Super Bowl pick

Last week: 1-1 (Playoffs: 8-2/Overall: 14-7-1)

Arizona (+7) over Pittsburgh
Double digits and the perfect playoffs went out the door but with a win here I get to finish with more than twice as many wins than losses on the year. That's something. To be honest I don't think either of these teams are all that good. Arizona is riding an all-time hot streak of an individual player and at the same time being aided by some inept coaching from the opposition (HOW DO YOU NOT DOUBLE TEAM FITZGERALD!?). Pittsburgh on the other hand, while arguably the better team, doesn't exactly leap off the page at you. Yes, the defence is fantastic. But that offense is a real worry. They can't run the ball and living and dieing with Big Ben isn't exactly ideal.

In spite of that I like Pittsburgh in this match. I think Pittsburgh's greatest strength (defence) is better than Arizona's (the passing game). The thing about Pittsburgh is that when they play quality teams (which I think we have to label Arizona now) they may win, but they don't do it in style. In the regular season the Steelers went just 5-4 against teams with winning records and their 5 wins were by 3, 1, 23, 7, 4. The 23 obviously stands out but it's very deceiving. That was the New England game where Randy Moss dropped about 28 passes in the end zone. The touchdown victory was over Dallas where Tony Romo just imploded. I think the Steelers win here but I think Arizona does enough to cover the spread.

Pittsburgh 23 Arizona 17