2008 NFL Season Predictions

Again, I am late in getting these posted. Naturally, after the 1st week a colossal injury occurred on my AFC team pick for the Super Bowl. I have not changed the pick in keeping with my own sense of personal honesty.

Here goes nothing:

NFC

East

Dal
Phil
NYG
Wash

North

Min
GB
Det
Chi

South

NO
TB
Car
Atl

West

Sea
Stl
AZ
SF

Div Winners, Wild card and Playoff seeds

Dal (1)
Min (2)
Sea (3)
NO (4)

Phil (5)
GB (6)


AFC

East

NE
Buf
NYJ
Mia

North

Pitt
Cle
Balt
Cin

South

Tenn
Indy
Jax
Hou

West

SD
Den
KC
Oak


Div Winners, Wild card and Playoff seeds

SD (1)
NE (2)
Tenn (3)
Pitt (4)

Indy (5)
Jax (6)


Playoffs

NFC

Round 1

Sea over GB
Phil over NO

Round 2

Dal over Sea
Min over Phil

NFC Champ

Dal over Min


AFC

Round 1

Jax over Tenn
Pitt over Indy

Round 2

SD over Jax
NE over Pitt

AFC Champ

NE over SD


Super Bowl

Dallas over New England 28-26

NFL 2007 Predictions

I know I am nearly a month late in posting this, but these are my real picks for this season. You know it must be true because of who I have in the Super Bowl and how much they are sucking right now.

NFC

East

1^st Dallas

2^nd Philadelphia

3^rd New York

4^th Washington

North

1^st Chicago

2^nd Detroit

3^rd Green Bay

4^th Minnesota

South

1^st New Orleans

2^nd Carolina

3^rd Tampa Bay

4^th Atlanta

West

1^st San Francisco

2^nd St. Louis

3^rd Seattle

4^th Arizona

AFC

1^st New England

2^nd New York

^3rd Buffalo

4^th Miami

North

1^st Pittsburg

2^nd Baltimore

3^rd Cincinnati

4^th Cleveland

South

1^st Indianapolis

^2nd Tennessee

3^rd Jacksonville

4^th Houston

West

^1st San Diego

2^nd Denver

3^rd Kansas City

4^th Oakland

Playoff Seeds

NFC

Chicago (1)

New Orleans (2)

Dallas (3)

San Francisco (4)

St. Louis (5) WC

Carolina (6) WC

AFC

New England (1)

San Diego (2)

Indianapolis (3)

Pittsburg (4)

Baltimore (5) WC

Denver (6) WC

Playoffs

NFC

Dallas over Carolina

St. Louis over San Francisco

Chicago over Dallas

New Orleans over St. Louis

Chicago over New Orleans

AFC

Baltimore over Indianapolis

Denver over Pittsburg

New England over Baltimore

San Diego over Denver

San Diego over New England

Super Bowl

Chicago over San Diego

Yes, I picked Chicago as my pre-season Super Bowl champions. They just got toasted by Dallas the other night & they have a big quarterback issues going on. Dallas vs. New England is looking better all the time.

Post Super Bowl Thoughts

My prediction was true & the score nearly spot on with the Colts winning 29-17 over the Bears (I picked 26-16 and a good buddy of mine that I have a friendly rivalry with predicted 24-14).

I do not agree with the MVP selection. Peyton had a decent game going 25-38 for 247 with 1 touchdown and 1 interception. The MVP selection should have been split between Joseph Addai and Dominic Rhodes.

Addai’s stats:

19 rushes for 77 yards
10 catches for 66 yards

Rhodes’ stats:

21 rushes for 113 yards, 1 Touchdown
1 catch for 8 yards

That is a combination of 264 yards of total offense out of a total of 430 yards put up by the Colts! No way should Manning have been the MVP.

Super Bowl ad winners:

I loved the Careerbuilder.com ads. Those office workers running over the cliff like lemmings was hilarious.

Budweiser came through yet again with a serious of funny ads. The Carlos Mencia immigrant ad was the best of the bunch followed by the face-slapping ad & the rock, paper, scissor one.

Emerald nuts had I think the best one of all with Robert Goulet playing the mid-afternoon office prankster. Seeing him climbing on the ceiling was great.

Super Bowl gripe: all the god crap. Give me a break! I don’t care if you are a christian and that your opposing coach is also one. It has no bearing on the game and no place in the after game part. I guess Lovie Smith is pissed at god now because his team lost. It’s all a load of B.S. god did not cause you to win or lose a game. Boomer Esiason also needs to get a clue. It is not classy to say all that crap on television and no one cares that you are proud to know them because of it. What a kiss ___.

Good Super Bowl.

Super Bowl Pick

This looks to be a decent game. I think it will be close right until the end.

Final score:

Colts 26 - Bears 16

NFL Conference Title Game Picks

Yet another week of bad picks for me. Clearly, picking playoff winners versus regular season winners is not my bag. After going 156-90 during the year, I have sputtered to a 3-5 record with 3 games left to get my head above water. Sigh… I am never going to make this a career as I had hoped. Wait a minute, that was another dream.

So, I missed going 4-0 for the week by a total of 18 points. What can I do to get some wins here? Should I suit up? Oh, I should just shut up and give you my picks for the week. I can do that.

New Orleans is going to win in Chicago. Not sure how they will do it, but it will get done. The only thing that can beat them is turnovers… and getting out scored… and bad weather… hmmmmm, okay they will win anyways. Destiny is the word for them.

Speaking of destiny, Peyton Manning and Indianapolis will lose to Tom Brady and New England yet again. The Patriots are the 800 pound gorilla that gets heavier every year for the poor Dolts.

So, there you have it. My Title game picks and ultimately, my Super Bowl picks.

New Orleans Vs. New England.

Should be one hell of a game.

NFL Divisional Playoff Picks

Ok, so I am trying to get over the fact that Dallas lost their playoff game at Seattle in one of the most bizarre endings you’ll see in a football game. This entire season has been a roller coaster ride if you are a fan of Big D and I for one am glad it’s over.

In a nutshell: THEY BLEW IT!

And I did not do so well for my playoff picks last weekend either- went 2-2 with my other loss in the final seconds at Philadelphia. Ironically, Philadelphia brought in a competent holder as a last minute signing for the playoffs while Dallas used their starting QB. Wonder if poor Romo will be holding next year? Wonder if they will use game balls for PAT’s instead of boxed ones?

Ok, onto the picks:

Going against conventional wisdom once again, I am taking three road teams as winners this weekend with only Baltimore as my lone holdout at home.

Baltimore is a more complete team than the Colts. Yes, they have Manning, but it will be sweet revenge as they Ravens control most of the game and win by at least ten points.

Philadelphia is the hottest team in the NFL right now (sorry Charger fans) and they take the hot hand into New Orleans where the feel good bubble will finally burst.

By all rights, Seattle should not be in this game with Chicago, but I give them the nod against the inexperienced & inconsistent Rex Grossman.

Finally in the game of the weekend, New England will find a way to win at San Diego. I don’t know how they will do it, but I find it hard to bet against Brady and Belichick in the postseason.

So there you have it: Ravens, Seahawks, Eagles & Patriots.