In the early game on Saturday it pits the Green Bay Packers at home to the Seattle Seahawks. While the Green Bay Packers have an ageless Brett Favre at the helm it’s his former back up Matt Hasselbeck. I give the edge to Favre. In the running game it’s Ryan Grant for Green Bay trying to out run the ever so good Shawn Alexander. This edge goes to Seattle. This should be a good game with both teams being pretty evenly matched. If this game is anything like the game from a few years ago then it should be a doozy. One important hint to Hasselbeck if it does go to overtime just keep your mouth shut and play the game. As some of you may remember the last time they played Hasselbeck and the Seahawks won the coin toss and Hasselbeck’s words were ” We want they ball and we are going to score”. Not long after this Al Harris intercepted Hasselbeck and ran it in for the touchdown. The packers haven’t won since.
Pick: Green Bay
In the late game on Saturday it’s the Jacksonville Jaguars travelling to Foxboro to face the New England Patriots in the much anticipated game. The New England Patriots are undefeated going into this game. As has been all season they are all business heading into this game. The key match ups in this game will be between Tom Brady for New
England and David Garrard. Advantage Brady and the other match up pits Maurice Jones-Drew and Fred Taylor for Jacksonville against Laurence Maroney and Kevin Faulk. Both sets of running backs are strong but the slight advantage goes to the Jaguars. This game will be a smash mouth game. Both teams have proved to be good at playing the smash mouth style. I think the key will be the saftey’s for Jacksonville if they are able to contain the numerous weapons Tom Brady has then they will be able to keep it close. Personally I feel that the Jaguars have to play a near perfect game in order to stay close to this incredible New England team.
Pick: New England
In the early game on Sunday it will be the San Diego Chargers headed into Indy to face the Indianapolis Colts. This should be a good game but i expect the x factor will be the quarterback. Last time these guys faced each other Payton Manning threw 6 interceptions. Don’t expect this again. The defending champs will know they could face New England. I expect that they will want another crack at them after their early season lose to the Patriots. On the other hand San Diego will want to prove that they are a far better team in these playoffs then they were last year and will want to avenge the lose to the Patriots from last year. I feel that if the Chargers are going to win this game then their quarterback Phillip Rivers will have to have an incredible almost perfect game. Also LT will need to out run Joseph Addai by alot.
Pick: Indianapolis Colts
And the final divisional match-up will include the New York Giants heading to Texas to take on the Cowboys. Much has been made this week about the little trip Tony Romo
made to Mexico with his current girlfriend Jessica Simpson. Personally I feel that it was a stupid thing to do he should have waited until after the season is over to do any traveling. Over the last few weeks Romo and the Cowboys offense has been sputtering and he should have focused only on the task at hand. Especially after the serious error he made last playoffs. It is very hard in football to beat a team 3 times in a season and I expect the Giants to have researched well what went wrong before and will come out firing on all cylinders. They will look like the Cowboys did earlier in the season. I expect Romo to come into this game flat and play poorly. I also expect TO to come into the game unhealthy. I think the Giants will be giant in this game and will have no trouble beating up on the weakened Cowboys team.
Pick: New York Giants
Please feel free to let me know if you diagree.
