In picking my dog for this week’s football office pool picks, Steve and I had no idea who to choose. We’re in 2nd overall with a few weeks left, and have been pretty smart picking the right dogs, but this wasn’t a week where we had the answers. So we turned to those we know to see what they thought.
The three key matchups we looked at that had dog potential (dogs in our league must win, and if they do, you get the point spread as your points) were Oakland (an 11 dog to Cincy), Denver (a 7 ½ dog to San Diego), and New Orleans (a 6 ½ dog to Dallas).
Out of the gate, Oakland looked good to us because they have the #1 pass defense in the league and Cincy loves to throw, not to mention the #3 defense overall. Our problem with them is if they were down a quick 14 points they would have no shot at coming back because they were the 32nd ranked offense, which is good for dead last in the league.
Denver needed a win over the Chargers to keep their playoff hopes alive, and we thought they had a very balanced team both offensively and defensively. But the Chargers are the Chargers and have been killing everyone lately. LaDainian Tomlinson has been killing teams left and right by himself.
New Orleans has been running a nice hot streak, but so has Dallas and their savior Tony Romo. Dallas has a great defense and explosive offense. New Orleans has a great offense and isn’t really known that much for their defense. We’ve been riding New Orleans for a while so this seemed like the pick to go for.
Except we were really high on Oakland for some reason. A
voice in my head said to ask your friends, see what they think.
Flack said to go with Denver, then New Orleans, then Oakland. In fact, he said
to forget Oakland.
James said to go with New Orleans, then Denver, then Oakland, and pointed out that Oakland’s defensive numbers (at least aerially) are inflated because they play in a run happy division. Well noted my friend.
Mark said to go with New Orleans, he had zero faith in the Raiders, so if I didn’t want to, Denver was a good pick too.
I asked Niffy the other day when I was in the shower who we should pick, and the conversation went something like this.
“Oakland is awful. They are terrible. Why are you even thinking of picking them?”
”Because they have a good defense.”
“But the Bengals have a really good offense.”
“True.”
“Denver is playing who?”
“San Diego.”
“Tomlinson will kill them.”
“What do you think about New Orleans?”, I asked, being our only dog remaining.
“I think you should go with them. They’re playing really well right now, and everyone has been licking Tony Romo’s taint for the last 4 weeks. Plus the Cowboys just barely won with a Field Goal last week. They are due to lose and he will have an awful game.”
Yes. She said taint. If you don’t know what it is, look it up on Wikipedia.
Anyways, everything she said was true. Oakland was awful, was down 14-0 fast and never had a shot. Tomlinson single handedly beat the Broncos while capturing the NFL record for touchdowns in one season at 29.
And finally, the Cowboys bent over and took it from the Saints. Romo was terrible, and was 3 for 8 at halftime. He had an awful game, and they beat down the ‘Boys.
She is a prophet. A visionary. A psychic. A chick that knows football. In the immortal words of Paris Hilton, “That’s hot.”
Maybe I should do this every week for my picks…
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