Sunday Predictions

We have come down to the League championships in the NFL.  Sunday provides us with two games and each will have a Harbaugh coaching. These two games could really be good ones.  So far in the NFL playoffs I am 3-5 so what ever I am going to tell you now you may be wise to pick opposite me.

Baltimore At New England:   This game features the winningest quarterback this century in regards to Super Bowls against a team that has one.  New England is the kind of team as you watch them play you say to yourself this team is really beatable until you look at the final score and they have won by 20.  The Ravens are suppose to be old on defense and if defense wins championships why is this old team still playing?  I have  a feeling it going to be really cold in Foxboro but it is January and this is the NFL playoffs and this is the way it is suppose to be at this time.

Recent past will tell you the best don't always win the Super Bowl any more it has changed to the hot team wins.  Baltimore is the hot team or most of the time the team that slips into the playoffs becomes that hot team.  Baltimore didn't slip in but they are hot.  There are just some teams that match up well with others and the Ravens seem to have the Patriots number.  The Ravens will go to Foxboro and pull this one out 31-30

San Fransisco at Atlanta:  All of this mumbo jumbo talk about running quarterbacks and their success.  I suspect high school coaches cringe when they see the poor defensive end play when a quarterback fakes a  and keeps the ball and runs untouched for a touchdown.  There will be one day when coaches will convince these ends to stay home and after two or three blows the end of the running quarterback will occur.  It still might take ten years to happen so that leaves us with San Fran coming to Atlanta with an offense improved since they made the quarterback change.

They were really good before the change.  I like many people don't like Atlanta's team and last week they were able to get many Monkees off their back finally winning a playoff game.  So they got that playoff win and they will go down at home.  Might be bad weather in Foxboro  but in the Georgia Dome which to me takes away home field advantage.  It will be 72 degrees and comfortable for the 49's too.  I'm taking the Niners 41-28.

The next Super Bowl will have two brothers coaching against each other  as John will face off against Jim.  You know the NFL is a copy cat league so after this years Super Bowl watch out for the brothers of other NFL head coaches start getting their shots at head coaching jobs.  Try anything in the NFL as we see with this running quarterback fad  there are not many who know how to coach.  When a team only has  a quarterback and a running back in the back field and one of them runs untouched, I would like to know one thing.  Why do these teams look at so much film for.  The coaches and the players must sleep during film sessions because none seem to know how to stay home and play their position.