Weekend Recap

The good news, I went 3-1 on my picks. Not bad in a weekend where any game could have gone either way. The bad news is that our friend from Sacramento hasn't been back, nor have any other random passer-by's. But I continue to blog on with a recap of the football weekend that was.

The first game of the weekend, Indy at Baltimore, was by far the least entertaining. And I'm not just saying that because I got the pick wrong and my least favorite player in the NFL won the game. Any game whose only scoring is 8 field goals is probably not a great game to watch and this one wasn't. Fortunately it was the only clunker of the weekend. Peyton had another bad game in the playoffs, but somehow Indy will advance to the conference finals. My theory about Baltimore finally having some offense with McNair proved to be way off, and the Colts D was able to do enough to win the game.

Next came the big play extravaganza in New Orleans. The game featured 14 plays of 18+ yards, was tightly contested the whole way, and in the end "America's Team" won the game. Good times had by all ... except the poor suffering fans of Philly. Garcia played good but not great, and somewhere Donovan McNabb is smiling knowing his job and his reputation are safe for another year. Its was the running backs that won it for New Orleans. Deuce McAllister was the stud power back, plowing away at the line, and Reggie Bush recovered from one of the biggest hits ever to make several nice plays.

And the excitement continued into Sunday with the Bears and the Seahawks, which turned into a much better game than I thought it would be. Seattle was able to score on the Bears D, and Alexander looked much better than he did the week before. In the end it came down to Rex Grossman making enough big plays to cancel out his 2 turnovers, and the Bears coming up big enough in OT to win the game.

The pick the Patriots until they aren't around to pick anymore theory works again. I don't know how a team with a player as good as LT can lose a game, but it probably has something to do with passing more than it runs when it has a 1st year starter and a lead for most of the game. Tom Brady wasn't good at all for most of the game, especially the 1st Half, but when it counted he led the Pats on the drives they needed to win the game.