That's right, homos. 10-4 last week - my best week by far. 53-47-1 on the year now. Will the success continue or was I simply a flash in the pan? Ah, but for to wait. (Next week the midseason awards.)
Here's an amazing fact for Week 9. There are 14 games being played this weekend 10 of the underdogs are HOME TEAMS. What a fucking ridiculous league.
DA BEARS +3 OVER NEW ORLEANS
This is not a must win for the Chicago Bears. But it certainly is a game they need to win. I think the Bears come out early and dominate the line of scrimmage. I'd be worried about Horn and Stallworth beating them deep, but I currently have much more faith in the Bears front four than the Saints offensive line.
ATLANTA -2 OVER MIAMI
This is a game I think Miami hangs around in but Atlanta has to be drooling over the soon-to-come Chris Simms collapse of the Tampa Bay Bucs.
MINNESOTA +2 OVER DETROIT
I was going to hold off the picks until I know who will be starting at quarterback for the Lions. Then I realized that it doesn't matter for one second. II think Brad Johnson might surprise some people and throw a couple touchdown passes and the Vikings get one at home.
SAN DIEGO -6 OVER NEW YORK JETS
This is my lock of the week, without question. I think the Chargers win this game by many, many points. I don't like to predict blowouts because I'm always wrong, especially when I predicted the Bears would win every game in 2003 but 60 points. But I think the Jets defense will be strong in the first quarter, quarter and a half. But this one might end somewhere in 47-10 land.
HOUSTON +13 OVER JACKSONVILLE
I won with Houston last week and I'll ride it. I think this Jacksonville team loses too many winnable games to be true playoff team and my two weeks on their bandwagon were nice enough. Houston doesn't win but Kris Brown keeps them close.
CINCINNATI -3 OVER BALTIMORE
Everyone on earth is going to start saying things like, "Maybe Baltimore isn't that bad." They are. They're going to lose this game by double digits.
TENNESSEE +2 OVER CLEVELAND
I like Jeff Fisher a whole lot as a football coach but he's gone three years now with nothing on that roster. How can their salary cap be in such awful shape? Browns will most likely make a quarterback change before or during the game but I won't be anywhere near a television showing this game.
CAROLINA -2 OVER TAMPA BAY
I was never on the Tampa Bay bandwagon and I think this might be the week Carolina shows why they are the best team in the NFC.
OAKLAND +5 OVER KANSAS CITY
This is going to be a fight and whenever there's five points or more involved, I always take the underdog if I think they can win the game. Oakland has played good football this year and they are a couple defensive studs away from being a real contender. Lamont shouldn't have trouble running all over the Chiefs. Two words: the over.
ARIZONA +4 OVER SEATTLE
Why, you ask? Because I'm feeling the mojo, kids. The Seattle Seahawks are very much like the Jacksonville Jaguars. They never win when they should. I think they're going to lose on the road this week but I'm just sitting with the Cards and the points.
NEW YORK GIANTS -10 OVER SAN FRANCISCO
I don't know why, again. I don't actually believe in the Giants. But I was inspired by Tiki Barber's performance last week and if he repeats something of that level, he may just be my mid-season MVP. Maybe the Giants should kill off an owner every week.
PITTSBURGH -6 OVER GREEN BAY
It's just getting uglier in Green Bay. Even if Big Ben doesn't play, they'll still run the ball all over the Pack.
PHILADELPHIA +2 OVER WASHINGTON
Can we stop with the Washington Redskins?
...and now ladies and gents, the game of the NFL season.
INDIANAPOLIS -3 OVER NEW ENGLAND
I am not picking the Colts because I think they are some unstoppable bohemoth. They are not. I watched the Bills dominate the Pats last Sunday and just not put the points on the board. I'm expecting something of a classic, 38-31 type game and I think even if the Colts lose it won't be on Peyton. It'll be on the vastly overrated defense.
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