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Last week, despite some stinkers on the schedule, turned out to be a pretty good week to watch football. Gotta love those OT games even if they don’t go the way we thought.
Here we go with the Week 11 Picks. If you want to see how well the experts here at SC stack up against the competition, check out this excel file.
Wooo Boy! What a week in the NFL. There were a lot of hard decision to be made in this week’s power rankings — how good is Atlanta? Is Green Bay the third best team in the NFC? Can you make a case for New England as still the top team in the AFC? I’m hoping this week’s games start separating the wheat from the chaff.
Every year we hear from many NFL talking heads that rookie QBs are better off sitting their first year. Off the heels of Byron Leftwich’s success a season ago let’s see if we cannot dispel this myth.
By Ryan McGowan
Let’s flash back around eleven years, to 1993. The Patriots, in their first year under Bill Parcells and Drew Bledsoe, finished 5-11, seven games behind the Buffalo Bills. The Red Sox finished 80-82, fifteen games behind the Blue Jays. The Celtics were eliminated by the Charlotte Hornets in four games, and Reggie Lewis died shortly thereafter. Only the Bruins were able to salvage some respectability, with a first place finish in the then-Adams Division. It wasn’t the best of times for Boston sports.
Last week was a tough week for us here at SC. We hovered right at .500 for the first time all season. Bills over Jets? Bears over Giants? Who knew. We promise to do better this week… unless of course, we don’t.
Here we go with the Week 10 Picks. If you want to see how well the experts here at SC stack up against the competition, check out this excel file.
What a week in the NFL. Things are so tightly bunched up in the upper third of the rankings that we don’t know what to make of it. Just when you think a team is approaching elite, they pitch some stinkers. And we don’t know whether San Diego and Seattle are for real. The bottom of the rankings aren’t much easier. Think about it, is Oakland better than New Orleans? Who knows? Who cares?
So much for that ‘last home game for the Skins predicting the election’ trend. I guess if the Patsies could have their 21 game streak ended, the 16 election streak was bound to end as well.
Here we go with the Week 9 Picks. If you want to see how well the experts here at SC stack up against the competition, check out this excel file.
Terrell Owens may have issued the knockout punch for the Eagles last week against the Ravens, but he should be penalized for a low blow against Ray Lewis–one that occurred during the following week.
After 7 weeks, there’s finally a change at the top with the undefeated Eagles in the #1 slot. The Patriots are still the team to beat in the AFC but for now, Pittsburgh moves into #2. Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot from the “Steeler Nation”. What is this crap with every fan base being a nation? There’s the Raider Nation and that’s it.
Tough tough week last week for the Sportscolumn crew. When we were wrong, we were wrong across the board. Dolphins? Bengals? Lions? How in holy hell did these teams pull those upsets? Well, we dusted ourselves off and are back to give you this week’s sure fire guaranteed can’t miss picks.