Week 12 - 2009 Season - Thanksgiving Day Games

Hello to all! Hope you all will be enjoying your time with family and friends this week and hopefully not eat to much turkey and stuffing...

I went 11 for 16 last week which gives me 96 out of 160 for the season - not bad considering I am more of a rebel when picking teams. Always out to look for that extra win by the underdog team, which there was last week. 4 upsets including 2 big ones that very few including myself saw coming... KC over Pittsburgh and Oakland over Cincinnati... Which makes this season weekly upset avg. 4.72 upset games each week.

As for this weeks 3 Thursday games: As usual my picks to win are in RED

Green Bay @ Detroit - although fine gutsy playing by Stafford and Lions vs Cleveland last week I'm afraid it not going to carry over against GB. Even more so with Stafford having a injured arm/shoulder. I will give him this, if he can avoid becoming a injury prone QB he might be what the Lions have been looking for. But remember 1 winning game does not make a whole season nor does it make a winning team out of a poor team, it's just a step towards that goal.

Oakland @ Dallas - Don't let Oakland upset last week over Cinn. fool you they still have a long way to go. Dallas on the other hand better come awake or their going to find themselves out completely. To, To close against Washington last week for a supposedly number 1 team...

N Y Giants @ Denver - This match-up is a hard one for me this week. Both teams have fallen down and seem like they don't know how to get back up. Denver was blowin out by SD last week and NYG tried their best to give their game away with Atl. Both teams badly need a win and to toughen up their defenses. All the stats you could possibly go through lean towards NYG winning but, as we all know 'ANY GIVEN SUNDAY' or Thursday