NFL Picks Week 9

[SlavikSvensk]

i think the giants are one of those teams that, when you think about it, just aren't that great. but they have some very specific weapons that give them the ability to beat teams that should be better than them. i mean, against detroit or green bay, tony romo will be able to do his little scramble thing and get some big 3rd down passes off on the fly. but the giants pass rush is so good i don't think he'll be able to do that against them. so he'll need to get rid of the ball fast, slants, screens, etc. the giants know that's coming so they'll jam the receivers at the line and spy an lb in the middle. not unlike what the patriots did but with a much more devastating pass rush. so really the key to beating them is marion barber. on offense, they have enough weapons to roll with most anyone, but are supremely inconsistent. so that's the other thing. do you get eli manning, peyton's little brother? or eli manning, a latter-day rick mirer?

[snooch]

Well since we have beat them once already this season and are way more consistent on both sides of the ball than them, I see the Cowboys as taking this one. It won't be the 45-35 score that we beat them with earlier in the season, but I don't think that they can stop our pass rush either. We've got a tight end that is as good or better than Shockey, our QB is clearly better, either of our running backs are better in their own style of running, our recievers are better and our bench is much deeper. The only position they have us on offensively is fullback. Our FB was injured last week and the backup is already out with a neck injury. But we would have had to drop one of them anyways to move Tank Johnson to the active roster so it's kind of a moot point. Defensively they barely edge us out and I mean barely. They are ranked 7th in the NFL and we are ranked 8th. Their problem is their penalty yards. They have 501 this season so far which is a lot. We only have 350. Plus the disparity between thir good defense and their offense is too much (7th defense and 15th offense). The Cowboys are 8th in D and 2nd on offense. That alone should be the difference. Play action passing, heavy passing to Whitten and T.O. across the middle and keeping pressure on their QB should be good enough to take the game.