scott99

Well, ESPN strikes again. All 3 "reporters" pick the Colts to win. Of course Stephen A Smiff, i mean Smith is far from a reporter. He's not as bad as Shannon Sharpe, but he can't even say his last name in english, Smiff, lol.

PatsFaninAZ

I guess I don't understand why this bothers anyone. I think the reality is that if I were not a Patriots fan, I'd probably give the edge to the Colts. The betting public thinks the same way. They earned home field advantage and it's worth a few points in an otherwise pretty good matchup. If I were in the business of having to figure out which team had a better chance, I'd take the Colts too.

I don't think a single one of them, though, thinks it's a done deal, and I haven't heard anyone suggest that the Patriots aren't a good team too who seem to find ways to win this game.

Kornheiser, love him or hate him, has talked extensively about the whole media pressure to "pick," which is something that I think we as the viewing public demand, not that sports reporters necessarily want to do. It's just dumb.

With all respect, why do people care?

Patriot Games

Yeah, just saw that. I thought it was 4 for 4 but I guess Saunders didn't say Colts, but he implied he'd agree.

The best part was after all 3 "reporters" said that the Colts would win, the host says "Doesn't sound good for Tom Brady" and Lupica knew that the exact opposite was true and said "Oops, sorry Payton." Lupica recognized that when all the "experts" agree, something is up and they're usually wrong. Once all of them picked the Colts, the last 1% of nervousness left my system.

Fanfrom1960

I was going to start a thread, now I don't have to. To borrow on your cool one letter change of his name, Stephen A Smiff, said "Peyton is the face of the NFL, with all those commercials". The commercials make him the face of the NFL? I guess that makes Chevy the face of the car industry with that ever present obnoxious commercial then?

Aldogg

Smith is a NBA columnist to me. The only time I even consider his opinion if it is about basketball. When it comes to other sports, I think he is blowing out hot air.

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Fixit

Quite frankly, you are correct.

Michael

This won't be news to many of the regular posters here but, I heard this on the radio last night and found it interesting.

Manning has 16 post-season TDs. 8 came against the Broncos. So that means if you take away the 2 Bronco games he has scored only 8 post-season TDs in 9 games.

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PatriotsNorth

I love when Stephen A. Smith says something negative about one of my teams, because he's never right.

I'll never forget how unmercifully he bashed the Raptors for taking Charlie Villanueva in the top 10 of the NBA draft. It was pathetic and really nasty.

Needless to say, Charlie had a great rookie year and finished 2nd to Chris Paul in ROY voting.

Fixit

Even better stat: he actually threw for 9 TD's against Denver. Even better than that: 9 of his TD's came in the 2003 postseason: 5 vs Denver, 3 vs KC, and 1 vs New England.

Talk about skewed.

Deus Irae

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent


None of the ESPN "experts" are picking the Bears and only Theismann and Allen are picking the Patriots.