Shaggy's Picks - Week Nine

      All the teams in the West division are going to win. Those are also all the home teams this week.  I don’t think that’s a particularly bold prediction.  And for all the hate towards Rank This, will someone please beat him?  I did my part and I’m tired of being two games back.

Recap:

• Panthers 31, Buccs 13 +1
• Lions 31, Cowboys 30 +1 That awkward moment when Megatron has more yards than the entire Cowboys offense
• Chiefs 23, Browns 17 +1 Fear the Kool Aid Man.  Hard to believe that the Chiefs are the last undefeated team
• Patriots 27, Dolphins 17 +1 I was really hoping that the Dolphins would pull this one off.  And I almost started Chris Clay over Jimmy Graham
• Saints 35, Bills 17 +1 Speaking of Graham and his two touchdowns and partially torn plantar fascia
• Giants 15, Eagles 7 -1 One of my two misses this week, thanks to Vick’s -1 point outing. At least I played him this week.
• Packers 44, Vikings 31 +1 A surprisingly good game that kept me from studying and writing this last night
• Cardinals 27, Falcons 13 -1 My other miss this week.  And a shocking one.  Falcons are done.  Overrated.
• Broncos 45, Skins 21 +1 I was really rooting for the Skins here to.
• Raiders 21, Steelers 18 +1 How bout Pryor’s 93 yard TD run!? How bout the fact that the Raiders only got 1 first down the entire second half.  I thought they were gonna blow it in typical Raiders fashion

      According to ESPN’s Adam Shefter “Chicago at Green Bay next Monday night is the only game on the NFL’s week 9 schedule that matches two teams with above .500 records.” I’m not sure I even want to look at the schedule but since I’ve come this far….

Shaggy’s Picks:

• Bengals > Dolphins on Thursday night. I don’t think Andy Dalton throws another 5 TDs and whoever it was that caught four of them won’t do that again either
• Chiefs > Bills Until the Bills get healthy they’re just awful.
• Cowboys > Vikings I really hope the Vikings get up early tho so AP gets some carries
• Titans > Rams I don’t even know who the starting QBs are for these teams
• Chargers > Redskins I don’t know why.
• Seahawks > Buccs Too easy
• Panthers > Falcons A hunch, Falcons are banged up, Newton is gonna heat up
• Saints > Jets Also very easy
• Browns > Ravens Jason Campbell is back!  I hope. Best of luck to him. His broken collarbone 2 years ago set the Raiders back 10 years.
• Raiders > Eagles Barkley looks like a typical USC QB. And some offensive genius Kelly turned out to be, they haven’t had an offensive TD in two weeks. And our D looked damn good, especially after being on the field the entire second half.