" All Chips In"

Last week edition of All Chips In was all about the college conference championship games and I went a modest 2-3. I was more shocked about the Friday game of Northern Illinois/ Bowling Green score then I was of the Buckeyes losing to the Spartans. I was extremely happy about the SEC championship game,  which I got right (don't know to many people who did). Since there is no major college football games on this week, it will be all about the NFL.

The first game is the Thursday night game San Diego Chargers take a visit to the mile high to play the Denver Broncos. The spread is Broncos -10 on the visiting Chargers. Both quarterbacks had great performances last week. Rivers game was never in doubt,  meanwhile Manning was behind one point at halftime but ended up in a blow out. I don't expect a blow out because Broncos will be without Wes Welker who suffered a concussion in the game against the Titans. Plus the Chargers defense is playing a lot better then the Titans and the last time these two teams met five weeks ago Denver only won by eight 28-20, even with Peyton throwing four touchdowns. In this rematch I'm All Chips In on the points, Thursday games are never that entertaining.

Minnesota is playing host to the Philadelphia Eagles for this 1:00pm game. The Eagles are -4.5 point favorites which is not a surprise. That is only because you can never know what you going to get from the Vikings, expect that Adrian Peterson is their only and best player. AP is questionable to play in this game since he injury his ankle last week against the Ravens. Even with Peterson I don't see the Vikings winning this game. Nick Foles is really showing people that he can play quarterback in this league. Foles and the Eagles struggled in the first half against the Lions, because of the snow storm that hit the Philadelphia area around the time the game started. Once the snow stopped falling the Eagles started scoring and McCoy was the reason. McCoy should start being mention as one of the top runningbacks in the NFL.  With Foles, McCoy and the Eagles offense on their A game and playing in a dome I'm All Chips In on the Eagles

The Detroit Lions are a -6 point favorite over the Baltimore Ravens. Each team played in memorable games in week 14. The Lions played in that snow bowl against the Eagles, which was a disaster for the Lions fumbling the ball seven times . The only good thing was they only lost three of them, yeah that was the good thing. The Ravens played in snow themselves just not as much as Detroit. They also was able to score points, combining with the Vikings to score five touchdowns in the last 125 seconds. The Lions are happy to be home in a temperature control stadium, having gone 1 for 2 in their last three away games (which was at cold city stadiums).  For the Lions to win this game Matthew Stafford has to limit his mistakes. For the Ravens they have to give the ball to their playmakers, and it helps that Dennis Pitta is back on the field. I like the Lions when they play at home, bit not when they play a defense like the Ravens I'm All Chips In on the points

Whew!! That is how the Dallas Cowboys defense is feeling after hearing that Aaron Rodgers is highly doubtfully for this weeks game. Early Wednesday afternoon the line was even for the Packers/Cowboys game, that was before the news about AA-Rod. Now the Cowboys are -7 point favorites over the Packers who will be starting Matt Flynn. If AA-Rod was playing I would have went with the Packers, but I have to ride with the Cowboys. I believe that Tony Romo will bounce back from his so-so game (11-20 104 yards 3 TD's) he had against the Bears. The Cowboys running game was on point running for almost 200 yards. Don't expect anything different against the Packers defense. What the Cowboys need to do is get up on the Packers early and try to take their run game out of the gameplan. The last thing the Cowboys want to do is allow Matt Flynn and the offense to be in the game with the way the Cowboys secondary is playing  this year. Even with a bad defense I'm All Chips In on the Cowboys and the points