Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and yours. Here are my good as heated pumpkin pie pix for Turkey Day!
Green Bay -11 at Detroit
Who would have thunk it? The best game of the week last week was when Detroit led came back from a 24-3 deficit at home to beat woeful Cleveland in a shootout of major proportions and it was all led by a now OUT Matthew Stafford. Brady Quinn and Stafford threw for over 700 yards combined and on the final play of the game the Browns interfered with a receiver in the end zone on a hail mary which led to the Lions scoring on a 2 yard pass from an injured Stafford to win the game. GB on the other hand has won 2 straight since the brain fart in Tampa, but did lose DL stud Kampman for the season as well as Al Harris from last week’s win vs SF. Rodgers always has a career day against the Lions and Turkey Day will be no different as the weak Lion D will not be able to stop the onslaught plus Culpepper will fill in with at least 4 sacks..
I am betting Green Bay on the road to cover -11
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Dallas -13 v Oakland
About 3 weeks ago you probably would have given at least 17-20pts the way Dallas was moving the ball and winning against decent teams. Now they have scored a total of 14 points in their last 2 games and believe it or not they won one of them by beating a bad ‘Skins team 7-6 last week in the Eigth Wonder of the World . The Raiders are coming off a win at home over a good team in Cincinnati where they came back on the surprise team of the league and the leader in the AFC North. This just says that Oakland at home can beat anyone even Philly the leader of the NFC East. The new signal caller Gradkowski is jelling with the receivers and they like someone who actually reads defenses and throws an accurate ball. Think of it this way, Jamarcus threw 2 TD’s in 9 games while Brad threw 2 last week. I guess the experiment has blown up on Mr. Davis. I am not a big fan of the line so I like the UNDER 40.5 which if the Cowboys and their hurtin’ QB do what they have been doing should be good to go. I might be celebrating with another piece of pie and put my milk glass on this cheerleaders rear.
I am betting the UNDER 40.5 in the Cowboy/Raider game
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NY Giants -7 at Denver
WOW. 4 weeks ago this Thanksgiving game looked very exciting. At that time Denver was 6-0 and the Giants were 5-1. Well you asked for it and you got it, but it doesn’t have the same appeal. Denver now in second place in the AFC west has dropped 4 straight while the Giants have dropped 4 of 5 and sit at 6-4 and a game behind Dallas. Denver has begun to look like the Broncos we expected to look like all season. Orton at QB and a young OL has started to fade away. The Giants have had no excuses since starting 5-0 they have gotten whipped on the road at NO and Philly while losing at home to Arizona and San Diego. They almost gave up the game last week in NJ to Atlanta where they had to go to OT due to blowing a late 14 pt lead. am really at a loss in this one, but the one thing I see is NY had a bye week before last week so they are somewhat rested for a short week game.
I am taking NY Giants -7 to cover at Denver