Conference title game picks

Last week: 4-0
Season record: 168-98

So, suddenly we only have three games left in the 2020-21 season.  Just like the holidays, there is so much hype to the NFL late season playoff push and playoffs, and then we blink and they are in the rear view mirror.  But hey, we have one of the best conference championship Sundays I can remember.  There is a Tom Brady sighting but not a Patriots team sighting.  So let's do this!

Tampa Bay at Green Bay--The first thing I did was check the weather and saw this.  Normally I would say a team from the south has no chance in a snow game at Lambeau Field.  But it looks like the snow will have stopped falling by game time, and Tom Brady played in Foxboro for 20 years.  And holy shit, we have the first-ever matchup between Brady and Aaron Rodgers in the postseason, and it's for the right to go to the Super Bowl.  These teams are pretty evenly matched, and as good as Brady has been playing, Rodgers is probably going to win the NFL MVP award and is just a tick better right now.  Then factor in that there will be an actual home field advantage for the Packers with some fans in the stands, and I think you know which way I'm leaning.  Packers 35, Bucs 31

Buffalo at Kansas City--How good this game will be hinges on whether or not Patrick Mahomes is cleared to play, and frankly we may not know until Sunday.  Chad Henne played the hero role really well last weekend but if he is the starter, you have to believe that makes Buffalo the favorite.  Even so, any QB with the weapons KC has can look good.  These two teams are not known for their defenses, but they both do not suck.  I'm going to assume Mahomes plays, in which case it'll be two of the best young QBs in the NFL matching up in a title game--one a defending Super Bowl MVP, the other with the city of Buffalo on his back, in a place they haven't been in 25 years.  Chiefs 30, Bills 27

PS if we do have a Packers/Chiefs Super Bowl, it will be the same matchup as Super Bowl I.  That would be cool as hell