Washington Redskins at Seattle Seahawks
I think this is a tricky matchup for the Seahawks for a bunch of reasons. One is that the Redskins are coming off some real nice road wins the last couple weeks at the Vikings and Giants. And they didn't just squeak those victories out, they flat out dominated. As a Vikings fan, I remember that dreary night 2 weeks ago when Clinton Portis ran all over us, Todd Collins looked like Tom Brady and the Redskins D kicked the crap out of our offense until garbage time.
They could very well do the same thing to the Seahawks.
It also doesn't help the Seahawks to have Shaun Alexander starting to resemble one of the participants in the aforementioned sloth 3 legged race. He is getting worse by the minute. I can actually picture the sloths all lined up at a picnic somewhere, waiting for the 3 legged race. And I can picture them all thinking to themselves "please don't put me with Shaun, please don't put me with Shaun"...it seriously has gotten that bad.
The Seahawks do have a couple things going for them. First, that stadium is a fortress. Like "Helm's Deep" off of the Lord of the Rings movies. This is where the Seahawks crawl back to when they have been beaten senseless on the road and power up to defeat any enemies that come into their house. Ok, so Helm's Deep fell in the second Rings movie, but c'mon the Seahawks are defending it against the Redskins, not an army of orcs, goblins and trolls (unless we count a couple of the Redskin cheerleaders). The crowd will be loud, they won't sit down for fear of death at the hands of their fellow fans, they will force penalties and Kerney and Peterson should be able to track down Collins more than once.
I think: Seahawks 23 Redskins 17
Jacksonville Jaguars at Pittsburgh Steelers
Uh-oh...Willie Parker's dead. Well not literally dead, but figuratively he's flatlined. Like my heart that time I saw Rosie O'Donnell in a two piece. The defibrillators were useless. And Najeh Davenport is going to need the Steelers to sign Rosie to play fullback in front of him if he is going to make an impact.
Sure the Steelers can throw to Ward, Holmes and Miller but the fact is that they are a team that uses the run to set up the pass. A couple of weeks ago the Jags went into Pittsburgh and stomped a Steelers team that had a healthy Willie Parker to keep them honest. Now they don't and I think that is going to be a huge problem. Expect to see Jaguars defenders peeling themselves off of Big Ben more than a couple times tonight.
The fact is this: The Jaguars are the better team. They have proved it all year and as odd as it sounds they should be and are favoured in this game on the road. They have accused the Steelers of neglecting the Heinz Field turf so that it looks like the game is being played in Ethiopia. For the uneducated, Ethiopia is to sports field management as Saskatchewan is to scenery. Anyways, they could play this game on the Moon and I still like the grouping of Garrard, Taylor, Jones-Drew and company to find a way to win.
I think: Jaguars 24 Steelers 16
New York Giants at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Somehow Jeff Garcia got married to a Playboy centerfold...you don't think he goes to bed every night extremely thankful that he has the ability to throw a little piece of leather a good distance? 'Cause Garcia looks like an Irish groundhog who popped out one February morning to see his shadow and was attacked by someone wielding a shovel. And it looks like they hit him pretty square-on. Needless to say, they don't care as much about Groundhog Day in Ireland as we do here.
I like the Bucs in this game because I hate the Giants. I think that's all I need to say. It's a good enough reason for me. And yes I have dreamed of hitting Eli in the face with a shovel.
Buccaneers: 30 Giants: 13
Tennessee Titans at San Diego Chargers
The Titans are dropping like flies. This week they lost their top TE and WR to injury. Bo Scaife and Roydell Williams will miss the game. Scaife misses with a "lacerated liver" which is nature's alliterative way of saying "I did something really stupid and hurt a vital insidey-part". I probably could not lacerate my liver if I tried. And I kind of want to try. It's not like the Titans are losing players like Gates and Owens here but that offensive depth chart gets shallow in an awful hurry. We are talking West Virginia gene pool shallow here. And thats goin to be a problem.
Tomlinson should be enough to beat the Titans this week. If Philip Rivers doesn't try to screw it up and get in his way. I really thought that when Rivers and Eli Manning were traded for each other on draft day a couple years ago that they might both end up being very good QB's. Now I think we are a year or two away from watching them battle each other in the Arena League football. They both suck a boatload full.
I think: Chargers 33 Titans 10
(and as a reward next week the Chargers get kicked into a brick wall of reality...Indy style)
Those are my thoughts. Go bet your children on it.
p.s. I couldn't leave this out. Here was the starting lineup for the Miami Heat last night, keeping in mind that the Heat won the NBA championship 2 years ago. Ouch. Perhaps the basketball lineup equivalent of Rosie O'Donnell in the two piece or Larry King wearing only the suspenders. Yuck.
PG Chris Quinn
SG Daequan Cook
SF Ricky Davis
PF Udonis Haslem
C Mark Blount
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