Last Place Update

December 6, 2011 – Welcome to this week’s Last Place Update, where the 0-12 Indianapolis Colts continue their reign as Kings of the Cellar.  They lead the 2-10 St. Louis Rams and Minnesota Vikings by two games and show no signs of relinquishing that lead anytime soon.

Although the Colts lost again, unlike their total collapse against the New Orleans Saints, they trailed the New England Patriots 31-3 going into the fourth quarter and fought back.  They put up three touchdowns in the face of a beatdown and lost 31-24.  Way to keep fighting, Indy!!

This week’s honorable mention goes to the St. Louis Rams.  When they beat the New Orleans Saints, they could have turned the season around and ended strong.  Instead, they went 1-4 since then and got blanked by the San Francisco 49ers 26-0.

The Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers get a pass on the second honorable mention this week.  San Diego won last night and Minnesota took Denver to the last second and never rolled over.

So this week’s second honorable mention goes to the 4-8 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  The Bucs got dominated by the 4-8 Carolina Panthers 38-19, making this their sixth straight loss.  Tampa Bay started the season at 3-1, tied for first in the NFC South and even beat the New Orleans Saints at home two weeks later.  But the bottom fell out.  After going 3-1, the Bucs went 1-7.  They play the Jacksonville Jaguars this week.  Can they win?  We’ll see.

Next Loss

The Colts go to Baltimore to face the Ravens.  No upset special here.  The Ravens should win easily, unless Joe Flacco has a bad day and Indy makes a game of it…nah, Baltimore will win.

The Rams go visit Seattle to take on the Seahawks on Monday night.  Seattle has been beating teams they should lose to, so nothing should change here.  It won’t be a blowout, but St. Louis should get loss number eleven.

Minnesota has to go to Detroit to face a Lions team fresh off a humiliating Sunday night loss to New Orleans.  Upset Special?  Maybe.  Either Detroit will take Sunday night’s loss out on the Vikings or the Lions will collapse.  Detroit should win, but if they act like they did in New Orleans, then the Vikings will get the upset.

Here are a couple of historical scores on this day for teams facing each other this week: December 6,

1981 – Buffalo 28 – San Diego 27

2009 – New York Giants 31 – Dallas 24