Picks!

I feel like football is probably the easiest sport to enjoy if you're team surely is/going to be crappy for the season. Basketball might be #1, because of the speed and awesome plays involved, and the fact that an 81 game season adds an air of casualness. I can certainly say that baseball sucks the maximum amount of air possible if you're team is out. Somehow, in a sport in which the season lasts a whopping 162 games, at least 20 teams are guaranteed to miss the playoffs by the end of June, if not May.

Week 3 Picks (pick on left, home team in italics)

Houston (-4) vs Jacksonville

Denver (-2) vs Oakland

Washington (-6) vs Detroit

New England (-4.5) vs Atlanta

Indianapolis (+2.5) vs Arizona

New Orleans (-6) vs Buffalo

San Diego (-6) vs Miami

Thoughts:

I'm sure one can see that all but one pick are favorites. I do think some underdogs have a chance to win this week, but the spreads are for the most part, fairly thin. Seattle hosts Chicago in a possible let down game for the Bears (-2.5), but Seattle could easily lose by a field goal. That's pretty much how overtime works in the NFL, someone loses by 3 points.

The Steelers (-4.5) traveling to play the Bengals is closer to a choice for taking the points, but the Steelers have dominated this matchup for awhile now, and can muster a 6 point victory.

I'd probably pick the Jets to beat the Titans, so maybe I'm missing that game in the above list, but for now I will succumb to my genetic predisposition towards believing the Jets are awful.

As for the picks I did make, Washington can't beat many teams right now, but Detroit is one of them. Everyone wants to hop on the bandwagon of a team that's lost 19 in a row, but they haven't even come close to losing by even a touchdown this season. The Colts are clearly superior to the Cardinals, who themselves haven't played good defense in about 638 years.

Jacksonville might end up having one of the worst 5 records in the league, depending on how the epic battle with St. Louis goes in two weeks. The AFC South divisional games always seem to play to a tight final score, but it seems to me the Texans are on the upswing while Jacksonville falls the other direction.