Everyone picked Baltimore to lose to Denver, but I had a feeling Baltimore was going to have something for them. Manning doesn't like to play in cold weather games. His record shows it. Baltimore has a good running game with Ray Rice and Pierce. They get good in cold weather. I felt that the team was coming on strong, with everyone pretty healthy, and make no mistake about it, those Ravens are tough boys. Just checking out the Steelers and Ravens game year in and year out, you can see the bruising and injuries go haywire. They don't only tackle you. They maul you like a lion going after a heyena. Flacco is the only week link I feel, he's let alot of games go lose on him, and he was kind of lucky against Denver. I recorded the game, and watched the later quarters a few times, and noticed that he was almost picked at least 3-4 different times. But the team battled on and never quit even with that hail mary pass with seconds to go to tie it and eventually win it in double OT. Defense delivered just like the good ole days. Denver had it in the bag. That's a very tough feat to go up in altitude with a very hostile crowd in mile high city. Temperatures were below 10F with wind chill below zero. Coldest game played in Denver. They had that arctic blast on the western US this week, in fact, highs in my local never got above 38F today and I'm in Texas. So the weather was not really a factor with Baltimore and Denver, they are both cold weather football cities but for Manning, he looked like he wanted no part of it. Did you see him bury his hands in those pocket warmers? I know its tougher for a quarterback when the temps drop, but that's the way it goes in those cities in January. Gotta overcome those. Ok, so I was 4 for 4 on this football weekend. Here is my other predictions which I am sticking with....


Atlanta will LOSE to San Francisco

I take New England over Baltimore (I loved the Denver game and all that heart but the Brady bunch will prove too much up in Foxboro.)

It will be New England and the 49ers in the Superbowl. I'll make that prediction later. But that KAPERNICK guy is very scarey and leave it at that.