[These are the 2004 Picks. Get the Week 3 2006 Picks here.]
Last week the Sportscolumn staff picked 64% of the games right. Overall, our record is 62% right. That’s not setting any records but we’re still beating the “experts” at ESPN.com who are picking only 59%. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather get more right and not have to look at that that smug bastard, Merrill Hoge. In any case, here are the week 3 picks.
Week 3 Picks
| MATCHUP | Vegas Vinny | Mile High | Guru Ganu | Mr. X |
| Cards-Falcons | Falcons | Falcons | Falcons | Falcons |
| Bears-Vikings | Vikings | Vikings | Vikings | Vikings |
| Texans-Chiefs | Chiefs | Houston | Chiefs | Chiefs |
| Saints-Rams | Rams | Rams | Saints | Rams |
| Steelers-Phins | Steelers | Dolphins | Dolphins | Dolphins |
| Packers-Colts | Colts | Colts | Colts | Colts |
| Bucs-Raiders | Raiders | Raiders | Raiders | Raiders |
| Ravens-Bengals | Bengals | Bengals | Ravens | Bengals |
| Browns-Giants | Browns | Giants | Giants | Giants |
| Jaguars-Titans | Titans | Titans | Titans | Titans |
| Eagles-Lions | Eagles | Eagles | Eagles | Eagles |
| Chargers-Broncos | Broncos | Broncos | Broncos | Broncos |
| Niners-Seahawks | Seahawks | Seahawks | Seahawks | Seahawks |
| Cowboys-Skins | Cowboys | Redskins | Cowboys | Cowboys |
| Prev Week | 9-7 (.563) | 10-6 (.625) | 9-7 (.563) | 13-3 (.813) |
| LOCKS | 2-0 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 |
| Overall | 20-12 (.625) | 20-12 (.625) | 18-14 (.563) | 21-11 (.656) |
Locks of the Week
Mr. X: What were the BENGALS doing? Miami couldn’t have played any worse and it cost us our cover last week! What is going on? Ouch 1-1 on Locks. I need a nice 5 game streak here to get respectable. I’d love to start picking an underdog but this week I just can’t do it. The TITANS are coming off of a heart breaking loss to INDY last week and will host the Jacksonville Jaguars who should be 0-2. The BRONCOS botched a last minue drive to win last week vs. the Jags and Byron Leftwich to Ernest Wilford in week 1 was plain lucky. This week it runs out. The Jags are not for real and the TITANS are a very very good team. Plus they are at home. Take the TITANS (-6) to cover and win this one somewhere in the neighborhood of 24-13.
Mile High: Houston (+8) visits the formerly formidable Arrowhead Stadium to face the
0-2 Chefs. With an ailing Priest Holmes, a reeling Trent Green, and a Defense that is once again the laughing stock of the league, this line is laughable. We saw how well the Chiefs defend the run the past two weeks, and this week they face the dangerous Domanick Davis, who should look to score 2-3 TDs. I think Houston covers and wins this one.
Guru Ganu: Cleveland enters this game with about 50 guys on the injured list, and the Browns were not a good team to begin with. Imagine being Garthia. You grow up in Gilroy, CA, go to college in SJ, become an All-Pro qb for a perennial playoff team, and start dating a Playboy playmate. Next thing you know you are shipped off to Cleveland, TO is calling you an HMO, and I highly doubt your playmate girlfriend moved into your split level on Lake Eerie. Giants (-3) pts.
Vegas Vinny: How in the world is Philly only a 4 point favorite over the Lions. Seems to me that the Vegas oddsmakers are about as delusional about this game as some of the Detroit Lions fans I’ve been hearing. Listen, I know you’ve heard all about that post-MNF letdown. But that only happens to teams like the Green Bay Packers. A well disciplined team like the Eagles under Andy “No Emotion” Reid beats the Lions by a touchdown – at least.
