The 2013 NFL season is upon us within the next 8 hours. I have combed through the schedule and so here we go...
Teams Records-NFC
The NFC has re-gained its superiority as a conference. It appears that the NFC East will take full advantage of playing a weak AFC West (outside of the Denver Broncos) and every team will finish 0.500 or better in that conference throwing a curveball at the playoff picture. I have the NFC breaking down like this:
San Francisco will flirt with perfection but go 15-1
Atlanta will take a solid NFC South and go 13-3
Green Bay will take advantage of their weak conference and finish 11-5
Dallas, Washington and New York will all finish 11-5 and cause the most hair pulling, mind-numbing playoff scenario and locations the NFL has seen
Seattle will also finish 11-5 but due to a heads up tiebreaker between them and the Giants they will be the odd man out.
The rest of the NFC is: Tampa Bay & Philly at 9-7, Minnesota at 8-8, Carolina at 6-10, Chicago at 5-11 and then Detroit, Arizona and St. Louis at 4-12.
Teams Records-AFC
The AFC will be much clearer of a picture with the top end teams dominating their division. The consistent AFC North will be the best division record wise. The AFC breakdown goes as such:
Houston will not crumble and will finish 14-2.
Cincinatti will finally take the North crown at 13-3.
Denver will take a step back with tough NFC East losses at 11-5.
New England will claim their weak division to finish 10-6.
Indy and Baltimore finish 11-5 and make the playoff picture crystal clear.
Pittsburgh can't get over that hump and proves they have lost their touch and finishes 9-7. Keep them terrible towels in the dresser.
Kansas City shows promise at 8-8 under the Walrus.
Buffalo and Miami are 6-10 and a year away from blitzing New England. Tennessee is far away from their divisions top 2 teams and are also 6-10.
Cleveland finished 5-11 but plays in too solid of a conference to do anything until they improve at QB.
San Diego and Jacksonville are 2-14 and have so many holes to fill they.
Oakland and the Jets Week 14 showdown is the difference and the Raiders throw the game to claim JaDaveon Clowney and ruin his career. The Jets settle for a real QB in Bridgewater and Geno Smith asks for a trade.
Bold Predictions:
The league MVP is Colin Kaepernick with over 1000 yards rushing and 3500 yards passing with 10 TDs and 20 TDs of each.
The Defensive Player of the Year will go to JJ Watt again though it would have gone to Von Miller who ends up with 14 sacks in 10 games.
Because MVP never wins Offensive Player of the Year, this goes to Adrian Peterson. He breaks the rushing record with 2100 yards but can't carry the hopeless passing game of the Vikings into the playoffs.
Comeback Player of the Year is RGIII even though he got hurt in the playoffs in his last game and it makes no sense to me. This should go to a guy whose season was cut short. Jon Beason and MJD are better options if they have good years, BIG IF for MJD with him being on his way out on a bad team and them probably cutting into his carries.
Offensive Rookie of the Year goes to EJ Manuel. He is the reason Buffalo wins 6 games and he keeps them competitive.
Defenisve Rookie of the Year goes to Alec Ogletree of St. Louis who is the bright spot with Tavon Austin for a Rams teams that must move on from Sam Bradford finally.
Coach of the Year goes to Chip Kelly: Kelly keeps Philly competitive and wins 9 games. Andy Reid is also deserving at 8-8 and KC on the edge of challenging Denver in 2014.
Playoff Breakdown
The playoffs start in Wild Card Week with:
Denver defeating Baltimore and the fans claiming true revenge has been served.
Indy shows that New England has no weapons to keep up with them.
Green Bay handles the Giants.
Dallas can't contain RGIII and Romo leaves Dallas stadium a loser once again.
In the Divisional Round:
Houston owns the Showdown of the Domes and beats Indy in a tough fought win.
Cincinatti proves their great defense and solid offense is too much for the Broncos, just like Baltimore did and Peyton Manning continues his losing ways in the playoffs.
San Francisco and Washington have an electric game due to the athleticism of their QBs but San Fran prevails with a much better defense. Daniel Snyder fires Shanahan expecting a Super Bowl already.
Green Bay ends Atlanta's run early again and Matt Ryan just has no answer for reporters but we all know he is overhyped.
In the Championship games:
Matt Schaub shows why question marks run abundant and gets annihilated by Cincy's defense. Cincy is headed to their first Super Bowl since Boomer was QB.
San Francisco picks apart the Packers with too much speed and depth to Green Bay.
And in the Super Bowl Jim Harbaugh doesn't settle for a loss and Kaepernick wins SB MVP to go with his League MVP trophy as Cincy loses by 3 scores.
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