NFL Playoff Predictions

For Football fans this coming weekend is one of the great weekends of the year. The games to determine who will play for the conference championships look to provide some very interesting games.

In the AFC the Indianapolis Colts will play the Baltimore Ravens while the New York Jets will travel to San Diego to play the Chargers. I am not a football expert such as many you see on television but I think I can predict as well as most. Indianapolis will host the Baltimore Ravens who embarrassed the Patriots last week. Not withstanding the Baltimore connection to both teams it is difficult the bet against Indianapolis. Peyton Manning is the best quarterback in the game and while the Colts put it in neutral at the end of the season there is no reason to believe that they will not return to the form that had them as the Super Bowl favorites for most of the season. I will bet on Peyton and the Colts to find a way to win.

The Jets have played well as the season ended but the Chargers are the hottest team in football. I have the Chargers and the underrated Philip Rivers winning here.

In the NFC many are ready to believe that Dallas is ready to make a run to the Super Bowl. Standing in their way are Brett Favre and the Vikings. The Vikings struggled the last third of the season while the Cowboys have been nothing short of dominant. My pick here are the Vikings for the simple reason that the Brett Favre story is too good to end. He will find a way to win.

The game I most look forward to seeing is Arizona visiting the Saints in New Orleans. The Saints after starting 13 and 0 lost their last 3 games. Now with the bye they have sat for two weeks mulling how they are going to restart the machine. Kurt Warner, mulling retirement himself, threw 5 touchdowns last week. Perhaps I am letting my personal preference for a good story win out but I think that Arizona will find a way to win this. A Kurt Warner-Brett Favre match up to go the Super Bowl may be too good to look forward to.