2012 NFL Playoffs Expert Picks: Conference Championships

By John in Featured, NFL, Now!, Opinion, Patriots ⋅ January 22, 2012 at 3:01pm ⋅ Post a comment

An all-Harbaugh Super Bowl would be a great story line, but will it come to pass? (latimes.com)

It’s finally time for the Conference Championships. After several disappointing years, can the Patriots finally make it back to the Super Bowl? Will they get revenge from four years ago? Will a Harbaugh be guaranteed a title? What will happen is what we are all here to predict for you.

Here at SoB (in red) and SoNY (in green), we’ve brought you our choices for how those games will turn out. It’ll be worth two points for anyone who guesses the winner of any game, one point if they can guess combined touchdown totals of the two teams to within one (or two points if they guess the total exactly right) and one point if they can guess the total passing yardage of each game’s top passer to within 50 (or two points if they get within 10).

The Patriots are the most picked team in this round, no doubt thanks to the likes of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski. Meanwhile, the Giants are the team of choice in San Francisco, where a whole lot of rain is coming down. Turnovers galore could easily be afoot due to that.

So be sure to watch the games and all of their interesting story lines. Check below for the picks, and check back later on Monday for the results.

	Name	Aryeh	Edward	John	Josh	KC	Zach
Patriots vs. Ravens	Winner	Patriots	Patriots	Ravens	Patriots	Patriots	Patriots
	TDs	5	6	7	7	8	7
	Passing Yards	300	316	280	300	365	355
49ers vs. Giants	Winner	Giants	Giants	49ers	49ers	Giants	Giants
	TDs	4	6	4	6	6	5
	Passing Yards	280	273	197	260	345	291
	Total Points	16	23	14	15	23	20