Pats Pulpit's Preseason Predictions and Results

Pats Pulpit Predictably Proves Prognosticating Prowess

Every season has it's surprises. Not surprisingly, this season was no different.

I'm still trying to decide if Detroit and Arizona were surprise teams or not. I expected them both to be terrible, and they were both mediocre.

Two divisions finished with every team at .500 or better. That's surprising. One division came close to every team finishing .500 or worse, but that it was the NFC South is no surprise at all.

One team came very close to going winless, and it was a team many people had expected to improve over last season.

Baltimore and Philadelphia both went from first to worst. Tampa Bay went from worst to first.

Last week, I went 10-6, in part thanks to the CCNY Colts. That game (or one of 89 others) cost me a 65-percent overall winning percentage. I finished the season 166-90 (64.8 percent). That, at least, was far better than last season's 149-107 (57.4).

Below are tables of how I picked the divisions and records paired with the results, followed by my game-by-game Patriots predictions. Much like our favorite team, I went 16-0. They made it easy on me.

Game-by-Game Patriots Predictions

I don't think I've picked any team to win every game in my week-to-week picks. While I picked New England to finish 13-3 in my preseason predictions, it became increasingly obvious that they were the better team entering each game. Thus, these were not typical "homer" picks, as my pregame analysis shows.