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Preseason voting: Who will win the Super Bowl?

Ravens 28 6.14%
 
Patriots 53 11.62%
 
Broncos 141 30.92%
 
Texans 9 1.97%
 
Other (AFC) 19 4.17%
 
49ers 32 7.02%
 
Falcons 5 1.10%
 
Packers 17 3.73%
 
Seahawks 101 22.15%
 
Other (NFC) 47 10.31%
 
Total:452
BYE   SF-STL 1 BAL-BUF   ARI-TB  
PIT-MIN   NYG-KC   IND-JAC   SEA-HOU  
CIN-CLE   CHI-DET   NYJ-TEN   WAS-OAK  
PHI-DEN
DAL-SD
NE-ATL
MIA-NO by X

 i'll get my thursday pick in now and do the rest later

may aswell go with the experts and pick the 49ers but doesn't seem that straight forward



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chocoloco said:

Hey, you guys can have the Patriots. America does not want them.

It actually seems like a terribe game to give Great Britian. Neither team is good, nor represents the best the sport has to offer. Pretty sure the steelers will not score much.

The Vikings quarterback is not too great to begin with but he seems like he might be out on an rib injury. If you get backup Matt Cassel you might see a lot of interceptions thrown by him as that is what he became known for last year in Kansas City as a Chief.

Still should be fun it is two teams that rarely face each other so their is a lot of unknowns for both teams. Should be fun to attend though.

Yeah, the fact that neither team were in the poll at the top was a clue however, will be good to see some none the less. Thanks though.



Hmm, pie.

noname2200 said:
chocoloco said:

Finished my picks.

All the AFC West teams have home field advantage over the NFC North. I think that wwill mean a lot for most of these games. Not so secretly hoping the Chiefs lose. Fuck da Chiefs.

Whoa.

Whoa whoa.

Am I misreading this, or are you actually picking the Raiders to win a game against someone who isn't Jacksonville?

The Redskins D is pretty bad. 

They both are playing horrible and it brings me to the coin tossing bet with rol I had the Tebow year. A lot of games predictably is about as realiable as a coin toss. This one seems to have no team with a great advantage.

Pryor is now salty about the hit that gave him a concussion and is calling for a ban on Wesley Wood yard who hit him. It looks clean to me. Pryor runs with the ball a lot he should expect to get hit hard by their long time rival in my opinion. 60 years of Raiders-Broncos creates a huge rivalry, 120 games long if I am correct.



theRepublic said:
noname2200 said:
RolStoppable said:

1. The Rams are good at home, but I doubt that Jim Harbaugh wants to lose three times in a row.

You're overlooking the obvious solution: TIE.

God that was terrible last year.

Y'all won the second game!

I was rooting for another tie.

chocoloco said:

The Redskins D is pretty bad. 

They both are playing horrible and it brings me to the coin tossing bet with rol I had the Tebow year. A lot of games predictably is about as realiable as a coin toss. This one seems to have no team with a great advantage.

Pryor is now salty about the hit that gave him a concussion and is calling for a ban on Wesley Wood yard who hit him. It looks clean to me. Pryor runs with the ball a lot he should expect to get hit hard by their long time rival in my opinion. 60 years of Raiders-Broncos creates a huge rivalry, 120 games long if I am correct.

I see your point about the Redskins, but I'm not convinced the Raiders are better than anyone but the Jaguars, maybe the Bucs. And the Redskins gotta shape up sometime...right?

Is Pryor really whining for a ban? I didn't see the game, but I haven't heard anyone say it wasn't clean. Looks like he's learning the same lesson Griffin did last year: NFL defenders are bigger and faster than in college, so maybe you should really think about sliding...



BYE   SF-STL 1 BAL-BUF  1 ARI-TB  1
PIT-MIN 2 NYG-KC  2 IND-JAC  1 SEA-HOU  1
CIN-CLE  1 CHI-DET  1 NYJ-TEN  2 WAS-OAK 1
PHI-DEN 2
DAL-SD 2 NE-ATL 1
MIA-NO NO by 4


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noname2200 said:

Y'all won the second game!

I was rooting for another tie.

chocoloco said:

The Redskins D is pretty bad. 

They both are playing horrible and it brings me to the coin tossing bet with rol I had the Tebow year. A lot of games predictably is about as realiable as a coin toss. This one seems to have no team with a great advantage.

Pryor is now salty about the hit that gave him a concussion and is calling for a ban on Wesley Wood yard who hit him. It looks clean to me. Pryor runs with the ball a lot he should expect to get hit hard by their long time rival in my opinion. 60 years of Raiders-Broncos creates a huge rivalry, 120 games long if I am correct.

I see your point about the Redskins, but I'm not convinced the Raiders are better than anyone but the Jaguars, maybe the Bucs. And the Redskins gotta shape up sometime...right?

Is Pryor really whining for a ban? I didn't see the game, but I haven't heard anyone say it wasn't clean. Looks like he's learning the same lesson Griffin did last year: NFL defenders are bigger and faster than in college, so maybe you should really think about sliding...

I am not convinced either, but the one game I saw Robert Griffen the third play he was realy bad. I think the following games he was better. Raiders are playing the as teams like the Bucs, Steelers, and Washington, bad. So I do not know really.

Yes, he is. You are a terribe Raiders fan missing the game of the year so far in the NFL. IF you are a Broncos fan



Based on what I've seen from watching read option teams is that the NFL seems to have adjusted to neutralizing it. I'm glad to see that, because honestly I was tired of seeing QB's run so much.



NobleTeam360 said:
Based on what I've seen from watching read option teams is that the NFL seems to have adjusted to neutralizing it. I'm glad to see that, because honestly I was tired of seeing QB's run so much.

I may be wrong as I miss most Sehawks games,  but doesn't Russel Wilson run a read option? He is said to have not great recievers so they run the ball a lot. But, yeah, it seems most read options teams are no longer surprising teams as much as last year. Defenses spent all off-season prepairing for it. If they continued to run so much I woud percieve shorter carrers for these guys. Glad it is not working so well too.



Ill pick MIN for the Thursday game. Ill put up the rest laters.



antfromtashkent said:
Ill pick MIN for the Thursday game. Ill put up the rest laters.

The Vikings aren't playing today?