Divisional Playoffs

Okay, so really, things can’t go much worse than they did last weekend.

I went 1-3 in picks and in the only game I truly wanted one team to win, the Vikings managed to outplay the Eagles and still fell short. Awesome.

Today’s first game sees the Ravens dancing (literally, I just saw Ray Lewis dancing) into Tennessee to take on the last-to-be-defeated-in-the-NFL Titans. The Ravens were the only pick I got right last week, and I’m going to pick them again today. They pretty handily took care of the Dolphins last week (mostly behind Ed Reed) and I don’t see a huge difference in the offenses between the Titans and the Dolphins.

The only way that I think the Titans are going to have a chance to win is to get off to a quick start and make Flacco play from behind. That’s going to be hard to do against the Ravens’ defense, though. We’ll see.

Tonight’s game is the game I care the least about of the four this weekend. I didn’t think the Cardinals would be able to keep up with the Falcons last week. I think the Panthers are better than the Falcons. I’m picking the Panthers.

The Cards did, in fact, show up last week, but I don’t think if they have what it takes to stop Carolina. I was going to say, “I don’t think they have what it takes to stop DeAngelo Williams” but they did a great job on Turner last week. I don’t really understand the Cardinals. They’re so streaky, and they’re really only in the playoffs because their division is one of the worst amalgamations of teams I’ve seen in sports.

I’ll write up my picks for tomorrow’s game sometime before the Giants’ game tomorrow, but in case I don’t get a chance to, I’m picking the Giants and the Chargers (and that Chargers / Steelers game should be great).