11 Picks For NFL 2010 Week 10, Jets at Browns
Published Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 01:00:00 PM
As a Clevelander, every year I try to do a Browns game on here. The past two years I chose their opening week game... and, in the last two years, their relevance for the season actually ended by the final whistle of that game. Not so this year. After beating the Saints and Patriots in back-to-back games, the Browns are making a push for relevance again. And with another game against a Super Bowl contender this week, I wanted to see if they could kill three consecutive giants. (None of which is actually the New York Giants.)
So this week's game is the New York Jets at the Cleveland Browns -- also known as the first Browns game I've been looking forward too since opening weekend 2009. The line is Jets -3, but we're all just picking the game straight up.
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Published Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 01:00:00 PM
As a Clevelander, every year I try to do a Browns game on here. The past two years I chose their opening week game... and, in the last two years, their relevance for the season actually ended by the final whistle of that game. Not so this year. After beating the Saints and Patriots in back-to-back games, the Browns are making a push for relevance again. And with another game against a Super Bowl contender this week, I wanted to see if they could kill three consecutive giants. (None of which is actually the New York Giants.)
So this week's game is the New York Jets at the Cleveland Browns -- also known as the first Browns game I've been looking forward too since opening weekend 2009. The line is Jets -3, but we're all just picking the game straight up.
Tecmo Super Bowl simulation. (5-4) I'll always love how, 19 years ago, Bernie Kosar refused to let Tecmo Super Bowl use his name. So, instead, the Browns offense is run by "QB Browns." Little did he know he was leaving himself out of one of the most important video games in history. And, eventually, people like me won't be around anymore and no one will know who QB Browns really is.
Anyway, in this simulation, QB Browns wasn't so good as the Browns squandered several red zone opportunities. The QB for the Jets -- Ken O'Brien -- had a much stronger red zone performance and the Jets were able to run over the Browns, 24-13.
Madden 11 simulation. (3-6) The Browns stormed out of the gate in this one and never looked back. They had a few turnovers, as they're wont to do, but McCoy hit Stuckey for two touchdowns and the wildcat offense produced another. The Browns took the game handily, 21-7.
- Laska, my parents' dog. (5-4) She's a dog who was born in Cleveland and has spent more than a decade being raised in Cleveland. It looks like she hasn't absorbed the Browns fandom... but has absorbed the "sky is falling" sports pessimism. She ate the treat corresponding to the Jets.
Accuscore. (7-2) Accuscore's computer simulations are tied right now for the lead (and based on what comes below, will remain in the tie either way next week). They see this being extremely close with the Jets winning 51 percent of the time and the Browns winning 48. That missing one percent was stolen by Art Modell and moved to Baltimore.
- ESPN's Sports Guy. (5-4) ESPN's The Sports Guy is going with the Browns, after the way they disassembled the Patriots last week. He also drew comparisons between them and the 2001 Patriots, specifically between Brady and McCoy. That seems just a biiiiit premature.
- 11 Points Reader Battle. (4-5) Only one returning reader from last week, as only he correctly picked the Raiders.
@jnbernstein: "I am going with the Jets in a close game, but it is only a coin flip for me."
@piercewise: "The running game will decide this one. But I can't pick against my team, at home and on a winning streak. Browns win a close one."
@pseduoro: "Browns beat NO, Browns beat NE, Browns will beat NY."
With two votes, the Browns are the reader pick for the week.
Internet psychic. (5-4) Each week, my $1.99/minute psychic gives me a prediction. But since he won't pick games, I have to phrase these in the form of a "soft" question. This week's...
Our spiritual guide for the season.
"I've been constipated for two weeks. I could take an experimental medicine but the side effects aren't fully known. Should I cool my jets and wait for things to happen, or take the medicine at home and brown it out?"
He took the question FULLY in stride -- much more than expected -- and actually went for the experimental route. He's a Browns man this week.- Randier cheerleaders. (5-4)Let's compare the two cheerleading squads this week...
I have to say the Jets' audition process seems... um... very Jersey. And these ladies definitely do look ready to rock and roll all night and part of every day. As for the Browns...
They don't have cheerleaders. This was the only historical photo I could find. And it looks like something out of the land of Oz. So the pick is easily the Jets. - Turnover margin. (4-5) The Jets have a strong turnover margin, with nine giveaways and 14 takeaways, for a +5. Fortunately for Braylon Edwards, this doesn't count drops.
(By the way, for reference, no one in Cleveland cares about Braylon Edwards. He thinks people do, but no one does. He dropped everything, he was terrible, and the team is better off without him. It's a miracle that the Browns got anyone to take him off our hands. Creating an imaginary feud to try to become famous like Chad Johnson or Terrell Owens is a good idea, but it's not going to work until you're at least kind of talented. Right now he's just an employed Freddie Mitchell.)
Meanwhile... the Browns have 13 giveaways and 15 takeaways for a +2. That's good, but not good enough to beat the Jets. - Higher team salary. (5-4) The Jets have a 2010 team salary of $129,193,924, with the biggest chunk going to Mark Sanchez at $8.95 million. The Browns have a salary of $122,372,232 with the biggest chunk going to (sigh) Shaun Rogers, at $9.22 million. So the pick is the Jets by a few million dollars.
- The opposite of my pick. (7-2) As I said earlier, I am looking forward to this game more than any Browns game in forever. And seeing what I've seen in the past few games, I have a feeling. I just see them winning this one. I know the Browns can do it. And therefore the opposite of my pick is the Jets.
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