NFL Football Predictions-Week 6-Post-Mortem Updates
Dallas 34-Houston 10-No contest. Houston defensive end, picked 1s in the draft, not exactly having Reggie Bush impact. Was this Charlie Casserly's last bomb before he left to become an "expert" commentator, or was it the new owner? Expect Owens to get the ball a lot more.
Post-Mortem: Dallas 36-Houston 6 As expected. Houston needs to start all over with this franchise.
Buffalo 17-Detroit 6-These teams are so bad, this score could as easily be reversed. It's the "who cares" game of the week.
Post-Mortem: Lions 20-Bills 17 I got the Bills number right. Who cares?
Bengals 33-Tampa Bay 21-New Tampa QB looked good last week. We'll see if he's as good as he looks. I think he is. But Bengals are on a whole different level.
Post-Mortem: Tampa Bay14-Bengals 13 Tampa got the Bengals to play their game; defense.
Redskins 26-Titans 14-Vince Young will survive, but will not win much this year. He's lucky to have Jeff Fisher as coach. A smart coach who will keep it simple for the ingenue until he figures out how to use him effectively.
Post-Mortem: Titans 25-Skins 22 Jeff Fisher is a great coach. Skins haven't mproved much since Gibbs retruned. He'll probably hang it up after this year. Biggest personnel change Skins still need remains change in owner.
Falcons 24-Giants 13-Giants overrated again this year because of NY media. Michael Vick will run wild on weak defense. Vick's new "college option" offense will be hard to stop. Might be the answer to his mediocre throwing ability.
Post-Mortem: Giants 27-Falcons 14-Best I've seen Manning play. Looks like Atlanta is the overrated team. Mora won't be able to get away with firing another coordinator if he goes 8-8 again with the best athlete in pro football. He'll be gone.
Baltimore 17-Carolina 10-Defense, defense, defense. Both teams have great ones. However, Steve McNair makes the difference for this team. Their first real QB in years. Panthers unimaginative offense will hold them back again.
Post-Mortem: Carolina 23-Baltimore 21 No McNair after early concussion. Delhomme's best game ever overcomes coaches inability to call scoring plays twice within inches of Ravens's goal line and fluke catches by Ravens made game closer than it should have been. Despite Carolina coaches, Carolina is starting to look like a Super Bowl contender again with Steve Smith back.
Philadelphia 42-New Orleans 34-Lots of points and flash on both sides. Probably the most glamorous fun game for fans this the day.
Post-Mortem: New Orleans 27-Eagles 24 Pick wrong, but it was the glamor game of the day. Last second field goal to win was only fitting.
Rams 28-Seattle 27-Close game. Rams win due only to home-field advantage.
Post-Mortem: Seattle 30-Rams 28-Another last second field goal lets Seattle slip past Rams home-field advantage.
Jets 24-Miami 14-Miami is hapless and hopeless this year. Daunte Culpepper has the talent, but not the brains. New England not that good this year, but the division has become the weakest in the NFL.
Post-Mortem: Jets 20-Miami 17 Miami proves it can lose a little better with Joey Harrington than with Daunte Culpepper. It will take Saban a while to clean up Dave Wannstedt's "legacy". It took the Bears years to clean up the mess Wannstedt left in Chicago.
Steelers 23-Kansas City 21-Steelers will also win due to home-field, and because Cowher will go berserk if they lose again.
Post-Mortem: Steelers 45 KC 7 Cowher had his players more terrified than I thought. Why KC gave up draft picks to get Herm Edwards, after mediocre coaching career with Jets, is beyond comprehension.
San Diego 40-49ers 13-Rivers is the real thing and Tomlinson makes him that much more effective. Niners are real too; really terrible. A great franchise destroyed by "office politics" of all things. The ghosts of Terry Donohue and Steve Mariucci still haunt this franchise.
Post-Mortem: SD 48 49ers 19 No Surpise.
Post-Mortem: Dallas 36-Houston 6 As expected. Houston needs to start all over with this franchise.
Buffalo 17-Detroit 6-These teams are so bad, this score could as easily be reversed. It's the "who cares" game of the week.
Post-Mortem: Lions 20-Bills 17 I got the Bills number right. Who cares?
Bengals 33-Tampa Bay 21-New Tampa QB looked good last week. We'll see if he's as good as he looks. I think he is. But Bengals are on a whole different level.
Post-Mortem: Tampa Bay14-Bengals 13 Tampa got the Bengals to play their game; defense.
Redskins 26-Titans 14-Vince Young will survive, but will not win much this year. He's lucky to have Jeff Fisher as coach. A smart coach who will keep it simple for the ingenue until he figures out how to use him effectively.
Post-Mortem: Titans 25-Skins 22 Jeff Fisher is a great coach. Skins haven't mproved much since Gibbs retruned. He'll probably hang it up after this year. Biggest personnel change Skins still need remains change in owner.
Falcons 24-Giants 13-Giants overrated again this year because of NY media. Michael Vick will run wild on weak defense. Vick's new "college option" offense will be hard to stop. Might be the answer to his mediocre throwing ability.
Post-Mortem: Giants 27-Falcons 14-Best I've seen Manning play. Looks like Atlanta is the overrated team. Mora won't be able to get away with firing another coordinator if he goes 8-8 again with the best athlete in pro football. He'll be gone.
Baltimore 17-Carolina 10-Defense, defense, defense. Both teams have great ones. However, Steve McNair makes the difference for this team. Their first real QB in years. Panthers unimaginative offense will hold them back again.
Post-Mortem: Carolina 23-Baltimore 21 No McNair after early concussion. Delhomme's best game ever overcomes coaches inability to call scoring plays twice within inches of Ravens's goal line and fluke catches by Ravens made game closer than it should have been. Despite Carolina coaches, Carolina is starting to look like a Super Bowl contender again with Steve Smith back.
Philadelphia 42-New Orleans 34-Lots of points and flash on both sides. Probably the most glamorous fun game for fans this the day.
Post-Mortem: New Orleans 27-Eagles 24 Pick wrong, but it was the glamor game of the day. Last second field goal to win was only fitting.
Rams 28-Seattle 27-Close game. Rams win due only to home-field advantage.
Post-Mortem: Seattle 30-Rams 28-Another last second field goal lets Seattle slip past Rams home-field advantage.
Jets 24-Miami 14-Miami is hapless and hopeless this year. Daunte Culpepper has the talent, but not the brains. New England not that good this year, but the division has become the weakest in the NFL.
Post-Mortem: Jets 20-Miami 17 Miami proves it can lose a little better with Joey Harrington than with Daunte Culpepper. It will take Saban a while to clean up Dave Wannstedt's "legacy". It took the Bears years to clean up the mess Wannstedt left in Chicago.
Steelers 23-Kansas City 21-Steelers will also win due to home-field, and because Cowher will go berserk if they lose again.
Post-Mortem: Steelers 45 KC 7 Cowher had his players more terrified than I thought. Why KC gave up draft picks to get Herm Edwards, after mediocre coaching career with Jets, is beyond comprehension.
San Diego 40-49ers 13-Rivers is the real thing and Tomlinson makes him that much more effective. Niners are real too; really terrible. A great franchise destroyed by "office politics" of all things. The ghosts of Terry Donohue and Steve Mariucci still haunt this franchise.
Post-Mortem: SD 48 49ers 19 No Surpise.
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