Season: 82/131. Last week: 12/13. Which means I’m due for a good drubbing.
Detroit over Buffalo (Yes, Buffalo has to win at least one; and they are home against a Lions team without their starting QB. This could be the day for Buffalo — at home — but I’m not counting on it. I tried that rationale before, and Jacksonville threw up close to 40 on them) – X
Minnesota over Chicago (two road picks in a row. Yes, this is going to be a bad day…) – X
NYJ over Cleveland (make that 3 road picks in a row; I still don’t think the Jets are that great, or Cleveland a bad team. But I do think the Jets will stop Hillis and blitz the hell out of Colt McCoy. Close game, but I’ll take the Jets. A win by Cleveland here means they’ve arrived) – YAY!
Indy over Cincy (finally, I can pick a home team) – YAY!
Tenn over Miami (another road pick. Yikes. I like Pennington — and I’m glad he’s getting a chance — but his first game back is against a powerful front) – X
Tampa over Carolina (Tampa at home) – YAY!
Houston over Jacksonville (another road pick. I’m playing with fire here) – X
Denver over KC (just because. The Broncos clearly can’t finish, but it’s my job) – YAY!
Giants over Dallas – X
Arizona over Seattle – X
San Fran over St Louis (San Fran at home, playing St Louis for the second time. This should be a close one) – YAY!
Philly over Washington
New England over Pitt (big upset alert: 20-17. Because I’m demonstrably crazy and violent and unstable and such) – YAY!
This is going to be a bad week. But I still have at least one week to drop, so if I’m wrong, I’m happy to take the mulligan…
DET buf, MIN chi, NYJ cle, cin IND, TEN mia, car TB, HOU jac, KC den, dal NYG, sea ARI, STL sf, NE pit, PHI wsh, BAL X 21 atl 26 (yeah, truth is I woulda picked B’more and been wrong.)
Lions (Jeff may be right, but for Carin)
Bears
Jets
Colts
Titans
Bucs
Jags
Chiefs
Seahawks (I may be wrong on this, but this is it for them)
Steelers
Eagles (Vick may be a dirty dog killer but…)
Bills over Lions
Vikes over Bears
Jet over Browns
Colts over Bengals
Titans over Dolphins
Bucs over Panthers
Chiefs over Broncos (sorry Jeff)
Jeyentz over Cowboys
Cardinals over Seahawks
Niners over Rams
Redskins over Igglez (may be wishful thinking)
Pats over Steelers
Now, my track record stinks, so folks betting money should consider the opposite of my picks.
That said, the Ravens broke my heart on Thursday, doing the unthinkable and spotting a good Falcon team 13 points in the first half and not being able to come back against Atlanta’s good, young, fast defense. They almost won, but couldn’t stop Atlanta’s final, game winning, drive.
So I have to hang my hopes on the other team I had season tickets to( sold them-CHA CHING!, but kept the Ravens seats); the Redskins-who have made a habit of breaking my heart for nigh on 15 years now…But they’ll probably lose to the Igglez.
Giants
Rams
USC won last night, so I’m good. :-)
USC could probably beat Pete Carroll’s new team :)
I’m surprised they’re not ranked at 7-3; but I haven’t scrutinized this year’s schedule.
Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, NY Giants, Buffalo, Houston, Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Arizona, San Francisco, Tennessee.
“Nostra-Ditka” says Bills over Lions. Should that reassure me that I at least will get one right?
Buffalo
Chicago
New Jersey Jets
Cincy (the wheels are bound to come off in Indy sooner or later, or so I can hope!)
Titans (In spite of all the ink splashed this week, I think Moss will catch few balls, but CJ will run free, finally.)
Tampa
Houston (inter-conference battle that Houston must win to keep in the chase)
KC
New Jersey Giants
Cardinals
St. Louis (because all the mojo in SF was drained away for electing Moonbeam )
Washington (we have ’em next week, they need to get ‘win’ out of their system )
Pittsburgh (I detest both teams, but Coach Belicheat gets special detestaments )
BUF
MIN
CLE
IND
MIA
TB
HOU
KC
NYG
ARI
SF
PHI
PIT
Tiebreaker: nishizonocheergrrrl
I guess the Chargers cannot lose today. Yay!
The Vikings sure as heck can lose, though.
Ooh. Rough day I’m having.
Mulligan!
Go Lions, go Lions, go Lions . . . man it’s nice the NFL took on 2 pt extras, eh? Makes for zee excitements
I’m glad I played on the thread about commenting rather than pay attention to the Vikings losing.
ah, oh, extra point fail. Sorry geoffb, carin et al, cheers Buffalonians, ya got one.
Sorry Carin about the Lions. They keep being so close.
At least the Bronco’s are doing okay. You have that going for you Jeff, even if you are into the ultraviolence*.
The Cowboys are surprising me, the Giants better not fuck it up.
* if only virtually and only over the interwebs. Apparently you have Tron like powers or something.
Wow, just got back from a trip to the tacohouse to find Denver up 35 zip and Dallas topping the G-ain’ts 16 – 3. Wrong on Detroit, wrong on Houston, wrong on Tennessee, wrong on Minnesota, Seattle leads Arizona, StLouis ‘Frisco tied, footsballs is endlessly weird to me nowadays.
Wow…My picks are especially odiferous today, kinda like a sewage treatment plant. Good thing no money’s in play.
Thanks for picking against the Bears. Keep up the good work.
Bears played well to day from what highlights I’ve seen. Another bad pick on my part…
– Dallas was playing pretty good…..then the lights went out, and NY seemed to come alive.
Looks to me like Dallas is rolllllling the Jeyentz
This looks like my worst week all year. Parity sucks.
I just turned on the Denver game, and hokey smokes, the Donkeys are leading the Chiefs 49-23!
How’dat happen?
This fellow Feinstein seems desperate to establish some deep-thinking cred.
It may be the worst piece of logic we have yet encountered at PW.
To whit: Bench a black man=Bull Connors.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5795495
The corollary to this is it makes Rick Reilly look like Bob Woodward.
Good article by Reilly.
Why is it that so many liberal (and “pragmatically” conservative) whites are so quick to call out other whites as potential RACISTS? Do they expect claps on the back? Do they think it particularly brave to throw others under the racial bus? Do they think doing so helps them establish positive racial cred?
On the plus side, at least Feinstein really went for it. No reader polls designed to give himself plausible deniability…
I dont know.
It really is one standard deviation from “If a black QB throws to a white TE and he drops it, that’s racism”
What would Charles Johnson do?