Week 15 NFL Free Picks

At 3-1 last week, I am finally getting my record headed in a positive direction, after four weeks of idling along in neutral. The game I messed up was the Giants at the Panthers. The Giants are a team that I simply can’t get a grasp of this year; like Bush with his foreign policy. Up, down, up, down…something that is fun in bed, but not from a football team, someone said recently. Watch TV. Ah well, the corporate-sponsored, pseudo-religious holiday season is upon us and we are all supposed to be good sheep this month and spend more money than we have on things no one needs for people who don’t need them for a reason no one remembers anymore. Buy now. To help you continue to feed this artificially-inflated economy that keeps us in line, I have four picks this week that will help your bankroll grow ever larger. Best of luck to all watching and playing the games this week and to Mr. Reichertz and Mr. Oxley as we head back to the huddle. Don’t ask questions.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS -3.5 AT TENNESSEE TITANS +3.5

Last week I said the Jags would hand the Colts the start of a losing streak. Some people wrote in saying that the Colts had lost the previous game, so how could this one be the start of a streak? Would it not have started the week before? No, is the answer, not Allen Iverson. A streak starts with a second loss. That is why I will not be calling this game the start of a losing streak for the Jaguars. No, that is not why at all. I’m a liar. You’d vote for me, right? I see a close, low-scoring affair.

PREDICTION: Titans to cover

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES +6 AT NEW YORK GIANTS -6

Ack! The Giants again! Have I gotten one of their games right in a pick all year? I don’t know if I have. Hmmm, time to change course. After meeting with my trusted advisors and discussing all possibilities, I have figured out that I am going about picking on this team all wrong. I know. I know. I said I’d never change the way I do things, but I am utterly convinced of my previous stupidity. What I used to do is say the Giants can’t be this bad and that Garcia, in Philly, can’t continue to pick other teams apart without getting picked off. Well, the Giants have been that bad and Garcia has been that good. I see no reason for either to stop. That’s right, folks. This week, I learned about a thing called ‘reason’. It is pretty cool. Try it when you make important decisions that affect the rest of the world from now on, please.

PREDICTION: Eagles to cover

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS +9.5 AT SAN DIEGO CHARGERS -9.5

The Chiefs, who lost at home last week by ten points, are being asked to step into San Diego’s crib and knock off the trendy,- and likely correct were it not for their coach, Schottenheimer, who will, I guarantee it, find a way to lose in the playoffs - pick to win this year’s Super Bowl. No easy task, that. Especially since the Chargers have the extra motivation that comes with playing the last team to beat them before they ripped off a seven-game winning streak that has yet to come to an end.

The Chiefs will have added motivation in this game (as if losing the past two seemingly winnable games were not enough) as they will be playing hard for the memory of their owner, and one of the founding fathers of football as we know it today, Lamar Hunt, who died December 13. If the Chiefs can win two of their last three games, they could slip into the playoffs on the strength of their divisional record.

PREDICTION: Chiefs to cover

CINCINNATI BENGALS +3 AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS -3

If the Bengals can make it to the playoffs and still have enough starters not in jail to field a team, they are going to scare some teams. If they don’t, they are going to scare some jailhouse wardens. The jury is out. Indianapolis, amazingly, is still not guaranteed to make the playoffs, and this Monday Night game is not going to strengthen their chances. Back any big cat into a corner and they’ll tear the head off a hobbled small horse with a blue tattoo. Add in a runner named Rudy and a run defense that, well, is, for the most part, simply a mirage, and you have all the makings of an extension to the losing streak the Colts have embarked upon.

PREDICTION: Bengals to cover

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Blake Butterfield is a freelance columnist and regular contributor to the BetUS.com Locker room.

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Posted on 12/15/2006 4:57:27 PM
NFL Betting Picks and Predictions - Week 15 - Blake
By Blake Butterfield

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