Week 11 Picks

Is there anything worse for a football fan than a bye week? These past two weeks have been very long (thank God for the undefeated Celtics). I don't appreciate Barry Bonds stealing the spitelight (get it?) from the Evil Patriots this week. If the weather holds up in Buffalo (instead of the predicted below freezing snowstorm) maybe a Fitty on the scoreboard will bring the haters back out.

And on to the picks (against the spread with winner in bold):

Tampa Bay
Atlanta (+2.5): Tampa Bay

Cleveland
Baltimore (+2.5): Cleveland (feels weird just typing that)

New England
Buffalo (+15.5): Buffalo (only if it snows, winds exceed 25mph) **UPDATE: Weather forecast is sunny but still freakin cold. Pick changed to Patriots - final score: 48-13.

Arizona
Cincinnati (-2.5) : Cincinnati (due to my rule of not picking AZ and Cleveland in the same weekend)

Washington
Dallas (-10.5) : Dallas by 30. go back to nascar Joe.

Carolina
Green Bay (-9.5) : Green Bay. The Ultimate Warrior's quest to steal the MVP trophy from the disrespectful Tom Brady continues this weekend. By the way, everyone who wants Favre to win the MVP is making the same asinine argument that was not valid the past 5 years when Brady was a candidate. If Brady doesn't win last year's MVP, how can you justify Favre this year?

New Orleans
Houston (+1.0) : New Orleans - Remember when Reggie Bush was the next Gale Sayers? Still, he might get 100 yards this weekend.

Kansas City
Indianapolis (-14.5) : Indy. They've lost the ability to matchup with the Patriots because of injuries and lack of evilosity, but they should still kill any team coached by Herm Edwards.

San Diego
Jacksonville (-2.5) : San Diego only because I have to assume they'll start using LT again.

Oakland
Minnesota (-4.5) : Oakland in a low scoring 14-13 suckfest.

Pittsburgh
N.Y. Jets (+9.5) : Pittsburgh. My prediction? Pain.

Miami
Philadelphia (-9.5) : Philadelphia

N.Y. Giants
Detroit (+2.5) : New York - once again proving that Detroit on Thanksgiving is only slightly worse than heartburn.

St. Louis
San Francisco (+2.5) : St. Louis - the march to the apocalypse where the Patriots go 19-0, set all sorts of records, and then get the #1 pick in the draft marches on. Go Rams!

Chicago
Seattle (-4.5) : Chicago - the battle for first-round-bounce-team goes to Seattle however.

Tennessee
Denver (-2.5): Tennessee - Vincy Young rebounds sort of, which is enough to beat the Broncos.

by the way, for any HTML geeks out there, I hope you appreciated the retro use of the "blink" tag above. The blink tag was the 1996 version of Flash. Although animated gifs were pretty awesome too with the dancing jesus in the middle of everyone's personal homepage...yet i digress.

Enjoy the weekend everyone (or you 5 people that read this blog on a daily basis).