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NFL Season Predictions

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Well, the college football season snuck up on me before I could get my predictions out, so I’m not going to let that happen with NFL kickoff just a few days away. Let’s just say this Bears’ fans, you are really going to hate the Lions this year. On that note let’s start with the NFC North.

NFC North – easily the second most competitive division in football next to the NFC East, but there will only be two contenders this season from the North, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. The Lions are young and talented and if they can avoid key player injuries I see a 10-6 season for them, while the Packers return with a solid team to go 12-4 and take the NFC top seed in the playoffs. The Bears made some pretty poor offseason moves and are staring a 7-9 season in the face. The only team worse then the Bears this season in the North is the Vikings even with Adrian Peterson, but not much worse at 6-10. If they beat the Bears twice you might see a record swap.

NFC East – the powerhouse of the NFL with the Eagles, Cowboys, Giants, and Redskins. While everyone is gushing over the Eagles I do not expect Michael Vick to make it through the entire season, which will prevent the Eagles from winning the division, and right there to win it will be the Cowboys with a respectable 11-5 record. The Cowboys already had a very talented team in place and with a new revamped defense they should be in great shape. The Eagles will finish at 10-6 and take the other Wild Card spot with the Detroit Lions. The Giants will offer up more of the same with inconsistent play from their offense and defense. The Redskins just named Rex Grossman their starting quarterback, enough said there. Giants will be 9-7 and the Skins will finish 5-11.

NFC South – This race comes down to two teams and only one will make the playoffs, the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. While the Saints seem like it should be business as usual I think their time has come and gone and the Falcons will emerge as the division winner with a 10-6 record with two wins over the Saints. The Saints will also have a 10-6 record, but one of their losses will come at the hands of the Lions, so they will not make the playoffs. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be 9-7, while the Carolina Panthers will continue their rebuilding process with a 4 -12 record.

NFC West – Why does the West always stink, well since the glory days of the San Francisco 49ers, which isn’t on the horizon anytime soon. The winner of this division will be over .500, but not by much as the St. Louis Rams show the most promise with 9-7 record, and the Arizona Cardinals will be a close second at 8-8. The Seattle Seahawks and 49ers will not be making anything interesting, but I think the 49ers are a little better with a 5-11 finish to the Seahawks 4-12. Yawn.

AFC North – The Steelers and Ravens will he fighting this battle, but the Steelers have a slightly better team, so they will edge out the Ravens with 11-5 record. The Ravens will be right their with a 10-6 record followed by a .500 Cleveland Browns and a horrible Cincinnati Bengals team that might be the worst team in football this season. I’m thinking three wins might be a bit generous, so I’ll go 2-14 with complete turmoil all season.

AFC East – Duh, Patriots, what new? The Pats will win the division easily again despite all the blabbing from Rex Ryan and the New York Jets with a 13–3 record. The Jets will finish with an 11-5 record because of an improved Mark Sanchez this season. The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins will anchor the division, but the Dolphins will be starting their ascension this season with an 8-8 record. The Bills will suffer another losing season at 6-10.

AFC South – The big question, will Peyton Manning return 100% healthy and ready to perform? It’s such a big question that I’m going to put the Indianapolis Colts at 9-7 this season and give the division win to the Houston Texans with 10-6 record behind a solid year from Arian Foster (despite the MRI tweet) and Matt Schaub. Both the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars will finish with 7-9 records.

AFC West – Who’s the best team in the AFC? That will come down to the Pats and the San Diego Chargers who will win the West without any problems with a 12-4 record. They should come out the shoot ready to go this year behind gunslinger, Philip Rivers. The rest of the division is crap with the Kansas City Chiefs finishing .500, the Oakland Raiders at 7-9, and the Denver Broncos with a 4-12 record.

NFC Playoff Picture

1 – Green Bay Packers
2 – Dallas Cowboys
3 – Atlanta Falcons
4 – St. Louis Rams
5 – Detroit Lions
6 – Philadelphia Eagles

AFC Playoff Picture

1 – New England Patriots
2 – San Diego Chargers
3 – Pittsburgh Steelers
4 – Houston Texans
5 – New York Jets
6 – Baltimore Ravens

Bears not good

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A replay of the Bears in the playoffs!

The Chicago Bears are making the types of moves that have them all set-up to have a .500 season. They’ve essentially assembled a team of players that the Yankees of football, the Dallas Cowboys, deem unserviceable. Whether you like the Cowboys or not their staff over the last four decades knows how to evaluate talent.

They took Marc Colombo from the Bears scrap heap and turned him into a serviceable lineman for the past five seasons. The Bears cut Colombo as he was injured most of his career and they did not think he had any worth, yet another great decision by the Bears. He might have been helpful the past few years as Jay Cutler’s been running for his life against just about any defense in the NFL. Of his five seasons with the Cowboys, he played four full-seasons and one half season due to injury.

How about Cedric Benson? Not good enough for the Bears? Sure he had an off the field alcohol related incident that he was not indicted on, but was it any worse than Lance Briggs crashing his car into a tree and then conveniently fleeing from the incident? Since taking over the starting running back duties for the Bengals, Benson has eclipsed the 1,000 yard mark the last two seasons proving to be a solid and durable back.

I could go on, but I’ll stop there because it will just get redundant and uninteresting. This season the Bears have turned to a series of players that the Cowboys felt were expendable. My gut tells me the Bears are going to screw-up things with Matt Forte, so the signing of Marion Barber is an insurance policy. They also signed Roy Williams based on the theory that he can go from a completely useless receiver to an All-pro again. We’ll see about that. He lacks concentration and focus, as does Sam Hurd, another Cowboys cast-off.

Lovie Smith will have his hands full since he’s a lot like Wade Philips when comes to how he handles his veterans, so things should be running amuck in the Bears locker room this season. My early prediction on the Bears is an 8-8 season, while Williams may seem like an upgrade at wide receiver he’s probably not. The Bears also need overnight improvement on the offensive line and they’ve made no significant improvements, in fact the departure of Olin Kruetz made it worse.

The Bears also did not make any improvements in their secondary, where they ranked 20th in the NFL last season in pass defense. Not good, again they won in spite of themselves.

A lot of luck occurred last season for the Bears and I doubt that’s going to happen this season.

Roy Williams a Bear?

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Roy Williams making a rare catch in Dallas.

The Bears are making a splash while breaking some hearts, possibly Jay Cutler’s. The Bears sent away Cutler’s volleyball partner and work girlfriend, Greg Olsen, for a 2012 third-round draft pick from the Carolina Panthers.

To replace Olsen the Bears are adding an underachieving, loud mouth wide receiver. Might not work with Cutler’s fragile psyche and low blood sugar levels.

While this deal is not official, since it can not be until 3pm cst today, sources are reporting that the Bears have come to terms with Roy Williams who was thankfully released by the Dallas Cowboys yesterday afternoon. Williams never lived up to the contract the Cowboys gave him, nor did he fill the void left by Terrell Owens.

If Williams can relive the 1,300 yard year he had with Offensive coordinator, Mike Martz, the Bears could make some noise this season, well, there’s still the Lovie Smith factor. That’s a mountain too big for any team to climb.