Friday, December 11, 2009

Upcoming week and some bragging

As a friend of mine (Mr. Slag) can verify, before the college football season I picked Texas and Alabama to compete for the BCS National Championship. Right on the mark with that pick but I predicted before the season that Texas would win the National Championship and after last week it is clear that Alabama is the stronger team.
This week of NFL football has already gotten off to a bad start for my picks. I didn't think Pittsburgh was bad enough to lose to Cleveland but they are. Pittsburgh's Head Coach Mike Tomlin said they would "unleash hell" in December. The only hell unleashed yesterday was Cleveland's defensive line on Ben Rothlisberger. This week has some good matchups and below are my picks.
New Orleans 35 Falcons 24
Green Bay 20 Bears 10 (Packers victory over the Cowboys has turned their season around)
Jets 17 Tampa Bay 14
Miami 24 Jacksonville 21 (toughest game to pick)
Baltimore 21 Detroit 17
Seattle 20 Houston 17 (Matt Schaub is playing but will get hurt in the first half)
Colts 24 Denver 20
Buffalo 24 Chiefs 17
Bengals 28 Vikings 14 (Like last year with the Jets, Favre will spiral downward in December and against the Bengals defense he will throw at least 3 interceptions).
New England 17 Panthers 10 (Belichick won't stand for 3 losses in a row. The score would be worse if Brady was healthy).
Redksins 13 Oakland 10 (Redskins have been improving lately)
Titans 24 Lambs 13
Eagles 21 Giants 10 (Giants have not beaten the Eagles since they lost Plaxico Burress)
Cardinals 30 SF 17

For the Cowboys to have a chance of beating San Diego they must establish the running game earlier. San Diego has been weak against the run. The Chargers have given up more than 100 yards rushing in their last three games and this is the time to get Felix Jones more involved with the offense. Even with that, from the way that San Diego has played the last 5 games and how unlike the Cowboys they have excelled in the month of December, the Chargers will pull away at the end.
San Diego 27 Dallas 17

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