Super Bowl XLII Predictions

Carrying on with a Sports-Chat tradition, here's the thread where you can start making your Super Bowl picks over a year before the actual game.

For those that know me it's no surprise...my pick for the 2007-2008 Super Bowl is the Defending NFC Champs, the Chicago Bears!

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Marty Schottenheimer will break a miserable streak of bad luck that has haunted him in the Post season and bring the San Diego Chargers to Super Bowl XLII.

Then I might as well just say that the Chiefs are going to surprise everyone next year and win the Super Bowl. You guys are too loyal rather than realistic...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it will be the Colts or Jets against either the Giants or Seahawks.

Scenarios:

Colts vs. Giants
Eli vs. Peyton
Giants become midgets in big loss to Colts.

Colts vs. Seahawks
Peyton vs. Alexander
Shaun Alexander breaks Super Bowl rushing record, bringing home the Lombardi by a close margin.

Jets vs. Giants
Battle of the Big Apple
Pennignton out-performs Eli, Mangini out-coaches Coughlin, Jets bring home one of closest Super Bowl vicories ever despite a solid effort from Giants defense.

Jets vs. Seahawks
Flying High: Who Will Win?
A good matchup of opposite teams, but the Seahawks barely take home the trophy.

Who knows, I'm probably way off, but I gave it a shot. I'll surely revise it shortly before the pre-season rolls around.

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Man Trey, you must really think highly of the NY Teams.

You think it's unrealistic that the Bears could win Super Bowl XLII?

Unrealistic would be more like picking the Giants who are losing their premier back to retirement

They need a better QB than Grossman if they want to win. He's not bad, but I think it was proven this past superbowl that you need an above average QB combined with good defense to win it all.......

Trey, I cant see the Giants making the superbowl next year with Eli as their QB......

I think they will have one. I predict that in his second full NFL season Grossman will be one of the top 5 QB's in the league.

Unless the Bears really screw the pooch in the off season I think they are a viable, realistic pick to win Super Bowl XLII.

But that's just me

You're right, sometimes I just say things to oppose others. But those are reasonable picks, although, with the firing of Marty, the Chargers 2007-08 season is up in the air. It could be a good thing, could be a bad thing, one can never tell.

That's true, but the Giants may fill that hole in the draft. And I look at the Giants and se a team that can surprise a lot of teams and they have a lot of talent. That was my "bonehead pick", because it never hurts to throw out a team and see if they actually do something big.

Eventhough I have had my doubts on the Marty thing in the Post Season, he still was a good Head Coach for the Regular Season. I think that Spanos may have jumped the gun and fired him because he didn't get along with GM AJ Smith. He also did the firing at the wrong time after most of the Head Coaching positions were already filled with other teams. If the firing of Marty was done at the end of the season, they would have had more chances to sign other guys for all the vacant spots on thier Coaching Staff.

Another Bonehead move on the part of a San Diego Sports Org.

This is probably going to wind up sounding like an espn commercial, but I think the Bills have a good chance next year. They have a good defense, a good (on the verge of great) runningback, a young qb who has had time to mature, and a good special teams. They look like they could do something if their coach can pull it together.

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If ignorance is bliss, why arent you happy?

I think that the Bills have a good team. They just need to keep improving. They have a relatively young team. But I don't feel that they are quite so far to challenge for the Super Bowl. Not yet.

No you don't, and neither do I

Go Bears!

That's what makes this site so much fun.

ESPN commercial? What ESPN are you watchin'?

I agree with Borderdweller, the Bills are quite a stretch. There are good teams, there are bad teams and there are those in the middle. The Bills are one of those teams in the middle, they could either get better, get worse or stay the same for the most part. I seriously doubt they could get so much better that that they are the top of the good teams, which is the position you have to be at to reach the Super Bowl. Of course, this could be argued in the NFC, which is the weaker of the two conferences. Nearly half the teams in the conference have a chance of making the playoffs and from there it's pretty much a toss-up. Last year's Bears validated that this was true. It mostly depends on what happens in the offseason and so far the Bills haven't done a whole lot.

On the other side of the league, minus a quarterback situation, the Chiefs look to have a promising year ahead of them. Now, I don't mean to be biased and concentrate only on my team, but I honestly can help it. Herm Edwards is giving me the idea that he's completely restructuring the team to his liking and type of play. He's not doing like past Chiefs coaches and playing it safe and being conservative in the offseason. Kansas City has picked up two linebackers, Napoleon Harris (said to be the middle linebacker) and Donnie Edwards (has played both inside and outside backer positions), along with a few linemen to hopefully fix the unfamilar problem spots on the line.

With veteran corners and both veteran and promising young safeties, along with the two linebacker additions plus Derrick Johnson (also a very athletic linebacker, which is Coach Edwards' preference, having a cover 2 scheme), and a slightly questionable defensive line, the Chiefs look to probably improve their 16th overall defensive rank in the NFL. Kansas City will most likely look for some answers for the interior defensive line in the draft. I'm thinkin' that Edwards likes the athletic defensive tackle that is a good pass-rusher, but also a decent run-stopper. If the Chiefs re-sign Jared Allen, they'll have no problems at the defensive end position. Allen isn't a typical Edwards player and he's got a history for trouble, but is also a very productive and young player, so there's a question of whether or not they'll bring him back.

On offense, we've got the second-best running back in the league, no fullback except for Kris Wilson, who's normally a tight end, a questionable couple of tackle positions, only one stand-out receiver and he's a tight end, and what looks to be a quarterback who has seen only last year's breakout as anything promising in his career. Kansas City released Ronnie Cruz, a good at best fullback, and we need to sign a fullback that can clar the way for Larry Johnson to break away for big gains. We sigened a couple of tackles, along with another lineman in hopes of retaining their once-dominant offensive. At receiver, we'll be looking to the draft and probably early (hopefully get a shot to obtain Dwayne Jarret). For the quarerback position, it looks like the Chiefs are gonna let Gren go to Miami and stick with Huard, but all the while give second year man Brodie Croyle out of Alabama a chance to prove himself this offseason. If Croyle, looks good, they may stick him in there. Right now, there doesn't look like much can be done with that position.

Since Borderdweller was probably the only one to read all the way through this, what do you think about losing your most productive tackler to a rival and his former team?

The Bills.....

First of all, Welcome back.

I think that the Chargers had a bit of an attitude problem with Donnie and they decided to off load that problem before it got worse.

I do agree that it will be in the benefit of the Chiefs to add him to thier squad & a major blow to the Chargers "D". But the Draft is comming and San Diego has an Improved Defense with other problem spots especially in thier Secondary. The loss of Donnie should be overcome by guys like Wilhelm, Dobbins and Harris. Also guys like Terrence Kiel was also a distraction and should be eliminated from the Roster. The Chiefs also made a good decision on extending the contract of Huard and getting rid of the QB controversey by trying to offload Green. I just didn't understand that last season with that move of letting Green back in as starter when he was healthy again, eventhough Huard did very well in Greens absence.

you know, like those superbowl commercials where they have the people talking about the season before it happens and its the opposite of what actually happens. Also now the Bills definately have no chance, they got rid of their veteran safety Milloy and I think they lost Mcgahee too. I was just making a case for a team with alot of potential not that they were favorites, but that they could stun some people.

Since the Bills obviously are screwed now I think that the Jaguars have alot of potential and a good chance of going far. As long as Leftwich doesnt get too much pressure and they utilize their excellent run game.

Don't get me wrong. The Bills showed what they were capable of vs. the Chargrs last year. They almost came back and won. they have a good Offense and have been known for a decent Defense. They in my opinion are not yet ripe enough for the Playoffs every year, especially in their Division and in the AFC, It will be hard to get the Wild-Card spot. In the NFC it may be possible but they belong to the Tougher class, AFC.

It doesnt take much to get a team ripe, maybe a couple seasons in the system (which the Bills have), or a good training camp to help them grow. They were potentially a good team, I remember them giving the Pats a good run at the begining of the season.

They have a good team that compiled 300 points last season. The Defense in turn gave up over 300. That was the weak point for them last year. Also the game vs. the Pats was Divisional, usually those games are always tight and unpredictable.