The Running Game: Week Eight No More Ties, Please

I was out at Houston's Renaissance Faire yesterday, and after I helped ward off the evil spirits during the upcoming dark months by dancing around the bonfire, we got back to the city after 1am, and I didn't get to bed until 3am. So, natch, I slept through the early early game, and even through kickoff for the early games. I showered before bed, mainly to get the bug spray out of my hair, so when I got up at about noon thirty, I very groggily put on clothing and went out the door to get some food. The Texans game was on, and they were doing well, thank goodness. They even went on to win, and that gave me opportunity to joke with a couple in Lions jerseys when they game into my regular eatery as I left: "Only winners, please'". I also chatted with a couple of guys in Lions jerseys, later in the day, after opening with the same line.

What is this bright stuff?

I did pretty well this week too, but I didn't predict the big upsets. 

	Calc	Benchmarks	Thoughts and Gut pick	Winner
JAX at TEN	TEN	TEN	I have to go with most of my calculations and the benchmarks TEN	TEN
WAS at CIN	CIN	Split	Bengals, all the way, CIN	tie
DET at HOU	HOU	Split	ALL of my calculations have this one the same, HOU	HOU
SEA at NO	SEA	SEA	NO? Yeah, no. SEA	NO
NE at BUF	NE	NE	Buffalo shut 'em out before, but it is a different game today, NE	NE
NYJ at CLE	NYJ	NYJ	No thought involved here, NYJ	NYJ
OAK at TB	OAK	Split	One of the benchmarks has these teams evenly rated, so OAK	OAK
KC at IND	KC	KC	My boyfriend's got this, KC	KC
GB at ATL	GB	Split	PAAAACCC (well, Atlanta is doing really well lately) KKKKERRSS!!!!!	ATL
SD at DEN	DEN	DEN	On the coast vs. a mile in the sky? DEN	DEN
ARI at CAR	ARI	Split	Benchmarks are split, calcs are saying ARI, but at home... CAR	CAR
PHI at DAL	DAL	DAL	Star Rookie vs. Star Rookie, emotional win for Philly, calc alignment PHI	...
MIN at CHI	MIN	MIN	The Bears still suck! MIN	...

The good news about the early early game is now all my win totals are whole numbers again, thank goodness.