Super Bowl 45

With the Baltimore Ravens unceremoniously handing the Houston Texans yet another gut wrenching defeat on Monday Night football, 14 weeks are in the books of the 2010-11 NFL season. A number of teams have stepped up to the plate to show their worthy of your Super Bowl 45 picks, and we’re about to take a closer look at the prospective teams that could possibly be the last team standing come February 6th.

The AFC North was expected to be a two-team race the whole way through, and both the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens have held up their ends of the bargain. That said; only one of those two actually has a shot at winning it all in this writer’s opinion.

That being Big Ben and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coach Mike Tomlin’s squad only has three losses on the year, and one of those came when Roethlisberger was suspended at the beginning of the year. It most recently returned the favor of a last second home loss to the Ravens in that aforementioned loss by going into Baltimore and stealing one in the closing seconds of the rivals Week 13 rematch.

While both teams rank out eerily similar, the Steelers look to be better Super Bowl 45 picks due to the fact that their defense has been way more consistent over the course of the season.

For example, just look at how Baltimore allowed the Houston Texans to storm back from a 28-7 deficit with multiple 90+ yard drives to tie the game up and send it into overtime. Though the Ravens were bailed out with a game winning pick-six in the extra session, the stop unit was flat out gassed in the later stages of the game; certainly not the mark of a proposed Super Bowl Champion.

A pair of 11-2 teams look to be your best bets for Super Bowl 45 picks with both the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons taking care of business just about every passing week. Since shockingly falling to the Browns in Cleveland 34-14 back in Week 9, Tom Brady and company have gone on to win each of their last five games by the aggregate score of 196-88!

The offense looks to be unstoppable right now, and though the defense doesn’t rank out very high, it’s only conceded a total of 10 points the last two weeks, and the young defense looks to seemingly be gaining confidence every time it takes to the pro gridiron.

As for Atlanta, Matty ‘Ice’ Ryan and the Falcons have kicked booty and taken names all season long. The only losses on its resume came in an overtime defeat to the aforementioned Steelers way back in Week 1, and a loss in the City of Brotherly Love that saw Kevin Kolb put forth one of the best efforts of a quarterback this season (23/29 for 326 yards and 3 TDs).

Save for those two defeats, the Falcons certainly look to be worthy of your Super Bowl 45 picks simply due to the fact that the road to Cowboys Stadium in the NFC will more than likely go through the Georgia Dome where the Falcons are a rock solid 6-0 SU & 4-2 ATS on the year.