Our 2010 Season Predictions

AFC North: Ravens (Going to be a close race between them and Cinncy)
AFC South: Texans (I think they have finally but it together, Number one seed)
AFC East: Dolphins (I am not buying into the Jets hype. Sanchez sucks.)
AFC West: Chargers (8 games probably wins this division, but I do think the Raiders finish 2nd)
AFC Wildcards: Bengals, Colts (Colts win 12 games, but lose tie breaker to the Texans, and Bengals are legit)
NFC North: Packers (Aaron Rodgers is freaking amazing)
NFC South: Falcons (Turner gets back and the Madden Curse kills the Saints)
NFC East: Eagles (I am a Kolb believer)
NFC West: 49ers (Division sucks and the 49ers are bullies)
NFC Wildcards: Vikings and Saints (Saints sneak in and the Vikings and Packers are best teams in the NFC)
Super Bowl Match-up and Score: Packers 34, Texans 23
Browns Record: 6-10 (I think we are better, but we still need some playmakers on defense)
Offensive Rookie of the Year: Ryan Mathews (Yikes. Good thing I didn’t pick him in fantasy as well)
Defensive Rookie of the Year: Joe Haden (I am allowed one homer pick right?)
MVP: Aaron Rodgers (I think he puts up Techmo Bowl like numbers)
Fearless Prediction Sure To Go Wrong: Chris Johnson goes for 2,600 yards

Hot damn I was wrong on the Texans, but right about the Falcons and Eagles!

Good lord were my predictions off! I had the Chiefs earning a wildcard berth in the NFC!

AFC North: Baltimore Ravens – Their only weakness are some injuries in the secondary.
:: Close, but no cigar.

AFC South: Indianapolis Colts – Still the best team in their division.
:: Bingo.

AFC East: New York Jets – Shonn Greene pulls a Ray Rice, and defense remains in tact.
:: Tomlinson not Greene, also the Pats are still on top.

AFC West: San Diego Chargers – Great QB in a rather weak division.
:: The Chiefs earned this one.

AFC Wildcards: Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Texans – They are close to pick up these spots.
:: Damn, way off. The wildcards were much much better.

NFC North: Minnesota Vikings – AP + Favre, and Sidney Rice back when it counts, also an amazing defense and special teams.
:: WRONG! Favre sucked and Rice got hurt.

NFC South: New Orleans Saints – Falcons won’t do enough to oust this great time.
:: Dead wrong, Falcons did do enough.

NFC East: Dallas Cowboys – Kolb will do good, but still make 1st-year QB mistakes, enough for the division to fall to Dallas.
:: Way off! Vick > NFC East.

NFC West: San Francisco 49ers – Up and coming team with lowly competition in the NFC West.
:: This division sucks and San Fran is not up and coming!

NFC Wildcards: Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles – Again, close ones that barely missed their divisions.
:: I got half of this right, and the other team still made the playoffs.

Super Bowl Match-up and Score: Vikings (24) vs. Ravens (10) – 2 best teams meet as always, and it’s these 2. Vikes have edge w/ Favre.
:: This isn’t happening. But the two best will still meet, only it’s not either of these guys.

Browns Record: 7-9 – I see this as a respectable improvement, but truly hope for 8-8 or better.
:: Buuuuuuuh.

Offensive Rookie of the Year: Ryan Mathews – I want to say Spiller, but he’s on the Bills.
:: Nope.

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Ndamukong Suh – C’mon, this one feels like a gimmie.
:: Hey, I got one. The easy one.

MVP: Drew Brees – Almost single handedly leads his team to a second strait division title and conference championship game, but lose in the rematch with the Vikings.
:: Brady will get it, but I’d vote Vick because I like him more.

Fearless Prediction Sure To Go Wrong: Chris Johnson RUSHES for over 2,500 yards. – I really have no fear making this call, because I think he can do it.
:: He still is capable of pulling this off at some point, but the Titans’ pass game sucks too hard.

AFC North: Ravens (Ew. I hate typing this.)
Nope. Picked this because I assumed the Steelers would get off to a slow start.
AFC South: Colts
Yay!
AFC East: Jets
Nope. Pats respond to the trash talk by winning the division.
AFC West: Chargers
Nope. Not even in the playoffs!
AFC Wildcards: Patriots, Texans
Texans miss the playoffs once again. Bad picks.
NFC North: Packers
I didn’t think this was a bad pick. The Bears were a surprise this year. Ryan Grant’s injury really hurt the Packers.
NFC South: Saints
I assumed the Super Bowl champs would win their division, but the Falcons earned it.
NFC East: Giants
Oops. Eli “Turnover” Manning & Co. had a bad year.
NFC West: 49ers
Alex Smith, David Carr, Alex Smith, Troy Smith… coach gets fired… bad season.
NFC Wildcards: Vikings, Cowboys (temped to pick the Lions as a surprise team, though)
Brett Favre was awful and hurt. The Cowboys were awful. Tony Romo was hurt. Both coaches got fired.
Super Bowl Match-up and Score: Packers vs. Colts: 31-27
Hey, this could still happen!
Browns Record: 7-9
:(
Offensive Rookie of the Year: CJ Spiller
HAHAHAHA!
Defensive Rookie of the Year: Suh
Obvious.
MVP: Aaron Rodgers
It’ll be Tom Brady.
Fearless Prediction Sure To Go Wrong: The Browns sweep the Steelers.
/laughs and cries

I won’t rehash my whole list, but the laughable ones were the Cowboys in the Super Bowl and the Fearless prediction having the Browns sweep the Steelers.

My fearless prediction sure to go wrong next season: the Browns sweep the Steelers.

The only thing I got right was the colts. I was half right about the Ravens and the Saints. Also I had thought I predicted 10-6 but instead said 11-5. Got the numbers backwards there.

Fearless predictions sure to go wrong:
-We have an actual passing offense.

While it wasn’t great, I would call it “actual” this year compared to the last 4 games last year.

-One Brown who isn’t Cribbs/Thomas/Pontbriand makes the Pro Bowl.

Done.

-Chris Johnson gets nowhere close to 200 yards.

Supposed to be 2000 and yes.

-Oakland looks like a real NFL team for more than 3 games.

At 8-8 they looked better than we did. On paper, at least.

-Philadelphia misses McNabb for more than 3 games.

If I can turn this in to “Kevin Kolb is not a good NFL QB” (which is really what I meant) then I got it right on the money. They missed McNabb for maybe the one game where they lost to him.

AFC North: Bengals
AFC South: Titans
AFC East: Jets
AFC West: Chargers (No brainer)
AFC Wildcard: Colts and Ravens
NFC North: Vikings
NFC South: Saints
NFC East: Eagles
NFC West: 49ers
NFC Wildcard: Cowboys and Packers
Super Bowl Match-up and score: Vikings 30 – Titans 17
Browns record: 8-8
Offensive rookie of the year: CJ Spiller
Defensive rookie of the year: Joe Haden (suprise picks seem to be my choices here so why not)
MVP: Adrian Peterson
Fearless Prediction Sure to go wrong: Big Ben will stay out of trouble

Well, I got just about everything wrong. Ha!

i was wondering if someone would do this.

i remember (without even clicking the link) predicting that “the chiefs and raiders would upend the AFC West.”

Booyah.

I remember picking a bunch of upset picks, and now I see I got all of them wrong.

Browns in 2011, it’s a new Brown!

AFC North: Browns (I don’t care how overly optimistic it sounds, with competent QB play and Mangini’s previous second season record, we have a legit chance.)

AFC South: Indy (Peyton Manning, anybody?)

AFC East: Pats (Tough choice actually. Should be a solid division, but I think Tom Brady lights it up second year back.)

AFC West: San Diego (This one’s easy.)

AFC Wildcards: Baltimore and Houston (Houston seems to be the "sexy" pick.)

NFC North: Aaron Rodgers, I mean Green Bay (That passing game will be fun to watch.)

NFC South: Falcons (Big Matt Ryan fan.)

NFC East: Eagles (Kolb is for real, Cowgirls have the second worst owner in the league, Eli has down syndrome, and McNabb will be on IR by game 3.)

NFC West: 49ers (Smith to Crabtree all the way, and their defense will dominate. Does anybody think Arizona will win it again?)

NFC Wildcards: Vikes and Cards (Don’t worry, DA will throw 4 picks in the wild card game.)

Super Bowl Match-up and Score: Ravens 17 Eagles 21 (At least I didn’t pick them to win it all.)

Browns Record: 11-5 (I think we’ll lose to the Ravens 3 times if you know what I mean.)

Offensive Rookie of the Year: CJ Spiller

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Nndaoammaookong Suh

MVP: Aaron Rodgers

Fearless Prediction Sure To Go Wrong: I have 2 – Jason Campbell proves doubters wrong and wins a relatively easy division, and Matt Stafford lives up to his #1 pick hype and shocks the NFC North.

I actually didn’t do too bad.

AFC North: Ravens
Almost…

AFC South:

AFC North: Ravens

AFC South: Colts

AFC East: Patriots

AFC West: Chargers but I don’t think they are as good as the prior few years

AFC Wildcards: Jets, Titans

NFC North: Packers

NFC South: Saints

NFC East: Giants

NFC West: 49ers

NFC Wildcards: Eagles, Vikings

Super Bowl Match-up and Score: Colts-Packers

Browns Record: 6-7 wins

Offensive Rookie of the Year: Jahvid Best

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Rolando McClain

MVP: Peyton Manning

Fearless Prediction Sure To Go Wrong: Mangini will be the coach of the Browns in 2012

My teams weren’t too far off, but the MVPs and ROYs were not great. I almost nailed the Browns record as well.

My best comment in that thread was calling Denver terrible.

Somehow missed that post before the season .. but my guess was a Browns record around 7-9.