It's a great feeling to know that our former trash (Molden, Okam, Hill) is being picked up by desperate teams. That used to be us, now the roles are reversed.
Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta are obvious favorites for the Wild Card, but I wouldn't sleep on the Cowboys either (as much as it pains me to say it). After the Bills game this week, they have a massively favorable schedule, and if they can pull off a win this weekend, I could see them finishing the year at around 10-6. I'm not sure how the tie-breakers would work out, but I've got to believe that Chicago has the edge in that category with wins over both the Eagles and the Falcons. Detroit's schedule is about to turn brutal, and their lack of a running attack is going to come back and bite them. Atlanta is intriguing to me. As you guys have been talking about, Julio Jones looks like he's about to emerge in that offense, but I'm still skeptical that they can get it done against better defenses. We'll see how they respond this week when they play the Saints. That game is going to go a long way in deciding the Wild Card picture. Also, with the Giants schedule being as hard as it is over the next 6 weeks, they very well could drop down in the Wild Card as well. They however, have the luxury of just taking care of business within the division, and not having to worry about the Falcons, Lions, and Bears. All in all, this has been a really, really exciting first 9 weeks. This season has been fun.
Kolb's limping and Skelton is nothing special. The Eagles absolutely have to win!!! Then a huge game at the Giants. My problem is I don't have faith in San Francisco so it is absolutely possible the Giants go in there and win too. We shall see..... I remember 3 years ago they were 5-5-1 after week 12 and went 4-1 the rest of the way to make the playoffs and went all the way to the NFC title game. I still believe.
Before the Pats game, I was thinking the Giants would go to SFO and win convincingly. The 49ers haven't been playing well and aren't as good as their record. But the way the Giants offense struggled against the Pats makes wonder. It should be low scoring and might come down to a big 4th quarter play. I have to favor the Giants.
Have to give the edge to the Giants. I want to see what happens to SF when the run game isn't there. Put the ball in Alex Smith's hands and make him beat you.
Bold prediction: The Bengals are going to the superbowl, this year. I love how the bengals are playing right now. All those that say the ravens are misguided. The ravens always choke.
Cinci's wins: Cleveland, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Indy, Seattle, and Tennessee. Outside of Buffalo, that's a terrible list of teams. They look to have 5 difficult games coming up against Pitt (twice), Baltimore (twice), and Houston. They do have 3 games against also terrible teams in St. Louis, Cleveland, and Arizona. I'd guess they play to form and end up 9-7. No playoffs, but fantastic outcome for a rookie QB and a team that was supposed to be rebuilding from scratch.
I knew mathews was going to screw me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
