Don't look now, but I'm on a hot streak

My second post in two days. Hoo - ray. The following is about football. If you don't care about football, I recommend skipping to the words in bold.

Four awesome NFL games are on this weekend. I'm picking Pats, Colts, Giants and Packers. My Titans lost to the Chargers last week in a hard fought battle. Jeff Fisher truly is a great coach. His team suffers numerous injuries, but he has the coached enough to come out looking stellar. If three plays are different in that game, the Titans win:

1. the Vince Young scramble right on the first drive. This was a busted pass play. If it had been a designed run, VY would have either gotten the first or scored a TD.

2. Lendale White's fumble. Great hit, bad luck on the bounce, if we recover, we score another TD.

3. Vincent Jackson's first long catch. DB slipped and moved the wrong way. if Jackson doesn't catch it, we're up by 17 and frusturating their entire offense.

Oh well, I'm still very satisfied with the way their season ended. With Wake Forest, too. Jim Grobe had me scared for a minute when I thought he was leaving to go to Arkansas. They showed tremendous resolve in the bowl game. Hopefully they will just get better and better with each year. I'd like to see them win another ACC Championship in my life time.

Onto the NFL games. Everyone in the country is being trendy and picking the Jags. Uh, the Pats went 16-0. yes, they did not look good in recent weeks. yes, the jags have a good team. But there's now way Belicheck lets his team go 16-0 and then doesn't make it to the AFC Champsionship game. And secretly you know that for the 16-0 to be validated, the Pats and Colts have to meet in the playoffs.

Colts. They are healthy right now. A few weeks ago, Bill Simmons went on one of his Boston hoser rants about blah blah blah Patriots, blah blah blah and someone called him on it and said "you've got an unstoppable juggernaut offensive team with a weak def against the run (Pats) vs. a good balanced team who quietly struggled becasue of injuries but is now peaking (Colts). Sound familiar?" You bet it does, look at Pats v. Colts in 03/04. The Colts may be better in this year's playoffs than they were in last years.

Packers. I do not have any confidence in the Seahawks. Yes, Matt Hasselback is good and has had a good year, and yes the defense is very quick and very good, but it's hard for me to pick a team with a bad running game. Shaun Alexander doesn't fight for yards. I can't name one receiver on the Seahawks (Darrell Jackson??? i think he left). And the Packers offense looks like it did in the 96-98 years.

Giants. I can't pick all the number one seeds, one of them has to lose. We have two forces here that may collide. TO's absence and Jessica Simpson. TO has a high ankle sprain (as opposed to a low anke sprain, of which I have never heard). Although TO has shown remarkable recovery from injury for the playoffs before (see '05 Super Bowl with Eagles), I don't think he will be able to help. And they mailed in the season finale against a hated rival. Combine that with Jessica Simpson. She's dating Tony! and like, ohmigawd, they totally went to Mexico for a week because Tony needed to get away from pressure and Jess was all ike oo baby i love you so much and he said ya im into you too and she was all like wutz chicken of the sea and he was all like your my chicken of the sea isntthatsocoolomigodtheyregoingotgetmarriedmarriedmarried.

And that is why I'm picking the Giants.

-G