Note about last post: Pinkett has now been suspended two additional games by Notre Dame for his comments. Why he is not fired, I do not know.
So let's finish the predictions for this farce of a season...
Cincinnati Bengals:
Greeny: 8-8
Golic: 9-7
Me: 7-9
Another of these teams you look at and ask "What can they (positively) bring to the table?"
Atlanta Falcons:
Greeny: 11-5
Golic: 10-6
Me: I want to go higher, but the schedule holds them back. 11-5
I do think they will benefit from the league smacking down New Orleans (see below), but I just can't see, with that difficult a schedule, that they pull it off.
Detroit Lions:
Greeny: 10-6
Golic: 9-7
Me: 10-6
This is a team that could be a beast in the NFC -- if they could cut out all the player-discipline bullshit. Least-mature team in the entire NFL. This is going to be a team who should be 12-4 or better, but the league will cut a couple wins off the ledger here, leaving them in a mess (see below) in the NFC North.
Pittsburgh Steelers:
Greeny and Golic: 10-6
Me: 10-6
Another team which would go higher, if not for the discipline, from Rothlesberger to Harrison on down. Until that team matures, they aren't seeing another Super Bowl.
Denver Broncos:
Greeny and Golic: 9-7
Me: It all depends on Manning. Official prediction is: 11-5 with him, 5-11 without.
You know the league wants the Broncos and Manning back in the playoffs, especially if they can squeak the Jets into the 6-hole for that 3-6 game: Tebow vs. Manning. That said, that's a brutal first part of the schedule for Peyton, and it ALL depends on him being healthy, without question.
Houston Texans:
Greeny: 12-4
Golic: 10-6
Me: 10-6
A LOT of people are picking them to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.
To wit I say, legit or rigged: HOW? Who do they have for the NFL to pimp in an offense-first (if not offense-only!) league? And they hit damn near everybody on their schedule!
New Orleans Saints:
Greeny: 7-9
Golic: 10-6
Me: 6-10, if that!
This is basically Drew Brees auditioning for Los Angeles, IMHO. The only reason the Saints don't go 2-14 is because of him alone.
Green Bay Packers:
Greeny: 12-4
Golic: 11-5
Me: 10-6
Schedule reads an easy 11-5 at abject minimum (and most have much more than that!), but between the suspensions and the pickup of Benson, they won't even win the NFC North. Chicago will.
A team at the elite level has to represent the league, and Green Bay has lost that moral high ground, and will fall closer to where they should've been last year than where they actually ended up.
Baltimore Ravens:
Greeny and Golic: 11-5
Me: 12-4
Not crazy about it, but someone has to win that division.
San Francisco 49ers:
Greeny: 10-6
Golic: 12-4
Me: 13-3
... because someone has to in the NFC. They may not be the best team, but they may be the only team which could represent the league as NFC champions. Not Green Bay, not Detroit, Chicago's not good enough, neither is Atlanta...
New York Giants:
Greeny and Golic: 10-6
Me: 12-4
Think of what I just said on the Pack and the 49ers...
New England Patriots:
Greeny and Golic: 12-4
Me: ....
......
They've got two lose-able games on the schedule.
I think they're going to do it this time.
19-0 and Super Bowl Champions, Belichick retires at the end of the year, Brady might too.
Of course, it's one injury away from all falling apart, which is why you never see this prediction made.
But there are very few franchises which could truly be representative of what Roger Goodell wants out of the NFL, and, especially if what I think happens this fall politically happens, a "Patriot=Champion=Perfection" propaganda motif sounds real close to home.
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