The last two weeks I predicted correct upsets. I also almost picked the Patriots over the Bills and obviously wished I would have. Let’s dive into this week’s games and see if I can keep my streak rolling.

Revolutionary Football: Broncos @ New York Jets but not in New York…just like when the Jets play in the United States

The NFL sends American football to London. If it wasn’t enough for us to win the war, now we are forcing our football on them. Which I got to say, I’m all for. That’s what you get for taxing our tea. Anyway, my wife’s favorite team plays the extra early game. It comes on at 7:30 AM where we live. My wife is a super dedicated fan. She watches every game win or lose. And there has been a lot of losing these last few years. But besides her family and Jesus, my wife loves one more thing more than her Broncos…sleep. If she sees any of this game, I’ll be impressed. She is dedicated. She is just more dedicated to sleep. It’s her favorite hobby. However, my super smart nephew, Nate will be at the game. He goes to school in England because you know…he is super smart. I once learned about England in college. He goes to college there. Anyway, he will be there to cheer on his Broncos and celebrate a little America in the country who’s butt we kicked to get our freedom from taxes. And now we live in that freedom paying a lot of taxes. Anyhoo, on to the football game. The Broncos are riding high after their victory over the Eagles last week. Get it riding high because people ride horses and Broncos are horses. Anyhoo, I’m still not sure how good the Broncos are and Bo Nix is a little reckless with the football at times. In good news, the Jets haven’t gotten a turnover yet and are terrible in general. I’m not sure if the Broncos are great yet, but they are definitely better than the Jets. My nephew gets to see his team win in another country. Take that England!

Broncos 30 Jets 16

Birds flying South: Seahawks @ Jaguars

The Seahawks are coming off a tough loss when Sam Darnold threw a ball off a guys helmet that lead to an interception and eventually a loss. Meanwhile, Trevor Lawrence fell down like 4 times but was still able to run in the game winning td on Monday night against the Chiefs. I think these are both solid teams but also not sure either has a real long shelf life in the post season. But they are going to compete week in and week out. I’m not sure which team is actually better. And neither does Vegas. The line has bounced around and finally landed on Seattle being a slight favorite. This is really a battle of quarterbacks I don’t really trust. But Seattle is down some secondary guys and has to travel through a few time zones to get there and play a game at 10 AM their time. I don’t feel great about picking either but the Jags have an opportunistic defense against a QB that can sometimes give those opportunities. Give me the home team in a close one.

Jaguars 24 Seahawks 20

Toilet bowl: Titans @ Raiders

Arguably the two worst teams are playing in Vegas this Sunday. The Titans one win came last week after the Cardinals completely imploded. Meanwhile, the Raiders haven’t won since week 1 and Geno seems to throw more interceptions each week. There is not much of a home advantage in Vegas for the Raiders. But also how many Titans fans are making the trip to watch this crap team. One of my favorite Friday Night Light episodes is called toilet bowl where the two worst teams, one of which is East Dillon, play in a game. It’s a great episode. This will not be a great game. And luckily I don’t have to watch it. But I do have to predict a winner. I think the Raiders are a slightly less crappy team but the Titans have at least a small bit of positivity around them right now. They ride the positivity to a victory in sin city.

Titans 23 Raiders 19

Return of the Mac vs Bake Show: 49ers @ Bucs

The often injured 49ers head to Tampa for an afternoon battle. The 49ers won an amazing upset victory at the Rams last Thursday. You would think the extra time off would have given them more time to get healthy but not so much. They are still down their QB and their best WR among other players. Meanwhile the Bucs are also down some players so in some ways this is a battle of banged up teams. Mac Jones has played well making me believe that you might be able to throw me in at QB in the Kyle Shanahan offense and do alright. Meanwhile, Baker has lead the Bucs to game winning drives every game but one. This has the makings of a close game since both teams are little short handed and play close games anyway. In a close game, you know who I am taking. Give me the Bake show for another crazy victory.

Bucs 30 49ers 24

Shake it off vs Shake it Goff: Lions @ Chiefs

The Lions come to KC on Sunday night with a depleted secondary but with the only active QB that Mahomes has faced and never beat. Goff tends to play well against the Chiefs but then again he has an insane amount of weapons to work with. Meanwhile, the Chiefs seem to be good at all the things they weren’t good at last year, mainly offense and bad at everything they were good at last year, everything else. The Lions have won 4 in a row against sub par opponents. The Chiefs have only wins are against sub par opponents. This has the makings of a shoot out because the Lions are really good offensively and their secondary is really banged up and the Chiefs seem to be back offensively. Because I am predicting a shoot out, the score will probably be 10-7. As a Chiefs fan, I don’t feel great about this game and have to remind myself that they have been in every game and a few plays going the other way they could have won any of them. At the same time it is unsettling that we haven’t won any of those close games after winning them all last year. Before the season started, I predicted the Chiefs would start 3-3. So I’m sticking with that and the Chiefs winning even though I don’t feel great about it. Pat makes a play at the end and we finally win a close one…I hope.

Chiefs 31 Lions 28

Hail Mary nightmares: Bears @ Commanders

The Bears had the Commanders beat last year in a battle of the two first picks from last year’s draft. And then Jayden Daniels threw a Hail Mary while a Bears DB celebrated and taunted the crowd. Whoops. It did not work out well for him. The Bears basically fell apart from there and the Commanders went on to make the NFC Championship. It was a tale of two teams headed in different directions. Now they are back but the Bears have a different coach. The Bears are definitely a more functional team this year. Meanwhile the Commanders have been banged up all year and are still missing their best receiver. This in theory has the makings for a big Caleb Williams break out game. Meanwhile, Jayden always seems to shine in these moments. I was tempted to pick the Bears in the upset but I just don’t trust Caleb at all. And I don’t have any reason not to trust Jayden. So give me the Commanders in this one.

Commanders 27 Bears 20