The Prince’s Picks for Week 10
Well our little Prince (who’s 6 years old) has decided he wants to play with Mom and Dad and make his own picks for Sunday. They say the family that plays together, stays together. We already have corrupted him with our Nascar fanaticism and our Renfaire hobby, so why not football too.
So here are his picks for Week 10:
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NFL Week 10 – Spring’s Picks
Week 10 is about to get underway with the Thursday night game of Chicago in San Francisco. I’m going with the 49’ers in that game. Wish we could watch it, but since we have Comcast and they suck in our county; we’ll have to rely on NFL.com for that game.
I have two upset picks this week. The primary one is New England at Indianapolis. I have no real rhyme or reason. I just have a gut feeling this is the week the Colts will fall in their undefeated season. Consequently I think New Orleans will continue their streak and remain undefeated.
The second upset pick is Carolina over Atlanta. These two have a history of a great rivalry. Carolina has looked pretty good in the past 2 weeks. I think they finally woke up and decided their supposed to play football. Since they’re playing in Charlotte (SirEvil’s hometown), I just have a feeling they’ll pull off a win. If they do, it will certainly be an upset for the week.
I haven’t been very lucky in choosing Baltimore. But I’m going with them again this week. Perhaps because they’re the little Prince’s favorite team. He likes the bald eagle and tada he became an Eagles fan. We’ll go with them this week and cross our fingers.
So here’s the picks for week 10.
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The weekend didn’t turn out too bad, in part thanks to the last minute changes in picks. Houston came pretty close to taking Indianapolis down for the first time this year. The Colts and the Saints remain the only undefeated teams at the end of week 9. I’m so happy the Saints are doing so well. They’ve been the underdog for so long, it’s good to see them dominating.
The surprise for the weekend was the upset by the Chargers beating the. NY Giants. And in New York no less. That was a big surprise. I wondered if it was case of over confidence and the Giants missed the plane to…Giant Stadium.
I really expected the Broncos to play much better than they did last night against the Steelers. I knew it would be a very tough game, but you can’t win with turn overs. Palomalo was just totally on his game and ran circles around the Broncos. At least the little Prince’s Principal is happy this morning.
With the last minute changes the weekend ends with a win of 9 games and 4 losses. Not bad. Better then the 7 and 6 it could have been.
So here are the final results for the week.
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Here’s the picks:
| Home | Away | Winner | Vegas | Line | O/U | Bets | |||
| Washington | Atlanta | 19 | 22 | ATL | ATL | 10 | 41.5 | WAS | Under |
| Houston | Indianapolis | 19 | 26 | IND | IND | 9 | 48 | HOU | Under |
| Kansas City | Jacksonville | 16 | 22 | JAC | JAC | 6.5 | 42 | KC | Under |
| Green Bay | Tampa Bay | 22 | 20 | GB | GB | 10 | 43.5 | TB | Under |
| Miami | New England | 17 | 26 | NE | NE | 11 | 47 | MIA | Under |
| Arizona | Chicago | 23 | 24 | CHI | CHI | 3 | 44.5 | AZ | Over |
| Baltimore | Cincinnati | 20 | 19 | BAL | BAL | 3 | 43.5 | CIN | Under |
| Carolina | New Orleans | 22 | 26 | NO | NO | 13.5 | 52 | CAR | Under |
| Detroit | Seattle | 17 | 27 | SEA | SEA | 10 | 43 | SEA | Over |
| San Diego | NY Giants | 22 | 23 | NYG | NYG | 5 | 47.5 | SD | Under |
| Tennessee | San Francisco | 19 | 19 | SF | SF | 4 | 41 | TEN | Under |
| Dallas | Philadelphia | 20 | 23 | PHI | PHI | 3 | 48 | PHI | Under |
| Pittsburgh | Denver | 21 | 19 | PIT | PIT | 3 | 39.5 | DEN | Over |
One good bet this week, gulp…, Carolina will cover the spread against New Orleans. I sure hope they have some of what they had in Arizona left.
As I originally predicted, sans the computer, Minnesota is playing better than expected. Now it seems the computer is noticing. Here’s how the playoffs shake out:
| Wild Cards | AFC | Denver | Pittsburgh | 18 | 24 | Pittsburgh |
| NY Jets | San Diego | 18 | 23 | San Diego | ||
| NFC | Philadelphia | NY Giants | 21 | 21 | NY Giants | |
| Green Bay | Arizona | 25 | 24 | Green Bay | ||
| Division | AFC | Pittsburgh | Indianapolis | 19 | 21 | Indianapolis |
| San Diego | New England | 19 | 26 | New England | ||
| NFC | NY Giants | New Orleans | 24 | 25 | New Orleans | |
| Green Bay | Minnesota | 22 | 22 | Green Bay | ||
| Conference | AFC | New England | Indianapolis | 23 | 23 | Indianapolis |
| NFC | Green Bay | New Orleans | 25 | 25 | New Orleans | |
| Superbowl | Indianapolis | New Orleans | 25 | 24 | Indianapolis | |
| New Orleans | Indianapolis | 20 | 24 | Indianapolis |
E.W.
I would say something witty, but I ran out of wit.
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.
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Updated: 12:58pm
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.
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.
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Here’s the picks:
| Home | Away | Winner | Vegas | Line | O/U | Bets | |||
| Denver | Baltimore | 18 | 23 | BAL | BAL | 3.5 | 41.5 | BAL | Under |
| Minnesota | Green Bay | 19 | 22 | GB | GB | 3 | 47.5 | MIN | Under |
| Miami | NY Jets | 19 | 22 | NYJ | NYJ | 3 | 40.5 | NYJ | Over |
| San Francisco | Indianapolis | 18 | 24 | IND | IND | 13 | 45 | SF | Under |
| St. Louis | Detroit | 20 | 22 | DET | DET | 4 | 44 | STL | Under |
| Houston | Buffalo | 20 | 22 | BUF | HOU | 3 | 41.5 | BUF | Over |
| Seattle | Dallas | 20 | 25 | DAL | DAL | 9.5 | 45.5 | SEA | Under |
| Cleveland | Chicago | 19 | 23 | CHI | CHI | 13.5 | 40 | CLE | Over |
| Oakland | San Diego | 16 | 25 | SD | SD | 16.5 | 41.5 | OAK | Under |
| Jacksonville | Tennessee | 19 | 22 | TEN | TEN | 3 | 44.5 | TEN | Under |
| Carolina | Arizona | 22 | 24 | AZ | AZ | 10 | 41.5 | CAR | Over |
| NY Giants | Philadelphia | 22 | 22 | PHI | NYG | 1 | 44 | PHI | Over |
| Atlanta | New Orleans | 21 | 25 | NO | NO | 10.5 | 54.5 | ATL | Under |
Thank the Football Gods there are no good bets this week. I’m 0-3 on the season now. I hope Tampa gets shut out in every game for the rest of the season…
Pittsburgh’s reign at the top of the Superbowl hill has ended, New England is back again. It boggles the mind the amount of fear they seem to have instilled in teams that have to play against them, they simply aren’t the greatest team ever and I’m waiting for some underdog to demonstrate it. Here’s how the playoffs look to me:
| Wild Cards | AFC | NY Jets | Pittsburgh | 17 | 22 | Pittsburgh |
| Baltimore | San Diego | 19 | 23 | San Diego | ||
| NFC | Minnesota | Philadelphia | 20 | 24 | Philadelphia | |
| NY Giants | Arizona | 25 | 23 | NY Giants | ||
| Division | AFC | Pittsburgh | New England | 19 | 23 | New England |
| San Diego | Indianapolis | 20 | 25 | Indianapolis | ||
| NFC | Philadelphia | New Orleans | 22 | 24 | New Orleans | |
| NY Giants | Green Bay | 20 | 23 | Green Bay | ||
| Conference | AFC | Indianapolis | New England | 20 | 24 | New England |
| NFC | Green Bay | New Orleans | 24 | 25 | New Orleans | |
| Superbowl | New England | New Orleans | 26 | 24 | New England | |
| New Orleans | New England | 21 | 27 | New England |
E.W.
Heard on CNN regarding the health care “reform” bill:
Broadcaster: If it is going to cost $890 billion, how is that not going to raise the deficit?
Analyst; It’s a deficit neutral spending bill.
Me: So… it’s magic?