{"id":191,"date":"2008-01-12T02:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/nfl-divisional-round-3\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T02:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:05:28","slug":"nfl-divisional-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2008\/01\/nfl-divisional-round-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Divisional Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so… I won\u2019t have picks? Why? Because the records are as follows: for me, 134-135-8; for Al, 141-126-10. (Don\u2019t ask why Al has two more ties.) For me to win, I have to go 7-0, and there are a whole seven games left. So, my picks are very simple: whatever pick Al makes, I\u2019m going the other way. Of course, Al went 3-1 to my lovely 0-4 last week. I am on what you might call a horrible run. While I went 8-8 in Week 16 and 9-6-1 in Week 17, I have gone a combined 8-24 in bowls. Yowza. Combined with my 1-3 in the wild card round, I just handed the season to Al on a silver platter. (Note that this is with Al going 0-6 on the December 31st bowls.) I also managed to blow being 20 games over .500. The bowls were just brutal<\/strong> for me. At least Michigan managed to pull off the upset over Florida.<\/p>\n

So, uhh, here are the spreads. My picks are whatever Al doesn\u2019t pick, but I\u2019ll still comment.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>
\nSeahawks @ Green Bay(-7.5)<\/em>
\nThe Seahawks have looked really good over the last month when they\u2019re at home. On the road, though, they\u2019ve not been impressive. Are the Packers enough better at home?<\/p>\n

Jaguars @ New England(-13)<\/em>
\nYes, Jacksonville won last week, but I wasn\u2019t all that impressed. Garrard looked very average, and how do you let the Parker-less Steelers just walk up and down the field with the ball? Assuming that Genius Bill spent half the week off preparing for each team, that\u2019s a week and a half prep for the Jags, in New England. When has that not<\/em> worked out for the Pats?<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong>
\nChargers @ Indianapolis(-9)<\/em>
\nAnd speaking of underwhelming wins, I offer you the San Diego Chargers. Still, for some odd reason, they always seem to make it close with the Colts.<\/p>\n

Giants @ Dallas(-7.5)<\/em>
\nTalk about teams that have been heading in opposite directions! The G-men have looked really good in the last month, and the Cowboys have looked like ass. There\u2019s no home field advantage here since the Giants are actually a much better road team (8-1, I believe). Of course, in their previous two games, the Cowboys have lit the Giants defense up like that tree I just recycled. If the Cowboys forget the two key words in their offense again (those would be \u201cMarion Barber\u201d), it could be interesting…<\/p>\n

Of course, given how I\u2019ve been picking lately, I obviously know nothing<\/em>. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, so… I won\u2019t have picks? Why? Because the records are as follows: for me, 134-135-8; for Al, 141-126-10. (Don\u2019t ask why Al has two more ties.) For me to win, I have to go 7-0, and there are a whole seven games left. So, my picks are very simple: whatever pick Al makes, I\u2019m … Continue reading NFL Divisional Round<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}