Given that the default for point spreads is that the home team gets three points, the Bills are kinda sorta underdog-ish. With that in mind, the only favorite I pick is the Lions. I’m seeing the Texans, Packers, Lions and Bills winning this weekend.
All my picks in the Wildcard round came true but of course I didn’t post them because I’m lazy. Now that I’ve posted my picks in the divisional round, none of them will come true.
My wildcard pick reasoning somewhat carries over to this week. It was as follows:
- Wildcard Picks (Source: Trust me, bro!)
Packers win because - just to piss me off - they’re going to make it to the conference championship. 30+ years of having a solved QB position is just wrong, damn it!
Lions win because there was no way this world is so unjust that their long time franchise QB, who won the Superbowl immediately after leaving the team, would then come back and prevent them from getting their first playoff win in 30 years.
Bucs win because the Eagles have been truly shitting the bed for a while now. They got curbstomped by the fucking Giants with a potential 2 seed in the playoffs on the line!
Bills win because the Steelers didn’t have Watt and they were 1-10 without him. Bills are also just a better team. This was the biggest no-brainer, IMO.
Texans win because Joe Flacco would revert to his Jets form in the playoffs. In the end he did not. His passes as a Jet didn’t go anywhere near anybody; both of his pick 6s against the Texans were probably better than any pass he threw as a Jet. And he was pretty solid in the first half.
Chiefs win as the Dolphins freeze to death. They’ll get this one win with Taylor Swift in attendance but their ship is sinking fast. This ended up not quite going as I thought, both because the Dolphins didn’t seem to mind the cold and the Chiefs seemed to get a spark of new life with the emergence of a real WR in Rice.
I think the Texans might be better than the Ravens, as crazy as that sounds. And like the oddsmakers, I think the Lions are better than the Bucs.
(Note that all my picks are just for winners, not against the spread.)