I made 12 bold predictions last week for the "12 Days of Playoffs". I didn't compose a song because I don't write songs. Not well anyways. And I focused primarily on just that playoff week.
Of those 12 I nailed precisely two, my fifth and first most bold. Five was that Kahlil Bell would top 100 yards. He went for 108 plus a score. The top prediction was that Rob Gronkowski would not score. And holy crap I was right (coincidentally I also called Aaron Hernandez's big day in the Players To Watch column, but didn't feel it was bold enough to include in my predictions). Of my remaining calls last week I was damn close with Indy holding CJ2K under 50 rushing yards (he had 55) and was technically right about Ryan Mathews making Baltimore look slow and topping 100 yards, though he didn't get all of his 109 yards on the ground which is what I meant in the prediction. Of the rest, few were even close and since I missed they're not even worth mentioning, particularly the laughable one about LeGarrette Blount being fantasy's No. 1 back the rest of the way (a 21-yard effort later and I'm thinking he'd need to set the NFL single game rushing mark to make that joke of a call come true).
With the Super Bowl week kicking off in less than one hour, I've got 12 more for one more glorious week of fantasy. So once again from least to most bold, here are my 12 bold predictions for the holiday season:
12. Rex Grossman will be a top-7 QB.
11. Jabar Gaffney and Santana Moss will be top-15 WR's.
10. Mario Manningham will put up over 100 yards with a score.
9. Tim Tebow will be a top-5 QB.
8. Jake Locker will be a top-12 QB despite Matt Hasselbeck getting the start.
7. A.J. Green will have his first 100-yard and a score game since Week 2 despite playing with a nearly separated shoulder.
6. C.J. Spiller will be the top RB for the second straight week.
5. Julio Jones will be the top WR.
4. Dwayne Bowe will catch not one, but two touchdowns.
3. The Miami D will hold Tom Brady to less than 300 yards and two scores.
2. LeGarrette Blount will not suck for the second straight week and second time versus Carolina. And by "not suck" I mean somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-80 yards and a score.
1. Marshawn Lynch will end 49er streaks. That's right. Plural. He will be the first to top 100 rushing in 30-something games and he will score. Lynch will introduce the San Fran defense to Beast Mode and it will be the difference in a close game.|STAR|
|STAR| I am too scared to play Lynch in my Super Bowl and will roll with either Blount (also scaring the bleep out of me) or Bell. Incidentally, I'm pretty confident I will be losing to a team I've outscored by over 340 points on the year.