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Atlanta at Detroit- Atlanta Cincinnati at Baltimore- Baltimore Dallas at Washington- Dallas Green Bay at Buffalo- Buffalo Houston at N.Y. Giants- N.Y. Giants Kansas City at St. Louis- St. Louis Miami at Chicago- Chicago New Orleans at Tampa Bay- New Orleans Tennessee at Jacksonville- Jacksonville Minnesota at San Francisco- Minnesota Cleveland at San Diego- San Diego Denver at Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh Indianapolis at New England- New England Oakland at Seattle- Seattle 7-7

It is 11:38 a.m. CST, but I have a hard time making picks on time working for Governor Jim Doyle's re-election campaign... Arizona at Green Bay- Green Bay Atlanta at Cincinnati- Cincinnati Baltimore at New Orleans- New Orleans Houston at Tennessee- Tennessee Jacksonville at Philadelphia- Philadelphia Seattle at Kansas City- Seattle San Francisco at Chicago- Chicago Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants- N.Y. Giants St. Louis at San Diego- San Diego Indianapolis at Denver- Indianapolis N.Y. Jets at Cleveland- N.Y. Jets Pittsburgh at Oakland- Pittsburgh Dallas at Carolina- Carolina New England at Minnesota- New England 7-7

Carolina at Cincinnati- Cincinnati Detroit at N.Y. Jets- N.Y. Jets Green Bay at Miami- Miami Jacksonville at Houston- Jacksonville New England at Buffalo- New England Philadelphia at Tampa Bay- Philadelphia Pittsburgh at Atlanta- Pittsburgh San Diego at Kansas City- San Diego Denver at Cleveland- Denver Arizona at Oakland- Arizona Minnesota at Seattle- Seattle Washington at Indianapolis- Indianapolis N.Y. Giants at Dallas- N.Y. Giants 6-7

Sorry my picks are 41 minutes overdue! But here they are... Buffalo Carolina Cincinnati Dallas N.Y. Giants New Orleans Seattle Washington Pittsburgh N.Y. Jets San Diego Denver Chicago

Buffalo at Chicago- Chicago Cleveland at Carolina- Carolina Detroit at Minnesota- Minnesota Miami at New England- New England St. Louis at Green Bay- St. Louis Tampa Bay at New Orleans- New Orleans Tennessee at Indianapolis- Indianapolis Washington at N.Y. Giants- N.Y. Giants Kansas City at Arizona- Kansas City N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville- Jacksonville Oakland at San Francisco- San Francisco Dallas at Philadelphia- Philadelphia Pittsburgh at San Diego- San Diego Baltimore at Denver- Baltimore 13-1

Arizona at Atlanta- Arizona Dallas at Tennessee- Dallas Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets- Indianapolis Miami at Houston- Houston Minnesota at Buffalo- Minnesota New Orleans at Carolina- Carolina San Diego at Baltimore- San Diego San Francisco at Kansas City- Kansas City Detroit at St. Louis- St. Louis Cleveland at Oakland- Cleveland Jacksonville at Washington- Jacksonville New England at Cincinnati- Cincinnati Seattle at Chicago- Chicago Green Bay at Philadelphia- Philadelphia 9-5

Carolina at Tampa Bay- Carolina Chicago at Minnesota- Minnesota Cincinnati at Pittsburgh- Cincinnati Green Bay at Detroit- Detroit Jacksonville at Indianapolis- Jacksonville N.Y. Jets at Buffalo- N.Y. Jets Tennessee at Miami- Miami Washington at Houston- Washington Baltimore at Cleveland- Baltimore N.Y. Giants at Seattle- N.Y. Giants Philadelphia at San Francisco- Philadelphia St. Louis at Arizona- Arizona Denver at New England- New England Atlanta at New Orleans- Atlanta 7-7

Buffalo at Miami- Miami Carolina at Minnesota- Carolina Cleveland at Cincinnati- Cincinnati Detroit at Chicago- Chicago Houston at Indianapolis- Indianapolis New Orleans at Green Bay- New Orleans N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia- N.Y. Giants Oakland at Baltimore- Baltimore Tampa Bay at Atlanta- Tampa Bay Arizona at Seattle- Seattle St. Louis at San Francisco- St. Louis Kansas City at Denver- Denver New England at N.Y. Jets- New England Tennessee at San Diego- San Diego Washington at Dallas- Dallas Pittsburgh at Jacksonville- Pittsburgh 11-5

Im in. I took Chicago. They'll crush my beloved Packers.

Miami at Pittsburgh- Miami Atlanta at Carolina- Carolina Baltimore at Tampa Bay- Tampa Bay Buffalo at New England- New England Cincinnati at Kansas City- Cincinnati Denver at St. Louis- Denver New Orleans at Cleveland- Cleveland N.Y. Jets at Tennessee- N.Y. Jets Philadelphia at Houston- Philadelphia Seattle at Detroit- Seattle Chicago at Green Bay- Chicago Dallas at Jacksonville- Jacksonville San Francisco at Arizona- Arizona Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants- N.Y. Giants Minnesota at Washington- Washington San Diego at Oakland- San Diego 9-7

As bad as I can imagine some stadiums being, nothing is worse than Philadelphia and Oakland. For God's sake Philly has a jail in the stadium for their fans, and in Oakland they might as well just put bars around and over the whole stadium because the whole place is a hellhole.

I think this is a very good choice. Goodell should be a good commish.

I dont care if Saban likes Bush or not, well I do, but he shunned the stupid idiot making Bush look worse in public! haha I love it! Saban 2008!

Nick Saban is my hero for turning that loser down for dinner! Atta boy Nick!

Guys I must say as a Packers fan, watching Nate Burleson last year was not impressive. Burleson is overrated and the Seahawks vastly overpaid for him. Nate Burleson adds very little to their WR corps that they would have had if they hadn't signed him. Nothing ever plays out to the experts expectations, and this year my predictions reflect that. They dont look like something ESPN would put out there at all. They dont suck up to Vick or TO and they dont hate on teams not from the East Coast. As for the Bengals, on offense they have it all. It was their defense that actually sold me on the merits of my picking them. They add Sam Adams and Frostee Rucker, 2 very talented players to what was a shaky defenisve line, but is now an above average-good defensive line. Their linebackers are dynamite. With David Pollack, Odell Thurman, Brian Simmons, Ahmad Brooks, and Landon Johnson few teams have explosiveness, aggressiveness and energy the Bengals pack on that line. And in the secondary they added the best CB in the draft with Jonathan Joseph, to team up with O'Neal and James, though James isn't a shutdown CB, Joseph will be. Dexter Jackson was added at FS, a very talented player, but a journeyman who I believe will find a home in Cinci for himself. He joins Madieu Williams who is an EXTREMELY talented young safety. With what I consider to be an excellent young stable of Linebackers and a very good Defensive backfield, and an above average to solid defensive line. I think the talent is there and that the Bengals are one of those teams that they are so dominant on one side of the ball (offense) that all they need to be is average on the other side of the ball to win games. And lets not forget that Marvin Lewis is one of the great defensive minds of our time and he will almost certainly be a HUGE benefit to these young kids learning his system. And for those who know me, I hate Chad Johnson, and I am a big guy on players not being flashy and acting with some class. The Bengals in that category fail miserably, so it really pains me to predict that idiots like Chad Johnson, O'Dell Thurman, and Ahmad Brooks along with some of the other notorious lawbreakers on the team will win the Super Bowl. But as I've said already, bad character didn't hurt the 90's Cowboys, otherwise they wouldn't have won 3 Super Bowls. And Iowa, I wasn't thrilled putting the Bears up top. But the Vikings will win more than 7 games. And the Packers will PROBABLY win more than 5. Look at who the Vikings and Packers have brought in. Both of those 2 teams are hardly recognizable from the teams that miserably exited the field last year. The Vikings and Packers both feature over 11 new starters and both have completely new coaching staffs except for 2-3 position coaches that the Packers kept. Especially the Packers defense will be the reason the Packers win 6-8 games this year. Nick Barnett is already one of the premier young LB's in all of football, along with holdovers Aaron Kampman, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, Al Harris, and Nick Collins (one of the best young safeties in all of football) the Packers had most of the core players they would need for a great defense. But then you add AJ Hawk, Charles Woodson, Marquand Manuel, Abdul Hodge, and Ben Taylor to compliment the probable rising young players like Mike Montgomery and Cullen Jenkins, it gives the Packers a great young defense. And Offensively we'll see how Green Bay does. Running Back and O-Line are both huge questions. Our rookie guards Darryn Colledge and Jason Spitz will both probably be very good in the long run but I have my doubts about their rookie seasons being as productive as they need to be. Likewise with rookie wideout Greg Jennings. The packers will win 6-7 games because of their defense. The Vikings as well with their new additions, most notably Steve Hutchinson. I'll detail them later, for now I have to go to bed. Oh and as far as my picking Eli to win the MVP goes, the MVP is handed out before the Super Bowl so the Super Bowl champion has zero influence over who wins it. Every year either a QB or RB wins the MVP. So with that in mind, it has to come from a team who is in serious contention in the playoffs. That leaves me... Carson Palmer, Rudi Johnson, Philip Rivers, LaDanian Tomlinson, Jake Delhomme, DeAngelo Williams, Kurt Warner, Edgerrin James, Tom Brady, Lawrence Maroney, Rex Grossman, Cedric Benson/Thomas Jones, Peyton Manning, Joseph Addai, Eli Manning, Tiki Barber, Daunte Culpepper, and Ronnie Brown. And the only names that strike me as MVP material at this time on that list are Palmer, Tomlinson, Delhomme, Brady, Peyton, Eli, and Tiki. And from there Peyton, Palmer, Delhomme, Brady, and Tiki all seem to conventional of choices. Eli and Tomlinson are left. And from there its basically the QB gets it by default. I'm not really an Eli Manning fan by any means, but he's very good, not great, but I think the other main reason I chose Eli is that his supporting cast of Tiki Barber, Brandon Jacobs, Amani Toomer, Plaxico Burress, Sinorice Moss, Tim Carter, David Tyree, Jeremy Shockey, and a great offensive line will seriously help bolster Eli's numbers. Okay now I have to go to bed.