Make Plays' Week 6 Picks

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on October 18, 2009 11:57 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

So yeah, a bunch of us forgot to pick the Cardinals-Texans game last week (we wonder why) and that will count as automatic losses. Regardless, Mini-Ouchie (his new nickname after hurting his ankle BEFORE the sports staff football game) led the way with an impressive 11-3 week. Despite Rung's 7-7 week, we came out of Week 5 at 54-30 and head into Week 6 at 293-149 (66 percent) for the season. Looks like we're stuck at two out of three, unless...

Word on the street is the MAKE PLAYS blog has put its weakest link, Dave Rung (44-32) on the trading block. A source close to the situation confirmed the MAKE PLAYS blog is close to acquiring FOOTBLOG All-American Matt Fortuna (42-18 in NCAA picks) in exchange for Rung, a stapler, a (your business could be here) cheese steak and a non-alcoholic beverage to be named later. However, it might be tough to get a deal done before Tuesday's trade deadline.

The picks...

Clark (49-27): Bucs over Panthers, Packers over Lions, Jaguars over Rams, Vikings over Ravens, Texans over Bengals, Redskins over Chiefs, Giants over Saints, Steelers over Browns, Eagles over Raiders, Seahawks over Cardinals, Patriots over Titans, Jets over Bills, Bears over Falcons, Chargers over Broncos

Miniaci (50-26): Panthers over Bucs, Packers over Lions, Jaguars over Rams, Vikings over Ravens, Texans over Bengals, Redskins over Chiefs, Giants over Saints, Steelers over Browns, Eagles over Raiders, Cardinals over Seahawks, Patriots over Titans, Jets over Bills, Falcons over Bears, Chargers over Broncos

Rorabaugh (55-21): home teams in CAPS. BENGALS over Texans, PACKERS over Lions, JAGUARS over Rams, Ravens over VIKINGS, Giants over SAINTS (as much as it pains me, but the Saints defense hasn't really been tested yet.), STEELERS over Browns, Panthers over BUCS, Chiefs over REDSKINS, Eagles over RAIDERS (face it, Clark), Cardinals over SEAHAWKS, PATRIOTS over Titans, JETS over Bills, Bears over FALCONS, Broncos over CHARGERS

Oplinger (46-30): Texans over Bengals, Packers over Lions, Jaguars over Rams, Vikings over Ravens, Saints over Giants, Steelers over Browns, Panthers over Bucs, Redskins over Chiefs, Eagles over Raiders, Cardinals over Seahawks, Patriots over Titans, Jets over Bills, Falcons over Bears, Chargers over Broncos

Gentile (35-27): Houston over Bengals, Green Bay over Detroit, Baltimore over Minnesota, Giants over New Orleans, Pittsburgh over Cleveland, Kansas City over Washington, Jacksonville over St Louis, Seahawks over Cardinals, Eagles over Raiders, Pats over Titans, Jets over Bills
Falcons over Bears, San Diego over Denver

Rung (37-25): Bengals over Texans, Packers over Lions, Jaguars over Rams, Vikings over Ravens, Giants over Saints, Steelers over Browns, Panthers over Buccaneers, Redskins over Chiefs, Eagles over Raiders, Seahawks over Cardinals, Patriots over Titans, Jets over Bills, Bears over Falcons, Chargers over Broncos

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Dave Miniaci is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports chief. He has previously been sports night chief and a sports copy editor. He has also covered men's rugby, men's track and field and field hockey. He is from New Jersey and is a big Devils fan and proud of both, and he doesn't care if you hold that against him.


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Adam Clark is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports editor. He previously covered fraternity and sorority life, crime and courts and was the Collegian's summer 2009 news/sports editor. His favorite athlete died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 and his favorite football team is coming off the worst six-year stretch in NFL history. He does hold it against Dave Miniaci that he's from New Jersey.


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Dan Rorabaugh is a senior majoring in sports journalism and minoring in English. He is the sports copy desk chief, and was previously a reporter for the men's rugby, men's cross country, men's volleyball, women's soccer, women's basketball and men's lacrosse teams. Last year, the impossible dream happened - one of his favorite teams, the Phillies, won a championship. Now if only the Eagles could catch some of that magic, he might be able to actually find peace with sports.


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Michael Oplinger is a junior majoring in media studies and political science and the Collegian's assistant sports copy desk chief. He previously covered the men's tennis and men's volleyball teams. Even though he enjoyed the Phillies' World Series victory, he misses the days of Jose Mesa and David Bell.


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Eddie Gentile is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in history. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's tennis team, the Lady Icers and the Penn State baseball team. Gentile is your stereotypical Philly fan - he considers every game a loss until they actually win... and even then he'll probably still be moaning. Go birds.


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David Rung is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in kinesiology. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's swimming team and the men's rugby team. Rung isn't as die hard about pro sports as his sports staff brethren from Philly and Pittsburgh, but he does take pride in being a Red Sox fan before the bandwagon started.