Week Two Predictions: The lucky, unlucky, and ugly.

Pictured: The Mastermind.

The Lucky: New York Jets at New England: Will the wounded Patriots give the Jets the window they need to win?  No they will not.  The Jets will play excellent defense, and Brady will appear flustered and frustrated with limited time to throw and weapons to hit.  The Jets will be equally limited offensively as they have almost no offensive talent.  Rex Ryan is not a good coach, but he is an amazing defensive coordinator.  Sadly, the Jets do not have the talent to compete with Brady.  The Patriots will win a battle of field goals by scoring the games only touchdown.
The Prediction: 16-9 New England.

Aaron Rogers is thiiisssss good.

The Unlucky:  Washington at Green Bay: A good team will fall 0-2.  The Packers held their run defense tough and limited San Francisco's vaulted run offense to under 100 yards only to be shredded by Kaepernick's arm and Bolden's unnaturally strong hands.  Washington will hope to emulate San Francisco's passing success.  Mike McCarthy and the Packers are smart enough to stick to the game plan, limit the run game, and force the rusty Griffin to beat them with his arm.  Griffin supporters look to the second half comeback as evidence that he will be better in game two, but that was against a defense with lesser talent limiting itself to safe formations as they looked to maintain a lead.  The Packers are more talented and will not be as passive as the Eagles were in the second half.  Also, Aaron Rogers is really really good.
The Prediction: 35-27 Green Bay

He can run, but can he win?

The Ugly: Jacksonville at Oakland: This was projected to be a match up of two of the three worst teams in the league.  Raiders looked dangerous enough in defeat to almost ruin the ugly narrative, but there is still enough ugly left in these two teams to scare away viewers.  Jacksonville's run game gets the chains moving against an underwhelming raiders defense, and they focus their defense on keeping Pryor in the pocket.  This should be enough for the Jaguars to win, but the raiders outclass the only team in the league that they can outclass.  Pryor makes enough passes from the pocket and breaks contain at a few crucial moments to put up the 20 points needed to beat the punch-less Jacksonville offense.
The Prediction: 20-13 Oakland.

Last week I was 0-2 in long shot predictions (but the Bills did beat the spread).  None of these are long shots, lets see how I do with easier targets.