Turkey Day Picks

Thurdsay afternoon, people across the country will put down their forks, unbutton their pants, and doze off into a turkey induced coma in their recliner. Some of us however, will gear up for the midweek treat which is Thanksgiving day football.

To start things off we have the Green Bay Packers at the Detroit Lions. In this divisional matchup, I am going with the upset and taking the Detroit Lions. They are still on pace with Kitna's guarantee and they are going to make a big stride in the right direction after suffering a bit of a set back this past weekend against the New York Giants. Kitna will pick his spots a little better and utilize the sheer athleticism of WRs Calvin Johnson and Roy Williams, who are starting to understand the fact that they both cannot be doubled every play and that single coverage shouldn't be able to contain them. Brett Favre will struggle early and often. Look for the Lions to pick Favre off early and the Packers to struggle to establish the run against the stingy run D of the Lions (giving up 98 YPG rushing). Both of these quarterbacks have itchy trigger fingers, and it will come down to who makes better decisions and which WRs make the most plays. C. Johnson and R. Williams pace the Lions while a few bad decisions by Favre do in the Pack.
Lions 20 Packers 17

There is a 50 percent chance the happy-go-lucky, fist pumping Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Wade Phillips, misses the Cowboys game because he falls asleep after stuffing himself full of Yams and pumpkin Pie. However, if he doesn't, he will witness his Dallas Cowboys shred the New York Jets (who reminded us this weekend that they were in fact an NFL team). It doesnt matter who their quarterback is...Chad Pennington, Kellen Clemens, Roger Clemens, Dallas is just too much on offense. Tony Romo should continue his stellar pace and Terrell Owens will find the end zone yet again. Dallas should also have a little more success running the ball than in the recent past as both Marion Barber and Julius Jones should find more holes in the swiss cheese that is the 32nd ranked Jets run D. Dallas jumps out to an early lead and doesn't look back.
Cowboys 41 Jets 13

The late game between the Falcons and the Colts is on NFL network, thus no one will watch it and no one cares. Peyton Manning bounces back in style throwing for a couple scores and Addai pounds out another 100 yard game. Colts cruise.
Colts 38 Falcons 10