A strong finish last week saved me from complete disaster (8/13). Not great but it took sweeping the afternoon, evening, and Monday night games just to get there.
So. Here we go:
Atlanta over Tampa Bay – YAY
Chicago over Buffalo (potential upset alert!) – YAY
New England over Cleveland (and another) – X
NYJ over Detroit (and another!) – YAY
NO over Carolina – YAY
Bal over Miami – YAY
SD over Houston – YAY (but boo. Boy, was Houston hosed on a ridiculous grounding call)
Minnesota over Ariz – YAY
Giants over Seattle – YAY
Philadelphia over Indy (need an upset pick) – YAY
Oak over KC – YAY
Pitt over Cincy
GB over Dallas – YAY (and boo, because this was the tie-breaker game, and I had it 24-21)
Falcons over Bucs
Bills over Bears
Pats over Browns
Jets over Lions
Saints over Panthers
Ravens over Dolphins
Texans over Chargers
Vikes over Cards
Jeyentz over Seattle
Colts over Igglez
Chiefs over Raiders (I could be wrong here, Jason Campbell looks good these days)
Steelers over Bengals
Packers over Cowboys
Considering my failure over the past couple of weeks (50/50 last week), I might be inclined to bet against every one of my picks; but I’m going with ’em.
tb ATL, CHI buf, NE cle, NYJ det, ari MIN, NO car, mia BAL, sd HOU, NYG sea, KC oak, IND phi, dal GB, PIT cin
All caps being winners (yeah, right). I don’t have the foggiest how I can get off my Buccaneers bandwagon now, but get off for today I am, while I won’t be a bit surprised to see Atlanta go down. The worst matchup today? KC-Oakland, again won’t be surprised to see Oakland take it. Dallas will of course beat Green Bay now that I’m sure they can’t. Same deal with San Diego-Houston and NYGiants-Seattle. I’m resigned to sucking at this business.
Joe and guinsPen have their picks on other threads (Joe on 2 other threads!), for what it’s worth. Here is Joe’s ( http://tiny.cc/joepicks ) and here are guinsPen’s ( http://tiny.cc/guinsPenspks ) in case you feel like moving them.
Min, Buff, GB, Phil, KC, Miami, Cleveland(?), Carolina, NY Giants, NY Jets, Pitt, San Diego, Atlanta
I predict that I will make no prediction.
Atlanta Tampa Bay
Chicago Buffalo
New England Cleveland (If wishes were feasible, the Pats would lose their next 7 games)
NYJ Detroit
NO Carolina
Bal Miami
SD Houston
Minnesota Ariz
Giants Seattle
Philadelphia Indy (the Forehead looms over Ron Mexico)
Oak KC
Pitt Cincy
GB Dallas (Dallas will finally win, much too late to save Wade Phillips)
Who in their right mind would want to save Wade Phillips? I not even certain Wade himself is that crazy.
Tampa Bay over Atlanta over
Buffalo over Chicago
New England over Cleveland
Detroit over New Jersey Jets
NO over Carolina
Miami over Baltimore
Houston over SD
Minnesota over Ariz
Giants over Seattle
Indy over Philth
KC over Oak
Pitt over Cincy
GB over Dallas (Dallas maybe next week–Kitna still needs time with the receivers)
That’s a pretty safe bet Slart :)
Wade is soooooo gone when the season’s over. The question is, who will be his replacement?
I vote Zombie Landry Bob.
Iggles over Indy. Too many damn people out. It is bound to catch up with us eventually.
JD is trying to anti-jinx his team.
Atlanta, Buffalo (today’s wildman pick), New England, Jets, New Orleans, Baltimore, San Diego, Minnesota, Giants, Philly, Kansas City, Green Bay, Pittsburgh.
Sadly, cranky, in this instance, i am not. We keep getting more hurt, and the Iggles are getting more healthy.
My only bright spot today is the Browns are beating the Patriots.
What the hell is going on in Cleveland? Browns 33, Pats 14? This does not compute.
In other news, situation new normal with the Vikings. They are sucking along at home, headed to another loss. Neato.
I have the feeling Childress will be out of a job tomorrow.
Dude Browns are up on the Pats, the Lions are up by 10 on the Jets! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Oh well, I said my picks probably stunk.
Go Browns! Woohoo!
Browns surprise, or should we say lack of NE offense surprises? Lions stun, lack of Jets offense doesn’t. Da Berz hang on to eek out?
Cheers anyhow.
The Vikings sure pulled that out of their collective ass.
And the Vikings win. They’re just taunting me, I know.
Guess on the fine for the head to head on Collie?
Don’t know if that’s a true deserving of a fine offense, JD. Looked horrible, but it didn’t seem intentional. He took two steps as a receiver; his protection status is less than that what’s defined as a ‘helpless’ receiver (before the 2 steps).
I hope he’s OK.
Update on Collie: he’ll be OK.
Now that penalty call, “blow to QB Forehead’s monstrous head”, was a joke. He merely got the back of his helmet polished a bit.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put a fine on the Collie hit. There was no intentional helmet contact on Coleman’s part, Collie was hit into it by Mikell. Unless they’re going to mandate that helmets may never touch, they need to leave Coleman alone.
Asante Samuel is my favorite cornerback right now.
Are you razzin’ JD serr8d? :) I mean, you don’t have any hard feelings against the Colts for any reason, do you? I can’t imagine why…
I have cousins in eastern TN who root for Indy just because Peyton is their QB. His years at Tenn are like the glory days of their lives.
I’ve been fortunate that some close finishes have gone my way today — w/ Minn, NYJ, and Oak all winning in OT after 4th quarter comebacks, Philly holding off Manning, Tampa not converting a fourth and 1 down around the goal line, and the Bears managing to eke by the Bills.
I agree on the call for the blow to the head. Silly. But it is the rule. When they show the angle straight at Coleman, you can see him lowering his head to lead with his head. He is getting fined, may be bad luck and poor timing on his part, but leading with your head is what Goddell has been on a crusade about.
Good game, Iggles. Actually, good game, Vick.
Bring on the Titans. They are our bitch. Serr8d still owes me 2 sushi meals @ Virago.
The sushi is as good as yours, c’mon down. But this was a good weekend for the Titans; two division rivals lose, we get healthy, and we land Randy Moss. I hope he’s a Titan long enough to get in at least one game against Forehead & crew.
Oh, would it be out of line to remind that the Colts lost the Super Bowl? For the razzin’ and all… ;D
Is it better to play and lose, or to watch your rivals lose? I cannot believe Fisher took Moss.
Dude, Randy Moss? He’s a head case, and will ruin clubhouse morale; maybe not as bad as T.O., but still. Do you really think he’ll help the Titans?
I wonder when the last time Manny Pacquiao was the smartest guy interviewed on 60 Minutes.
Once again, I’ll go out on a limb and predict that the Oakland Raiders will defeat the Kansas City Chiefs!
I’ll bet Bud Adams had a giant say in signing Moss. He’s getting on in years, a Super Bowl has eluded him, so there’s some risk taking going on. It’s well known that he forced VY on the organization. Fish wanted Leinert or Cutler, but Adams winning a point over Houston beat out logic.
Worst-case with Moss is him turning VY into a flesh-eating zombie. There’s about a 50 point difference in their Wonderlics.
serr8d: Looks like Bud Adams was right about Vince Young over either Jay Cutler or Matt Leinart.
Clay Mathews is really fun to watch.
Falcons–Good.
Bears–Good.
Pats–Nope.
Cardinals–Nope.
Saints–Good
Ravens–Good.
Texans–Nope.
Giants–Good.
Raiders–Good.
Colts–Nope.
Packers–Probably.
Steelers.–Probably.
Dallas is getting crushed. Not as bad as the Seahawks though…Yet.
Bob, looks like the Packers want to beat the Giants in lopsided scores today.
Anyone else get the feeling Wade Phillips’ coaching career in Dallas can be measured in weeks, if not days?
Wade is coaching? Coulda fooled me.
Oooooh. You’re right Joe, the Pack is going to get the blowout of the day award for sure.
That’s because he’s the best defensive player in the league.
Stupid Packers are 6-3 now. See, all I have to do is write them off and good things happen.
That might just be true, bh. He is fun fun fun. Needs to get that heroin-chic mess on top of his head cleaned up.
Hush your mouth, he’s like Samson.
Someone should get the clippers out near him, like they used to do in Jackass.
You’re the devil. Or at least someone the devil’s mom doesn’t want him hanging out with anymore.
The Devil would not let me in.
The Seahawks blow, as usual.
The devil you say…
Clay Mathews is really fun to watch.
That’s because he’s the best defensive player in the
leagueNational Conference.ftfy.
Wade Phillips…Done! Jason Garrett into the hot seat.
Coach Garrett may be a nice fella and all, but he’s no Zombie Tom. Indeed, I can’t be sure he’d be fit to shine Tom’s shoes. On the other hand, Jerry Jones isn’t exactly Tex Schramm either.
I think that I’ll go out on a limb and predict early that the Oakland Raiders will not lose this weekend.