Week 9 NFL Picks

Week 8 I was 9-4. An improvement over the previous week. Still can't snap the four loss streaks. Four big games to follow in Week 9 are Baltimore at Cincinnati, Houston at Indianapolis, Miami at New England, and Pittsburgh at Denver. If the Raven's defense comes to play, Baltimore should win. If the Bengals's offense comes to play, Cincinnati should win. It will be a close game. Houston has been playing tough and Indianapolis needs to watch out, although the Colts at home will give them the edge. Miami is playing well, but New England at home is tough to beat. Monday Night Football will be hot with the Steelers playing the Broncos. I have to give this one to the Steelers. New Orleans and Carolina could be a surprise. I would be very surprised if the Panthers could out score the Saints. Is this reality football? Almost forgot Dallas and Philidelphia. The Eagles offense has been scoring and so has the Cowboys, but I am taking the Eagles at home. The rest are what they are and the games will go to the teams that score the most points. Go figure. The Browns are safe this week.

SUN, NOV 8 TIME (ET)
Washington 15 at Atlanta 24 1:00 PM FOX Tickets W
Georgia Dome
Arizona 20 at Chicago 23 1:00 PM FOX Tickets L
Soldier Field
Baltimore 24 at Cincinnati 21 1:00 PM CBS Tickets L
Paul Brown Stadium
Houston 18 at Indianapolis 37 1:00 PM CBS Tickets W
Lucas Oil Stadium
Miami 21 at New England 27 1:00 PM CBS Tickets W
Gillette Stadium
Green Bay 30 at Tampa Bay 17 1:00 PM FOX Tickets L
Raymond James Stadium
Kansas City 18 at Jacksonville 24 1:00 PM CBS Tickets W
Jacksonville Stadium
Carolina 14 at New Orleans 34 4:05 PM FOX Tickets W
Superdome
Detroit 10 at Seattle 27 4:05 PM FOX Tickets W
Qwest Field
Tennessee 20 at San Francisco 17 4:15 PM CBS Tickets W
Candlestick Park
San Diego 30 at NY Giants 24 4:15 PM CBS Tickets W
Giants Stadium
Dallas 23 at Philadelphia 32 8:20 PM NBC Tickets L
Lincoln Financial Field
MON, NOV 9 TIME (ET)
Pittsburgh 28 at Denver 21 8:30 PM Tickets W
Invesco Field at Mile High

The Bengals and Bills Get a Taste of Cleveland

Sometimes you just don't know how things are going to turn out. A case in point. Your on a Sunday drive, its a beautiful day out, your taking in the scenery, everything looks great. All of a sudden one of your tires has a blowout, you lose control of the car, and hit a tree. The Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills had such a blowout. Which goes to show anything can happen, especially when it comes to a football game.

The Bengals had taken the lead on a Cedric Benson 1 yard run for a touchdown making it 7-6 with only 38 seconds left. Celebration broke out on the Bengals bench. Everything looked great at that point. Then came the unexpected blowout. Denver was on their 13 yard line, Orton nearly had his first pass intercepted. The next play Orton threw a pass in the direction of Brandon Marshall that was deflected into the air and the rest is one for the archives. The ball floated into the hands of Brandon Stokely in full stride and he took it the 87 yards for a touchdown leaving only 11 seconds left. Broncos over the Bengals 12-7.

Buffalo Bills were still leading the Patriots even though they just scored a touchdown on a Brady pass to Watson making the score 24-19. New England missed the two-point conversion and the score remained 24-19. There was a few seconds left before the two-minute warning and New England was set to kickoff. Things were still looking good for the Bills and they had to be feeling pretty comfortable at this point. They were going to be in control of the ball. Then the blowout came. McKelvin returned the kickoff and fumbled the ball. New England recovered it on the 31 and the rest is for the archives. Brady connected with Watson again for the touchdown and the score was 25-24 after the extra point was made with 50 seconds showing on the clock. Game over.

If this is an indication of what the football season is going to be like, its going to be entertaining. Well, for some, depending on what side of the ball you are on. Brown's fans thought those kind of things only happened in Cleveland. At least the Bowns didn't lose by having a blowout and hitting a tree, they just had a meltdown. If what happened to the Bengals and Bills would have happened to Cleveland on Sunday, the fans would be walking around like zombies.