Yesterday's games produced some interesting results, to say the least. For starters, can we all agree that Denver and Cincy are officially for real? Can we agree that the Jags are the most up and down team in the league? Can we agree that Matt Hasselback is pretty darn important to the Seahawks? Can we agree it's a great day to be Josh McDaniels?
The usual shoutouts to road winners go to the Vikes, Browns(how bad are the Bills after a promising start?), Steelers, Cowboys(ok, they only get a half shoutout after squeezing out an OT win against KC), Atlanta and Colts.
The Browns and Bills staged one of the worst games in years. Browns QB Derek Anderson, who replace Brady Quinn last week, was a stunning 2-17 for 22 whole yards, with an INT. Somehow, that was a winning effort. And Redskins fans think our offense sucks. The Browns did manage to run the ball for 171 yards.
Close on these teams' heels for ineptitude were the Raiders, who got blasted 44-7 in NY. Someone explain to me again why I passed on this game. Did you have a bad day recently? Be glad you're not JaMarcus Russell. He lost three fumbles, was sacked six times and was a whopping 8-13 passing for 64 yards. Of course, those numbers look like Peyton Manning compared to the Browns.
As odd as those two games were, the prize for weirdest game has to go to Jacksonville-Seattle. The Jags had put up consecutive 30 point games, and figured to be able to run the ball on the Seahwks. They produced 38 yards on 15 carries. That's not going to get it done for the Colts and certainly not for the Jags. End result was an embarrassing 41-0 whipping. this is the kind of game that gets coaches fired.
Pittsburg got by the Lions 28-20. The Lions may have begun to pull themselves out of the muck of really terrible teams. Now they are knocking on the door of being mediocre, a huge improvement for them. The Steelers are not impressing me all that much, but a win's a win.
So much for the underachcievers. Two teams that really took care of business, on the road no less, were Atlanta and Cincinnati. Both faced tough foes. The Falcons made good use of their bye week and had a plan to exploit Sf's slow secondary. Wake up call for the Niners, as they got blown out 45-10.
Carson Palmer has a history of playing well in Baltimore and he produced again, leading the suddenly respectable Bengals to a 17-14 win. The Ravens, who looked like a potential Super Bowl team a couple of weeks ago, now have a two game losing streak.
On to my picks. I tired to be selective this week and it paid off with a 3-0 tally. I thought the Vikes had too much for St. L and they did, covering easily with a 38-10 road win. I liked Philly giving double digits at home to TB and they did what an elite team should do at home, winning easily and covering, 33-14. I thought the matchup of Tennessee's weak pass defense and Indy's best in the league pass offense would have only one result, and that's the way it turned out,m with Indy easily covering at 31-9. Officially panic time in Tennessee.
Those results bring me to 11-5 against the spread this year.
The usual shoutouts to road winners go to the Vikes, Browns(how bad are the Bills after a promising start?), Steelers, Cowboys(ok, they only get a half shoutout after squeezing out an OT win against KC), Atlanta and Colts.
The Browns and Bills staged one of the worst games in years. Browns QB Derek Anderson, who replace Brady Quinn last week, was a stunning 2-17 for 22 whole yards, with an INT. Somehow, that was a winning effort. And Redskins fans think our offense sucks. The Browns did manage to run the ball for 171 yards.
Close on these teams' heels for ineptitude were the Raiders, who got blasted 44-7 in NY. Someone explain to me again why I passed on this game. Did you have a bad day recently? Be glad you're not JaMarcus Russell. He lost three fumbles, was sacked six times and was a whopping 8-13 passing for 64 yards. Of course, those numbers look like Peyton Manning compared to the Browns.
As odd as those two games were, the prize for weirdest game has to go to Jacksonville-Seattle. The Jags had put up consecutive 30 point games, and figured to be able to run the ball on the Seahwks. They produced 38 yards on 15 carries. That's not going to get it done for the Colts and certainly not for the Jags. End result was an embarrassing 41-0 whipping. this is the kind of game that gets coaches fired.
Pittsburg got by the Lions 28-20. The Lions may have begun to pull themselves out of the muck of really terrible teams. Now they are knocking on the door of being mediocre, a huge improvement for them. The Steelers are not impressing me all that much, but a win's a win.
So much for the underachcievers. Two teams that really took care of business, on the road no less, were Atlanta and Cincinnati. Both faced tough foes. The Falcons made good use of their bye week and had a plan to exploit Sf's slow secondary. Wake up call for the Niners, as they got blown out 45-10.
Carson Palmer has a history of playing well in Baltimore and he produced again, leading the suddenly respectable Bengals to a 17-14 win. The Ravens, who looked like a potential Super Bowl team a couple of weeks ago, now have a two game losing streak.
On to my picks. I tired to be selective this week and it paid off with a 3-0 tally. I thought the Vikes had too much for St. L and they did, covering easily with a 38-10 road win. I liked Philly giving double digits at home to TB and they did what an elite team should do at home, winning easily and covering, 33-14. I thought the matchup of Tennessee's weak pass defense and Indy's best in the league pass offense would have only one result, and that's the way it turned out,m with Indy easily covering at 31-9. Officially panic time in Tennessee.
Those results bring me to 11-5 against the spread this year.
