Here we are, one game into the NFL season, and my fantasy team is already falling apart. That being said, it’s time make our obligatory predictions for the season. Everyone does it, because everyone has an opinion, but rarely is anyone right.
Until now. Both Josh Krueger and myself believe we’ve got all the answers, and we’re willing to unveil them for you today.
SCOTT: Predicting the entire season is sort of like filling out your NCAA bracket in the sense that you have to go game by game. Instead, I go division by division, and pick the strongest teams in those divisions. Then, like the bracket, things get whittled down to the end. So here we go.
AFC
East: Patriots 14-2
North: Steelers 11-5
South: Titans 10-6
West: Chargers 11-5
Wild cards: Colts 10-6, Dolphins 10-6
NFC
East: Giants 12-4
North: Vikings 11-5
South: Panthers 10-6
West: Cardinals 9-7
Wild cards: Eagles 10-6, Falcons 10-6
AFC wild card: I like the Titans over the Dolphins, and the Chargers over the Colts (Peyton can’t seem to be the Bolts).
Divisional: Pats cruise against the Titans (just like in the 2003 season, when it was 10 degrees outside), and Steelers stop the Chargers.
Championship: Another great game between these two teams, and another Patriots win, 41-27 (sound familiar?).
NFC wild card: Eagles beat the Panthers, and Cardinals (just like last year) send the Falcons home.
Divisional: Vikings ran their way past the Eagles, while Cardinals upset the G-Men in New York.
Championship: One more championship run for Brett Favre as the Vikings outlast the Cardinals, 31-30.
Super Bowl XLIV
Patriots 38, Vikings 20. New England gives No. 4 a little payback for mailing it in at the end of last season.
JOSH: When most of these predictions come true by season’s end, I’ll be annoyed that I didn’t put any money on them when I was in Vegas a couple months ago. But such is the life of a wuss afraid to part with his money.
Anyway, this year’s NFL division, and wild card, winners will be as follows:
AFC
East: Patriots 13-3
North: Steelers 12-4
South: Colts 11-5
West: Chargers 11-5
Wild cards: Texans 10-6, Ravens 10-6.
NFC
East: Eagles 11-5
North: Packers 10-6
South: Saints 11-5
West: um, can we disqualify the West and put a real team from another division in instead? No? OK, Seahawks 9-7.
(Note: I realize the NFC champion came from the West last year, but the Cardinals are primed for the Super Bowl loser jinx and the rest of that division is a joke.)
Wild cards: Giants 10-6, Cowboys 10-6.
Playoffs? Are you kidding me? Playoffs?
AFC wild card: Favorites prevail in the first week, with the Chargers taking down the Ravens and the Colts beating the Texans.
Divisional: Colts head to New England and lose 147-133 (if my buddy Andy still was stationed in Vegas, I’d have him put a Benjamin on the over in that game). The Chargers upset the defending champs in Pittsburgh.
Championship: Chargers-Pats for the AFC title and, as much as I hate to say it, the Patriots prevail. Damn, that hurt to type.
NFC wild card: Packers rock the Cowboys in Lambeau, Giants treat the Seahawks like a J.V. team, which makes sense, seeing as how the NFC West is a J.V. division.
Divisional: The Saints win a shootout with the Packers (that one hurts, too). The Eagles make it two out of three against the Giants on the season.
Championship: A perennial threat to lose the NFC championship game, the Eagles will do something rare and actually win one. And then …
Super Bowl XLIV
Eagles 35, Patriots 31
I look forward to the imminent slew of comments about what an idiot I am.
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2 comments:
I don't know why there would be an, "imminent slew of comments "......I mean, how many predictions do you figure are out there from all the "experts" at ESPN, SI.COM, Sportstalk radio, Boston Globe, ProJo, Boston Herald....etc...etc..etc..??....I did the same with yours as I did with their's...Forgot about it 2 seconds after I read it. I mean really, what's the point?....just sit back and watch how the season plays out. All these "predictions" are just wild guess's that mean nothing.
You're 100 percent right in the sense that they are just wild guesses. For a good read, check out the last-page column on last week's Sports Illustrated, which pretty much said, "We have no idea what we're talking about."
I guess we're just in a day and age when everyone wants to study and predict. Again, it's the same reason why we all fill out NCAA brackets.
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