NFL 2011

[Hapax Legomenon]

This thread is for NFL discussion and prediction (betting). This upcoming season, I am targeting San Diego heavily on and the Jets heavily off. I'll have much more in the days before the season starts.

I am a Eagles fan and am looking for them to be an 11 win team and quarter- to semi-finalist this year. Any better would take a great stroke of luck.

[Azrael]

I think that the Green Bay Packers could repeat. Otherwise, watch out for the Patriots. San Diego could be interesting this year.

[cincinnatus]

Bengals will win 14 games, and get to the Super Bowl, and crush the Cowboys.

-Well, that's the way it is in a parallel universe where Mike Brown has a brain

In this reality, I want Chargers Vs. Falcons, but I fear another boring Steelers Vs. Saints, with the Steelers pulling one last SB win out of the Big Ben era.

[Hapax Legomenon]

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I have to go away to a wedding this weekend, but I have a ton of analysis about this upcoming season to post after I come back before Thursday. I would probably lay off the New Orleans @ Green Bay (-4) game that night, but if I had to pick right now, I'd take New Orleans, because four points seems short for a defending Super Bowl champ to be laying at home in the first game of the year, regardless of opponent.

[Hapax Legomenon]

One last thing for now: Week 1 has eight division games and only two non-conference games. Should be excellent.

[Sparky]

[Ibrahim]

[Azrael]

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The line moved from 4 to 4.5, but I'm still not buying the Packers tonight. Both of these teams are really good, but New Orleans has a decided advantage in coaching--Green Bay wins in spite of their head coach because Aaron Rodgers is incredible. This should be a field goal game--a large win for either team would be a stunner.

[Ibrahim]

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[Colonel Sun]

[Hapax Legomenon]

Thanks for the link, Colonel.

I got my shit pushed in this week: 5-11 ATS. It was a combination of unusual results and bad luck, plus two bad picks: Colts +9 and Falcons -1. My five wins beat the the spread by 107.5 points; the eleven losses were by 85 points, a nice margin on my side, for pride and nothing else, but things bounce back and even out, so I'm not too worried about it unless I stink up the joint again in the next two weeks. No division games in Week 2, with lots of junk, to see which teams MIGHT be good.