Sunday, October 29, 2006

I give up trying to understand the NFL

If you'll check my picks for the games, you can verify I'm not smart. Consider:

Last week the Jaguars lost by 20 points to the Houston Texans. This week, they played without their starting QB and ran the ball all over the Philadelphia Eagles and shut down Donovan McNabb for the most part, who's an MVP candidate at this point in a 13-6 win. The Texans are 2-5 (and lost to Tennessee) while the Eagles drop to 4-4.

A few weeks ago it took the Chicago Bears three (3) non-offensive TDs and a late missed FG to eek out a 24-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Since then, the Cardinals have lost to the previously winless Oakland Raiders and then were handily beat by the 3-4 Green Bay Packers. The Chicago Bears led their game 41-0 at the half.

Speaking of the Raiders, a couple weeks they looked like they might have a shot at going 16-0... now they stand at 2-5... the same record as the defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

Mike Vick has thrown 7 TD passes in 2 games.

The NFL. I don't understand it. I just watch it.

4 comments:

The Big Picture said...

fantasy football has messed me up because of this!! aaagggghhhh!!!

Anonymous said...

The Bears game completely deflated the Cards. You had to see that coming, right? Plus, they are the Cards, right?

But I agree that some teams are just wacko and don't know what they want to be yet. Off the top of my head, Carolina, Jets, Eagles and Seahawks.

The Armchair Quarterback said...

This is why I don't bet on sports and especially not football.

twins15 said...

"This is why I don't bet on sports and especially not football."

Me neither. I make my picks against the spread for fun, and it's definitely shown me I shouldn't be doing that for real money.