Buffalo Bills 20, Baltimore Ravens 17. I think the Bills are due for a victory, while the Ravens are ripe for an upset.Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27, Detroit Lions 17. If the Redskins could suffocate the Lions, why not the Bucs?Tennessee Titans 34, Houston Texans 21. The Texans are improving, but they’re not good enough to beat the Jaguars or the Titans yet.New England Patriots 41, Miami Dolphins 6. These two teams could conceivably run the table in opposite directions this year. The Patriots could go undefeated; the Dolphins winless.
New Orleans Saints 24, Atlanta Falcons 17. The desperate Saints routed Seattle this week, and Atlanta is nowhere near as good as Seattle.
New York Giants 27, San Francisco 49ers 20. Since the opening the two weeks, these two teams have gone in opposite directions.
Washington Redskins 34, Arizona Cardinals 13. Lest you Cardinals fans ever get used to winning, here comes another defeat.
Cincinnati Bengals 34, New York Jets 27. Who’s worse here? I’m counting on the Bengals finally putting together enough to win. They have the talent.
Oakland Raiders 27, Kansas Chiefs 20. Here’s another toss-up, but I think the Raiders are good enough to finally break through against the Chiefs.
Dallas Cowboys 41, Minnesota Vikings 17. Ugh. Just when the Vikings get something going, they have to run into an angry Cowboys team.
Chicago Bears 23, Philadelphia Eagles 20. Neither team is very good, but the Bears want to make up for last week’s humiliation.
Seattle Seahawks 17, St. Louis Rams 16. The Rams are another team that could potentially run the table in reverse this year. If the Seagulls lose, though, first place will continue to be occupied by none other than the Arizona Cardinals in a bad division.
Pittsburgh Steelers 27, Denver Broncos 17. I enjoyed watching the Broncos not lose last week. No such luck this week, though.
Jacksonville Jaguars 34, Indianapolis Colts 20. The Colts finally fall. The Jags’ combination of strong defense and powerful running should be enough to bring down Indy.
Napoleon is wrong about the cardinals, sure they may not even have a quarterback but they are due. The best thing about this season is that several teams have a chance at perfect seasons, the Patriots in a good way( and yeah I might be saying that the jinx the Pats) and several teams are looking good to go winless.
See Napoleons blog here
Rove, you’re attempt to jinx them only makes them stronger. This spy-gate episode really got under their skin. They’re running up the score on everybody, all year long. There won’t be a non-Patriots fan who can stand the sight of them by the time playoffs roll around.
As for the picks, the only one I disagreed with right off was picking KC to lose.
I’m probably the only one in the entire country by the sound of it, but consider me a Herman Edwards fan. KC makes the playoffs.
(My first prediction out of left field for this season)
Randy Moss is probably the biggest difference for the Patriots this year, but how many other teams could have made it work with him. It is hard not to like the Patriots as they are not trying to buy a championship, like a NY team I can think of, they are just that good bcause they are that good.
With that said I think they may lose to Indy in the regular season as they(the Patriots) may try not to show too much of their game plan against Indy until the AFC championship game.
Also, I should point out that the Jake Plummer led Broncos had no problem with the Patriots a couple of years ago in the playoffs, maybe the Broncos and their fans will finally realize that getting rid of former ASU star Jake plummer was a mistake almost as bad as when Boston traded Babe Ruth.
Those deep routes Moss was running early on, you’ll notice that the safety was always right with the cornerback once the ball was almost there. By doing that a couple times, it pushed Dallas into deep zone coverage, and that opened it up for Welker, Stallworth and Kevin Faulk.
Pick your poison basically. The only way to stop the Pats offense is to sack Brady. We’ve got a relatively “no name” offensive line, but for years now they’ve outperformed most of the offensive lines in football.
They’ll beat up Indy. If they’re still w/out Harrison when we play, it’ll get ugly by the second half.
For some reason Denver has a hard time finding QBs to improve within the system. The Pats can never seem to stop them, but the rest of the league has them completely figured out some weeks.
I like Denver at home this week
John Rove said:
“maybe the Broncos and their fans will finally realize that getting rid of former ASU star Jake plummer was a mistake almost as bad as when Boston traded Babe Ruth.”
Are you trying to be funny, John? Jake may be good (something I wouldn’t have admitted last year), but he’s no superstar!
I’m not sure the Patriots will pound Indy in the regular season (they’ll win, though), but look out come playoff time! I’m sure glad to be a Patriots fan this year; my other two teams are the Broncos and the Vikings! Ugh!
Whoa, Nick says Steeltown is soft. I like it.
napoleon, I’ll stick my neck out and predict that this season’s game versus Indy is going to be like the old days, with Peyton throwing interceptions and making gestures so it seems like it wasn’t his fault, and by the end of the game every single person on the Colts sideline realizing that they got lucky last year.
They did. The Pats D-line had stomach flu, Brady’s receivers were low-rent. Take away either of those two factors and Indy doesn’t come back in the second half to win that game. Tony Dungy still seems soft in the pundits’ eyes…
The Pats, Colts and Chargers were all a lot better than Chicago. Any one of them could have won the Super Bowl against them.
Absolutely.