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[antidan444]

Colts 31, Giants 21

[BadBoyBenny]

AFC East: New England
AFC North: Pittsburgh
AFC South: Indianapolis
AFC West: Denver
Wildcard 1: Jacksonville
Wildcard 2: San Diego

AFC Champ - Pittsburgh (San Diego's tough schedule and Indy's easy schedule set them up for a playoff meeting. Pittsburgh gets a bye and a much easier opponent before the championship)

NFC East: Philly
NFC North: Bears
NFC South: Carolina
NFC West: Seattle
Wildcard 1: Atlanta
Wildcard 2: Giants

NFC Champ - The Eagles (I think their D will turn it around and start to dominate)

Super Bowl Winner:

Pittsburgh - Because they are my favorite team.

[lastchance]

AFC West: Denver
AFC South: Indy
AFC East: NE
AFC North: Pittsburgh
AFC Wild Card: Cincy
AFC Wild Card: Jacksonville
Honorary Mention: San Diego.

NFC West: Seattle
NFC South: Atlanta
NFC East: NYG
NFC North: Chicago
NFC Wild Card: Carolina
NFC Wild Card: Dallas
Honorary mention: TB (really was a tossup between them, CAR and ATL), and the rest of the NFC East. (NFC East and AFC West got shafted this year)

NFC Champ: Seattle (or NYG). Yeah, NYG's better, but you know what? Their schedule is harder, so they have less chance of byeing. Plus, it's always good to be homerish.

AFC Champ: Indy. I can't pick NE the way they've been playing. SD's schedule is way too hard for them to get a bye. Denver has 2 losses. Indy's got a locked up bye + defense. I have to take Indy.

Super Bowl Champion: Indianapolis.

I think Denver's solid enough to hold on to their 2 game lead. SD is one of the best teams in the league, but they've got 2 games to make up against a tough schedule.

Cincy has enough easy games to get at least 4 wins, probably 5. I can't pick against them.

I hate thinking Jax will get over SD, but have you seen Jax's schedule? So easy over the second half of the year.

Also, Indy isn't going to have that easy of a schedule. Over the second half of the season, they have 6-7 tough games. But they're good, and they won't blow their nicely padded bye lead.

I don't like Philly much. They've looked terrible on the road the last 3 road games. The win over SD was just pure luck. I don't think this version is like last year's. Akers going down hurt quite a bit.

[jgorham]

AFC East: Patriots
AFC North: Pittsburgh
AFC South: Indy
AFC West: Chargers
AFC WC: Broncos
AFC WC: Bengals

NFC East: Dallas
NFC North: Chicago
NFC South: Carolina
NFC West: Seahawks
NFC WC: Giants
NFC WC: Falcons

Chargers beat Seahawks in the championship.

[Seadood228]

There are way too many delusions about San Diego winning the AFC West. Denver might be the best team in the NFL right now, unfortunately it doesn't mean much because they can't beat the Colts in Indy.

SD has no secondary, and they have a crap coach that has a habit of getting pwned in big games.

[lastchance]

So, a week later looking at these picks, let me flip Carolina and Atlanta, and I'm losing a bit of faith in Jacksonville. Houston sucks. No one noticed KC a week earlier, which was a mistake, but their schedule in the NFC West is brutal, and SD's still better.

Revised Picks:
AFC West: Denver
AFC South: Indy
AFC East: NE
AFC North: Pittsburgh
AFC Wild Card: Cincy
AFC Wild Card: Jacksonville

NFC West: Seattle
NFC South: Carolina
NFC East: NYG
NFC North: Chicago
NFC Wild Card: Atlanta
NFC Wild Card: Dallas