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Originally Posted by 7express
Last week: 9-6
Overall: 116-58-2
New Orleans @ Dallas. Let's see who the Cowboys have played in their mini 3 game winning streak: Eagles: bad football team. Falcons: awful football team. The fighting Landover's: Average at best football team with a backup QB starting. This will definitely be a marquee win for Dallas if they can get it, problem is the Saints are one of the hottest teams in football. In normal years I might say "well, the Saints have a runaway lead in the division and in the conference heading into December" so they could half ass it for a half, knowing they have a couple games in hand on the NFC competition so if they lose 1 or 2 it's not the end of the world but they can't even do that with the Rams nipping at their heels with the same record, and I believe the 1 seed in the NFC is going to be the difference in if either the Rams or Saints make it to the Super Bowl.
I'll get the rest in sometime later; if I wake up in time I'll post the rest in the morning before I head into work, otherwise I'll post the rest on Thursday or Friday night, but wanted to get the Thursday night game in before.
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New Orleans @ Dallas. Picked earlier above, whoops
Baltimore @ Atlanta. Just cannot pick the Falcons under any circumstances right now even though I think they end up winning this game. Can I give myself a half point at least in that case??
Cleveland @
Houston. Cleveland is actually playing well, so this isn't a slam dunk, but the Texans continue to win.
Denver @ Cincinnati. The resident Broncos fan on here iknowfootball put it best: Broncos have no margin for error and can't afford slip ups like this game.
LA Rams @ Detroit. Up until 10 minutes ago when that Saints T-Rex'd egg game ended I was spending most of Thursday theorizing how I could make myself the Lions could end up beating the Rams because this was going to my upset pick of the week: Rams traveling from the West Coast, 1 PM kickoff, both teams on layoffs with the Rams having a bye last week and of course the Lions played on Thanksgiving so maybe Rams could sleepwalk through the first half, and the Lions would build enough of a cushion to sustain the Rams inevitable 2nd half rally. Well...……….after that Saints game I don't think the Lions have to worry about the Rams sleepwalking through the 1st half now that the 1 seed is back up for the grabs. Maybe the 2nd half, but at that point the lead will be 30 points, so it won't really matter.
Colt's Cardinals @
Green Bay. Sorry Colt desperate Pack at Lambeau and need wins, probably not a good day to be a Cards fan
Bill's Buffaloes @
King Cat's Dolphins. No idea here I'll take the Phins at home.
Chicago @ New York Football Giants. This is another game where for 30 seconds I thought about picking the upset and than 2 things occurred to me: 1) The Bears had about an 80 hour turnaround from their Sunday Night game week 11 to the Thursday afternoon game week 12, and they still won, so a 10 day layoff shouldn't be trouble and 2) This Giants team blew a 19-3 first half lead to the Eagles, and that was the end of that trying to reason for the Giants.
Carolina @ Tampa Bay. Even though in the preview I said the Panthers were going to be a .500 team and they are on that track this is a game they should win, but why do I think they won't??
Indy @ Jacksonville. Colts probably aren't catching them, but they keep pace with the Texans.
NY Jets @
Tennessee. Titans have to keep pace in the AFC playoff picture and can't be dropping winnable games like this.
Kansas City @ Oakland. Yes, the Bucs beat the Saints, the Browns DON'T have the worst record in football, and UConn football surprisingly did not finish winless are all surprising results, but this would be one of the bigger upsets of recent memory, right up there with UMBC over Virginia, Kansas State over Kentucky, or Loyola of Chicago to the Final 4 last March. Any given Sunday I can understand, but if the Raiders get this win, I hereby nominate we change the word "upset" to "Raider" until the end of the Super Bowl
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Minnesota @ New England. What is that now, 2 straight Sunday night games and now the national game of the week for a team that is 1 or 2 games over .500??
San Francisco @
Seattle. They have some home losses this year, but I doubt this will be another one.
Carson City Chargers @
Pittsburgh. Even with the late kickoff in Pittsburgh, tough to see the Chargers winning this in the Steel City.
Washington @
Philadelphia. I went back and forth with this one, ended up with the Eagles because they were the home team, but really who the hell knows??
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