6-3 in my picks here this weekend. Unfortunately, I'll admit that the rest of my picks were not so good. I got surprised by the lousy play of Dallas and Pittsburgh and by the number of drops by Giants receivers. Has any receiving core had a worse day this year? Eli is struggling enough without his guys dropping six or seven easy catches on him. That is one pathetic looking playoff team that a lucky NFC Division leader is going to face the first week. And speaking of division leaders, when was the last time there was this little drama heading into the last two weeks of the season? With 7 of the 8 divisions already wrapped up, there's only a small race for the wild card spots on the line.
I think the best story of the day (besides Favre breaking Dan Marino's career passing yards record) is Tampa Bay finally returning a kickoff for a touchdown. That's right, in their 32nd season in the league, the Bucs got their first ever touchdown on a kickoff. They were the only team in the league without one. According to a site dedicated to their returning ineptness (PointofNoReturns.com), the Bucs had played 498 games, returned more than 1,900 kickoffs, and gone 11,408 days without ever running one back for six. That all ended with Michael Spurlock's 90 yard return Sunday against the Falcons. And really, after the season and the week that Atlanta has had, why wouldn't the first ever Bucs TD return be against them?
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