Start with the one obvious result, Indy will have little trouble making the Bengals 0-5. The Jets downward spiral should continue, as KC seems to score almost at will. The NY Giants will go down to Dallas and eek out a win in a less than beautiful contest. Carolina's slide to reality continues, as I look for Jake Plummer to bring Arizona into town, and out with a road win. Philadelphia gets a test for the first time since opening day at Jacksonville. The Jags are off to a surprising 2-1 start, but even at home, the Eagles all around talent will wear them down. Look for New Orleans to rebound at home over the Steelers. Speculation is they were (understandably so) distracted a bit by all the flooding, etc. at home. Being at home, and playing Tommy Maddox will ease all that. Buffalo will win a wild, crazy shootout at home over Oakland. Don't look for a lot of defense in this one. Struggling Tennessee entertains the Redskins. I look for the Redskins struggles to continue, as Tenneess is too talented to suck all season. It's now or never, and the Titans will be up to the task. San Francisco will end their losing streak against the Rams in a squeaker. SF hasn't looked great, but the Rams look completely lost in a daze. Cleveland should find enough offense to beat the Ravens at home. Art Modell will not be present. Tampa Bay travels to Atlanta, tough call. This cold go either way. San Diego surprised me, and the Patriots, with tough play last week. Denver surprised me by playing like fools on MNF. The Broncos are at home, and should rebound with a win. I hate to say it, but I don't see the Patriots winning in Miami. The fish take a 16-13 battle. Green Bay will win on the road vs. the banged up Bears on MNF.
The Saints might using flooding as a poor excuse, but reality is they were swamped by Hurricane Joey at Ford Field! Go Lions!!! Two weeks in a row without a loss!
In all seriousness, I heard that from the media speculating. However, the Lions are imprvoed over last season, definitely showing a lot more fight, at least at home. Harrington's a keeper.
The Patriots sucked doneky balls today. The Titans suck. The Broncos are off to a kick ass start. Ed McCaffrey is all the way back from his injury.
Sayonara, Eagles, after that punt return. I think the best team in the NFL mantle passes to the Raiders after their performance today. Philly's laying an egg. Broncs, Niners, TB look tough too.
That Broncos game was so boring I went food shopping. The Rams have completely gone off the deep end.
Whatever happened to the Texans? They were the talk of the league after they beat the Cowboys when the season started. Now...you don't even hear about them.
Off week for Houston. First year growing pains as well. They play Buffalo next week, so you may hear about them giving up a bucketload of points.
The Ravens are giving the Browns a severe beating in their own house. After their first two games, who would have thought the Ravens would now be in first place, even if this division is weak? Love him or hate him, but Ray Lewis may be the best defensive player in football.
Re: Why do I even watch? You GOTTA respect Corey Dillon. Does what he does for that team, facing 8 and 9 man fronts .... imagine if he played for a REAL team with an actual passing attack.
man the rams suck..... so do the steelers. weren't they probably the favorites to go to the super bowl this year? a combined one win between them, and the steelers should not have won that game. living in pittsburgh (if you didn't know they LOVE thier gridiron here) it's really fun to see the steelers sucking ass. hopefully the niners (my team) will be able to keep this offense up and even improve on it. i know they beat the rams, and they suck like i mentioned above, but at least the niners were able to put up some big points unlike the first couple of games.
I think William Green had less than 20 yards for CLE tonite. Ugh. RE: the Lions, is Stephen Boyd still with the team or has he been LOOONG gone?
Re: Re: Why do I even watch? Not yet. When you guys start Bengal reject Scott Covington, we'll talk about it getting close. But untill then, There is no lower low - In spite of Corey Dillon and Russel Simmons.
Boyd retired in the off season. Last night's game: anyone that follows the Ravens please answer this, does Lewis come out of the game on obvious passing situations? I saw him on the sideline trying to fire up the troops on Cleveland's last drive. I'm like, WTF? Even if pass defense may not be his thing, I want my best player on the field in that situation regardless. Unless he had an injry no one knew about.
Just took my first look at this thread... Jeff, I gotta give credit, your predictions were pretty good.
Ray lewis had a separated shoulder and was out the entire second half. He lost feeling in his hand and therefore was useless. Normally he doesn't come out on passing situations - review last weeks pick and the earlier fumble he caused on Morgan. The man is an out and out beast on the field. He is questionable for Indy but knowing Ray he will be in there - but given he wasn't in there for the last drive when it mattered it may be worse than they are letting on. The Ravens have a lot more skill than anyone gave them credit for early on in the season. However, growing pains mean that all their games are going to be like this. I think I lost track after #4 of the picks they dropped that almost cost them the game
Thanks for the scoop. I must have missed the part of the game where the injury report was given. I did catchup a bit in my Yahoo pick em league, thanks to my rare display of Nostradamus like behaviors.