The finale of the 2009-2010 season is here. Fortunately for fans of offense, the biggest game of the year for the biggest sport in the country will be played by, in the humble opinion of the SportsHuman, the two best quarterbacks in the league today. The accuracy, decision-making, strength, and leadership of both Peyton Manning and Drew Brees are absolutely off the charts, which will make Sunday’s game a fun one.
Both teams are built on terrific offense and decent defense. For the Colts, the passing game is almost everything. The …

As nice as their story has been, I don’t think the Jets can put up more points than the Colts, even with that great defense.
The offensive and defensive firepower on the Vikings appears to be too much for the one-sided Saints to beat–but it should be close.

The Saints will outrace the Cardinals, especially without Anquan Boldin.
Indianapolis is too strong to falter in Baltimore’s defensive mire.
The Vikings defense will slow down Tony Romo’s air attack when they sack him every other play.
San Diego is just plain better than the Jets.
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Back to making real predictions! The holiday haze is over now, so we return to you your humble selection servants…
Colts over Bills

Jaguars over Browns
Bears over Lions
49ers over Rams
Steelers over Dolphins
Vikings over Giants

Falcons over Buccanneers

Ok, so this is less of a set of a picks and more of a statement that THR has been on holiday hiatus. As such, we didn’t pick a winner for 15 of the 16 games this week. We will, however, tell you that we think that we have a prediction for tonight’s game… so at least it’s something.
Vikings over Bears
Pretty uninspired work this week. Our apologies.

Enjoy…
Patriots over Bills
Cardinals over Lions

Half of the big matchups this week come from the NFC East… Giants-Eagles and Chargers-Cowboys. Cincy-Minny rounds out a solid week for playoff contention games, and it will be interesting to see if the Vikes can bounce back after last week, or whether Cedric Benson can come back and reclaim his place in the top 3 RBs of the year.
Saints over Falcons

Don’t look now but we’ve been doing pretty well lately… This will be an interesting week with the hot Titans facing a Colts team that has been VERY narrowly winning its most recent games, a Vikings-Cardinals game that will test both defenses, and a great Monday night matchup between the threshold teams of the Packers and Ravens…
Eagles over Falcons
Bears over Rams
Bengals over Lions

3 Thursday games means 6 opponents go unmentioned in our weekly picks–sorry that we don’t do this until the end of the week. Maybe one day we’ll start picking on Thursday morning? Until then, just enjoy the rest of the calls. We had a pretty strong selection last week, so hopefully we can continue to be successful here.

Falcons over Buccaneers
Dolphins over Bills

More picks for you… Now that we have an established theme of doing picks every weekend, we’ll keep track of what we’ve done so far, and how we’ve been doing (not well enough yet!). At some point, we might start picking before the Thursday game. For now, we’ll just let you watch that one yourself. Without further ado…

Cowboys over Redskins

Lions over Browns