As I said earlier this week on KC Confidential, there’s a big concern by Chiefs fans that our quarterback Alex Smith isn’t good enough to take the team to the Super Bowl.
Obviously I disagree. First, I’ve said many times, given the fact that Alex has very few weapons to throw to, he’s done a very good job. Let’s face it, the front office did little in the off-season to bolster our weak corps of receivers. The only solid performer we’ve added is Donnie Avery from Indianapolis. He has certainly been above average. We all know about the tight end situation.
And no, Tony Gonzalez is not coming home.
The Chiefs are a Super Bowl contender for the first time since 1997.
They face their nemesis, Oakland Sunday at Arrowhead. But it won’t be as easy as many think because the Raiders have a nifty little quarterback from Ohio State who could cause our defense a headache with his running ability. Just ask San Diego and Indy (who was lucky to win). All of that said, Chiefs 27 Raiders 17.
The Missouri Tigers may make a liar out of me with my prediction of seven wins. I saw them as a low-level bowl team. With MU’s convincing win on the road at Vanderbilt last week, and with a record of 5 and 0 now, Missouri is showing signs of a breakthrough season in the SEC. The Tigers could surprise Georgia this weekend on the road.
Of course, Georgia is missing all its first string receivers and running backs, otherwise MU wouldn’t stand much of a chance. Look for a close game, and maybe the Tigers cover the spread.
K State gets hammered by Baylor, who I think will win the Big 12.
Kansas football isn’t worth the conversation, are you guys still happy with Charlie Weiss? Didn’t think so.
College Picks
MU (+13 ½) over Georgia on a tease with TCU (-19) over Kansas.
Clemson (-18) over Boston College on a tease with LSU (even) over Florida
Baylor (-11) over K State on a tease with Oklahoma (-7) over Texas
Louisville (-13) over Rutgers on a tease with Baylor (-11) over K State.
NFL Picks
Colts (+4 ½ ) over San Diego on a tease with New Orleans (+9) at New England
Kansas City (-2) over Oakland teased with Seattle (-7) over Tennessee
Denver (-20) over Jacksonville with San Francisco (-4) over Arizona.
Tonight’s Thursday Night Special: Chicago (-1) over New York Giants teased with Louisville (-13) over Rutgers.
Have a great weekend. Follow me on Twitter @KCKingofSting.
I for one think Ku football can right the ship and win the Big 12 championship. Shean Zenger needs to extend Charlie Weiss’ contract NOW!
Nothing feels better before the fact than a good teaser bet. I like these picks.
I’m gonna play KSU V Baylor. Baylor has put up points V Wofford, Buff, LaMon and a crap WVA team. I say Cats put a shoulder in them in Manhattan.
Only pro pick I disagree is Indy, I like Bolts to bounce back at home Prime time.
Enjoy the games.
again glaze….you are a welcher….we had a bet…you didn’t a sh*t about
keeping your word…more to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you have zero/nada/zilch credibility!!!!!!!!!
shut up punk.
Get over it, H.
That was your idea, KCC is not a brokerage house for betting and keeping Craig off KCC is not a choice for you to make. That’s between Craig and me.
Please limit yourself to gentlemen’s bets.
What about you saying you kicked the glazed one off your blog a while back? Not a whole lot of accountability on this site. It really doesn’t matter, but Accountability on a “news” site would be nice.
you are a broekerage house for betting….chuckles the sad clown
and glaze made a bet on line in kcc which chuckls paid him for.
Hearne…you seem to be losing that memory of yours….please if you
don’t do anything go to tht lumosity site and play those games which
the tv ads says keeps your memory up and your mind sharp.
please…we all love youand want youto age gracefully!!!!!!!!!!!
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Nice start tonight. Both Clemson and Bears cover, but both need the ‘tease’ to do it. Without that six points taken off you would have lost both games, instead you win them both to go to 20-11. Nice. I listen to sports talk was on 610 today and if you follow the ‘sports’ guys picks….way behind mine, all of them. C dot on 610 is the best picks guy on the air so far, not including myself. Does a nice job, great on college games. Lets see how the weekend goes, went out on the limb a bit on MU after trashing them earlier this year, hope they are as good as they looked last week. We’ll see.
Harley, Harley, Harley…again as I stated earlier, Hearne was correct. I DON’T WRITE A COLUMN HERE HE DOES, I send in my sports picks and he redoes them his way. OK. YES YOU WON THE BIG BET, MU BEAT VANDY. So I offered you several other better PAYOFFS, not welching, just have to meet the picks thing to Hearne. If I skip a week everyone will call my picks b.s. and can’t keep up unless they go to another site. That’s all. YOU WON…so lets find you another prize, guess the tix to a big show didn’t interest you..? What else I can I do to make it up to you. You are right, I was wrong. But I want to give you something…hey Chuck sent me a check, though I didn’t want it on our bet. Man of his word, so am I but I didn’t look before I leaped on that one. Again sorry. Lets fix it.
I like to call craig out for being a stronzo, but he is right. Plus he did offer you your choice of tickets to the club for decent people if I recall correctly.
Texas (+14) covers against OU in the Red River War, which they dont even call a war anymore. OU s overrated and UT will be ready. Harrahs, caesars, rio are all giving plus 14, which is key.
What does Crackle eat, rice rice rice. Who is gonna cover plus 1 at ut san antonio? Rice rice rice.
Nebraska minus 14.5 over purdue (puts on corn head thing like corso)
NFL
Chiefs (minus 9) over oakland
Detroit minus 3 over the Paul Browns, with or without megatron.
packers minus 3 over bmore
Obscure sports bet of the week
First round of the Heineken Cup group stage which pits the best rugby teams in europe against each other. Look for Munster (+8) to defeat Edinburgh in the battle of who is drunker. Edinburgh is starting 4 new players out of 15 and who has done poorly in cup play. Munsters red army gets cheesy and covers easily. 730 am sat
-3-0 in the college games.
For the first time in a couple weeks I lost the Obscure Sports bet of the Week. Edinburgh came out to play and beat Munster straight up 29-23
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24489610
Nice job dude.
This has been discussed to death, but your continual teasing of everything would have netted you far less money than what CDot has racked up despite his lesser win record than you.
Also, you wouldn’t be able to tease as many games as you do on a weekly basis at any book worth its salt.
Bill in Vegas and here, I believe, you can tease all you want…as you have read its not much different in value or odds than a one on one bet with the points…cause you have to win two.
I never cashed his check.
This Harley guy should take a nap in the discarded charcoal dumpsters at the Arrowhead lot!
Hahahaha nothing better then the snivel and dribble of a testosterone fueled debate over a piece of leather chucked around by steroid ridden millionaires. A true tribute to evolution!
Glaze, cash the check man, you won fair and square.
🙂
Up set of the week—The Browns are a 3 point home dog, I like the Browns to win it. Calvin has a bad knee.
Cincy is a 7 point fave over the Bills, take Cincy.
Dallas is a 5 point fave over Washington. Take the Cowboys.
Carolina goes into Minnisota as a 3 point dog. Adrian Peterson’s little boy just got murdered by the Baby Mama’s boyfriend. Adrian Pereson will play in the game. How does that happen?
Take Carolina and the points, hug your kid and take him someplace nice on Sunday, we can watch football some other time.
Jesus…
2 and 2—a push.
😉
Well after reaching 20-11, just lost all four teases on college, yikes, K State covered and Texas upset OU…so other wins were offset by those losses, now 20-15. Need a good pro day or will all way off.
Great win today by MU. However losing their quarterback, Franklin, ends any hope of a great season. They will be lucky to win one more game, two would surprise me. So my original 7 games looks to be the case, yep the Pin Strip Bowl or something close to it..so sad cause with Franklin they might have had a big year, 9 wins maybe. Not now…so enjoy their big day, cause next week, its over and so is their brief nice ranking which will likely go up just a bit cause the voters know MU is done now…Georgia was badly wounded but still a nice victory over a top ten team, MU hadn’t done that in decades on the road. MU is snake bit, man.
Georgia’s offensive line wasn’t hurt, and Mizzou’s defense kicked their ass. Shane Ray, Markus Golden, and Michael Sam were just pimp slapping Georgia’s tackles around. Georgia’s defense wasn’t hurt, and Mizzou kicked their ass too. I’m damn sick and tired of people throwing out the injury excuse for Georgia. MU lost 5 of their top 10 0ffensive lineman last year, not to mention their starting qb for most of the year and no one gave them one bit of sympathy. The refrain was “Oh you’ve got to have DEPTH in the SEC. That’s why MU can’t compete.” And in this week’s game, they lose both their starting QB and best cornerback, and STILL win the game. One last note…when Franklin went out, MU was up by two points. They won by 15. Don’t write them off quite yet. Lots of football left.
Gary Pinkel’s take on Franklin’s injury is a great deal different than that of the “anonymous source” cited by CBS Sports’ Bruce Feldman and ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.
According to Pinkel, Franklin will be out “a few weeks”, not the 6 weeks originally reported.
There’s also the rumor that MU may give redshirt quarterback Eddie Printz (ranked as one of the top pro-style quarterbacks in the Class of 2012) an opportunity to play.
Looks like going to be 2-1 in pros, so we fell to 22-16. Tough weekend in both pros and college, upsets everywhere.
21-16, tough week. Lots of upsets. See if we can do better next.
Man this Harley guy sucks. Get off Craig’s back. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. You might end up geting your head cracked.