Saints/Bears and Colts/Patriots with spreads (your picks)

That inspired me to find the clip. Not on YouTube, but I did find it.

http://www.czabe.com/mediaclips/index.shtml?a=showclip&id=356

"President, we need the National Guard, we need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots."

 

or at least not take his picks seriously. You have to read DR Z for honest analysis.

In SI this week while PK does his QB fellatio routine on Peyton Manning.

DR Z give us the true picture of how Manning played:

The Patriots won't do that. They'll run from multiple-wideout sets, giving their runners breathing room, and occasionally use a second tight end for wham-blocking. On defense you can bet New England will have plenty of stunts and blitzes ready for Peyton Manning. Once he was the master of blitz control, but he made bad decisions against the Ravens and awkward, strange-looking throws. Manning got lucky because Baltimore dropped at least three balls that should have been interceptions. I don't think New England will be as kind.

 

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

2-4 inches predicted in the 100 percent chance for snow today in Chicago. A gusty 15 mph wind, too. Unless the Saints have practiced in a 30 degree superdome before, I don't think they know what is about to hit them. I know they've played one cold game, blah blah blah. I'm still pulling for the Bears completely due to the weather conditions.

 

It's already snowed a little here on the Northwest side. It's the first time my car's seen the white stuff.

 

My Ipod has a WHAM-blocking function.
Just sayin'.

 

Weather is the most overrated fact in football. This reporter covered two of the most celebrated bad-weather games of all-time, the Snow Bowl in Foxboro, and the Pats-Titans game where it was minus 4 at kickoff.
The weather had NO, repeat, NO effect on the outcome. Both games were remarkably free of turnovers, slipping and sliding, etc. The Pats won both because they were the better team, and both could've quite easily gone the other way.
The most famous bad weather game was the Ice Bowl Packers-Cowboys game in '67. Conditions were literally life-threatening. The Packers didn't win because they came from wisconsin as opposed to Texas. They made the final game-winning drive because they were THE PACKERS!
If the Bears win, snow and cold won't have a thing to do with it.

 

Babineaux dropped a pick six.

 

Bears are the only team in the final 4 that has no shot of winning on Feb. 4.

Sticking with 45-10 Colts, and a Saints win.

Madden gave me a 40-34 Colts in OT and a 10-8 Bears win, with the Saints leading 2-0 after the first quarter, and then missing a 2-point conversion attempt in the waning seconds.

 

The same Dr. Z who couldn't even achieve a 50 percent success rate picking games STRAIGHT UP this season.

 

'Bear weather' is a complete myth...especially for a QB from Florida and a bunch of young players who practice indoors.

Equal disadvantage to both teams today. It's coming down wet and heavy...should be a mess by game time.

Although: anyone who was at the last Bears' NFC Championship game in Jan 86 will remember the wave of awe and emotion when it started snowing during the game, rendering the warm-weather LA Rams completely helpless and scoreless....I still get chills thinking about it.

 

For all the talk about weather, I've yet to hear any convincing analysis that suggests snow and cold will work in the Bears' favor, from a tactical standpoint.

Saints (+ whatever I'm getting now)
Colts to cover

 

And as a Broncos fan, I'll always remember the game a few years ago when they played the Raiders in damn-near blizzard conditions ... and lost.

My opinion of snow-as-factor took quite a hit that day.