NFL Preseason Predictions

Since I'm back from hiatus, I'm on a roll today. I'm just trying to get my NFL stuff out there. If you're going to Vegas and betting on NFL Futures, here are my picks for this year. I'll take a look at the over/under for each team's win total and guess what I think their actual win total will be. Keep in mind, last year I was 18-13-1, so at least you would have been able to throw some extra scratch at the blackjack tables. Let's get to it. Over/Unders in parenthases provided by Sportsbook.com.

AFC East
New York Jets.....12-4 (7.5).....Over
Buffalo...........10-6 (7.5).....Over
New England.......10-6 (12)......Under
Miami.............3-13 (5.5).....Under

AFC North
Pittsburgh........13-3 (9).......Over
Cincinnati........5-11 (7).......Under
Cleveland.........4-12 (8).......Under
Baltimore.........4-12 (6).......Under

AFC South
Jacksonville......14-2 (10)......Over
Indianapolis......12-4 (11)......Over
Houston...........12-4 (7.5).....Over
Tennessee.........2-14 (8).......Under

AFC West
San Diego.........13-3 (10.5)....Over
Denver.............8-8 (7.5).....Over
Kansas City.......5-11 (5.5).....Under
Oakland...........3-13 (6).......Under

NFC East
Dallas............13-3 (10.5)....Over
Philadelphia......12-4 (8.5).....Over
New York Giants...11-5 (8.5).....Over
Washington........5-11 (7.5).....Under

NFC North
Minnesota.........12-4 (8.5).....Over
Green Bay..........9-7 (8.5).....Over
Chicago............8-8 (8).......Push
Detroit...........5-11 (6.5).....Under

NFC South
New Orleans.......13-3 (8.5).....Over
Tampa Bay..........7-9 (8).......Under
Carolina..........5-11 (7.5).....Under
Atlanta...........4-12 (4.5).....Under

NFC West
Seattle...........13-3 (8.5).....Over
Arizona............9-7 (7.5).....Over
St. Louis.........5-11 (6.5).....Under
San Francisco.....2-14 (6).......Under

AFC Wild Card
Houston at New York Jets
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh

NFC Wild Card
Philadelphia at Seattle
New York Giants at Minnesota

AFC Divisional Round
New York Jets at Jacksonville
Indianapolis at San Diego

NFC Divisional Round
Seattle at Dallas
Minnesota at New Orleans

AFC Championship
Indianapolis at Jacksonville

NFC Championship
New Orleans at Dallas

Super Bowl
Indianapolis vs. Dallas

Champion
Indianapolis

Fantasy Football

I've been a pretty decent fantasy football player over the years, appearing in every championship game of every league I've been in for the past three years. I make the Buffalo Bills proud -- losing all six of said contests.

I have two teams this year, my serious Yahoo! team composed of friends where I drafted 11 out of 12. Then, I'm in a random ESPN league with people I don't know where I drafted 3 out of 10.

Here's my Yahoo! team:

Drew Brees
Clinton Portis
Marshawn Lynch
Anquan Boldin
Laveraneus Coles
Derrick Mason
Dallas Clark
Josh Brown
Tennessee

Matt Schaub
Jonathan Stewart
Deuce McAllister
Bernard Berrian
Bobby Engram
Reggie Brown

Here's my ESPN team:

Carson Palmer
Brian Westbrook
Earnest Graham
Andre Johnson
Braylon Edwards
Santana Moss
Chris Cooley
Shayne Graham
Seattle

Eli Manning
Rashard Mendenhall
Matt Forte
Ahman Green
Derrick Mason
Owen Daniels
Devin Hester

Obviously in my mind I did the best I could with where I was positioned, but I went the WR philosophy in the second round in the ESPN draft to see what I would end up with and I'm not totally comfortable with Earnest Graham.

It made me more comfortable with picking Portis and Lynch back-to-back in the Yahoo! draft. I looked back on the Yahoo! draft and the best I could've hoped for was Portis-Edwards-Parker -- we'll see if that's better than Portis-Lynch-Boldin. The only mistake I made after that was not taking Santonio Holmes, then coming back and getting Drew Brees. Actually we'll have to see if Portis-Lynch-Boldin is also better than Portis-Lynch-Holmes.

Hiatus

With the NBA season over and the Astros sucking balls I decided to give the blog a rest until the NFL season. Seeing as I do this for my own entertainment, nobody missed it but me anyway.

The whole point was to see how good of a gambler I could be on the NFL and that's what I'm going to do. So, this blog will be very active from August until February. After that...probably not. Unless people start reading it, then I can't let them down.

I'm going to post some new stuff now.

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Baseball Predictions 2008

Here are my Major League Baseball Predictions for 2008

National League
East: New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington, Florida
Central: Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh
West: Los Angeles, San Diego, Colorado, Arizona, San Francisco
Wild Card: San Diego

American League
East: Boston, New York, Toronto, Tampa Bay, Baltimore
Central: Detroit, Cleveland, Minnesota, Chicago, Kansas City
West: Los Angeles, Seattle, Oakland, Texas
Wild Card: New York

DIVISION SERIES
National League
San Diego over New York
Los Angeles over Chicago

American League
Boston over Los Angeles
Detroit over New York

NLCS
San Diego over Los Angeles

ALCS
Detroit over Boston

World Series
San Diego over Detroit

NL MVP: Alfonso Soriano, OF, Chicago

AL MVP: Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York

NL Cy Young: Jake Peavy, San Diego

AL Cy Young: C.C. Sabathia, Cleveland

NL Manager of Year: Joe Torre, Los Angeles

AL Manager of Year: Joe Girardi, New York