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So we know he'll have to ditch the cross, robe and crown of thorns, but will he still be wearing the sandals?

You know, I was thinking the same thing. Damn, I never gave my prediction: Patriots 34, Bills 13

Pete Prisco at CBS Sports picked the Patriots, 33-14. EDIT: Also at CBS Sports (picking against the -10.5 spread), The Harmon Forecast, Prisco, Clark Judge, Peter Madden and Dave Richard all picked the Patriots while Spin (not sure who or what that is) has the Bills.

All of the Buffalo News writers picked the Patriots.

Can we play it tomorrow?

One who's at work? Me.

Wow, I thought you were being sarcastic with the Lott comment.

Legitimate chuckle.

Gotta give it to Mortensen on this one. Told it like it is.

Now that we're getting closer to game day, we might as well compile all of our useless predictions for Week 1 into one thread. Let's post score predictions here. If you see any random published expert predictions on the Web, please post them. Peter King says Patriots 31, Bills 6. What do you say?

Not sure. But whenever I watch the Bills, I usually have Hank's "Family Tradition" playing in my head for some reason.

Honestly, I'm more concerned about Levitre. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

Eh, you do realize that arguably the best safety in the NFL went to USC, right?

Very fair points. My argument was that it's tough to call him overrated when he really hasn't shown anything but top-notch ability when he's on the field. With quarterbacks, you can always nit-pick things about even the best of them -- the "can't miss" guys -- that you see in their performances. For me, it's tough to say much negative about Mays, judging by his performance. You're absolutely right about the turnovers though... sounds vaguely familiar...

I don't think they're that concerned about this Bills.

The only thing I could really criticize him for is that he sometimes doesn't wrap up.

Just curious -- why do you think Mays is overrated? All his measurables are off the charts, and on the field he's an absolute man among boys.

It will be interesting to see how the Berry/Mays shakedown goes. They're both stars in the making.

All fair questions, but we're getting ahead of ourselves here.

Yep.

I'll take Buffalo plus 40.

Everything about this is awesome.

Thanks for letting us know.

Remind me what these "sacks" you speak of are again.

6/80