Last week’s nightmare being over (6/14 — likely the second of the 4 worst weeks I’m able to drop), here’s how I see the games this week.
Cincy over Miami (Cincy at home. Do they have any pride?) – X
Dallas over Jacksonville (can Kitna and the running game pull it out?) – X
Washington over Detroit (McNabb will play; but Detroit could upset here) – X
Kansas City over Buffalo – YAY
St Louis over Carolina (Carolina might surprise here) – YAY
Jets over Green Bay – X
Broncos over San Fran (well, provided the Broncos can hold the Niners under, say, 52) – X
San Diego over Tennessee – YAY
Tampa over Arizona – YAY
New England over Minnesota (NE at home; Favre playing on a bum wheel) – YAY
Oakland over Seattle (Oakland at home, Seattle on the road…) – YAY
Indy over Houston – YAY
NO over Pittsburgh (24-17) – YAY
upsets to watch for: Detroit, Carolina, and Arizona.
Have at it! And Happy Halloween!
MIA cin, jac DAL (absolutely nuts), wsh DET (what the hell?), buf KC, car STL, gb NYJ, DEN sf, TEN sd, SEA oak (meh), min NE, TB ari, PIT no, hou IND (sweet revenge)
KC, StL, SanFran, GrnBay, Indi, Dallas, Miami, NE, Pitts, Seattle, AZ, San Diego, WA.
By the way, Thor dropped by to let us know that the Democrats are going to kick ass in this Tuesday’s elections. He’s bullish on the Proggs — basing his analysis on CBS News’ estimating that the Beck rally drew about a third of what the Colbert / Stewart “Aren’t We Edgy“-fest drew.
That having nothing to do with the thread topic, however, I deleted it.
That’s odd, I thought he used to be a sports reporter.
Cincy over Miami, Check.
Dallas over Jacksonville (can Kitna and the running game pull it out?), no. Jacksonville takes it.
Washington over Detroit, Check.
Kansas City over Buffalo, Check.
St Louis over Carolina (Carolina might surprise here), I think Carolina does surprise: Stephen Jackson.
Jets over Green Bay, Check.
Broncos over San Fran, Check.
San Diego over Tennessee, no. Tenessee wins this one ugly on turnovers.
Tampa over Arizona, Check.
New England over Minnesota, Check.
Oakland over Seattle, why not?
Indy over Houston, I think Houston gets this one by Rushing and Manning missing two prime targets.
NO over Pittsburgh, Check.
A sports reporter, he who won’t be named? I’m thinking more like a dedicated afficianado. He allaeged to be a financial guy.
Anyway, all that aside;let’s get down to bidness.
Dolphins over Bengals
Cowboys over Jags
Redskins over Lions
Chiefs over Bills
Panthers over Rams
Jets over Packers
Niners over Broncos (Sorry JeffG, Both teams struggling and Niners are at home)
Titans over Chargers
Cards over Bucs
Pats over Vikings
Raiders over SeaHawks (I can’t believe I’m going with the Raiders, but, well, Seattle…)
Colts over Texans
Saints over Steelers
I’m no Jimmy the Greek, more like Bobby the Injun, so needless to say I wouldn’t go more than a $5 card on these.
I hate parity…
uh, Bob . . . ah nevermind . . .
CIN
DAL
DET
KC
STL
NYJ
SF
TEN
NE
ARI
OAK
PIT
IND
Tiebreaker: Crap. I took “he’s bullshit on the internets” and the points.
I know sdferr…LIES! I’m surprised you never tracked him down and, er, explained things to him since you are in a Florida locale as well-but admittedly it is a big state and an unworthy effort…
Or, did you have a problem with one of my picks :)
I’m glad you all have some faith in the Cowboys. I’m picking their opponents each week, just to stave off disappointment.
Nah Bob, neither and both is what I’m guessing, but in a manner such as to be, um, probably inconsequential to anyone but myself. Like now: already I’ve wasted everyone’s time (even a chunk of my own, consarn’dit) . . .
Purge parity !!!
sdfrerr, let’s just, as they say in Brooklyn, fuhgeddabowditt.
guinsPen,
That was an unusual video, but interesting none the less. I find your video “discoveries” to generally be worth checking out.
Mia
Dal
Wash
KC
StL
Jets
Den
Tenn
Ari
NewE
Oak
The Indianapolis Colts
NO
Thank you, Bob. The check’s in the mail.
By the way, said video’s Icelandic release was titled Take a Bath, Bjork.
How to properly prepare a jack-o-lantern.
Bjork is creepy, no matter what pdbuttons says.
Hmmm. When I said Stephen Jackson, I meant Jonathan Stewart. Can’t explain.
I see Bob says the Niners are at home. I did not know they were based in London.
Out, semi-sockpuppet!
They had to leave San Fran in shame after so many close losses cranky!
No seriously, that shows how much attention I pay to the yearly NFL-gonna-go-worldwide! scheduling. All I saw was DEN@SF.
The week before Super Bowl.
The two worst NFL teams play over by there.
The loser stays deported.
Broncs up 7-3 on a Tim Tebow TD. Alliterative, no?
I’m late getting in, but given that the teams playing the early games appear to have eschewed scoring, we should still be jake.
Miami, Cincy, Washington, KC, St Louis, Jest, San Fran, Tenn, Arizona New England, Oakland, New Orleans and Indy.
Jets are tryin’ to lose also; or at least spot the Pack some points.
From my CBS Selection:
KC, STL, DAL, WAS, MIA, DEN, GB, TEN, SEA, TB, NE, NO, IND
That Dallas pick is looking SWEEEEEET!
And yes, the Broncos can’t buy a break. Ever. Ever. Ever.
Dallas is doing so bad this year I might have to dial back my hate for the team. It’s difficult to hate a team that performs this bad.
Yeah. Time for pity. I pity Dallas. I pity the Broncos.
Pity.
There’s no pity in football.
Here’s the new rule for gamblers: look at my pick, take the opposite.
Yield: WEALTH!
Oooooh…Well, I guess my brother-in-law is going to lose some jack on the Jets this week.
The Jets sure don’t look like a championship team today.
Oh, goodie, the Vikings game is on now.
yay.
Mr. RTO I thought the circling of the wagons around Breitbart was a lot of solidaritah at the expense of intentionalism*
there was a lot of that here I remember
Mr. LaRoche would you care to demonstrate how that flier works as anti-catholic propaganda exactly?*
please to break it down for me
I do not approve of anti-catholic bigotry at all at all I just don’t think there’s any evidence of anti-catholic bigotry in that flier.
This is the football thread. Stop it.
I used the flier, which I did NOT label “anti-Catholic”*
Darleen that is simply not true… here is from your post
There’s not even a good reason to say that the guy pictured is a Catholic priest even.
Do you even pay any frelling attention to which thread you post in?
cranky Darleen made it to where I can’t comment on that thread where she’s calling me an anti-Christian liar which I am not an anti-Christian liar and it hurts my feelings when people say that
It’s all about you, then. Great.
no it’s not all about me at all it’s about how dissembleyness is a feature of our little country’s politics on the left and also on the right
It’s all about Carin now.
Thank you, Jets.
Dude! What in the world happened? Last I saw it was Redskins up by 5 halfway through the 4th quarter.
There goes another one of my lass-than-prescient prognostications.
It’s a good thing I don’t bet on football.
Congratulations Carin.
They benched McNabb, and on his first play Grossman got sacked, coughed it up and it went all the way back.
Good Allah! What planet have I been on. I didn’t realize the ‘skins picked up sexy Rexy…
He stunk in Chicago. I wonder if Shannahan has begun to lose his mental faculties.
The Vikings are finally starting to play like they normally do. All is well with the world.
I had some brief hope that they might win today. So much for that idea.
They really started off strong.
Well, the Chargers won. I guess that’s something for me.
Well, Charges broke their losing streak the very week I predicted they would be bested by Tennessee. I’m sure serr8d is not happy about that…
My football season is pretty much over. Both the Chargers and the Vikings basically have to win every game from now on to survive.
I’m used to much better from both of them.
The Seahawks blew goats in Oakland today, just like my Red Raiders did down in College Station yesterday.
San Diego has an 8-0 record against Fisher’s Titans; the only team he hasn’t defeated. And Fish and Norv Turner are still best of friends.
OT, both Bush presidents were on hand tonight at Texas Stadium to get the Rangers started. GWB doesn’t throw like a pansy, Dems.
Lots of trick-or-treaters tonight. Interrupting my football / WS viewing.
But whatever. I guess they get their night.
how to throw a first pitch
Yeah…
Whoever you are obsconding with thors nick, he always pasted his own drivel, never having to resort to copypasta follies.
Smells like RD/Sam I Am or Willie to me.
Around here the parents are pretty sociable with one another and they sort of go out in groups. Have a few drinks and the younger moms and dads sometimes dress up, too.
A younger 20-ish mom was walking around in a Drew Bledsoe Patriots jersey. It was funnier than it should have been by any rational measure. Which sort of goes to show how ingrained the Packers are in our culture.
I had surprisingly few trick-or-treaters here, a lot less than in years past, despite lovely weather conditions.
I meant that kids got a lot bigger portion each, so that my diabetic mother-in-law isn’t tempted by a lot of extra candy laying around…
We did ours via a neighborhood party, and then out trick or treating. Problem was that everyone was out trick or treating and nobody was home to pass out treats.
Pittsburgh and the Saints is a damn fine football game.
Chris Colinsworth is a fucking crapweasel.
Chris Collinsworth is a double-talking bastard among double-talking bastards.
Hater.
That’s me! And the fact that the Rangers are losing doesn’t help.
Plus, he played for the Bengals…Back in the Ickey Woods/Boomer Esiason days.
Boomer though was a Maryland U boy, so he wasn’t all bad.
I wanted the Rangers to win the series, so it might be my fault. I’m like the kiss of death for sports teams.
I hate him. If you put him and Bill Walton in an announcing booth, with a pile of rattlesnakes and midgets, it would be big comedy.
Bill Walton is the funniest man in America. Sure, he doesn’t try to be but I don’t hold that against him.
Bill Walton is Mr Ed’s father, and John Fucking Kerry’s extra tall cousin.
I find most announcers to be worthless. I used to hate John Madden with a passion, but now I kind of miss him because he was so easy to make fun of. He was Captain Obvious.
“What you’ve gotta do, is, you’ve got to throw the ball, and the receiver has to catch it, and then run down the field. That’s how you score points in football.”
Yay, Saints!
How to fill the seats?
Well, at least I hit all the afternoon and evening games…
The backward-hat-wearin’ big douchebag Rothelisberger threw the final pick of the game, to seal the Steelers fate vs the Saints. At least that’s one I got right!
Really? I’m tied for the lead this week with 7/12 so far?
I am fairly certain I picked horribly.
Fuck those Bengals. They’ll disappoint you every time.
Tiebreaker? 51 points tonight.