABBA reportedly is mulling a reunion. On behalf of music listeners everywhere: No thanks, we’re good!
Colts over Cardinals: After being welcomed as the ambassador to Japan this week, Caroline Kennedy tweeted: “Honored to present my credentials to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.” It’s unclear what the Emperor did with the empty envelope.
Patriots over Broncos: Injuries to several key Broncos and a possible letdown from their win over the Chiefs means Tom “The F Bomb” Brady not only will get the best of Peyton, as usual, but won’t feel compelled to curse out any of the refs.
49ers over Redskins: This would be a great game if it were being played last year in the heyday of the read-option offense, back when the Kaeped Krusader was the QB prototype of the future and the Skins’ QB wasn’t RG3rd rate. Everything else in Washington is substandard as well, so if you’re having a bad week, don’t get mad, take the Niners and get even.
BEST BETS: Giants, Bears, Steelers.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Saints.