Kansas City Chiefs
Greeny: 9-7
Golic: 8-8
Me: The schedule's too tough. 7-9
ATL, @BUF, @NO, SD, BAL, @TB, and then they still have to play Pittsburgh once and Denver twice after the bye week.
There's just too much beef for a team with nothing to really offer except a home field like few others in the NFL. The schedule makes .500 too optimistic, IMHO.
Seattle Seahawks
Greeny: 8-8
Golic: 8-8
Me: 6-10, same reason as Kansas City
DAL, GB, SF X 2, @ ARI, @ CAR, @ CHI, and nothing to offer the league in either fan base, marketing, or storyline. No. Just... no. Same situation as Kansas City.
Arizona Cardinals
Greeny: 6-10
Golic: 5-11
Me: 7-9
Arizona is a funny place to play, for some reason. They always seem to win a couple games at their home stadium that they have no business winning. Funny, as it sounds, I could easily see them 5-2 before the schedule comes crashing down on them after about Week 7 or 8.
Dallas Cowboys
Greeny and Golic: 9-7
Me: 7-9
Let's face it: The NFL always wants Dallas to come back hardcore, but with Dez Bryant and the floating question mark which is Tony Romo...
Again, look at some of the games they have to play, and tell me this team, with that "face", goes .500 this year... They're third-best in the division to begin with, and Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Baltimore as well. Not only that, but Romo is just a guy that I can't trust being a winning quarterback.
Philadelphia Eagles
Greeny and Golic: 10-6
Me: 10-6 will require a lot of league help and a healthy Michael Vick!! 8-8 is more feasible (and my prediction), but 10-6 is not out of the question.
Brutal schedule in the first half of the season. I am still not sold that many of the players want to be on a team with Michael Vick winning a Super Bowl. (In fact, DeSean Jackson, IMHO to cover up with his contract, IMHO said as much!)
That said, Vick has a pre-season rib injury, and this is a messy schedule in a hard-hitting division. They'll get some league help if Vick is healthy -- 10-6 might be a bit much to ask, though.
New York Jets
Greeny and Golic: 6-10
Me: The biggest enigma of the season. Tebow Time vs. Rex Ryan. Prediction: 10-6.
Oh brother, does this team STINK.
On Ice.
That said, didn't we go through this last year? You know, with the Denver Broncos stealing money with rigged wins?
I truly believe the NFL and Goodell want Rex Ryan out of the league (or at least out of the spotlight thereof).
That said, Tim Tebow is one of the two people in this league who is the most polarizing and rigged-for this season.
To me, only one thing is for sure... This team does NOT go 6-10. I predict we get Tebow Time again, and they go 10-6. Otherwise, this piece of crap has 4-12 written all over it!
The San-chize will be done away with once and for all early in the season, and I see the same thing happening as last year in Denver: This team is about 2-4, and makes it into the playoffs (IMHO, as a 5-6 to play Denver in the first weekend!) at 9-7 or 10-6. The second half of the schedule is workable for such a stupid rig-job.
Oakland Raiders
Greeny and Golic: 7-9
Me: 6-10
Mainly because they are THE most undisciplined team in the league, and, until that culture changes, they will get screwed, again and again and again. The schedule is workable, but the team is just too undisciplined. I predict another penalty record in Oakland, and someone is finally going to have to sic Goodell on the franchise itself to basically lay down the law.
San Diego Chargers
Greeny: 9-7
Golic: 8-8
Me: 8-8
Largely because of the benefits they will get from playing Oakland. There's too much turmoil (San Diego is seen as one of the first candidates to move to Los Angeles on the AFC side.) to go much higher than this.
Chicago Bears
Greeny: 11-5
Golic: 9-7
Me: 10-6
Someone's gotta win the NFC North, though -- and, to me, might 10-6 be enough?
Lots of beef in that schedule, yes, but there is a lot of buzz up in Chicago, and with Detroit undisciplined and Green Bay racking up the problem children, could 10-6 be enough to win an NFC North that goes how most people will not expect?
I think 10-6 is reasonable for the Bears with or without the rigging -- the question is whether that 10-6 is going to be enough, and that WILL take rigging.
Tennessee Titans
Greeny: 8-8
Golic: 7-9
Me: 8-8
One of these teams who will muddle it through, but not much more.
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