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Friday, January 09, 2009

NFL Playoffs Roll On.

After last week's pitiful 0-4 performance I have nowhere to go but up. I personally guarantee I will get one of this weekend's games right.

AFC

Baltimore Ravens at Tennessee Titans

Congratulations Titans! You worked your ass off all year to gain home field advantage int he playoffs but instead of drawing the Chargers you have to get beat on your home field by the Ravens. The Ravens defense is so damn good right now I don't see any way in hell the Titans can put more than 10 points on the board. And with the Ravens defense making life hell for Titans QB Kerry Collins they may score 7points of their own, which means the Raven offense only needs to score 6 points. The Ravens are going to average each possession starting at about their own 35. I think this could get really ugly.

Ravens 27, Titans 10

San Diego Chargers at Pittsburgh Steelers

The Chargers new sparkplug Darren Sproles may have run all over the place against a small fast, injury riddled defense like the Colts last week but there is no way in hell he can come anywhere close to that performance against the physical Steelers D. And I don't think the Chargers defense is capable of stopping the Steelers either. The Chargers were 4-8 after 12 games this season for a reason and this game will prove why.

Steelers 31, Chargers 13

NFC

Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers

The Cardinals were God awful every time they headed east this year and the Panther were a perfect 8-0 at home. The only chance the Cardinals have is if Edgerrin James continues to think it's still 2003 and plays great. He won't.

Panthers 34, Cardinals 20

Philadelphia Eagles at New York Giants

Can anybody figure out the Eagles? They have to be the scariest team in the league to be betting on right now. The difficulty here is that the Eagles play the Giants better than anyone and that has to scare Giants fans. I keep coming back to this though, after winning the Super Bowl last year the Giants proved they can win big games, while the Eagles have done nothing but prove they can't win big games the past 10 years. And a Super Bowl winning coach vs. Andy Reid? Based on that I gotta go with the Giants.

Giants 21, Eagles 14

2 Comments:

At 10:38 AM, January 13, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would have made the same picks. Nobody expected a Cards squad that won 9 games in the weakest division to make it to the conference championship. It's pretty crazy around here though. The fact there at home is huge. Tickets going for north of $700.

 
At 2:02 PM, January 14, 2009, Blogger Skeelo said...

That is nuts. Then again the Cardninals being good only happens once every 61 years or so.

 

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