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Week 17 Preview

We are coming up on the last weekend of regular season football this week, and there are a few great matchups to look forward to headed by the Giants vs Cowboys. So here we go:

Cowboys at Giants (-3)   WIN

I am going to take the Giants in this one. Romo is banged up and word on the street is Osi Uminyora might be back in action. I think Romo is going to crumble under the pressure from the Giants D-line and the G-Men will move on to the playoffs winning this one 24-10. Pick- New York – 3

Washington at Philadelphia (-8.5)   WIN

Philly has been hot as of late, but neither team has anything to play for. Some could say the Eagles are playing for their head coach Andy Reid who is on the hot seat and may not have a job after this season. I am going to look for the Eagles to play a strong inspired game for their coach, as they did last week against the Cowboys after finding out their season had ended. Pick- Philadelphia -8.5

Tampa Bay at Atlanta (-11.5)   LOSS

Tampa has played horrible lately, but with Atlanta’s fate pretty much determined you might see some guys coming off the field after the first half or early in the 3rd. I like the Bucs to cover this week and hey, maybe even win straight up. Pick- Tampa Bay + 11.5   

San Francisco (-10.5) at St. Louis   LOSS

San Francisco is playing for a first round bye, so this game is huge for them. Look for them to come out of the gates hot and to a big early lead, against a St. Louis team that has packed it in and look to go on a strong 7 game losing streak to end the season. Some teams like to play spoiler but I don’t see it. Take the Niners to win big. Pick- San Francisco- 10.5

Chicago at Minnesota (-1.5)    LOSS

Wow, Minnesota is a favorite for probably the first time all year. How big of a turn has Chicago’s season taken after the loss of Cutler and Forte? This game could go either way, Peterson is out for the season but Toby Gerhart has stepped in well before so I am going to give the edge to the Vikings. Da Bears just have no offense and their defense hasn’t looked too good lately either. Go with the Vikes. Pick- Minnesota -1.5

Detroit (-3.5) at Green Bay   LOSS

Detroit is giving 3.5 to Green Bay this weekend because it doesn’t look like a lot of the starters will be playing much for Green Bay as they have home field locked up and no perfect season to play for. Detroit can still be caught by the Falcons for a higher seed but other than that they don’t have much to play for. For teams that will be playing the next week, however, it is important for them to play good so they can feed off that win in the next game. I like the Cowardly Lions to cover this week. Pick- Detroit -3.5

Carolina at New Orleans (-8)  LOSS

New Orleans has been on a roll lately, and can pick up a bye this week with a win so they will be coming out for blood. However, I have liked the way the Panthers have played this year. They have played teams close for the most part, and I like Cam Newton to end the year on a strong note. I like the Saints to pull out the win but I am taking the Panthers to cover. Pick- Carolina +8

Tennessee (-3) at Houston   WIN

Houston is locked into their playoff spot at 10-4, and will most likely be resting some guys. However, Houston always plays well at home and I was never sold on Tennessee at any point in the season so I am going with Houston to cover the spread and win. Pick- Houston +3

Baltimore (-2) at Cincinnati   WIN

Cincinnati has been the surprise team of the year behind rookies Andy Dalton and A.J. Green. They have a great shot at making the playoffs, but beating the Ravens will not be an easy task as they are fighting for the last bye in the AFC. The Ravens are very used to playing must win games on the road, as Joe Flacco has yet to play a playoff game at home in his first years as a starting quarterback. Cincinnati is a good team but I like the seasoned Ravens in this one. Pick- Baltimore -2.

Pittsburgh (-7) at Cleveland   LOSS

This is a pretty easy game in my opinion. Pittsburgh might be without Big Ben but they are playing for a bye and Cleveland is terrible so take the Steelers to win by a touchdown. Pick- Pittsburgh -7

Indianapolis at Jacksonville (-3.5)    LOSS

This is the NFL’s version of the Sacko bowl. I honestly don’t even know who to pick here but I am going to jump on the Dan Orlovsky bandwagon and say the Colts will win this game. Just a gut feeling, or maybe that’s the burrito I just ate…Pick- Indianapolis +3.5

New York Jets at Miami (-2.5)   WIN

This is a very tricky matchup. The Jets can play very well when backed against a wall or play god awful. I am thinking they go out and win this game just so they can say they didn’t make the playoffs because other teams didn’t do what they needed to. Always putting the blame on someone else. Pick- Jets +2.5

Buffalo at New England (-10.5)    WIN

Buffalo won their season Super Bowl this year against the Patriots, and I think they Patriots will be out for revenge. I can see the Pats going out to an earl 21-0 lead before Buffalo can blink. Pick- New England -10.5

San Diego at Oakland (-3)   WIN

San Diego is mathematically out of it and Oakland needs to win to get in plus some help. However, San Diego will probably be looking to end the season on a positive note and I don’t trust Carson Palmer and the Oakland D. I am going to go with another upset here. Pick- San Diego +3

Kansas City at Denver (-3)  LOSS

Here is Kyle Orton’s Super Bowl against his former team. He is playing with a personal vendetta but I don’t see the Chiefs being able to overcome the Denver D. Denver wins and gets in. Pick- Denver -3

Seattle at Arizona (-3)   PUSH

This one is very surprising. Seattle has shown to be a good, solid team. Arizona has played well lately but I am looking for Marshawn Lynch to continue his strong year and for Seattle to win. Pick- Seattle +3

Record: 7-8-1

Welp. That was Embarassing

So unfortunately, because I live in New England, I wasn’t able to watch the Broncos game. I like to think of it as a Christmas miracle. But I pretty much got everything completely wrong in my post earlier this week about what would happen this weekend. Denver got blown out, Tebow threw 4 picks. Pretty embarrassing considering Buffalo lost at home to the Dolphins last week. With that being said, I am not surprised. Listen, Tebow’s mojo runs on Jesus’ interest in every game. Would you want to work just hours before you’re two thousand eleventh birthday? I don’t think so. The fact that Jesus doesn’t even have a retirement plan is just beyond me. You have illegal immigrants getting food stamps and social security and Jesus has worked miracles for over two thousand years and the guy still has to work.

With that being said, lets just give Tim a break here. He wasn’t into the game at all. He was probably spending all week getting the final touches ready for his best friends birthday party on Sunday. If Jesus can turn water into wine I have no doubts that he can lead the Broncos to a Super Bowl. If Tebow played flawlessly every week and the Broncos won every week, Jesus’s cover would be blown. It’s kind of like if we all saw Santa, then all would be lost. Have faith. Tebow will win next week and the Broncos will make the playoffs.

 

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Patriots vs Broncos

Yesterday was a sad day for many people including Denver Broncos fans. It was also a very happy day for the people who were sick of seeing Tim Tebow’s name on every topic on every station for the past week. Many people were quick to claim the loss as “Tebow’s loss” but is that really true? The Tebow critiques (insert Merril Hodge here) were skeptical of the Broncos being able to beat the Patriot for one common belief, and that was the belief that the Broncos and Tebow would be down big early. Tebow, yet again, answered the criqiques by putting up 16 quick points, scoring on his first three drives including an impressive 80 yard opening drive capped off by Tebow running over Pats defenders on his way to a brilliant touchdown.

It wasn’t Jesus or God who didn’t show up on Sunday as many Tebow haters would put it, it was the Denver defense. Yes the Patriots offense is basically unstoppable with one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game and the freakish three headed monster now of Welker, Gronk and Hernandez. It is a tough task to defend but it can be done. Anyone think Belicheck threw together a plan to involve Hernandez more seeing as him and Tebow were longtime teammates in Florida? What better way of beating an opponent than by beating them with their old pals.

Suprisingly, Gronk was a non factor other than his 38 yard catch in crunch time that put to rest any hopes that Tebow could bring the Broncos back. Broncos seemed to have focused more on Gronk but forgot that the Patriots have another 6 foot 5 tight end whos even more athletic than Gronk. Brady looked as good as ever in this game. It was vintage Brady and you could tell he was ready for this game from the get go. He must have been hanging with Gronk this week after practices to get some tips on how to perfect the spike because that was impressive. The ball must have gone 30 feet in the air and Brady doesn’t usually show that type of emotion. With Aaron Rodgers looking hardly like a Pro Bowl quarterback against a defeated Kansas City team who lost their head coach last week, it seems as if Brady might be looking at another MVP award. Yeah Rodgers lost his best wideout and yeah hes put up great stats but who have they played? You are going for history, an undefeated season and your going to let your team score 14 points agains the Kansas City Cheifs? Youre going to let Kyle Orton who could only win 1 in 5 games with the Broncos who have a much better defense and at least one guy someone has heard of on offense? Call it a trap game call it whatever you want but that was pathetic