Week 14 Picks.....

Let me ask you a question: Who the hell did NFL Network piss off at league offices to get stuck with this shitty slate of games on Thursday nights? Panthers-Dolphins? Jets-Bills? Steelers-Browns? If this was Million Dollar Pyramid, these games would be under the "Games I Wouldn't Watch Even If Megan Fox Promised To Have Sex With Me At Halftime" category. I'd rather see the Helen Keller School of the Blind take on the MS All-Stars in a rugby scrum than this garbage(Side note: Next week's Thursday nighter will be Colts at Jags, which will be shown in front of a live audience of roughly 75-80 people. More people in Florida have seen Miley Cyrus hit a high note than they've seen Maurice Jones-Drew run.....tell me why the Jags aren't in L.A. again?) .





Anyway, since we fancy ourselves as a sports website, I guess we have to pick this steaming pile of cow dung known as Browns-Steelers(I'd much rather pick the spread on the number of kills I will get on Call of Duty, which is what I will be doing instead of watching Eric Mangini shit his pants every time Brady Quinn drops back to pass).





Steelers(-10) at Browns

Dave: Steelers - If Pittsburgh were playing any other team, literally ANY OTHER TEAM, I'd pick the underdog here, but Cleveland has a harder time moving the ball than most senior citizens have moving their bowels. Plus, fresh off of losing three straight(including two to NFL superpowers like Kansas City and Oakland), the Steel Curtian will be coming for blood, as they don't want to be embarrassed by the worst team in football on semi-national television(Note: More people have the Spice Channel than NFL Network). The semi-competence of Brady Quinn comes to an end here, as "WE WANT CLAUSEN" chants fill the air by the end of the national anthem. Steelers by 14. (P.S. Dear NFL, how many games does Cleveland have to lose before they convince you that they should never be on primetime? The Seahawks have 5x as many wins as the Browns and have been on national television a total of 0 times. Look, the Browns bandwagon fell apart last October, you don't have to throw a pity party for the city of Cleveland by featuring their worthless football team on cable TV)

Gabe: Steelers - The Steelers need this game, badly. They are currently 6-6 and will most likely need to win out to make the playoffs. I think that fact will have Pittsburgh highly motivated. The other big factor in this game is the weather. It is going to be cold and really windy. Like 30 mph winds windy. Like 45 mph wind gusts windy. That is going to neutralize both passing games. So this game is essentially a match-up of running games versus defenses. Give me Rashard Mendenhall against Cleveland over whatever garbage the Browns are throwing out there against Pittsburgh's D. I think the Steelers D flirts with the shutout and the Steelers grind out a big win, 20-3.