Archive | November 3, 2009

NFL Week 9 – Spring’s Picks

Where to start. Let’s go with the easy picks. New Orleans hosting Carolina, I love SirEvil and his home town team, but no way will the Panthers beat the Saints at home. I feel the same way about Houston and Indianapolis; though there is a slight trepidation there. I still think the Colts at home will beat the Texans handily.

I’m counting on my Tennessee Titans building on their high from winning in week 8 and carrying that emotion into to San Francisco to beat the 49’ers. My Redskins, well they’re just done and I don’t think they have the skill or confidence to take on the Falcons in Atlanta no less.

The tough games for me are the night games. Dallas at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at Denver. I think these can go either way no matter which city you’re talking about. But I’m going to give the edge to the home teams. The Eagles really looked good last week against the Giants, so I’m betting on them to take Dallas who has had their struggles this year. I really like the Steelers, but I think they have a lot of off field distractions and their focus is somewhat missing. So I’m giving the edge to the Broncos who have looked good this year.

So here’s my Week 9 picks….crossing fingers.

I’ve changed two of my picks at the last minute. Cincinnati over Baltimore and Arizona over Chicago.

Week 9
Sun, Nov 08	Pick
BAL @ CIN	Baltimore
MIA @ NE	New England
KC @ JAC	Kansas City
GB @ TB	Tampa Bay
WAS @ ATL	Atlanta
ARI @ CHI	Chicago
HOU @ IND	Indianapolis
CAR @ NO	New Orleans
DET @ SEA	Seattle
TEN @ SF	Tennessee
SD @ NYG	NY Giants
DAL @ PHI	Philadelphia
Mon, Nov 09
PIT @ DEN	Denver
Byes: Bills, Browns, Vikings, Jets, Raiders, Rams

Updated: 12:58pm

2009 Vote

Nov3

Here in Virginia they’re making a big deal about our Gubernatorial election. I’ve heard several times today from News prognosticators that the Virginia election will be a referendum on Pres. Obama’s popularity and his policies. I don’t think so Virginians are that shallow. And I find the comment some what insulting.

I’ve lived in Virginia for most of my life. We moved here when I was 3. While the state has been some what conservative and republican for a majority of it’s history. It’s also an intelligent and contemporary place as well. We can give credit for that to Northern Virginia and the influx of people from around the world who come there to work in and around Washington DC. But don’t discount the high education and engaging people around our Universities as well. Virginia Tech, Univ. of Va, George Mason and James Madison are all highly respected colleges that turn out some very smart people who can actually thing for themselves.

We have the ability to look at issues affecting our state separate from those affecting a Presidential or national stage. We understand the affect of decisions in DC upon our State. But we also take accountability for our own government and how it approaches the real problems that all Virginians face around the state.

So to those prognosticators I say, shut up and sit down. Your 10 minutes are up. Not everything that happens in politics is based on the popularity of someone, or the popularity of their policies. Virginians are smart, educated and quite capable of deciding our elections based on issues and not on the popularity of which parties lapel pin you’re wearing.

NFL Week 8 – Spring’s Results (7 of 13)

Nov3

Well the weekend ended with just a little better than a 50% average. Sir Evil’s picks have gotten considerably better. I think we’ve switched places in our loving family competition. There were some surprising upsets from the weekend. The games I was worried about seemed to have worked out ok. Dallas and Chicago both won their home games. I couldn’t have been more wrong about the Giants and Eagles. But I’m very glad Philadelphia won, especially since they’re the little Prince’s team.

Indianapolis and New Orleans both kept their perfect record. That Atlanta / NO game was great. Atlanta really made the Saints work for that win. But I for one was very happy to see them win and keep their perfect record.

Good call on the emotion of Farve (The Geriatric Ninja) and the Vikings going into Green Bay. That too was a great game to watch. I’m so glad Brett did well in that game; he deserves it.

Now someone tell me how in the world did Houston beat Buffalo? Did the Panthers really show up in Arizona to play football? Wholly cow they beat the Cardinals..Being they’re the team of SirEvil we were happy about that too. Glad I was wrong about that pick. And where did Tennessee come from to beat Jacksonville? Wow!

Ok so here were the results from week 8.

Week 8
Sun, Nov 01	Pick	Score
SEA @ DAL	Dallas	W – 17 / 38
HOU @ BUF	Buffalo	L – 31 / 10
MIN @ GB	Minnesota	W – 38 / 26
STL @ DET	St Louis	W – 17 / 10
MIA @ NYJ	NY Jets	L – 30 / 25
SF @ IND	Indianapolis	W – 14 / 18
CLE @ CHI	Chicago	W – 6 / 30
DEN @ BAL	Denver	L – 7 / 30
JAC @ TEN	Jacksonville	L – 13 / 30
OAK @ SD	San Diego	W – 16 / 24
NYG @ PHI	NY Giants	L – 17 / 40
CAR @ ARI	Arizona	L – 34 / 21
Mon, Nov 02
ATL @ NO	New Orleans	W – 27 / 35
Results: W = 7 / L = 6 of 13 Season: W = 76 / L = 40 of 116