{"id":416,"date":"2011-01-08T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/nfl-wild-card-weekend-3\/"},"modified":"2011-01-08T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:54:42","slug":"nfl-wild-card-weekend-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2011\/01\/nfl-wild-card-weekend-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Wild Card Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday<\/strong>
\nSaints @ Seattle(+10)<\/em>
\nSo, I actually watched the Seahawks-Rams game last weekend, and I was pretty impressed with the Seahawks; they certainly looked much better than any team with a losing record had any right to look. I also watched a lot of the Saints-Bucs game, and wasn\u2019t particularly impressed with the Saints. Now, both of these impressions probably also had a lot to do with the competition, but at the same time, the Saints don\u2019t really have it completely together and the Seahawks are much better at home than on the road. I think New Orleans is the better team and will win this game, but that\u2019s rather more points than I\u2019m willing to give, so I will actually take the Seahawks. Yikes, that feels weird to type.<\/p>\n

Jets @ Indianapolis(-2)<\/em>
\nI\u2019m really on the fence with this game. I love picking against Manning in the first round of the playoffs, because while everybody drools over his regular season numbers, he\u2019s gone one-and-done six times in his career. On the other hand, someone really needs to smack Rex Ryan and tell him to shut his pie hole. And in the middle of this season, I most certainly would have taken the Jets. However, I like the Colts here because, of all the things you wouldn\u2019t expect, the Colts have been playing the run tough and have been committed to running the ball themselves lately. Good coaching, really, in that they were struggling earlier and they really did change their approach. The other side here is that the Jets have not looked all that great of late, in particular when running the ball. If they have trouble running, which I think they will, I don\u2019t trust Sanchez to go out and win it. Plus, Manning has kind of owned the Ryan defenses of late. I am really glad it\u2019s only two points, though, as I don\u2019t see the Colts blowing the doors off. I kind of feel like the Colts win by a FG, so two is just perfect. As much as it pains me to do it, I\u2019m taking Indy.<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong>
\nRavens @ Kansas City(+3)<\/em>
\nBaltimore has really struggled late in the season with putting teams away, and Flacco just doesn\u2019t seem to be getting it done of late. However, how crappy have the Chefs looked? That loss to Oakland was a thing of great ugliness. I just don\u2019t see KC pulling this one out, and think it\u2019s kind of remarkable the spread is only three. Ravens.<\/p>\n

Packers @ Philadelphia(-2.5)<\/em>
\nI\u2019m going to take Green Bay in this game because Vick is banged up, which is really bad for them, and because the Packers\u2019 defense has been playing lights out lately. I like them to really keep Vick bottled up and frustrate him into some bad throws, which he\u2019s been doing more lately. While Rodgers isn\u2019t having the season he had last year, he\u2019s solid. I expect another low-scoring game here, and again, I\u2019m happy that it\u2019s less than a field goal because I could easily see the Packers winning this game 10-7 or some such. Actually I\u2019m slightly worried that it\u2019ll be 9-7 and I\u2019ll lose by half a point, but I\u2019m going to hope that the Iggles blitz just a little too often and Rodgers finds someone open deep for a cheap TD so that Green Bay covers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday Saints @ Seattle(+10) So, I actually watched the Seahawks-Rams game last weekend, and I was pretty impressed with the Seahawks; they certainly looked much better than any team with a losing record had any right to look. I also watched a lot of the Saints-Bucs game, and wasn\u2019t particularly impressed with the Saints. Now, … Continue reading NFL Wild Card Weekend<\/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\/416"}],"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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}