NFL Predictions, Advice And Comments

It quite possibly will not be a good week regarding these predictions, as typically, I back off in my confidence level.

To this point, I am (0-2) on college predictions both preceding the (10-1-1) record I have “forecasting” pro pig outcomes.

Four games fit into the “take the outright and spread losing team the week before vs a team that won and covered the spread the week/game before and is the favorite” category this week.

I will suggest all four underdogs and add the Oakland Raiders plus three plus points at the Baltimore Ravens. Both the (3-0) Ravens and (2-1) Raiders won and covered last week.

The four “category” suggestions are both New York area teams, the shade under a field goal underdog, New York Jets at home vs the Seattle Seahawks and the New York Giants a 4 point underdog at (3-0) (3-0) Minnesota (Vikings).

I am less confident in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers plus three points at home, vs the (3-0) (3-0) defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos and the S.F. 49ers getting only two points at home, vs the Dallas Cowboys.

Though the late, great football specialist (that is what we lack in this country, a specialist, who believes in craft, honor, accuracy and effort in his work) Beano Cook, warned vs “teaser bets” (i.e. adding points, but having to win 2 games with those added points), I will do, I mean advise some “teasing,” involving those games this week.

Alas Beano did say “only idiots bet teasers,” and while lack of intelligence was/is not my problem, not finding a niche for all these notes and knowledge, no matter the reason, surely was/is the problem.

Be careful out there, best not to wager on this “drek,” (means something akin to garbage), but if you must, please do so within your financial and emotional means. ‘They’ are the near ultimate seductive temptress, today for example, presenting games, for what will be a duration approaching 15 hours.

Why editorialize by “ripping” the analysts, most notably Cris Collinsworth, that almost never stop talking?! The days of the great Ray Scott, pictured above, are gone.

He was precise and did so with a minimum of words. If he were broadcasting today I would tune in just to hear and often not hear him.

Where did it all go? The answer my readers is “blowin” in the mindset of televised sports executives, who present this “dreck” (that word again) knowing the public will allow it. I do not but it is tough to fight “windmills.”

Click below to hear Bob Dylan sing “Blowin in the Wind”

Blowing In The Wind (Live On TV, March 1963)