Rams Worse Than Self-Imploding?

by | Sep 27, 2008 | NFL News, NFL Random Thoughts, NFL Rumors

I think when people look back at the 2008 season for the St. Louis Rams, the one thing that will jump out is how the lack of clarity around the ownership of the team doomed their season.  And possibly their next few seasons.

There were rumors dating back to last season that coach Scott Linehan was going to get fired. Those rumors proved to be false, and then in January, team owner Georgia Frontiere passed away, and her son Chip Rosenbloom assumed control–but promised not to make any changes until he could “evaluate the team.”

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Week 2 Picks Update & Week 3 Picks

by | Sep 19, 2008 | NFL Picks

A quick update on our picks from last week, and our week 3 picks, before we (hopefully) get back into some regular posting.

The postponement of the Texans/Ravens game made things a little interesting–it was originally our one point game in our ranked picks, and the pool organizer simply adjusted everyone’s points around it–so no concern there. But in our head-to-head competition, it meant I was a game short–and it wouldn’t technically get made up, since we always pick 16 games a week (using college games as fill ins for byes).

So, to make things fair for us, we dropped Andy’s last selection, his 2-point pick of Tennessee over the Bengals. That makes him 5-2 for the week–which is what I pulled off too. So head-to-head, he keeps a significant lead thanks to Week 1, 12-3 to 6-9.

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Week 2 Picks

by | Sep 14, 2008 | NFL Picks

We made our picks Thursday, but just getting them posted now. We broke out the Against the Spread picks into individual picks, since we would have had some differences last week.

Andy is killing me so far, especially in our Draft’em Game Picks (which we use for the ranked picks)–he went 7-1, I went 1-7 last week, putting him up $12. This week, I again got to pick game 16, he picked 15 and 14, and we alternated from there.

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Vegas & Picks Update

by | Sep 10, 2008 | NFL Gambling

Last week we bored regaled you with stories of our gambling exploits from Las Vegas, so we thought we’d better provide an update:

  • First, at the tables, we did not do well overall.  I did have a few nice runs, though, and I met some guys at the Wynn who developed the habit of shouting “ZoneBlitz.com!” to random strangers passing by–so we had that going for us.  Hopefully they kept it up for the rest of their trip.

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Injuries Pile Up for Contenders in Week 1

by | Sep 10, 2008 | Fantasy Football, NFL News

Injury news that hits ZoneBlitz closer to the wallet came down earlier today, when Jay Glazer reported that Saints WR Marques Colston will miss 4-6 weeks after surgery to repair a ligament in his thumb.  Colston has been a mainstay on ZoneBlitz rosters this year–both auction formats, and one of our free leagues feature him on their roster (the free league also featured Tom Brady as their QB–that’ll be fun).

ZoneBlitz (and I guess the Saints) aren’t the only ones hurting, though–there were several other key injuries in week 1:

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