NFL Picks: Week Two

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Buffalo Bills at Pittsburgh Steelers (-10)
For the Bills, this could go two ways: They could play hard to win for Kevin Everett or they could be shaken and get blasted. After hearing JP Losman interviewed a few days ago, trust me they are extremely shaken.
Pittsburgh 30 Buffalo 13

Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns (+7.5)
Remember a couple of years ago when Charlie Weiss and Romeo Crennel were highly regarded coaching candidates, yeah that didn’t work out so well. How can you have a QB competition for all of training camp and then trade the winner after one game?
Cincinnati 24 Cleveland 13

Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans (+7.5)
Pacman Jones may be a bad guy (and I’m not just talking about in wrestling), but he was by far the Titans best cover man. David Garrard couldn’t take advantage of his absense, but Peyton Manning will.
Indianapolis 31 Tennessee 20

Houston Texans at Carolina Panthers (-7)
I had a chance to watch the Panthers a few times this pre-season and Jake Delhomme is done. He was also Brett Favre-esque in making ridiculously bad decisions. This has upset written all over it.
Houston 21 Carolina 20

San Fransisco 49ers at St Louis Rams (-3)
St. Louis looked like complete garbage in their week one ass kicking at the hands of Carolina while San Fransisco didn’t look much better in their win over Arizona. The Rams lost Orlando Pace and starting cornerback Tye Hill to injury already and look to be in for a very long season.
San Fransisco 24 St. Louis 16

Green Bay Packers at New York Giants (-2)
The Packers have done a complete 180 from their recent teams. They now have a very good defense and a pretty weak offense. The Giants are depleted thanks to injuries and weren’t that good to begin with.
Green Bay 17 New York Giants 14

Atlanta Falcons at Jacksonville Jaguars (-10.5)
The Jaguars historically have had a very good run defense but they were slaughtered by the Titans last week to the tune of 282 rushing yards. The Falcons historically are a very good running team but were held in check last week. It probably doesn’t really matter if Joey Harrington keeps throwing TD passes to the wrong team.
Jacksonville 21 Atlanta 16

New Orleans Saints at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+4)
NFL GM tip of the week: Don’t sign any QB to start for your team after he stars for the Eagles in a replacement role.
New Orleans 31 Tampa Bay 14

Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions (-3.5)
The Lions are going to score points which means Tarvaris Jackson will have to do more than make the dump off throws and hand off to Adrian Peterson. That won’t turn out well.
Detroit 27 Minnesota 17

Dallas Cowboys at Miami Dolphins (+4)
The Cowboys secondary looked pretty sucktastic last week against the Giants. Sadly, Trent Green can’t throw the ball more than 20 yards downfield anymore.
Dallas 21 Miami 18

Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals (+3)
That Monday night classic between the Cards and the 49ers showed two highly drafted QBs struggling to hit 100 yards passing each (otherwise known as the Brunell line). Don’t you feel better about Jason Campbell’s performance now?
Seattle 24 Arizona 20

New York Jets at Baltimore Ravens (-10)
Kyle Boller versus Kellen Clemens. Feel the excitement.
Baltimore 17 NY Jets 10

Oakland Raiders at Denver Broncos (-10)
This line is a week one overreaction. Jay Cutler isn’t that good despite a 300 yard passing game last week and the Raiders defense isn’t that bad despite giving up 36 points last week. Normally I’d be worried about Dante Culpepper getting a start, but Josh McNown threw 2 picks and fumbled 3 times last week.
Denver 20 Oakland 14

Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Bears (-13)
Get ready for a week’s worth of ‘Rex Grossman has turned the corner’ stories on ESPN.com.
Chicago 34 Kansas City 14

San Diego Chargers at New England Patriots (-4)
There wasn’t a more overblown story last week than Randy Moss’ return to glory after a good game. Luckily the Patriots cheated so we didn’t have to read too many 16-0 stories.
San Diego 24 New England 20

Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles (-7)
Seven points is too many. I’m a homer and I’m obviously going to pick the Redskins, but seven points is still too much. Full preview on Monday.
Washington 20 Philadelphia 17