Week 17 Of The 2009-10 NFL Season Is Here

Week 17... final week of the regular season. Over these past few weeks, I have generally been up and down with my predictions... going 12-4 in week 14, dropping to 7-9 in week 15, then rebounding for another 12-4 week in the 16th week of the season. My record for the season to date for all of the first 16 weeks is 154-86... slightly better than where I was at this time last year (150-89-1).

Picking games in the last week of the regular season is always, I've found, the most complicated. Not knowing for sure which teams will rest their starters and even then, how exactly that will effect the outcome of their games. But, last year I was 9-7 in the final week... overall, not too bad all things considering.

Here are my picks for each of the week 17 games...

Buffalo over Indianapolis

Minnesota over New York Giants

Tampa Bay over Atlanta

San Francisco over St Louis

Pittsburgh over Miami

Carolina over New Orleans

Chicago over Detroit

New England over Houston

Cleveland over Jacksonville

Dallas over Philadelphia

Tennessee over Seattle

San Diego over Washington

Oakland over Baltimore (Major Upset Alert!)

Denver over Kansas City

Green Bay over Arizona

New York Jets over Cincinnati

Happy New Year!

Super Bowl

Finally tomorrow on Sunday February 1st, the Pittsburgh Steelers will play against the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.

My final prediction for the NFL 2008-09 season...

Pittsburgh Steelers will win their sixth Super Bowl all time by a final score of 20-14.

Should be a great game. I am also very much looking forward to seeing Bruce Springsteen perform at the halftime intermission.

NFC/AFC Championship Games

Only four teams left in the race to the Vince Lombardi trophy. My picks for tomorrow's games between the remaining two NFC teams and the remaining two AFC teams:

Philadelphia Eagles over Arizona Cardinals (although if Arizona plays the way they did against Carolina, I wouldn't be surprised if this one went the other way)

Pittsburgh Steelers over Baltimore Ravens (Baltimore is a good team, but I think Pittsburgh is a better team and they will get their 3rd win over the Ravens this season)

Football Picks... Divisional Playoffs

Just for fun, I enjoy predicting which NFL teams will win every week during pro football season. My win/loss/tie record to date for the 2008-09 season (including last week's wildcard playoffs) is 160-99-1

An additional side note... since 2005, the home teams' winning percentage in the divisional round is only 50%

Now to my picks...

Baltimore Ravens over Tennessee Titans in an upset

Carolina Panthers over Arizona Cardinals (practically the lock of the week... Arizona hasn't won a game on the east coast all year, Carolina is 8-0 at home)

Philadelphia Eagles over New York Giants (my bold upset pick of the week... Eagles are on a roll)

Pittsburgh Steelers over San Diego Chargers

First Post

Hello. This is my first post here and this is kind of just a test to see how it works.

Thanks for visiting.

-Mike