Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Week 16 Preview and Predictions (Dec 22-26)


Last week’s record 8-8

Houston (10-4) at Indianapolis (1-13) Thursday night
The Texans are coming off of a bad lost to Carolina and would like to get back on track this week.  The Colts got their first win against division rival Tennessee.  The Colts would like to win two in a row.  The Texans would like to win to earn first or second seed in the conference.  The Texans will win 17-10.

Cleveland (4-10) at Baltimore (10-4)
The Browns are just playing out the string of games left in the season.  The Ravens would like to make it make to the Super Bowl from the number two seed of the AFC.  The Ravens’ Ray Rice has been coming up big for the Ravens.  The Browns offense will not be a match for the Ravens.  Ravens will win 31-14.

Denver (8-6) at Buffalo (5-9)
Tebow mania took a hit last week with the lost by the Broncos to the Patriots last week.  The Bills are in the middle of a nine game losing streak.  The Broncos are in first place and looking toward the playoffs.  The Bills are just playing out the string and looking toward the off season.  Broncos will win 28-10.

Tampa Bay (4-10) at Carolina (5-9)
The Buccaneers are reeling this season.  Josh Freeman has not been as effective this season and the Bucs offense has suffered.  The Panthers are coming in off an impressive victory over the Texans.  The Panther’s defense played their best game of the year.  The Panthers will win 27-21.

Arizona (7-7) at Cincinnati (8-6)
Both teams are still making a push for the final playoffs spot in their conference.  Neither team was expected to be in contention this late in the year.  The Cardinals have been in very good late in games.  The Bengals defense has been good all year.  The Bengals will win 17-10.

Oakland (7-7) at Kansas City (6-8)
Romeo Crennel’s defense has been great despite losing key players to injuries this year.  The Chiefs played inspired against in win over the Packers last week.  Oakland misses their running game and need to avoid turnovers to win the game.  The Raiders will win 27-21.

Miami (5-9) at New England (11-3)
The Patriots sent a message to the league last week in the win over the Broncos.  Tom Brady has led the offensive explosion of late and the defense actually put a good game plan up against the Broncos.  Miami have been executing better on offence.  The Patriots will win 35-21.

New York Giants (7-7) at New York Jets (8-6)
This is a road game for the Giants in their own stadium.  The Giants loss last week to the Redskins, makes this a must win game for the Giants.  The Jets has control of the last playoffs spot in the AFC.  The loser will have their chance to make the playoffs put on life support.  The Jets will win 21-17.

St. Louis (2-12) at Pittsburgh (10-4)
The loss last week by the Steelers was costly, because now they do not have the opportunity to rest players this week against the Rams and hope that the Ravens will lose one of their remaining games.  The Rams have just been awful this year.  The Steelers will win handily 28-17.

Jacksonville (4-10) at Tennessee (7-7)
Tennessee loss to arch rival Colts last week was hard for them to take.  The Titan’s running back Chris Johnson has been improving after his early season holdout.  The Titans needs a lot of help if they are to make the playoffs and that starts with them winning games.  The Titans will win 17-10.

Minnesota (2-12) at Washington (5-9)
The Redskins swept the season series with the Giants.  Skins fans are wondering where they would be if Grossman had not been benched earlier this year.  Christian Ponder has played impressive, but does not have many wins to show for it.  The Redskins will win 21-17.

San Diego (7-7) at Detroit (9-5)
The Chargers are one game out of first place in their division and are playing like everyone expected them to be playing.  The Lions came from behind to defeat the Raiders last week.  Suh blocked a potential game winning field goal.  Phillip Rivers will shine.  The Chargers will win 34-24.

Philadelphia (6-8) at Dallas (8-6)
Michael Vick has been playing well lately.  The Eagles still has an outside shot to make the playoffs.  The Cowboys lose games they should win and win games they should lose.  The Cowboys team has been inconsistent all year long.  The Eagles will win 27-24.

San Francisco (11-3) at Seattle (7-7)
The forty-niners are still in contention for the second seed in the playoffs.  They are coming in off a big Monday night win over the Steelers.  The Seahawks have been great at home and Tavaris Jackson has been great with Marshawn Lynch at running back.  The forty-niners will win 21-20.

Chicago (7-7) at Green Bay (13-1) Sunday Night
The Bears are hoping that a change in quarterback will lead to a win.  The Packers are coming in off their first loss of the season.  These bitter rivals love to beat up on each other.  The lack of offense by the Bears should be just what the Packers defense need.  The Packers will win 38-14.

Atlanta (9-5) at New Orleans (10-3) Monday night
Drew Brees is on pace to break the single season passing record of Dan Mario.  Matt Ryan and Roddy White have led the Falcons to wins in 7 out of the last 9 games. Neither team has a great defense.  This will be a shootout with the team with the ball last could when the game.  The Saints will win 35-31.

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