NFL Predictions: NFC North (0% Accuracy Guaranteed)

Are you ready for some predictions?!?!

Tonight the Steelers and Titans kick off the 2009 season.  Following an incredibly bizarre offseason, it’s really difficult to predict anything but I’m going to try!  Really hard!

Let’s start in the top of our land:

NFC North: Favre Out (Actually Favre is in but I think “Far Out” is a cool saying)

1. Minnesota Vikings – Favre will inevitably get hurt or is already (Viking might want to check for a torn bicep muscle, the ability to throw a football is slightly important for your starting QB).  The running game and defense will make up for the gunslinger of interceptions.

2. Green Bay Packers – Aaron Rodgers will have a statistically superior season to Brett Favre (take that Vegas!)  but the defense  will be an issue.   Al Harris is still starting on this team, yikes stripes, fruit striped gum.

Tastes just like ill-timed penalties!

3. Chicago Bears – The world’s favorite complainer/haver of questionable blood-sugar levels is a definite upgrade.  Matt Forte is really good.  Brian Urlacher ain’t getting younger (at least I don’t think so, I can’t definitively say, if he discovered the fountain of youth, these guys will win the Super Bowl unless they drink too much and become babies….)  Still trying to convince me that Devin Hester is a stud wide receiver because he “runs crisp routes” eh?

4. Detroit Lions – Kevin Smith is decent (and looks remarkably happy to be alive in his profile photo).  The defense has people I’ve heard of on it, they should win at least one football match.

Kevin Smith's fourth grade class picture