It's time to make predictions for the NFL season. It should be a bit easier since most of the games from Week 1 are already out of the way. Also, my picks for the week were submitted before the games began, just not here.
Steelers over Titans (was submitted here prior to the game)
Seahawks over Rams
Falcons over Dolphins
Bengals over Broncos (Brandon Stokely, are you flipping kidding me?)
Vikings over Browns
Colts over Jaguars
Saints over Lions
Bucs over Cowboys (Tampa's definitely rebuilding now)
Eagles over Panthers
Ravens over Chiefs (Survivor/Lock of the week)
Texans over Jets
Giants over Redskins
Cards over Niners (San Fran is back)
Packers over Bears
Patriots over Bills
Chargers over Raiders
I'll look at my final results after the Monday night games are over, but those should be a couple of sure things too. Now here are my division and playoff picks for the year. Number indicates seed in playoffs.
AFC North
1 Steelers (Still the Champs)
5 Ravens (No more Rex Ryan)
Browns (QB controversy could last all year)
Bengals (Marvin Lewis' last year with this mess)
AFC South
2Titans (Running game + defense > Kerry Collins)
Colts (No more Dungy, no more dominance)
Texans (Every year a sleeper pick, every year a disappointment)
Jaguars (Maurice Jones-Drew can't play every position)
AFC West
4 Chargers (Another year of underachieving due to Norv Turner, no relation)
Broncos (No Cutler, no problem)
Chiefs (If they can hang with the Ravens, they can hang with this division)
Raiders (The PUNCHline of the AFC West. Ba dum shing!)
AFC East
3 Patriots (Brady's back, but the defense is starting to get old)
6 Dolphins (The Tuna won't let them be a one-year wonder)
Jets (Mark Sanchez will have his growing pains, but will be in the playoffs next year)
Bills (TO will provide entertainment, but that's about it)
NFC North
1 Vikings ( AP showed yesterday why he went number 1 in fantasy)
6 Packers (Rodgers is ready, defense is solid again)
Bears (Urlacher being out for the year is tough, too tough for the Bears to win)
Lions (Stafford starting might be the right call, but not to win games this year)
NFC South
2 Falcons (Atlanta will post back-to-back winning years for the 1st time in franchise history)
Saints (Brees threw 6 tds yesterday. I was right to be unhappy when I missed out on him in fantasy)
Panthers (Delhomme might be done winning games as a NFL QB)
Bucs (Already time to look towards next year)
NFC West
4 49ers (Decent team wins worst NFL division)
Cardinals (The second biggest hangover of the year)
Seahawks (That game was ugly yesterday. Needing a half to break away from the Rams doesn't look too good)
Rams (I'm still going to cheer for them, but in the end, another high draft pick could help. Bulger is awful)
NFC East
3Giants (Manning's new receivers appear to be ready to help)
5 Eagles (Probably pick them to win if McNabb doesn't get hurt)
Cowboys (Now that TO is gone, we'll see that Romo was the bigger problem all along)
Redskins (They could easily win the NFC West, this is the AL East of football)
I'll wait to pick the postseason until we get there. League MVP is Drew Brees.
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