{"id":327,"date":"2009-12-20T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2009\/12\/20\/nfl-week-15-3\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T07:39:10","slug":"nfl-week-15-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2009\/12\/nfl-week-15-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We both took the Colts on Thursday and the Saints on Saturday&#8230; oops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 1:00<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Patriots at Buffalo(+7)<\/em><br \/>\nI don\u2019t like the Pats on the road this season. I think they\u2019ll probably win because they really need to, but that\u2019s too many points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cardinals @ Detroit(+14)<\/em><br \/>\nI think that Arizona does have something to play for: erasing the memory of last week to build momentum for the playoffs. The Lions\u2019 defense can\u2019t stop anything, I like the Cards to light it up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Browns @ Kansas City(-2)<\/em><br \/>\nCleveland has shown signs of life lately, and I don\u2019t like the idea of the Chefs giving points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Falcons @ New Jersey Jets(-7)<\/em><br \/>\nAtlanta on the road in a game that means nothing to them and everything to the Jets? Give the points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Texans @ St. Louis(-14)<\/em><br \/>\nHow bad is the NFC West? I saw the Texans absolutely light up the Seahawks last week; that game was actually way worse than the score. However, the Texans still can\u2019t stop the run, and the Rams will run, and&#8230; err, I have to try to catch up somewhere, so I\u2019ll take the points and hope my boys only win by 10.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dolphins @Tennessee(-5)<\/em><br \/>\nMiami needs this game, I\u2019ll take the points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday ~4:10<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Forty-Niners @ Philadelphia(-7.5)<\/em><br \/>\nIf all you can do is pass, the Niners can defend that. Oh, look, it\u2019s the Eagles. Yeah, take the points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Raiders @ Denver(-14)<\/em><br \/>\nThe Raiders lost Gradkowski, who was the source of their looking decent again. Broncos will stomp all over them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bengals @ San Diego(-7)<\/em><br \/>\nTough week for Cinci. They don\u2019t really need the game and I\u2019m taking the Bolts all December until they give me reason to go otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bears @ Baltimore(-11)<\/em><br \/>\nIs Ed Reed back yet? I\u2019m not sure the Ravens are really that good (beating up on the Lions shows nothing) until Reed gets back. On the other hand, Chicago is plain awful. OK, give the points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Packers @ Pittsburgh(-2)<\/em><br \/>\nWrong team favored! The Packers are much better than Pittsburgh. Gotta love getting points here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Buccaneers @ Seattle(-6.5)<\/em><br \/>\nThe Seabags are really, really bad. I can only begin to tell you how awful their offense looked last week in person. But you know what? The Bucs are even worse, and are on the road. I\u2019ll take Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SNF<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Vikings @ Carolina(+9)<\/em><br \/>\nNow that the Saints have lost, the Vikings need to keep on the pressure to hope for home field. Give the points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MNF<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Giants @ Washington(+3)<\/em><br \/>\nThe Giants have no defense, even the Redskins will be able to move the ball on them. Plus, the Redskins have a real defense. I like getting points here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We both took the Colts on Thursday and the Saints on Saturday&#8230; oops. Sunday 1:00 Patriots at Buffalo(+7) I don\u2019t like the Pats on the road this season. I think they\u2019ll probably win because they really need to, but that\u2019s too many points. Cardinals @ Detroit(+14) I think that Arizona does have something to play &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2009\/12\/nfl-week-15-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Week 15<\/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":[16],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}