Suicide Pool analysis

So, a suicide pool is not what a Dolphins fan has in his back yard to drown himself in, nor is it a bet amongst friends to see which computer consultant throws himself off the fucking roof of his hotel because he's been assigned to a project in Schenectady. It is not a group of coworkers being driven to work by the Asian guy from IT, nor is it the programming sequence that instructed the HAL 9000 to send the pod after poor Frank. That last one was technically a "Homicide Poole". But our friend and honorary Steve, Anonymous, has posed the following question for us: no point spread, pick the winner: Packers over the Cats or Eagles over the Dolphins. Here's what I think...

In no uncertain terms I believe that both these teams will win their respective games. The Eagles showed a tremendous amount of mettle against the feisty Redskins while the Packers dominated the Vikings in every aspect of the game. But if I had to pick one for this week, I'd take the Eagles.

There are several reasons.

First, the Eagles were challenged last week and rose to the occasion. They played a spirited game and rallied behind both their beleaguered head coach and their beleaguered quarterback. There's just no way they don't beat the Dolphins at home. Meanwhile, the Packers are a young team coming off a dominating win. Success is new to them, and I'm not sure they'll know what to do with it. In addition, the Packers play 4 days later at Detroit on Thanksgiving, and are primed for a "looking ahead" upset. The better play for the Packers is three weeks from now at home against the Raiders. With a possible letdown this week against the Cats, a Thanksgiving game against Detroit, and the Cowboys at Dallas the following week, the possibilities of a two or three game losing streak is not out of the question. I pity the poor Raiders if that comes to pass...