NFL Top 10 and Week 2 Picks

1 - Pittsburgh 1-0 (Last week 2)
The defense picked up right where it left off last year. A slow start on the offensive side of the ball but its hard to look impressive against Tennessee.

2 - New England 1-0 (Last week 1)
Painful to watch if you are a Bills fan but somehow you just knew that the Patriots would find a way to win. Two very impressive touchdowns by Brady in the last three minutes to steal this one.

3 - NY Giants 1-0 (Last week 3)
A workman like win against the Redskins to start the season. Nothing at all flashy here, but all of the top teams got off to slow starts.

4 - Philadelphia 1-0 (Last week 5)
Losing McNabb won’t help them next week, but an easy win over the self destructing Panthers in week 1 is a nice way to start the year.

5 - Green Bay 1- 0 (Last week 7)
They didn’t blow out the Bears, but the defense sure made Cutler look terrible. Still an important division win to start the season and they avoided the type of tight losses that hurt them last year. The season could not have started off worse for the Bears with a terrible game by Cutler and the loss of Urlacher out for the year.

6 - NY Jets 1-0 (Last week unranked)
Have to reward the Jets for the best first week performance. A very solid debut by Sanchez and they totally handled the Texans on the road.

7 - Dallas 1-0 (Last week 8)
A comfortable win against Tampa in the first week. Great performance by Romo with 353 yards and 3 touchdowns.

8 - Minnesota 1-0 (Last week 9)
They started off very slow against a very bad Cleveland team but took control in the second half. Farve played a backseat role in the offense with only 110 yards passing while Peterson broke some big runs on route to 180 yards and 3 touchdowns.

9 - Indianapolis 1-0 (Last week 6)
Another blank of a game but the Colts came away with the win over Jacksonville. The Colts need to find some balance in their attack with Addai being held to 42 yards on the ground.

10 - San Diego 1-0 (Last week 4)
We’ll keep the Chargers in the top 10 this week, but they have to do better then squeaking out a win over the Raiders even if it is on the road.

Top 3 Pics (Last week 2-1 against the spread)

Take Pittsburgh minus 2 ½ at Chicago. Chicago’s season started off as bad as it could against the Vikes so this games worries me a bit as a bounce back. The Steelers will miss Polamalu, but I’ll give the points and look for Pittsburgh to overpower the Bears without Urlacher.

Houston plus 7 at Tennessee. Houston had a terrible start against the Jets at home but they are better then that. I look for them to stay within a touchdown of Tennessee whose offense does not impress me.

New Orleans plus 2 at Philadelphia. I hate to bet against Philly’s defense at home, but without McNabb and Vick I see Gregg Williams defense shutting down the Eagles enough to allow Brees to lead his team to victory.