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Let’s get straight to the picks.
TENNESSEE (-6.5) Denver: For those of you new to reading the Sports Inquirer, I lived in Nashville the past three years before moving to Acworth, Georgia and I miss the Music City greatly and I’m saying this as a born and raised New Yorker. Everytime the Titans play a home game or I see Vanderbilt on television, your boy gets a little sad. What I really would like to be in Nashville though is the latest chapter of the Vince Young story. He gets benched a few weeks ago in the Steelers game, even though it wasn’t warranted in my opinion, than he plays well last week against the Giants. This is the type of game where Young will have a bad first half and than we’ll see how Titans head coach Jeff Fisher handles it. I still think that the Titans are a better team than Denver, especially at home.
PITTSBURGH (-1.5) Baltimore: These two teams are mirror images of each other accept that the Steelers defense is playing like the top unit in the NFL and they are home.
Cincinnati (-3) CLEVELAND: How about those Cincinnati Reds winning the NL Central in style with the game-winning home run by Jay Bruce. Going back to the Nashville days, I adopted the Reds as my MLB team of choice because I lived too far away from New York to follow the Mets consistently. For the past three years, I have seen the Reds blow so many games and let the Cardinals run all over them. That is why I was happy to see the results this year. Congrats Reds fans.
Detroit (+14.5) GREEN BAY: I’m taking a chance here because this has the recipe of being a blowout for the Packers. Green Bay is coming off of a tough loss on the road to the Bears and get the lowly Lions at home, the recipe for a bounce back game. However, the Lions have been competitive in many of their contests this year and that point spread is too high for my taste.
NEW ORLEANS (-13.5) Carolina: I could be the field goal kicker for the Saints and it wouldn’t matter in this contest.
ATLANTA (-7) San Francisco: Easiest game on this week’s slate. Anytime you have a west coast team struggling like the 49ers traveling to the east coast to face a good team like Atlanta, that’s easy money folks.
Seattle (-1) ST. LOUIS: Nice win against Washington, St. Louis. It’s not happening again.
New York Jets (-5.5) BUFFALO: I still don’t trust the Jets but they are good enough to beat the Bills on the road.
Indianapolis (-7) Jacksonville: Do you realize that the Jaguars could have Mike Vick or even Tim Tebow at quarterback right now instead of the pu-pu platter of David Gerrard and Trent Edwards. Jack Del Rio is still head coach of this team?
Houston (-3) OAKLAND: Tricky, tricky matchup to predict. The Texans are clearly the better team on paper but they got beat up well by Dallas last week and have to work through that. Oakland isn’t good but isn’t terrible. Plus the contest is at home for the Raiders.
SAN DIEGO (-8.5) Arizona
PHILADELPHIA (-6) Washington: This game is getting national attention because of the quarterbacks. Donovan McNabb returns to Philadelphia and Mike Vick is coming into the city as the hottest quarterback in the NFL. In these situations, I lean towards the home team.
Chicago (+4) NY GIANTS: Did the odds makers see the Giants play against Tennessee last week?
MIAMI (+1) New England: This is pretty much a pick’em game and I’ll take the home team.
Last Week: 6-10-0
Season: 21-25-2
Those are my thoughts, what about yours?
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