Sunday ATS Recap: Now With More Monday

This was the week we expected week 2 to be. Wow, was it ugly. We only differed on two games and agreed on a ton of big favorites. I had suggested taking all the picks and just flipping them. That would have been a GREAT idea.

On to the recap, in much less detail:

• Chiefs 31, Niners 10 - Jason winner, Dre loser. The theme of the week was "Desperation." Heck, the NFL could have branded their own fragrance line of the same name with three preseason darlings all facing 0-3 starts. I had figured the Niners shot their wad against the Saints at home, and still came up short. A tough road game at Kansas City felt like more than the Niners could handle. Thankfully, Andre disagreed.

• Bengals 20, Panthers 7 - Both winners. Cincy played a pretty awful game, but luck served them up Jimmy Clausen. Carson Palmer looks lost so far this year, but Cedric "The Phoenix" Benson keeps rising from the ashes.

• Ravens 24, Browns 17 - Both losers. What a tough pick to even make. The Ravens have proven they can't cover a big number, while the Browns have failed to even look like a pro team. Ray of light for the Browns (or not): they've had a lead in the 4th quarter of all three games this season. A lead they've blown, anyway.

• Vikings 24, Lions 10 - Both losers. Ah, Detroit. Most of the game was closer than the score indicated as the Lions continue to play with tremendous heart. Just when things were going their way early, the Lions muffed a punt deep in their own territory and Brett Fav-ray found a WIIIDE open Percy Harvin in the endzone on the next play. It was all downhill after that for Detroit. Sorry Lion-o's, heart doesn't cover spreads.

• Titans 29, Giants 10 - Both losers. If you read the box score for the game and ignore all the columns except points, you'd have thought the Giants won. Manning (the other one) moved the ball at will up and down the field againt Tennessee, but failed to convert long drives into points. On the other side, it's amazing how all the Vince Young being benched drama goes away when all he has to do is turn around and hand it to 28 (the other one).

• Steelers 38, Bucs 13 - Both winners. At this point, I think I could play quarterback for the Steelers. If Charlie Batch goes down, look for Bubby Brister to get the call this week against Baltimore and throw 4 TD's. I was actually hoping for a more game effort from Tampa, but this game sealed it for me: Pittsburgh is the best team in the NFL right now.

• Falcons 27, Saints 24 (OT baby) - Both losers. Easily the best game of the week. I still needed to see more from Atlanta after their dismantling of the Cards, and they went on the road to face the NFL champs and took it to 'em. This game cements even more my comments about the Steelers being the NFL's best team. Since a tough road loss, Atlanta has played great ball, while the Saints still haven't shown much this year.

• Patriots 38, Bills 30 - Both losers. The Pats are a tough team to read. This game had 52-10 written all over, but the Pats defense seems like it will be their undoing this year. Alert: there was a C.J. Spiller sighting in this game!

• Cowboys 27, Texans 13 - Both losers. "Desperation: Part III." Houston had a chance to put their foot on the Cowboys throats this week, but there is sometimes no counter to a team playing for its life in week 3. Dallas finally looked like the team they were supposed to be all season long. What better way to stop a rally, for a team that looks like it could be getting back on track, than the bye week.

• Rams 30, Redskins 16 - Both losers. WTF!

• Eagles 28, Jaguars 3 - Both winners. Been a while since a winning pick. Micheal Vick looks to have learned some new moves. My guess: he learned them in the prison shower evading gang rape. Using these new found quarterback skills, Vick looks mature, confident in his throws, and not going through a progression of first read then run like hell. The Eagles could be a very dangerous team this year, until Vick gets hurt.

• Seahawks 27, Chargers 20 - Jason winner, Dre loser. San Diego played great, except for that little kicking-to-Leon Washington-thing. Other than that, bang up job Bolts!

• Colts 27, Broncos 13 - Both losers. Pretty much the result one would expect from an aerial duel between a Hall of Famer and Kyle Orton. How do you throw for 476 yards and ONE touchdown. That's what I call some empty stats Orton.

• Cardinals 24, Raiders 23 - Both losers. I'm just staring at the blinking cursor on the monitor. Hey, how bout that Falcons-Saints game? THAT was some good football.

• Jets 31, Dolphins 24 - Both losers. A surprisingly offensive game, and I don't mean the malodorous "offensive." Both teams moved the ball against allegedly stingy defenses in what was easily the second best game of the week. The Jets are slowly turning my opinion of them around. Key word there is "slowly," my opinion of them is still that they are overrated, moving up towards "average."

• Bears 20, Packers 17 - Both losers. Of course. What a fitting end to a week of suck. The Packers played one of the sloppiest games I've seen out of a team in a long time. Here is another example of a team being touted as the cream of the crop before a down was played this season. So far the Pack have barely beaten Philly, cruised past Buffalo, and now lost a tough divisional matchup to their arch rival. The Bears now stand alone in first place in the North, and are the only undefeated team in the NFC. We all laughed that the Calvin Johnson TD that wasn't wouldn't matter because the Bears wont amount to anything this season.........(insert dramatic music cue and lightning flashes). Now the Packers get to chew on this one until 2011. Yeah, they don't play the Bears again until January 2.

So, week 3 of picking and recapping is over. We should have called it Weak 3.

Jason 5-11

Dre 3-13

Nothing to see here. Move along.