My ban only lasted for a day so I'm back and ready to roll.

And I finally got my Thursday pick right. Have no idea how some of you are perfect on the season for that. The teams playing are so bad that I feel like it's always a toss up.

This was an easy week to make picks. The only ones I really struggled with were BAL/PIT and DAL/NO.

Only twice in the last 12 or 13 years has the #1 seed been decided by anything other than head to head. In that same period four times the #2 seed has been decided. By this logic you should be bothered even less by a 2nd seed team not earning a bye, since "so often" they only got that #2 seed based on conference win percentage.

Sorry but you don't know what you're talking about if you're just going to blindly assume the 7th best team in each conference every year is "mediocre". And I assume you've never watched playoff football if you're also assuming the #2 seed will automatically "pound" them. You're not really arguing with logic here, just blanket statements that aren't based in reality.

Well Miami would not have made it in last season. Nor would the Bills, they'd have been the 4th ranked 9-7 team. But the Texans were ending the season on a roll and were playing good defense. It also would have given the Chiefs AND Chargers something to play for in week 17 instead of just the Chargers. In 2013 you would have had the 10-6 Cardinals in after winning 7 of their last 9, losing only two games by field goals, each to 10+ win playoff teams.

These aren't 5 or 6 win teams being allowed in :)

Nah, early season injuries a team bounces back from are not nearly the same as an injury happening in a playoff game. Furthermore we're talking about the regular season that sets up the playoffs. Not the playoffs. Pointing out that the same can happen in a playoff game doesn't negate how important the regular season is. It's not the same argument. The same argument would be me coming back and saying yes, injuries can happen! Lets play 12 regular season games.

We've seen more wild card teams get dominated in the playoffs than we have seen 7 win division champions. I guess we should just eliminate all wild cards? It's ok, the change is coming sooner rather than later.

Broncos have a very banged up offensive line, Ryan Harris moving to LT and 2nd year player Schofield making his first NFL start today at RT. So the worst part of the Broncos team gets even worse. I predict a ton of screens and short passes, which will bring the defense up and make running as hard as it's been all season. Hopefully they put Peypey in shotgun early a little and let him throw deep and they connect on a couple, loosen the defense up.

Andrew Luck is officially not playing today, and that team sucks even WITH him at QB, seriously wondering if the Jags will now win that game...I think I'll keep my pick though

I forgot about the game in London. Hope my pick was before kickoff.

Oh what the hell. Changing my pick for the Jac-IND game to the Jaguars winning. Colts are just more awful with Luck out now.