The Bear Goggles On staff will not be retiring on our gambling winnings any time soon. At least not based on the merits of our preseason predictions. Our crystal balls are a little out of whack to say the least. Let’s see what we predicted back in September:
Boomer:
NFC Division Winners: Packers, Saints, Cowboys, 49ers
NFC Wild Cards: Falcons, Eagles
NFC Championship: Packers vs Niners
AFC Division Winners: Ravens, Colts, Patriots, Chargers
AFC Wild Cards: Texans, Jets
AFC Championship: Ravens vs Chargers
Super Bowl: Ravens over Packers
DeCon:
NFC Div Winners: Packers, Saints, Giants, 49ers
NFC Wild Cards: Bears, Cowboys
NFC Championship: Saints vs Cowboys
AFC Div Winners: Ravens, Colts, Jets, Broncos
AFC Wild Cards: Patriots, Bengals
AFC Championship: Ravens vs Jets
Superbowl: Jets over Saints
Bart:
NFC Division Winners: Packers, Saints, Cowboys, 49ers
NFC Wild Cards: NY Giants, Bears
NFC Championship: Packers vs Cowboys
AFC Division Winners: Bengals, Colts, NY Jets, Chargers
AFC Wild Cards: Ravens, Texans
AFC Championship: Ravens vs Jets
Super Bowl: Ravens over Packers
Gavin:
NFC Division Winners: Packers, Saints, Cowboys, 49ers
NFC Wild Cards: Falcons, Vikings
NFC Championship: Packers vs Saints
AFC Division Winners: Ravens, Colts, Patriots, Chargers
AFC Wild Cards: Texans, Jets
AFC Championship: Ravens vs Jets
Super Bowl: Packers over Ravens
City:
NFC Division Winners: Packers, Falcons, Cowboys, 49ers
NFC Wild Cards: Saints, Vikings
NFC Championship: Packers vs Cowboys
AFC Division Winners: Ravens, Texans, Jets, Chargers
AFC Wild Cards: Colts, Patriots
AFC Championship: Ravens vs Chargers
Super Bowl: Chargers over Packers
Sam:
NFC Div Winners: Packers, Saints, Cowboys, 49ers
NFC Wild Card: Vikings, Eagles
NFC Championship: Packers vs Cowboys
AFC Div Winners: Chargers, Colts, Bengals, Jets
AFC Wild Card: Patriots, Ravens
AFC Championship: Bengals vs Jets
Super Bowl: Packers over Jets
We all uniformly missed on the 49ers and Cowboys and to make matters worse, each of us had either of those teams in the NFC Championship game. Ouch! Decon had the Bears in the Wild Card picture, so we’ll see if they can keep up with their first half pace.
The Chargers figured prominently in all of our playoff pictures on the AFC side. Who knew that the Chiefs and Raiders would be on the comeback trail? Also bad job across the board for no one coming up the Steelers in their playoff picture.
Can’t wait for the second half to unfold to see how this all turns out.