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  1. 11-07-2012, 01:23 PM #1
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    Green Bay Packers Packers remain the favorites at midseason

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    Green Bay Packers remain NFL favorites at midseason

    We've been rolling out our midseason report on NFL.com this week, with a lot of cool content yet to come.
    The centerpiece included our choices for awards for all the major categories, and our revised playoff predictions. I strongly believe that you should never change your Super Bowl pick unless you absolutely have to. (For example: Adam Rank picked the Kansas City Chiefs to get to the Super Bowl before the season. Ouch.) For the most part, the ATL crew stuck with its preseason picks. Here goes:

    My pick: Green Bay Packers over New England Patriots
    Dan Hanzus:Green Bay Packers over Houston Texans
    Marc Sessler:San Francisco 49ers over Houston Texans

    Sessler is the only one that made a change. He had the Patriots over the 49ers the first time around. If his original choice was right, let's not give him any credit, cool? Cool.
    Despite a 5-3 record and all sorts of injuries, the Packers remained the favorite choice of our 16 analysts. Seven of us took them to win the Super Bowl. The Chicago Bears had three votes, San Francisco 49ers had two votes and the Houston Texans, Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots each earned one nod from an analyst, respectively.
    That's a lot of faith in Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And a lot of differing opinion: seven different teams were chosen. Also a note to Falcons fans: You can send your angry tweets at other writers, too. Disrespect!
    While doing this post, I went back to look at some of the preseason predictions. Some of my favorites: Justin Blackmon for Offensive Rookie of the Year (Ian Rapoport), Michael Vick for MVP (Also Rapoport), Tony Romo for MVP (Hanzus), Joe Vitt/Aaron Kromer for Coach of the Year (Sessler), and Romeo Crennel for Coach of the Year (Yours truly.)
    Finally, I wrote up a couple pieces for the report that you might have missed since they weren't on Around the League: The best moments of the first half of the season, and my midseason coaches power rankings. Yep, Romeo is last, just behind Andy Reid, Jason Garrett, and that Vitt/Kromer combo. We are all complete morons.
    Atlanta has basically played losing teams, thus Green Bay put the only losses in Chicago and Houston's corner. That's enough for me to agree with the analysts.
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  • 11-07-2012, 06:33 PM #2
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    way too much football left for me to make a prediction. The packers and bears are 1 player away from having the season go into the crapper if that player get injured. The packers defense is still questionable and they are beatable this year. The bears on the other hand have a tough schedule comming up but this defense is very scary to play against.
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  • 11-10-2012, 07:17 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by little bear View Post
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    Atlanta has basically played losing teams, thus Green Bay put the only losses in Chicago and Houston's corner. That's enough for me to agree with the analysts.
    The analysts are making the 'sexy' pick again with Green Bay simply because they have won three in a row. The team struggled against a horrific Jaguars team (at home), and lost to the Colts, and barely beat a rotten defensive team like the Saints. Yes, they have beaten the Bears and the Texans but lets see if they beat the Giants, Detroit twice, Minnesota twice and then come into our house. Green Bay probably will make the playoffs with their remaining schedule but they are far from the team that won 15 games last year. They have really dropped off in production after their offensive coordinator left.
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  • 11-11-2012, 07:04 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by wklink View Post
    The analysts are making the 'sexy' pick again with Green Bay simply because they have won three in a row. The team struggled against a horrific Jaguars team (at home), and lost to the Colts, and barely beat a rotten defensive team like the Saints. Yes, they have beaten the Bears and the Texans but lets see if they beat the Giants, Detroit twice, Minnesota twice and then come into our house. Green Bay probably will make the playoffs with their remaining schedule but they are far from the team that won 15 games last year. They have really dropped off in production after their offensive coordinator left.
    And our beloved Bears struggled to beat the Panthers
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Benjamin View Post
    And our beloved Bears struggled to beat the Panthers
    True but the creamed a few other shitty teams and mannaged to still beat the panthers.
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    True but the creamed a few other shitty teams and mannaged to still beat the panthers.
    No doubt. Just saying that barely beating a crap team means nothing.
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    That reminds me of the 2010 browns game. We won, but they beat nyj and NE that year. Back to the point, if we lose to the 49ers, expect the pack to be flaunted as the nfcc, even tho they have more flaws than the bears. That 2nd game will be very important, unless we have a serious injury, or Erin gets KO'd.

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