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!

Good news and bad news for Dallas. Good news? You don’t get killed by New Orleans in the playoffs. Bad news is it really won’t matter.

My take:

Vegas:

Still no good bets.

E.W.

I went to a party where they played Dirty Santa. One of the gifts was a cast iron Fluer-de-lis which we all assumed was a weapon. I warned the people who got it that, while it would protect them from all manner of beasts, such as Bears, Jaguars, Panthers, Colts, Lions, Falcons, even Pirates and Vikings and mythical creatures like Giants and Titans, that it would offer no protection whatsoever from Rams.

Ok..so we have a game on Thursday; is it just me or is the coverage on NFL truly the worst in the world? Most games are on Saturday and Sunday’s game might really be interesting. Though I do expect New Orleans to win, I think Atlanta will give them a run for it. But who knows if the Twilight Zone will extend into this week.

The Prince is sticking with his animal wins theme. It served him better last week than my method..which isn’t really a method. But here are our picks.

It was football in the twilight zone. Which basically means we had a terrible week!

How in the world did some of these teams win? There’s no other explanation than..the harmonics of the Universe turn around and flew in the opposite direction. Buffalo lost to Miami IN Buffalo? Huh?  Indianapolis really beat the Titans? And where has San Diego been all year? This reminds me of stepping it up at the end to take it all like Tony Stewart did during the final 10 races of the Chase.

I picked the Dallas game wrong, and never been happier. The Football Giants not only won, but knocked Dallas to the bottom of the playoffs. Worse for Dallas, they will now get slaughtered at New Orleans in the first round. And that’s assuming they don’t lose one of the remaining games and any of a quarter dozen teams hold their own or just win one more game than I figure.

On the other hand, Denver is now in the playoffs. If you’re a Bronc fan, don’t get excited, they aren’t going any further than Dallas. Tebow is a great quarterback, unfortunately, John Fox doesn’t have the slightest clue how to use one of those. If only he knew of some way a quarterback could somehow get the ball to a receiver down the field. Some way that the ball would go past the defenders out of their reach and end up at one of his runners. Almost like it could fly through the air…

Here’s my take this week:

Here’s Vegas:

The economy still sucks, so there’s still no good bets this week.

E.W.

I watched the painful St. Louis game. Seven shots at the endzone from the 1 yard line. At some point the quarterback should have just said, “Screw the play call, you two line up behind for the hand off. When the ball snaps, you shove my ass through the line.”

Once again the week starts early and we tried to make our picks on time. I don’t know what to think of my Skins. But I don’t think they’re playing well enough to take on the Giants at home. So while my heart says Washington, my brain says..not this week. Houston is another interesting pick this week. I expect them to win, but Cam sure is picking up the level of the Panthers and it’s hard telling how he might inspire them this week. My other toss up is in San Diego. The numbers say Baltimore should win and I’ve picked them. But the Chargers have also picked up their level of play and some have said Norv’s job is on the line. So they may actually push the envelope and make a run at the Ravens. We’ll see. So here’s our picks for the week.

Woohoo, we all had a pretty good week for Week 14. Even the little Prince did pretty well, finishing his pics 12/4. Not too bad all the way around. And once again..Dallas lost..because their kicker got iced. So here’s our results for last week:

Been having pretty good weeks for picks, gambling finally fell deep in the negative zone for all bets, no surprise. But I’m in the black for good bets… Thanks Indy, I know all of your necks hurt after the surgery, but you really pulled it off there and covered the 20 and a half point spread!

Here’s my take this week:

Vegas:

There aren’t any good bets this week.

E.W.

Looks like a lot of planned slaughters this week.