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What I learned in Week 7 of the NFL season...

In Week 7 of the NFL season, I learned...

- ...Buffalo is as unpredictable as a David Lynch movie while tripping acid.

- ...Colin Kaepernick likes facing Seattle's defense about as much as GOP candidates like facing fact-checkers.

- ...Landry Jones isn't a Ben Roethlisberger clone after all.

- ..., if George Carlin were still alive, he'd likely say this about the Atlanta-Tennessee game: "It was like what I said about golf one time. Watching the Atlanta Falcons-Tennessee Titans game was like watching flies f**k."

- ...the St. Louis Rams are bound to start making money off Todd Gurley's name, with phrases like: "Don't mess with our Gurley!," "Gurley just wants to have fun!," "I kissed a Gurley and I liked it!," "The Gurley bird catches the worm," among others.

- ...the Cleveland Browns are in the process of a 30-year rebuilding project.

- ...Ryan Fitzpatrick blames the creature living in his beard for the New York Jets' 30-23 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday.

- ...it was the Oakland Raiders' ultimate goal to, for one half, be as dominant as they were in Tecmo Bowl.

- ...Andrew Luck is hoping to be part of a reality television series, entitled Job Swap, where he and Peyton Manning do just that.

- ..., just two games behind AFC South-leading Indianapolis, the 1-5 Tennessee Titans sat Marcus Mariota this weekend to provide him enough rest to help the team make a playoff run in the second half of the season.

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