More good news and bad news for Dallas. Good news? You don’t get killed by anybody in the playoffs. Bad news is: see you next year. Make that later this year. Much later…

In order to update my playoff predictions, I had to break the three way tie in the AFC West between Denver, Oakland and San Diego. Very tough tie breaker decision to see who sucked the most in the AFC. Denver won that one by a hair, followed by Oakland. San Diego’s reward: the number four seed in the playoffs. They won’t get any further East than Pittsburgh.

My take:

Vegas:

There is one good bet today, based on the notion in Vegas that Green Bay will park their A team and lose by 5 to Detroit. As a Green Bay fan, I hope that every game means something to them. I know if I had tickets to that game and they play to lose I’d probably sell them. Well, I’d think real hard about selling them.

E.W.

In the big (idiotic marketing speak) craze to “go green” the NFL should just disqualify the AFC West from the playoffs due to the amount of computing power they could save breaking a three way tie between a bunch of 500 teams. Think of the gas that will be wasted by Pittsburgh fans heading off to watch that boring playoff game.

Well it’s the final week of the regular season and there are a few toss ups to choose from. I think the determination of San Diego will carry them to a win over Oakland. I’m not positive with my pick of Green Bay over Detroit. My brain says it’s the right pick, but my gut says Detroit has a deep determination to pull out a final win today. So I’m going with Green Bay, but I’m iffy on that one. Arizona and Seattle is my other toss up. I’m picking Arizona only because they’re at home. But the little Prince is going with his bigger animal to win in the animal battle. He might be right on that pick. The last of my toss ups would be Dallas and the NY Giants. I have to go with the Giants because anyone vs Dallas is my real pick. Even when I pick Dallas to win, I’m cheering on the other team. So here’s the picks from me and the Prince. I’m some what sad the season is coming to an end. But… as of today.. 56 Days to the Daytona 500! Yes!

It wasn’t a bad week considering the passion teams are playing with as we come down to the end of the season. Green Bay woke up and realized they actually have to play to win a game. Glad to see that. Also glad to see New Orleans pull out a great season. Not to mention..wasn’t it great for Drew Brees to break the single season most yards thrown record on a final touchdown pass?! Congrats to him and the Saints for making the record books on what was a great pass and wonderful celebration!