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NFL Picks: Week 5
No team in the NFL has had a bye week since this season began until now. This week, six teams are going to have byes thus we are going to see only 12 games on Sunday and one game on Monday Night.
At this point in the season, after 4 games, only two teams have a perfect record of 4 wins; interestingly enough these two teams happen to be in the same division! They are the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. If you had suggested 3 or 4 seasons ago that the Lions will be 4-0 at this point in time or that the Colts and Vikings will be 0-4, many people would have laughed you to scorn. But it is what it is, isn’t it? Let us see if this week knocks Packers or Lions off their winning streak.
Also, it is amazing to note that a whopping eleven teams are just one loss shy of a perfect win record (i.e 3-1)! On the other hand, only 7 teams are one win away from a perfect loss record (i.e 1-3). It would appear that this is quite a competitive season at this point. Let us wait till the middle of the season to see how things stack up.
New Orleans Saints AT Carolina Panthers = New Orleans Saints
Kansas City Chiefs AT Indianapolis Colts = Indianapolis Colts
Philadelphia Eagles AT Buffalo Bills = Buffalo Bills
Seattle Seahawks AT New York Giants = New York Giants
Cincinnati Bengals AT Jacksonville Jaguars = Cincinnati Bengals
Tennessee Titans AT Pittsburgh Steelers = Pittsburgh Steelers
Oakland Raiders AT Houston Texans = Houston Texans
Arizona Cardinals AT Minnesota Vikings = Arizona Cardinals
Tampa Bay Bucs AT San Francisco 49ers = San Francisco 49ers
New York Jets AT New England Patriots = New England Patriots
San Diego Chargers AT Denver Broncos = San Diego Chargers
Green Bay Packers AT Atlanta Falcons = Green Bay Packers
Chicago Bears AT Detroit Lions = Detroit Lions
NFL Picks: Week 4
Detroit Lions AT Dallas Cowboys = Detroit Lions
Carolina Panthers AT Chicago Bears = Chicago Bears
Pittsburgh Steelers AT Houston Texans = Houston Texans
Tennessee Titans AT Cleveland Browns = Cleveland Browns
Buffalo Bills AT Cincinnati Bengals = Buffalo Bills
Washington Redskins AT St Louis Rams = Washington Redskins
Minnesota Vikings AT Kansas City Chiefs = Kansas City Chiefs
San Francisco 49ers AT Philadelphia Eagles = Philadelphia Eagles
New Orleans Saints AT Jacksonville Jaguars = New Orleans Saints
Atlanta Falcons AT Seattle Seahawks = Atlanta Falcons
New York Giants AT Arizona Cardinals = New York Giants
Denver Broncos AT Green Bay Packers = Green Bay Packers
Miami Dolphins AT San Diego Chargers = San Diego Chargers
New England Patriots AT Oakland Raiders = New England Patriots
New York Jets AT Baltimore Ravens = Baltimore Ravens
Indianapolis Colts AT Tampa Bay Buccaneers = Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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- NFL Picks: Week 1 (1godfather.wordpress.com)
NFL Picks: Week 3
This week’s Monday Night football promises to be very interesting: it is a showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys. We all know the bitter rivalry between the two teams and how they always give these division games their 110%. I am personally not invested in the outcome of this match one way or the other; I’ll simply watch to see who eventually emerges victorious. At any rate, let us consider these:
a) The Cowboys usually beat the Redskins whenever they meet in these division games. I don’t have the exact stat, but if you go back and check, you will see that in the clashes between the Redskins and the Cowboys especially in the past 10 years, the Cowboys have won the clash far more than the Redskins did.
b) But Tony Romo the Cowboys quarterback is not very healthy this time around. He has a fractured rib and a punctured lung so I actually do not expect him to be on the field at all. There are reports that the punctured lung has healed and that it may be possible for him to play. If it is true that he has recovered, and he actually does start, then I expect that the Cowboys will be victorious.
c) The Redskins have a real shot at defeating the Cowboys in Dallas this time. Their quarterback Rex Grossman seems equal to the task. Besides, I expect the Redskins defence to go after Tony Romo with blitzes if he does play. A powerful hit on Romo—one which ends his night—will surely have a demoralizing effect on the Cowboys. The reason is very obvious: the Cowboys are better when Romo is at the helm.
d) The Redskins are 2-0 while the Cowboys are 1-1. This means that after week 2, the Redskins are at the top of the NFC East. This is going to provide extra motivation for the Cowboys to play their hearts out to defeat the Redskins as that would mean snatching the leading position at the NFC East division. I am going to pick the Cowboys to win this epic Monday Night Battle; but I note that for two straight weeks, I chose the Redskins to fail and they won both times.
Jacksonville Jaguars AT Carolina Panthers = Carolina Panthers
Houston Texans AT New Orleans Saints = New Orleans Saints
New England Patriots AT Buffalo Bills = Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins AT Cleveland Browns = Cleveland Browns
Denver Broncos AT Tennessee Titans = Tennessee Titans
New York Giants AT Philadelphia Eagles = Philadelphia Eagles
Detroit Lions AT Minnesota Vikings = Detroit Lions
San Francisco 49ers AT Cincinnati Bengals = San Francisco 49ers
New York Jets AT Oakland Raiders = Oakland Raiders
Kansas City Chiefs AT San Diego Chargers = San Diego Chargers
Baltimore Ravens AT St Louis Rams = Baltimore Ravens
Green Bay Packers AT Chicago Bears = Green Bay Packers
Arizona Cardinals AT Seattle Seahawks = Seattle Seahawks
Atlanta Falcons AT Tampa Bay Buccaneers = Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Pittsburgh Steelers AT Indianapolis Colts = Pittsburgh Steelers
Washington Redskins AT Dallas Cowboys= Dallas Cowboys
NFL Picks: Week 2
Last week I pulled off a pathetic 47% with my picks. If I was a betting man, I guess I would have been in pain last Sunday. However, let’s see how badly I’ll perform with this week’s picks.
Seattle Seahawks AT Pittsburgh Steelers = Pittsburgh Steelers
Oakland Raiders AT Buffalo Bills = Buffalo Bills
Arizona Cardinals AT Washington Redskins = Arizona Cardinals
Tampa Bay Buccaneers AT Minnesota Vikings = Minnesota Vikings
Jacksonville Jaguars AT New York Jets = New York Jets
Chicago Bears AT New Orleans Saints = New Orleans Saints
Green Bay Packers AT Carolina Panthers = Green Bay Packers
Baltimore Ravens AT Tennessee Titans = Baltimore Ravens
Kansas City Chiefs AT Detroit Lions = Detroit Lions
Cleveland Browns AT Indianapolis Colts = Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys AT San Francisco 49ers = San Francisco 49ers
Cincinnati Bengals AT Denver Broncos = Cincinnati Bengals
San Diego Chargers AT New England Patriots = New England Patriots
Houston Texans AT Miami Dolphins = Houston Texans
Philadelphia Eagles AT Atlanta Falcons = Philadelphia Eagles
St Louis Rams AT New York Giants = New York Giants
NFL Picks: Week 1
In the American National Football League, anything can happen on any given Sunday. It is not like one of these leagues where you can predict with over 85% accuracy the outcome of weekly games. It is probably why there is a lot of high stakes betting and gambling with the results of weekly games. Sometime in the past week, a friend of mine asked me to give him my picks for the winners of the NFL’s season opening games.
Now, I have to point out that while I love football (I watch it as often as the opportunity presents itself), I have never quite given much thought to betting or predicting the outcome of games. In my mind, that is what ESPN is there for—to provide stats, results, and analysis of games. I only felt emotionally attached to the games involving my Indianapolis Colts and my Philadelphia Eagles but I have not betted some money on their games recently. So to humor my friend (I must point out that he is something of a gambler), I gave him my picks for this first week. I do not know if he wrote my selection down or indeed what he intends to do with it, but that got me thinking. I felt like I should probably make this a weekly affair for the 16 weeks of this football season.
You have to realize that I am doing this solely for my entertainment—for one, I don’t believe that I’ll do better than 40% with these predictions as I am not claiming to have a crystal ball here. In any case, I don’t believe I’ll do much worse with my predictions than the self-important talking heads on ESPN. Secondly, I believe that this will make me even more interested in the outcome of games played by other divisions of the NFL.
The first game of the season has been played, and the Green Bay Packers beat the New Orleans Saints 42-34. I’ll give my predictions for the next 15. Check in next week for predictions about the second week.
a) Pittsburgh Steelers AT Baltimore Ravens = Pittsburgh Steelers
b) Cincinnati Bengals AT Cleveland Browns= Cleveland Browns
c) Indianapolis Colts AT Houston Texans= Houston Texans
d) Tennessee Titans AT Jacksonville Jaguars= Tennessee Titans
e) Buffalo Bills AT Kansas City Chiefs= Kansas City Chiefs
f) Atlanta Falcons AT Chicago Bears= Chicago Bears
g) Detroit Lions AT Tampa Bay Buccaneers= Tampa Bay Bucs
h) Philadelphia Eagles AT St Louis Rams= Philadelphia Eagles
i) New York Giant AT Washington Redskins= New York Giants
j) Carolina Panthers AT Arizona Cardinals= Arizona Cardinals
k) Seattle Seahawks AT San Francisco 49ers= Seattle Seahawks
l) Minnesota Vikings AT San Diego Chargers= San Diego Chargers
m) Dallas Cowboys AT New York Jets= New York Jets
n) New England Patriots AT Miami Dolphins= New England Patriots
o) Oakland Raiders AT Denver Broncos= Denver Broncos
May the better teams win!