Normally, this is a nice, quiet week for this football column. We do a quick post mortem on the two teams that lost the championship games, mention which coaches got hired, and save all the good stuff for the Super Bowl preview.<\/p>\n
Not this week, my friends. This is suddenly the week the Hall of Fame and the Pro Bowl were both revealed to be hilariously embarrassing.<\/p>\n
I can tell you, Shedeur Sanders being named to one and Bill Belichick not being named to the other? Both of those decisions are wrong on a level I have not seen since I tried to represent myself in a divorce, and wound up not only paying alimony, but also being legally required to wash the judge\u2019s car twice a week.<\/p>\n
I know wrong, because quite often, I am also jarringly incorrect, which I freely admit. Let\u2019s take a look back at some of my many predictions this season, where I can give myself full blame and credit for what I got wrong and right.<\/p>\n
On the Micah Parsons trade, 8\/29\/25: \u201c\u2026Even if Dallas gets a couple of first-round picks, they probably wouldn\u2019t even be in the top fifteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: Dead on here. Dallas gets the 20th pick in the draft. Jerry Jones did use some of the other picks to rebuild the interior of the defensive line. Now, he just needs to fix every other part of it.<\/p>\n
My Cowboys preseason prediction, 9\/2\/25: \u201cThis is a team full of question marks, an enigma wrapped in a riddleand smothered in secret sauce. On paper, they\u2019ve got a good offense, quite possibly very good. They also have question marks on the coaching staff, a rough division, and they just dumped one of the best defensive players in the league for draft picks that won\u2019t help them for 2-3 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: That sure sounds like 7-9-1 to me, doesn\u2019t it? I was way off on the division, but it didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n
On my preseason picks, 9\/2\/25:\u201cThe only wager I will make this year on the Browns is that Shedeur Sanders will start a game, and I\u2019m setting the over\/under for that on November 9th. They\u2019ll be 2-6, and at the 3-5 Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: I was off, but close. The Browns were2-6 for that game and the Jets were 1-7, but Sanders didn\u2019t get his first start until two weeks later, when he became one of many quarterbacks to beat the Raiders this year.<\/p>\n
My playoff picks, 9\/4\/25:\u201cI\u2019ll take Buffalo, Baltimore, Jacksonville, and Kansas City to win their divisions, Cincinnati, the LA Chargers, and Denver for wild cards. For the NFC, Philadelphia, Green Bay, Atlanta, and the LA Rams to win divisions, with Detroit, Tampa Bay, and San Francisco as wild card teams. And yes, I know that means I\u2019m saying no playoffs for the Texans, Steelers, Commanders, Vikings, or Seahawks.<\/p>\n
Verdict: This season, I was pretty stinko early. And for the rest of my life, I feel like you\u2019re going to keep bringing up that I didn\u2019t even have the NFC Champion and Super Bowl favorite as a playoff team, dear reader. I deserve that.<\/p>\n
On Indianapolis, 9\/4\/25: \u201cThe Colts choosing between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones feels like a horror movie Jordan Peele would make about the NFL Draft.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: Can I get partial credit that I was right about one of those guys, at least?<\/p>\n
On the Bucs, 9\/25\/25: \u201cIs Tampa Bay just that team that\u2019s going to be magic all year?\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: That\u2019s a negatory, Big Daddy.<\/p>\n
On the Cowboys, 10\/2\/25: \u201cDallas looks like one of several teams this year who\u2019re so much better on one side of the ball than the other, they\u2019re going to be in every game. And heartbreakingly lose a bunch of those too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: Completely correct, but this one was like predicting water will be wet, or that a new Christopher Nolan movie is going to be really long.<\/p>\n
On whether Drake Maye is the new Tom Brady, 10\/9\/25: \u201dSlow down, hoss. The kid is good, but let\u2019s not put too many unreasonable expectations on him just because he outdueled the Bills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: I didn\u2019t want this to be true. I really didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
On the Texans, 11\/21\/25: \u201cThe Texans defense is legit, but their offense is terrible, and that doesn\u2019t bode well. Watching them islike watching a luxury car that\u2019s missing a couple of gears.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: In the playoffs, that luxury car crashed through a dynamite factory located behind a petting zoo in a slaughterhouse. You know what? I think I\u2019ve lost the metaphor here. Let\u2019s just say it was bad.<\/p>\n
On the Bears, 11\/21\/25: \u201cThe Bears have won seven of eight and are in first place, and no one outside of the greater Chicago area seems to know or care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verdict: Oh, we all know now. After that playoff win against the Packers, a friend texted me that Caleb Williams might be the best quarterback the Bears have ever had. I responded by asking who\u2019s in second place on that list, Sid Luckman? That year that Jim McMahon was healthy? That one season Jay Cutler became a meme? Williams is already better than that.<\/p>\n
On the Cowboys playoff hopes, 11\/28\/25: \u201cDallas has five games left, and could be favored in all of those.\u201c<\/p>\n
Verdict: I was reaching. They lost four of five by an average of two touchdowns a game.<\/p>\n
In better news for me, last week in the Championship round, I picked the Patriots to win by four points or fewer, they won by three. I also picked the Seahawks to win by three points or more, they won by four. What does this mean? I am either a genius, a wizard, or I\u2019ve come back from the future with a copy of a sports almanac. I\u2019ll let you decide. I\u2019m now 9-3 straight up in the playoffs, and 10-2 against Vegas.<\/p>\n
My Super Bowl picks on the game, commercials and everything else will be coming up next week. Don\u2019t start without me.<\/p>\n
Reid Kerr hopes Taylor Swift still gets to watch the Super Bowl.
You can always send questions, comments, and angry messages to him on Threads at @snowfire51.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normally, this is a nice, quiet week for this football column. We do a quick post mortem on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-449109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}