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Christine Daniels’ Week 7 predictions for a two-team football league that can’t understand what the colleges see in this ill-advised concept of “parity” . . .

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Texans over Titans

* Houston’s top two available running backs carried the ball a total of 20 times for 59 yards last week against Jacksonville. That doesn’t sound like much until you consider one of those backs was Ahman Green, who hasn’t really been green since the Texans were called the Oilers, and the other was Samkon Gado, who hasn’t really done much since his debut as a character in the first “Star Wars.”

Bills over Ravens

* Sunday morning, Trent Edwards will wake up in Buffalo as the starting quarterback of the Bills, rub his eyes, shake his head and mutter to himself, “This is what a Stanford education gets you?”

Lions over Buccaneers

* Playing without the injured Carnell Williams, and a little confused about the concept, the Buccaneers arrive in Motown hoping to find a brand-new Cadillac.

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Redskins over Cardinals

* The Cardinals’ quarterback-shuttle experiment sounded a lot smarter when the quarterbacks were named Matt Leinart and Kurt Warner instead of Tim and Rattay.

Giants over 49ers

* The bizarre state of New York pro sports, circa October 2007: Tom Coughlin’s the hottest coach in the NFC, and Joe Torre is out.

Chiefs over Raiders

* LJ comes into this round of the Chiefs-Raiders rivalry averaging 4.6 yards a carry and 93.2 yards a game, owning more rushing yards than Shaun Alexander, Brian Westbrook, Jamal Lewis, Clinton Portis, Frank Gore, Fred Taylor and Warrick Dunn. No surprise there. Except that those initials stand for LaMont Jordan.

Saints over Falcons

* UCLA has already lost twice, the 49ers can’t score, and now Terry Donahue draws this assignment as a color analyst for Fox. He has had better seasons.

Patriots over Dolphins

* Old-time record-holders are split on this one. The ’72 Dolphins are rooting against the Patriots, the ’76 Buccaneers are rooting against the Dolphins.

Cowboys over Vikings

* For not the first, or last, time in his career, Terrell Owens said a little too much too soon in his note to the media before last Sunday’s 48-27 loss to New England. The late, great Chick Hearn had a phrase for it. The Patriots put T.O. into the popcorn machine.

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Bengals over Jets

* Stop your booing and your “Chad’s bad!” chants and your “We want Clemens!” cheers for a minute, Jets fans. Since Week 1, Chad Pennington has won more games (one) than Carson Palmer.

Eagles over Bears

* Five words, Lovie Smith: Direct. Snaps. To. Devin. Hester.

Steelers over Broncos

* After six weeks this season, the Broncos’ points-allowed log reads: 14, 20, 23, 38, 41, 0. Clearly, Denver needs fewer games on the schedule against the Colts, and the Chargers and more against “Bye.”

Seahawks over Rams

* Not-so-great Northwest Rams-Seahawks forestry report: Seahawks -- missing a Branch. Rams -- terminal case of tree rot.

Colts over Jaguars

* Two things that recently happened in our lifetime, despite fairly long odds: Indianapolis won a Super Bowl. And Jacksonville was host of one.

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