NFL Picks: 2011 Season, Week 13

by | Nov 29, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

Andy finished 11-5 last week, which would normally be a solid week—unfortunately, he was up against my great football mind, which went 13-3 for the week. OK, to be fair he pretty much handed me the Green Bay/Detroit game…and the Carolina/Indianapolis game.  Still, I’ll take tied after 12 weeks.

Week 13 brings three matchups where we differ, so we’ll definitely see a leader heading into Week 14. Andy appears to be using some of my own logic against me, avoiding two west coast teams that are heading east in picking Miami over Oakland (which might be a solid pick, given how the Dolphins have been playing) and Jacksonville over San Diego. I think the running games from Oakland and Tampa Bay (over Carolina) will carry the day, and that the turmoil in Jacksonville with Jack Del Rio being fired will reign.

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2012 Football Hall of Fame Inductees

by | Nov 22, 2011 | Hall of Fame

This afternoon apparently marks the announcement of the semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, and so far we’ve managed to not officially gone on record with our picks for this year.  So here goes…

In 2011, we hit on 3 out of 5 picks (Sanders, Sharpe & Dent) while missing the obvious Marshall Faulk and the longshot Ed Sabol, while picking Dermontti Dawson and Tim Brown. So how will we do this year? Keep reading to find out…

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NFL Picks: 2011 Week 11

by | Nov 15, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

After weeks of struggling to work my way back to a tie for the overall season record in picking games, we had two games picked differently last week—and I managed to get myself on the wrong side of both of them. My faith in the Jets fans ability to make enough noise to slow down the Patriots and the Browns to do … anything … was clearly unfounded, and now I’ve got my work cut out for me (and yet I’m picking the Browns again this weekend?  Even I don’t know my logic on that one).

In week 11, though, we’ve actually got four games going differently—I would venture a guess that I’ve got the longer shot of being right on more of them, but it’s been a strange last few weeks in the NFL, so hopefully my upsets pan out.

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NFL Best Bets: 2011, Week 10

by | Nov 10, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Gambling

We told you last week that we clearly didn’t know what we’re doing.  Clearly we were even more right than we knew—Andy went 1-3, while I go 4-0.  If you followed our advice and bet against us, I still managed to screw you.

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Packers Perfect Season in 2011?

by | Nov 5, 2011 | 2011 season

We’re pretty much half way through the 17-week season, and there is only one undefeated team left in the NFL—the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers.  Since late in the 2010 season—when there were many Packer fans still calling for Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson’s heads—Aaron Rodgers & company have been on fire, reeling off 13 straight wins (two to get in the playoffs, four playoff wins, and seven to start this season).

So do the Packers have what it will take to become only the second team to accomplish the perfect 16-0 regular season?  Here’s a breakdown of the rest of their 2011 schedule, looking at how each team could beat the Packers, and why they won’t:

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