Tennessee Titans turn in a pretty impressive firts drive and get the ball deep into Steeler territory. But they just can’t covert the touchdown and take the field goal.

Tennessee 3 to Pittsburgh 0

Football Pick in Tennessee Titans against the Pittsburgh Steelers

As we prepare for the Steelers game tonight with the Tennessee Titans I will admit that I have not had the chance to see any of the Steelers games completely, but from what I have seen of replays and partial games I caught after the fact, in my opinion Pittsburgh has an edge over the Titans.

Ben Roethlisberger QB and team have been very effective this year with 3rd down conversions. Also Roethlisberger is just over 1000 yards for the season so he is on course to match his total yards from last year so consistency is on his side. One stat he wouldn’t want to match from last year is his interceptions since he threw 14 last year. Currently he has only thrown one this year, which is not bad at all for a 2-2 team.

Tennessee has not been doing very well this year, neither on the ground or in the air. With the injury last week to Jake Locker’s shoulder he is out for today so the ball will be in the hands of Matt Hasselbeck for Tennessee.

Defensively I just don’t think the Titans can muster up enough of what it will take to keep Roethlisberger from getting the ball to his receivers and pass rushers. He has shown to do ok against the pass rush and his accuracy on the move has been pretty good as shown by the Steelers’ 3rd down conversion numbers.

If he can make the completions tonight, and they are able to convert on those 3rd downs when they need to, I see them putting the Titans down. I will pick Pittsburgh over Tennessee by 14.

Football Picks from October 3rd for week 6 were 66% right on

For those that have read my post early in the week where a few guys from other sites challenged me to get some picks out. Well I stood up to the challenge and made 3 picks for this weeks games and got them up on the 3rd of October here.

Now I did not necessarily post those picks to encourage visitors to use my picks, I just posted some obversations and made the picks, besides I had to stand up to the challenge. I am sure you completely understand.

To recap from the original post here are the picks.

My picks that I had made on Oct 3rd are below:
Arizona Cardinals over St Louis Rams by 5
Atlanta Falcons over Washington Redskins by 7
Houston Texans over NY Jets by 6

The scores:
St Louis Rams 17 Arizona Cardinals 3
Atlanta Falcons 24 to Washington Redskins 17
Houston Texans 23 to NY Jets 17

The Rams Cardinals game was an upset and defeated a 4-0 team and took away their undefeated status moving the Cardinals to 4-1.

On the other two games I picked them right on the money, so I think I stood up to the challenge pretty well.

Brief recap of the 2nd half of the Houston Texans versus NY Jets football game

An impressive game over all and like I mentioned in one or two posts earlier the NY Jets defense can really be proud of their performance tonight. They made a number of plays and stopped the Texans at quite a number of times throughout the game.

They got the ball back into the hands of ther offense, and although the Jets offense played a good game they just couldn’t convert on some of the plays they needed to the most.

I think if it wasn’t the Texans on the other side of the field this Jets game may have gone a little different. Their defense made some good plays and were tipping balls that Sanchez threw and in fact picked off 2 interceptions.

If the Jets can give this kind of perfomance in future games they are certainly going to win more games.

The final score of the game Texans 23 to Jets 17. I enjoyed watching this game, and although I had picked the Texans to win over the Jets by 6 in a post on October 3rd here, I felt myself rooting for the Jets during the fourth quarter since they were playing so well and were making really big exciting plays.

The Texans win the game 23 to 17 after a great gane by both sides. They are now at 5-0 for the first time in their history of the franchise.

At this point the Texans really only need to run a few high percentage plays, keep it on the ground and keep the clock running.

With a first down they have just about sown it up. A few plays keeping the clock running will do it.

A nice run by Bilal Powell and now a pas from Sanchez and a first down. And a another pass and another 1st, an incomplete pass stops the clock and 2nd and 10. Sanchez gets sacked in the next play and brings up 3rd and 10.

A blown pass and the Texans intercept the ball and it’s the 2 minute warning.

Houston Texans are stopped again at not quite mid field and are forced to give the Jets another drive.

You really gotta hand it to the Jets defense. They are penetrating on Schaub and been very effective against the run on this drive. The Texans must punt and give the ball to the Jets with 4 minutes.

Tim Teabow is in for a snap and gets a yard or so. Sanchez is back in and he gets wrapped up on a 3rd and 10 and they have to punt.

And the Texans get the ball back with 6 minutes left in the game.

A great run by Shonn Greene and the yards are being made. And then 2 plays later a screen pass to Greene again and he gets a first down.

But they blow it and waste a time out by poor time management.