Redskins 5-6, still done and the rest of the NFL

The Redskins continue their slide and have in essence (if not mathematically, yet) killed their chances of making the playoffs. I take solace from the fact that the Skins don't have a #1 pick in next years draft (because of this year's Jason Campbell pick/trade) so the better the Redskins do, the worse the #1 pick they would have had is. I also take solace in going 12-4 (and 12-2 on the weekend)... man, I'm regretting those "go against my instinct" picks on Thanksgiving. I am now 39-19 on my picks.

I've got to gloat because I only missed two games this weekend: Philly beating Green Bay and Miami beating Oakland. I thought Green Bay was pretty consistant this year in winning against okay teams away and losing at home. (BTW, I've been an idiot for awhile, because the Packers won at Lambeau on week 5. It's their only win at home though.) The Miami/Oakland game is my upset of the week... granted Oakland stunk it up against the Skins, but not bad enough to see this one coming.

The games I got lucky in were the overtime games: San Diego over Washington and Seattle over NY Giants. Obviously those overtime games could have gone either way. But, Eli Manning impressed me this weekend, even though Seattle is in the bottom third in passing defense. I still think his offensive line, Tiki Barber and his defense have ALOT to do in making him look good, but this weekend he undoubtedly played very well.

I was pretty proud to have called the St. Louis/Houston game as my "bite me in the butt" pick, because it almost did. Houston was up by 21 points when some rookie QB named Ryan Fitzpatrick decided to throw for 3 TD in a comeback OT win. I bet St. Louis is all in a tizzy about this kid... but I of course would like to wait to make a judgment.

Finally, remember how I said the Jags will beat the Colts... well Byron Leftwich broke a bone in his ankle and will not play against the Colts in two weeks. So, we'll have to wait and see how the Jags will play without him to see if I can still call that loss to the Colts.