This is gonna be quick because I'm terrible and because it has to be posted earlier than normal.

1. Seattle Seahawks (-2 1/2) vs. St. Louis Rams
The Rams are still terrible and despite the Seahawks faltering every week and getting embarrassed last week they should still be able to beat the Rams.

2. New York Giants (-6 1/2) at Denver Broncos
Both of these teams are terribly overrated at 6-4, I just hate the Broncos more.

3. New England Patriots (+3 1/2) at New Orleans Saints
The Pats faltered in their first chance to knock off an unbeaten. They won't falter twice.

4. Jacksonville Jaguars (+3 1/2) at San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers really aren't a good team. This matchup will be Gore vs. Jones-Drew and MJD will win.

5. Miami Dolphins (-3.5) at Buffalo Bills
The Bills are turrible.

Survivor Pick of the Week: Damn You Bengals
Who cares anymore... but Dallas

Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here.

Today's AL team is the Seattle Mariners and our guest is Griffin from the Mariners Blog, Sodo Mojo.

1. What do the Mariners need to do this offseason to truly make them a contender for the AL West crown in 2010?
They have to sign or acquire a legitimate #2 starter, figure out the third base situation, and sign a real DH. The Mariners had the worst DH production in baseball in 2009, and there's no way they contend without significantly improving on that. As for their pitching, right now it's pretty much Felix, then a bunch of back of the rotation guys. To make that rotation respectable they'll have to get some middle of the rotation help.

2. I've locked you, your owner and your GM in a room and am forcing you to trade King Felix. What would you need to get in return to walk out of the room a happy man?
It'd have to be a butt load of near major league ready, type A prospects, along with some major league talent. The fact is, it's gotta be huge, because trading Felix would eliminate any chance the Mariners have of contending next season.

3. First off, why was Russell Branyan good last year? Secondly, will the Ms bring him back or will another team give him a decent sized contract just to watch him regress back to the player he used to be?
Branyan showed his true colors last year. He's got a ton of power, and he's going to whiff, a lot. The fact is, regression already hit him. He was hitting over .300 for the first couple months of the season, but when that obscenely high BABIP finally came back to earth, the numbers dropped off quickly. However, he's still a valuable offensive player, and by far the best option the Mariners have at first base right now. No team is going to give him a multi year contract because of his back issues, and I expect him to be back on a one year deal, probably with a 2011 club/mutual option.

This weekend is pretty much just an appetizer to Conference Championship weekend.

5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Stanford Cardinal
Not like Charlie Weis has any life support cords still connected to his body but in the 0.005% chance that Notre Dame has not already made up their mind to fire him, a loss to Stanford would pretty much cinch that up. The Pick: Cardinal by 3

4. Pittsburgh Panthers at West Virginia Mountaineers
The Wannstache heads into the back yard brawl dreaming of BCS trips to come. All he needs to do is beat Cincinnati next weekend. But what about the backyard brawl? It is their rivalry game? It kind of means nothing when it comes to the BCS bid. Will he overlook them? The Pick: Pitt by 3

3. Texas Lonhorns at Texas A&M Aggies
The Longhorns are two wins away from the Championship Game trip that narrowly escaped them last year. The Aggies won't be much of a road block. The Pick: Longhorns by 20

2. Florida State Seminoles at Florida Gators
Oh how I think we all wish the Seminoles were still good and this matchup had some kind of intrigue. Instead the Seminoles are a reeling 6-5 team with little to no hope of even being competitive with the Gators. The Pick: Gators by 23.

1. Alabama Crimson Tide at Auburn Tigers
The Iron Bowl is the biggest show of the weekend. The Tide win and they are in the Semifinals. They lose and then it becomes highly more questionable. Would they deserve to be ahead of TCU / Cincy if they beat Florida in the SEC title game? I'm not sure. But that question likely won't need to be answered. The Pick: Tide by 10

Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here.

Today's NL team is the Washington Nationals and our guest is Ed from the Nats Blog, Federal Baseball.

1. You mentioned you were in Arizona for the Arizona Fall League, were you there simply to suffice the man crush you have on Stephen Strasburg? Was the day they signed him the single greatest day in Nats history thus far?
Strasburg, Drew Storen, a closer out of Stanford that Washington drafted with the second 1st round pick the Nationals made in '09; Danny Espinosa the first or second (depending on the source) ranked shorstop in the Nationals' organization; Chris Marrero, the Nationals' second 1st round pick in 2007, and the Nats' top-ranked 1st base prospect; as well as pitchers like Jeff Mandel and Josh Wilkie, who had good minor league seasons in 2009, or Sean Rooney, a talented catcher in the DC system, there were more than a few reasons to check out the Nats' prospects in action in the Arizona Fall League, but yes Strasburg was the draw, and aside from the fact that injuries kept him out of the two nationally-televised AFL games he did not disappoint. I don't know if the day Washington signed Strasburg was the "single greatest day" in the team's history, but it was another step towards legitimacy when it comes to signing the best available draft picks and free agents, when just a few years ago in Montreal they were drafting and pursuing "signable" talent that was not necessarily the best available...

2. Do the Nats have Bryce Harper's jersey already made? Do you think there's a chance they go in another direction? Have you started printing out Battery t-shirts with Harper on one side and Strasburg on the other?
DC GM Mike Rizzo and some in his front office are on record saying that Bryce Harper's in no way set himself apart from the pack the way Stephen Strasburg did last season in terms of being the clear-cut No. 1 prospect in the country, but you know they'll be watching closely. The media has yet to descend on Harper the way they had on Strasburg at this point last season, (though he's already gotten some ridiculous exposure from Sports Illustrated), so his game hasn't yet been picked apart the way it will by the time the draft comes around, so I think there is a definite possibility that the Nationals go in another direction if a college or top high school pitcher emerges...plus, with a 17-year-old, who knows when he'd actually be ready for major league competition...so no to the battery t-shirts...I already bought my Strasburg name and # t-shirt though...had to replace the Lastings Milledge shirt...

Before you yell and say where is so and so team, please read my polling philosophy and then yell afterwards.

Time is just not allowing me to put together a QW/BL spreadsheet. So we continue with how it looks now where I'm kind of mostly adjusting via the previous weeks results. The fine toothed comb will come out by the final weekend, I promise.

1. Alabama - Quality Wins: Virginia Tech(n), @Ole Miss, South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, LSU
2. Florida - Quality Wins: Tennessee, @LSU, Arkansas, Georgia (n)
3. Texas - Quality Wins: TT, Oklahoma (n), @Oklahoma St.
4. TCU - Quality Wins: @Clemson, @BYU, Utah
5. Cincinnati - Quality Wins: @Rutgers, @Oregon State, @USF
6. Boise State - Quality Wins: Oregon
7. Georgia Tech - Quality Wins: Clemson, UNC, VT
8. Oregon- Quality Wins: Utah, Cal, @UCLA, USC
9. Ohio State - Quality Wins: Iowa, @Penn State, Wisconsin - Bad Losses: @Purdon't
10. Iowa - .Quality Wins: @Penn State, Arizona, @Wisconsin
11. Pitt - Quality Wins: ND, Navy

The entire poll is after the jump.

Let's take a quick look at what the people are googlin when it comes to the New York Jets...

The only thing people care about with Rex Ryan is the fact that he might be a bit overweight. I thought at the very least there would be "Rex Ryan is a loudmouthed ass" or "Rex Ryan talks and loses more than Eric Mangini", but both did not pop up.
Absent from that is "Mark Sanchez is a future hall of famer", I wonder why? Also missing is "Mark Sanchez is an Arm Punter".

Just when I thought my afternoon was boring this video pops up and brightens the day. I think I'm going to watch it 150 times before the afternoon is over.

H/T With Leather