To all the people who e-mailed and tweeted and screamed out your windows at me about not giving picks last week, (trust me! There was literally tens of ones of people doing this) I'm sorry. What with finals week and the holiday season coming up and me being really lazy and uncreative, I didn't feel like it. And just any bro might do this once again this week and take the easy road. But not the Average Bro! Nope! He's delivering these picks like an Average Mr. Santa "Bro" Claus! So Ho Ho Ho! Here ya go!
And let's not forget that my picks are on the up and up! Improving from 0-3 to 1-2 is no small feat, but the Average Bro does it for you! You can only imagine what it will be this week!
Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers
This match-up speaks to me on a personal level. When I was reading about my Washington Football Team a little bit ago, I read about the first ever NFL team. They were a company team started by the A.E. Staley Food Starch Company of Decatur, Illinois. The Decatur Staleys hired Geroge "Papa Bear" Halas and eventually became the Chicago Bears. AE Staleys Corporation and employs my dad. That's right! Papa Average Bro Himself works for the company that began the NFL! It's like I'm a distant cousin of Vince Lombardi or something!
So the game sticks out because last night (During the Great San Francisco Black Out...just coined that term...TM) ESPN tossed up a stat about San Fran's run defense. The 49ers haven't allowed a rushing TD all season. In itself that is quite an amazing achievement, and ESPN informed me that this hasn't been done for this long, since 1920 by the Decatur Staleys. This in itself interested me because this was only 15 years after the forward pass was even a legal play (running the ball was once the only legal move).
So who did the Seattle Seahawks play last week? Those same Decatur Staleys...only with different players, a different name, different home town and (I assume) different jerserys. And the Seahawks blew up those future Staleys with what? Well what else do they have? The run game led by beast mode Skittle man, Marshawn Lynch. I'm just some guy...and this is one crazy pick...but I think that Seattle brings that magic to the home field.
Seahawks over 49ers
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