NFL Week 8 Picks

[Daahan]

Detroit (4-2) @ Chicago (3-4) After the meltdown experienced against Minnesota, the Bears defense seemed to do pretty well against the Eagles offense (allowed under 100 rushing yards from Westbrook and kept McNabb out of the endzone until the drive in the 4th quarter). Last time Griese faced the Lions he was incredibly rusty, but he has been playing good football ever since. The thing I love about Devin Hester is that he's a double threat. If teams kick or punt the ball to him, he's going to get good yardage on the return (and extremely high chance of TD). If teams decide to hooch kick or punt out of bounds, the Bears usually end up with really good field position. It'll be a close game, but I'm going with Chicago on this one.

Cleveland (3-3) @ St. Louis (0-7) I don't think home field advantage means anything for the Rams. There's just way too many problems with that team.

New York Giants (5-2) @ Miami (0-7) TECHNICALLY it's a home game for Miami, but they're playing in London. It doesn't matter where they play; Timbuktu, Mt. Everest, the bottom of the ocean, NYG are going to win this game.

Oakland (2-4) @ Tennessee (4-2) Sure Oakland doesn't necessarily suck this season, but I don't think they'll be able to beat the Titans.

Pittsburgh (4-2) @ Cincinnati (2-4) Pittsburgh is coming off of a real sour loss at Denver, but the Bengals haven't exactly been doing that well.

Philadelphia (2-4) @ Minnesota (2-4)

Indianapolis (6-0) @ Carolina (4-2) Colts going in to Week 9 undefeated; yes please.

Jacksonville (4-2) @ Tampa Bay (4-3) David Garrard is injured and the Jags have Quinn Gray as their QB and he isn't that good. They still have their running game, but I see Tampa coming out on top in a close game.

Houston (3-4) @ San Diego (3-3) Parsley, Rosemary, Paprika, SAGE ROSENFELS (I love Chris Berman on ESPN). He's probably a good replacement for Matt Schaub, but I'll be picking San Diego.

Buffalo (2-4) @ New York Jets (1-6) A friend of mine called Eric Mangini "Mangina"...and I laughed.

Washington (4-2) @ New England (7-0)

New Orleans (2-4) @ San Fransisco (2-4)

Green Bay (5-1) @ Denver (3-3) This should be a really good MNF game. It seems the Denver defense and offense got their acts together (at least according to their game against the Steelers), so we'll see how they do against GB. Personally, I believe that this will be the game where the fact that the Packers don't have a running game will finally come back and bite them in the ass.

[Norelco]

What are you thoughts/feelings on the Bills this week? I'm a Bills fan but I think the Jets are past due.

[Tajin]

I'm hoping the Red Skins can stop the Pats...


...no, i really do ;;

[Deejay]

I think the Redskins have the only secondary in the League that can actually match up against the Pats.

Maybe Denver too.

[Viq]

I just heard something interesting on the radio during my lunch break. The Colts are playing the Panthers this week. The Panthers are the only team (aside from the Colts, obviously) that Manning has never beaten. The Pats are playing the Redskins. The Redskins are the only team that Brady has never beaten. I haven't had time to go through and double-check this, but if it's true, it's pretty coincidental. Hopefully both teams win so that they'll be undefeated when they meet next week.

[Tyche]

I just heard something interesting on the radio during my lunch break. The Colts are playing the Panthers this week. The Panthers are the only team (aside from the Colts, obviously) that Manning has never beaten. The Pats are playing the Redskins. The Redskins are the only team that Brady has never beaten. I haven't had time to go through and double-check this, but if it's true, it's pretty coincidental. Hopefully both teams win so that they'll be undefeated when they meet next week.

I know the pats haven't beaten the skins, since like, the 70's. Don't know about manning/colts. Only thing I really have to add to this conversation is that I think Rams will win.

[Daahan]

As good as the Redskins' secondary is, the spread of the Patriots receivers is just too profound for them to put a complete or efficient stop to the Patriots passing game. My personal opinion is that to beat the Pats, you have to limit their offense as much as you can while trying to match it. Meaning you can't let Brady throw 5 TDs in a game, but he's still going to throw a couple TDs and you have to match those. I don't think the Redskins will be able to do that.

[Po]

Who do you guys think the 3rd best QB is in the AFC (which pretty much means in the whole NFL)?

I think it could be Roethlisberger, as he is having a career year... and Carson Palmer doesn't know how to win.

[Deejay]

Carson Palmer easily. You can't blame him that their defense sucks ass. Big Ben is so overrated.

[Daahan]

Probably Ben Roethlisberger or Vince Young

[tyven]

Who do you guys think the 3rd best QB is in the AFC (which pretty much means in the whole NFL)?

I think it could be Roethlisberger, as he is having a career year... and Carson Palmer doesn't know how to win.

if palmer were on a winning team there would be little doubt, regardless of their record he still throws one of the best balls in the league. could also make an argument for vince young, it may not be pretty but he almost always finds a way to win close games.

[Po]

I think Big Ben is a much better QB than Vince Young, but I agree somewhat with the Carson Palmer sentiment.. still he needs to find ways to win, especially with the best receivers corps in the league.

But saying Ben is overrated I think is wrong. His performance the second half of that Sunday night game was nothing short of masterful in anchoring the Steelers comeback while the defense and o. line was dog shit. He evades so many sacks on his own, he probably would have been sacked twice as much as he has if not for all the ones he has evaded.

Ben's stats this year: 1303 yds; 63% completion; 13 TD; 5 int; 101.1 rating
Palmer's stats this year: 1717 yds; 63% completion; 13 TD; 9 int; 89.1 rating

Ben also has the benefit of the great running game, but everyone was saying Rudi Johnson was gonna be a beast this year and that didn't happen either.

I'm not saying he is an overall better QB, but he is def having a better year.

[Headspace]

I want to know who was saying Rudi Johnson was going to be a beast this year, so I can smack them in the fucking face. He hasn't been a very good running back the past 2 years and after losing weight in the off season, he lost his ability to pound the ball.

[Po]

He did get 1300 rushing yards last year or so, and he himself was talking shit at the beginning of the year.

But I'm sure it was John Clayton or Salisbury or someone.

[RakEx]

New York Giants (5-2) @ Miami (0-7) TECHNICALLY it's a home game for Miami, but they're playing in London. It doesn't matter where they play; Timbuktu, Mt. Everest, the bottom of the ocean, NYG are going to win this game.

I'm not so confident. They arnt going to go 0-16 and the Giants ALWAYS lose a couple of these no doubters a year.

Great line though, bottom of the ocean cracked me up.

[Akiyama]

Detroit (4-2) @ Chicago (3-4) Going with Chicago because.. well, Detroit can no way win 5 games this quick. Just impossible.

Cleveland (3-3) @ St. Louis (0-7) I don't think an A-Bomb would help St. Louis win. D:

New York Giants (5-2) @ Miami (0-7) Giants. Dolphins suuuck. D:

Oakland (2-4) @ Tennessee (4-2) Tennessee here seems like a good choice. I don't think they will fumble it up like they did against Texas.

Pittsburgh (4-2) @ Cincinnati (2-4) Going with Bengals in a surprise game here.

Philadelphia (2-4) @ Minnesota (2-4) Eagles over Vikings here. Eagles can't really be that bad.

Indianapolis (6-0) @ Carolina (4-2) Colts. I love da Colts.

Jacksonville (4-2) @ Tampa Bay (4-3) Bucs should have fun torturing the Jags new QB.

Houston (3-4) @ San Diego (3-3) Chargers even though the fires could cause some problems.

Buffalo(2-4) @ New York Jets (1-6) Jets here over the Bills. No clue why.

Washington (4-2) @ New England (7-0) Uh.. not picking against the Pats.

New Orleans (2-4) @ San Fransisco (2-4) Going with the Saints here. 49ers are just struggling.

Green Bay (5-1) @ Denver (3-3) Going with the Packers here. Gogo Favre.

[Mizango]

Probably Ben Roethlisberger or Vince Young

Young in also VERY overrated. He is the beneficiary from a stellar D-Line and Baronis (sp?) consistently booting 60+ yard field goals, both this year and last year. The Falcons game for instance, he threw what? 3 picks 0 tds and for a about 120something yards? Yet they still won via defense. Yet I have to listen to Tom Jackson and the NFL Live crew talk about how all he does is "Win games".

Both are overrated, but Young much more so by a long shot.

I just heard something interesting on the radio during my lunch break. The Colts are playing the Panthers this week. The Panthers are the only team (aside from the Colts, obviously) that Manning has never beaten. The Pats are playing the Redskins. The Redskins are the only team that Brady has never beaten. I haven't had time to go through and double-check this, but if it's true, it's pretty coincidental. Hopefully both teams win so that they'll be undefeated when they meet next week.

Exactly. Mora threw his famous "playoffs!!?, you kidding me!!??" fit vs the Panthers if I recall correctly. Panthers ftw. Unless Methuselah aka lolTesteverde plays.

[Headspace]

Green Bay (5-1) @ Denver (3-3) Going with the Packers here. Gogo Favre.

You are?!

[Plow]

Probably Ben Roethlisberger or Vince Young

Young in also VERY overrated. He is the beneficiary from a stellar D-Line and Baronis (sp?) consistently booting 60+ yard field goals, both this year and last year. The Falcons game for instance, he threw what? 3 picks 0 tds and for a about 120something yards? Yet they still won via defense. Yet I have to listen to Tom Jackson and the NFL Live crew talk about how all he does is "Win games".

Both are overrated, but Young much more so by a long shot.

I think that's pretty silly, really. Young is a 2nd year quarterback who has a long way to go in order to become a great passer, and he's viewed as such. He came in last year with the titans 0-3, lost a game where the cowboys scored 45 points, then 14-13 to the colts. The rest of the year they went 8-3 with a relatively tough schedule, scoring 20+ in all but 1 game. Sure his numbers aren't amazing, but he's now 12-7 with crap wr and a group of halfass rb's. Saying the person that took an 0-3 team and has done that with it, in what's now the toughest division in football (4-2 and 3rd in the division...) is overrated seems a little farfetched. Using their defense's performance against the worst offense in the league as an example doesn't say a whole lot either.

[Akiyama]

Green Bay (5-1) @ Denver (3-3) Going with the Packers here. Gogo Favre.

You are?!

You saw nothing! NOTHING! >.>