Sunday, January 24, 2010

AFC/NFC Championship predictions


lets start with the first game first. The AFC game between the Colts and the Jets. Nobody but the Jets and Rex Ryan thought that they could have made it this far. I knew that i thought Rex Ryan was crazy when he said that his team was the best in the playoffs. I thought that they wouldn't even get past the wild card game. Now they are here in the AFC championship game. The Colts, well I fully expected them to be here. I also expected them to be undefeated at this point, but for some reason the coaches thought that they would make the players and all the fans mad by taking the starters out of the week 16 game. This game should be very exciting even though I think that the Colts are a huge favorite. They have a lot of talent and want this year to end with a trophy and huge rings so bad that they are going to make it happen. The way that Peyton Manning, a veteran quarterback, takes over the game and leads his team to victory compared to Mark Sanchez, a rookie, kind of just goes along with things is the difference. The quarterback position is meant to be a position of leadership and it isn't with the Jets and that might cost them. That is why I am picking the Colts to win.

The NFC championship game will also have to do with the leadership of the quarterback. This time, though the match-up is a little more even. Still there is a favorite between the two. Would you pick Brett Favre or Drew Brees. This year some people might have picked Drew Brees, but if you know Brett in the playoffs and so far this year in the playoffs, he has really stepped it up as a leader. The thing that I love about the Vikings is that they have a great running back in Adrian Peterson, probably the best in the league. They also have one of the best quarterbacks ever, Brett Favre. When you have a great running game and a great quarterback that gives you so many play action options that just makes you dominant. That is why I am picking the Vikings to win.

Friday, January 8, 2010

National Championship wrap

This game was very exciting for me to experience and watch. i enjoyed the game and thought it was good entertainment. I had picked Texas to win and i think that they maybe would have had a chance if Colt McCoy wouldn't have gotten an unavoidable injury. It was unfortunate for Colt and i like him, but that unfortunately led to the longhorns losing this game. Alabama went in the favorite, but the few minutes up until colt was hurt it looked like Texas had this game by the horns. The momentum was changed when colt was injured. The whole team of Texas seemed to play worse and with less swagger than they had before he left. Alabama might have been a little effected by this at the end of the game, but not really at first. The True freshman came into his first collegiate game and came in replacing the win ingest quarterback and came in during the national championship. That is a lot of pressure on a true freshman. He played not very well until right around the beginning of the 4th quarter when he threw touchdown passes to Jordan Shipley to come within a field goal of the tide. Then he fumbled, entirely not his fault, and that really ended the game. I wish Garret Gilbert the best on the rest of his collegiate career because from what i saw last night he is pretty good, and i think that he chould just say that he did good and not get down on himself for that fumble or for the loss. I hate to say this because i like the longhorns, congratulations alabama crimson tide