by Andy | Sep 27, 2013 | Fantasy Football
Zoneblitz fantasy editor Anthony Maggio can also be found online or on the radio. He’s doing a Friday Internet chat you can stream here at noon central on Fridays.
And don’t forget his Sunday morning radio show on 1500 ESPN. Now that the Twins’ season has mercifully ended, Anthony has a full hour to answer your last-minute questions, starting at 9 a.m.
You can email him questions at maggio@zoneblitz.com or tweet #1500blitz. He’ll get back to almost all of you.
by Andy | Sep 24, 2013 | 2013 season, NFL Picks
Sunday was one of those “who the hell knows” days when you just never know what’s going to happen in the NFL. A Cleveland team that’s ownership doesn’t even want to win in 2013 beat a desperate Vikings team that had hoped to rebound from an 0-2 start during its home opener. Indianapolis went on the road and not only beat the popular Super Bowl favorite 49ers, but destroyed them. Carolina shut out a flailing Giants team. And the ranks of the unbeaten include New Orleans and Miami.
So it might be fitting that Tony, who often preaches picking the thing you think most unlikely to happen, won the week with an 11-5 mark. All things considered, none of us were destroyed by the upsets. Anthony Maggio finished 10-6 while Rich and I trailed at 9-7. This produces a three-way tie for first in our season rankings.
Here are the standings heading into week four:
|
Week three |
Season total |
| Tony |
11-5 |
32-16 |
| Maggio |
10-6 |
32-16 |
| Andy |
9-7 |
32-16 |
| Rich |
9-7 |
27-21 |
Week four brings on the first bye weeks and a slate of games that doesn’t have a lot of divisional rivalry games, but again pits a mix of teams you don’t get a chance to see play all that often. It also includes the NFL’s annual trek to London. This year the game features a rematch of Super Bowl IX. Unfortunately, that game was held 38 years ago. In 2013, both teams enter the game 0-3.
Here are our picks for the week:
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by Andy | Sep 19, 2013 | 2013 season, NFL Gambling
Last week Tony waited until just before kickoff to make his bets. Not sure if he figured it would help his accuracy or not, but it seems like it just gave him more time to over think.
He again hit just one of four bets, dropping him to 2-6 for the season. He’s down to $9,334 from our $10,000 starting point.
I’m not doing real well – another 2-2 mark put me at 4-4 for the season. But I’m at least hitting the bigger ones. I’ve added $687 to my $10,000 start.
Tony is heading off to a bachelor party. He promises to get his picks added in here at some point. But I wanted to get this posted, because I’ve got a betting interest in the Thursday night game. So, here goes week three.
UPDATE: It’s not so much improving my accuracy, it’s that after two weeks, I clearly would make more money if I didn’t make bets. (more…)
by Andy | Sep 17, 2013 | 2013 season, NFL Picks
The second week schedule looked like a tough one, but the Zoneblitz contributors handled it well. The four of us combined to go 45-19 for the weekend. I led the pack with a 13-3 mark while Rich rebounded from a rough first week as he and Anthony both hit 11 each. Tony got 10 correct.
So heading into week three, the standings look like this:
|
Week two |
Season total |
| Andy |
13-3 |
23-9 |
| Anthony |
11-5 |
22-10 |
| Tony |
10-6 |
21-11 |
| Rich |
11-5 |
18-14 |
The schedule doesn’t look a whole lot easier this week with many competitive games on the slate. Hopefully we’ll continue looking like we’ve got at least a bit of a clue. Here goes:
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by Andy | Sep 16, 2013 | 2013 season, NFL Random Thoughts
I’d been waiting for the game for several months but in the end it was kind of anti-climatic. Seattle put the wood to San Francisco Sunday night in a game I expected the Seahawks to win, but not quite that handily.
It’s the second consecutive time that Seattle has easily handled the 49ers at home. Despite the lopsided loss, I still think the 49ers and Seahawks are virtual equals in the NFC and also believe that the winner of the NFC West ultimately becomes the team to beat in the conference.
The folks at NinersNation.com aren’t panicking. They also recognize that Seattle is a pretty good team that put itself in the driver’s seat. The pressure is on the 49ers, they acknowledge, to get back on track this week and to win the later-season matchup in San Francisco.
But Seahawks writers, fans and observers also are rightfully excited about the showing on Sunday night. Everyone knew how good San Francisco was. I don’t know that people were giving Seattle the credit they deserved. But as this Bleacher Report story notes, the Seahawks put the NFC on notice.
Cowboys blow an opportunity
Dallas was bailed out by its division mates as the NFC East went 0-4 in week two. But the Cowboys had an opportunity to not only gain a game on its division foes, but also to show everyone that this season was going to be different from the last two when the team finished 8-8 and outside of the playoffs.
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