[CBFF] Blog - Jerryz Week 1 Picks

[Steve Behrens]

On 9/5/07, Jerry Madsen <jerrywm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://bloggeddrain.typepad.com/cbff/2007/09/jerryz-week-1-p.html
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> September 05, 2007
> Jerryz Week 1 Picks
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> by Jerry Madsen
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> Last week's record: N/A
> On the year: N/A
> Winning %: N/A
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> I hate making the Week 1 picks.  It's a total crapshoot.  The
> pre-season doesn't tell us much - if anything at all - and you're
> fighting the specter of who these teams were the last time you saw
> them, 36 weeks ago.  And with modern day parity, a single NFL year is
> worth 7 years of normal change.
>
> But going into week 1, there are certain untruths I hold to be
> self-evident the 2007 NFL Season...
>
>    * I'm dig'n those new duds the Chargers are sporting in 2007.
>    * The Pats won't be as good as their off-season expenditures might
> suggest.  To the best of my knowledge, the Yankees and the 97 Florida
> Marlins have been the only teams who have successfully "bought" a
> championship.
>    * Eric Mangini and his Jets won't be sneaking-up on anybody in
> 2007.  Expect a sophomore slump for the coach and his team.
>    * I believe that Brett Favre was influenced by his team's victory
> over the Bears last New Year's Eve when he decided to come back.  He
> should have instead considered the Packers narrow 9-7 week 16 win over
> the lowly Vikings.  His INTs will out pace his TD total in 07.  And
> boy will they suck.
>    * The Atlanta Falcons will be better off without Michael Vick.
> Bobby Petrino dodged a bullet.
>    * Where is all this Philly love coming from?  Andy Reid has the
> wrong house in order.
>    * The Saints weren't a fluke.  Expect them to return to the NFC
> Championship game against...
>    * The Bears.  They are better then the team they put on the field
> in Super Bowl XLI.  Rex will make it to the Pro-Bowl but that won't
> shut-up any of the talking heads.  In the end, I expect this to go
> down as a memorable season, but not for the reasons we hope.
>    * ESPN still sucks.  Too easterly biased.  Too sensational.  Too
> many so-called "experts."
>    * The NFL Network is the best source to quality NFL coverage.
>    * Fantasy Football is great for NFL's bottom line.
>    * Fantasy Football is bad for the fans.
>
> So with no further delay, the picks (home teams in bold):
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> San Diego over Chicago - Too much LaDainian Tomlinson and not enough
> Thomas Jones.



Got this far.  Obviously the man's daft.  No sense wasting my time on the
rest of it.

-Behr

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