Ok, I haven’t posted much this week as I have been patting myself on the back all week for having 3 of the 4 Championship game teams right before the season.
But now the games are almost here and we all want to know who is going to win. I mean anyone playing the ESPN Playoff Challenge thing is banking on teams getting in because they can’t update their roster after this weekends games. If you miss this weekend you are going to lose the following week.
So I am here to tell you who is going to win. Here I will discuss the Jets/Colts game and later (maybe tomorrow morning) the Vikings/Saints game will be debated.
New York Jets @ Indianapolis Colts (-7.5)
The Jets shocked 90% off the world last weekend by beating the Chargers IN San Diego. But honestly I wasn’t surprised. No I wasn’t overly confident in my pick and surely wouldn’t have bet real money on it but I did suspect that the Jets could win. They can thank Nate Kaeding for the victory as the kicker missed 3 field goals, 2 of which were extremely make able.
Can they do it again? I have heard some people talk about it and make it sound like they are the perfect team to beat the Colts and I tend to disagree with that. They were the perfect team to beat the Chargers, but the Colts aren’t the Chargers. The Chargers only had one good receiver, Malcolm Floyd is average at best, and the Jets have the single best cornerback in football today. But the rest of the secondary is not as strong.
Peyton Manning throws the ball to a number of different receivers, all of which can catch the ball and make plays. Sure their running game is pathetic but they run the ball enough to make the play action pass very effective. Add to that Kerry Rhodes is a little banged up in the Jets secondary and the Jets are fighting an extremely uphill battle this weekend.
The Colts defense heard all last week how the Ravens were going to run the ball 50 times and dominate the clock and the game on their way to the Super Bowl. But the small, weak, soft Colts defense managed to hold the Ravens to 3 points and only 87 yards rushing. And it wasn’t like Baltimore was that far behind most of the game, Indy was only up 2 touchdowns until 7 minutes left in the 4th quarter. The key…the Colts forced 4 turnovers, 2 fumbles and 2 interceptions.
Don’t think they can’t do that again. The Jets are very similar to the Ravens, dominant running game and a very good defense. The one big difference between the two is the Jets pass defense is better than the Ravens.
But New York won’t win this game. And the Colts will cover.
