Review of 2003 predictions after the season (and

AFC EAST	Notes	NFC EAST	Notes
Pats - 1	How much will Mount Washington help? A bunch. They won even without Washington, Brady	Giants - 4	Considerable talent spread over whole team. Injuires, a poor OL, and Collins reverting to his erriatic nature hurt
Bills - 3	Now everyone gets to see how good Takeo Spikes is I should have remembered that Gilbride was the Offensive coordinator. Rather than run with their best offensive player (Travis Henry) they tried to throw deep all the time. Once Moulds was hurt Bledsoe lack of greatness was exposed. Spikes made the Pro Bowl	Eagles - 1	Window has closed, you can’t keep cutting starters and stay on top Started poor. Recovered and went on to win. I not sure how good they are, luckily avoid injuries (save DL)
Dolphins - 2	Ricky won’t be as good. Fiedler will get hurt, but Greise won’t be good enough to keep the job 100% accurate. They did manage to win ten games. Why is Wanstadt still there?	Washington - 3	Repeats old mistakes. Ramsey is massive question mark. All other QBs known failures Yep. They started out running, but once they won a few game the Ol’ Ball Coach thought he had figured the NFL out. He reverted to passing, and killed Ramsey, who looked okay.
Jets - 4	Too many FA loses, Pennington hurt, Evans suspension hurts too Yep, they were much better once Pennington came back, and the run defense was terrible.	Cowboys - 2	Parcells needs a veteran QB Carter looked okay, may still be replaced. Parcells got ever win out of this team. Defense got better quick.
AFC SOUTH	Notes	NFC SOUTH	Notes
Titans - 2	Eddie George will never be what was. Kearse hurt off and on all season. McNair covers for a lot. This is correct, but the defense was a little weaker on the road than I expected	Saints - 2	Maybe. If the defense is average, the offense will score enough Defense was not average. Terrible start killed them. At least they did not choke in December
Colts - 1	James will be better, but not best in league. Manning still throws picks Yep, the defense was just good enough. They swept Tennessee	Bucs - 3	Still don’t trust that offense. Who is starting RB? Team will be complacent this year They were complacent, kept saying there were fine as the loses piled up. Good move getting rid of Meshawn.
Jags – 3	If Brunell is troublesome team could tailspin Leftwich was good, Stokes sucked, punter axed himself.	Falcons - 4	Vick won’t be the same when he gets back He was, but he took to long to get back. Reeves was screwed.
Texans - 4	No OL, iffy WRs And there were many injuries	Panthers - 1	No QB Turns out Jake Delhomme was passible. WRs developed and Davis was solid.
AFC WEST	Notes	NFC WEST	Notes
Chargers - 4	LT, Boston, & Marty This one I was totally wrong on. Brees was awful, as was the pass defense, and Boston was still a malcontent	Seahawks - 2	Jury is still out on Hasselbach, could win division. Dilfer sucks Hasselbach was good at home.
Raiders - 3	Won’t be able to avoid injuries with all those graybeards again Injuries did not matter, team fell apart	49ers - 3	Injuries are already exposing lack of depth Less the injuries than the coaching.
Broncos - 2	Hardest team to read thanks to Plummer, could win Super Bowl or finish under .500 Plummer had a good record, but I am still not sold on him	Rams - 1	Don’t like Martz, who can’t manage a game. Too many fragile guys in key positions. Window is closed. Iffy DBs Bulger was good, even if he through a bunch of picks. Holt was outstanding.
Chiefs - 1	Holmes will be good, but not what he was last year. Holiday, Barber, McKeon!?! D still sucks D does still suck, special teams saved them. They won’t go far	Cardinals - 4	Easily the worst team in football. Emmitt benched half way through season Shipp was better than Emmitt, but I was wrong: Raiders were the worst team in football.
AFC NORTH	Notes	NFC NORTH	Notes
Steelers - 3	Win by default. Can score with the best of them if Maddox stays hot Maddox belongs in the XFL.	Packers - 1	It’s all on Favre Yep. Green is team MVP, but they don’t have 10 wins with average QB
Browns - 4	Will make late season run Repeated swapping of QBs really hurt	Vikings - 2	Will win division if Favre goes down Favre was hurt, but not enough
Ravens - 1	“Genius” can’t see forest for the trees. Play Redman Half right, Boller was poor, Wright turned out to be the answer, and Lewis had a career year	Bears	Kordell will excite, but not get many wins. Kordell did not excite, but the team played hard. Jaurson should not have been let go
Bengals - 2	Hype about Lewis changing franchise personality will die when lack of talent leads to 1-3 start Ironically they did start 1-3. When the pressure was on they colasped. Lewis looks brilliant now, but they still did not have a winning season, Palmer is an unknown, they might backslide next year	Lions	Mooch needs time They played tough most of the time. Harrington and Rogers look good. Now they just need an RB, TE, and 2nd WR
WILD CARDS	Raiders, Colts	WILD CARDS	Bucs Eagles

Giants beat Titans in Super Bowl

Wild Card:

*Titans beat Ravens: Titans can contain Lewis, that’s all you need to do

*Colts over Broncos: The Colts are not so soft anymore. Broncos won’t do it again.

*Packers over Seahawks: Green Bay tough to win at than Arizona or San Francisco

*Panthers beat Cowboys: Carolina good at home, Cowboys not good in big games

Divisional:

*Patriots beat Titans: Belicheck can beat one dimensional Team

*Colts beat Chiefs: A terrible D is a problem in the playoffs

*Eagles beat Packers: Green Bay has the RB to beat Philly, but probably not

*Rams over Panthers: Panthers can’t keep scoring pace, and not good on the road

Championship:

*Colts over Pats: Colts have the offensive weapons to beat New England

*Eagles over Rams: Rams can’t beat Lions on the road, how ill they beat the Eagles

Superbowl:

*Eagles over Colts: Eagles D will pressure Manning, and McNabb to much for Colts D to contain