Although I don’t usually write about them, I still make football picks every week. This week, the picks are incredibly boring — everybody is picking the following teams, with one exception:
Panthers > Falcons
Packers > Vikings
Chiefs > Broncos
Bills > Dolphins
Saints > Rams
Steelers > Browns
Titans > Jaguars
Redskins > Eagles
Ravens > Bengals
Lions > Cardinals
Giants > Cowboys
Bears > Raiders
Colts > Chargers
Seahawks > 49ers
Yes, I’m picking the Giants over the Cowboys. I’m not sure that’s really going to happen, but I’d die of boredom if I didn’t do something crazy. Anyway, as we saw yesterday, it’s a good week for upsets (if you didn’t know that Illinois is a dangerous team, you’ve been missing something).
In fantasy news, my team is the Steve Smith of fantasy football — hot at first, now a steaming pile of failure. The best thing I can say about my team is that I have two of the best TEs in the league (Antonio Gates and Dallas Clark) and hope to trade Clark for a decent WR.
This is the first week that Steve Smith will be hanging out on my bench. I’m not sure about this move — as much as he’s sucked lately, I blame it on David Carr more than Smith. With Carr out, Smith will do better, even if there’s a 12-year-old playing QB for the Panthers.
The good news for me is that Lane Kiffin announced that the Raiders plan to kick to Devin Hester today. I’m going all in on this one and playing the Bears defense and Hester at WR. That’s probably not wise, but I haven’t gotten anywhere being conservative this season.
Here’s my roster for the week:
QB: Carson Palmer
RB: Willie Parker, LenDale White
RB/WR: Brandon Jacobs
WR: Devin Hester, Shaun McDonald (picked up off waivers)
TE: Antonio Gates
D/ST: Bears
K: Robbie Gould
Bench/Bye: Steve Smith, Randy Moss, Eagles D/ST, Dallas Clark, Brian Leonard, Kevin Faulk, Reggie Brown
I’m still going to lose (as of right now to someone playing an RB who’s off this week) but oh well. I tried.
Edited to add: I will never speak of football picks or fantasy football again. I am terrible.
