A look at the Championship Round

I have done such a bang up job with all these predictions so far, I have decided to follow through with the Championship games. I was 50/50 last week, and frankly, there’s only one way to go from here.

Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears: I picked the Packers to go to the Super Bowl at the very beginning of the season, and it would be hypocritical to bail on them now (even though I picked the Falcons last week). The Packers have the hottest QB in the game right now and solid linebackers, the QBs of the defense. The Bears have a great defense. I think the Packers’ possession of players that can direct traffic on both sides of the ball will overcome Chicago’s most obvious strength, which resides on only one side of the ball The Packers have overcome their early season injury problems and are now unbeatable…. in the NFC

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New York Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers: It says a lot that there is a reasonable chance that this game could be the higher scoring of the two games this weekend. The Steelers have been impressive all season, whereas the Jets came on late. The Jets beat the Steelers in a game that Pittsburgh was missing key components like Troy Polamalu. If you look at the course of the season, the Steelers have been obviously better. That said, every round so far has included a game where the “obvious winner” ended up losing (I’m talking, of course, about the Saints and Patriots). No real in depth analysis here. The Steelers seem like the most obvious pick this week, which means I am picking the Jets.
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That’s right, I am picking a Favre Bowl. Wouldn’t it be fitting? A game in which Brett Favre gets all the attention, even when he’s not playing? Overshadowing Aaron Rodgers and both his former teams. Yep, this one is bound to happen.