Agree/Disagree With Colin Cowherd’s Blazing 5 Week 17 NFL Picks (2019)
Colin may have been out for his Friday afternoon The Herd with Colin Cowherd broadcast, but that didn’t stop him from dropping off his final regular-season Blazing 5 package. Colin is in Utah with his family, you know, snowmobiling and watching Jazz games with his internet-famous daughter, so it’s nice to know he’s still thinking about us degenerates. Let’s hear em…
Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5 Week 17 NFL Picks
Miami at New England (-16.5)
LA Chargers (+8.5) at Kansas City
Cleveland (-3) at Cincinnati
Philadelphia at NY Giants (+4)
San Francisco at Seattle (+3.5)
Blazin’ 5 picks are in. Three out of five and we win @FOXBet
Patriots -16.5
Chargers +8.5
Browns -3
Seahawks +3.5
Giants +4— Colin Cowherd (@ColinCowherd) December 27, 2019
Agree or Disagree?
Miami at New England (-16.5) — AGREE
New England can clinch the second seed in the AFC with a win so they won’t be mailing this game in. Plus, the offense can use some confidence going into the playoffs; they might have their best output of the season here.
LA Chargers (+8.5) at Kansas City — DISAGREE
You can’t trust Philip Rivers anymore, flat out. In addition to that, the Chargers are going into one of the hardest places to play, Arrowhead Stadium, and they’re awful in the turnover department (29th offensively, 30th defensively).
Cleveland (-3) at Cincinnati — AGREE
Uhh…I can’t imagine the Bengals really wanting to win this game. As for Cleveland, they have a ton to play for. Remember last year, they took these types of games and rode them into a lot of preseason hype. Maybe take the Cleveland ML, though.
Philadelphia at NY Giants (+4) — AGREE
If you’re a Cowboys fan, you love that Colin released this pick. And, maybe you love it more now that I’m on board, too. You get the Giants at home, which is big, and with Daniel Jones coming off his best performance of the season. For Philly, they’re still banged up and Zach Ertz has joined the list of injured weapons who won’t play in Week 17.
San Francisco at Seattle (+3.5) — AGREE
This game is a total toss-up, and public action is a 50/50 split, as of Friday afternoon. That said, I like that Seattle is at home and you get a more experienced quarterback in a big-time game. Plus, San Francisco hasn’t covered in a divisional game in their last four.
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Cowherd’s pick of the Patriots over the Dolphins conflicts with his choice of the Chargers over the Chiefs. He’s willing to lay 16.5 in one case because he reasons that the Patriots will do its all not to lose and slip out of the bye earned by being the 2 seed; yet with an opportunity to move up to the 2 seed and a bye, or fall down from the 3 seed into the fourth seed, he’s not willing to lay 8.5 on the Chiefs against the Chargers. It would seem in the latter instance with KC’s explosive offense, to lay 8.5 pts is a far more inviting prospect than depending upon a disappointing Patriot offense to cover 16.5 against what everyone agrees is a Dolphin team that refuses to quit. Plus, with a safe and secure lead late in the game, why would Belichick want to embarrass his former defensive coordinator in a season-ending finale by trying to pour it on? A back-door cover by the Dolphins would seem much probable than it would be in the case of the Chargers doing the same against the Chiefs.
As far as his selection of the Seahawks winning outright or getting the cover with 3 or 3.5, the return of Jedaveon Clowney should remind people of the role he played in the first encounter. For purposes of recall he terrorized the Niners’ offensive line by playing constantly in the opponents’ backfield and gumming up the Niners
rushing attack. Unlike other teams’ rushing offense, the 49ers’ have so synchronized it with their passing attack, it’s almost impossible for an opponent’s defense to decipher which of the two options is underway. So, Clowney’s return is liable to have a much greater impact on the game than say someone like Marshawn Lynch who will have in his corner a banged-up offensive line trying to block for him up front.
Still, Seattle is the wrong side in this contest. In the first encounter, Seattle was already 2 games back of the 49ers; so, a loss would have meant falling back 3 games and cost all chance of ever winning the Division outright.
More importantly, both starting tackles for the 49ers returned to play after missing several games against lesser opponents when the two teams meant for the first time. Clowney so abused Joe Staley it seemed he was a turnstile when Clowney lined up against him. Unbeknownst at the time, the perennial all-pro Staley had suffered a hand injury at some point, one which was so severely limiting his effectiveness, that surgery was required during the week and led to him missing the next two contests. With the tables turned in the second contest it means Clowney is the one returning from injury and Staley the more motivated because he’s at 100 percent. And should he line up against McGlinchy on the other side, it will be a similar reversal because the 49er’s right tackle played his worst game of the season in his first game back from injury after the 49ers returned home from playing on the road in Arizona.
My prediction is Colin will be lucky to go 2-3.