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The big story from Week 1 of the NFL season was that most of the road teams won. Frankly, I wasn’t that shocked, as most of the road teams were obviously the better team. There was only one home team that was a significant favorites: New England. I remember that because I like to pick home favorites for my Survival League entry, and I had a damned hard time picking against my Bills right away.

This week is another tough week, because there are a lot of visiting teams who are again the favorites, but none a whole lot better than the home team. Thus, I’m declaring Week 3 Sky’s Official Upset Week. Yeah, you should be impressed.

These home teams will pull out the victory:
Minnesota upsets Chicago — The Vikings seem to have a decent defense, too, and I’m thinking the Bears are due for an offensive letdown.
Houston upsets Washington — David Carr is a much better quarterback than Mark Brunell. Get used to it. The defenses seem pretty equivalent. I’m going to assume that Samkon Gado gets the most carries for the Texans even though Ron Dayne’s starting. He will, right?
New York Jets upset Buffalo — Actually, I don’t think this one’ll happen, but I’ve got to stick to my thesis, right? That’s what a good writer does, right? They come up with a hook and stick with it no matter the consequences, right?
Cleveland upsets Baltimore — Sure, the Ravens have a great defense and sure, the Browns aren’t very good, but in games that are low scoring (that Baltimore offensive doesn’t scare anyone), anything can happen.
Denver upsets New England — This one doesn’t fit the home-team-as-underdog theme, but isn’t it about time that Jake Plummer plays well (he has been a good quarterback the past couple years, after all) and New England’s mediocre play bites them in the ass?
New Orleans upsets Atlanta — Drew Brees, Joe Horn, Deuce McCallister, Marques Colston, and Reggie Bush. If the Saints defense can stop the Falcons running game at all, they can rack up the points. Atlanta’s wins over Tampa Bay and Carolina aren’t looking so impressive as we would have assumed coming into the season, either.

These games don’t seem to have a favorite:
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh — Let’s go Bengals!
Carolina at Tampa Bay — Ugh.
Green Bay at Detroit — Ughlier.
Jacksonville at Indianapolis — Offensive shootout or defensive battle?
New York Giants at Seattle — 80% of the articles I’ve read are picking the Giants. Me, I’m going Seattle.
St. Louis at Arizona — Battle of the over-rateds.

I just can’t do it:
Philadelphia over San Francisco — The Eagles will be pissed about last week. There’s no way they don’t destroy the 49ers this week.

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