We’re at a point in the season where the pickings have gotten slim. Yet Rich just keeps plowing toward near-perfection — while the rest of us look like tools, his only miss so far came because of an uncaught duplication.
Can he keep it up, though, in a week where his remaining teams are hardly juggernauts. We’ll see.
Here’s where we stand:
The NFL continues to be delightfully unpredictable.
One week after nearly all of us tanked, Andy rebounded from a 5-9 week to go 11-3.
That allowed him to pick up three games in the overall standings, as nobody else cleared eight.
Seven games separate the top (Tony) from fourth (Maggio), with two of our pickers selecting winners accurately enough to rank in the top 25 (tied) with the so-called experts followed by NFLPickwatch.com.
We may be having a down season by our standards, but it appears as though it’s either not as bad as we thought or we are not alone.
Mild consolation after the struggles of the last month.
Here are the standings:
| Week 11 | Overall | |
| Andy | 11-3 | 99-61 |
| Tony | 8-6 | 104-56 |
| Rich | 8-6 | 100-60 |
| Maggio | 8-6 | 97-63 |
| Vomhof | 7-7 | 89-71 |
Tony and Rich continue to plug along. The rest of us … uggh.
Carolina was the winner of choice for both of our good pickers. The rest of us missed the boat with Green Bay, Denver and Cincinnati – three teams that a couple weeks ago were undefeated.
Thus is the unpredictability of the 2015 NFL season.
Anyway, here’s where we stand in terms of teams used: (more…)
Let’s start out by talking about what went right last week.
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Now that we’ve gotten through that, let’s talk about the rest.
Holy cow, this football season is bizarre. Green Bay starts 6-0 then loses three straight, including at home to a team that hadn’t won in Lambeau Field since 1991?
Peyton Manning throws four interceptions and basically gives his team no chance to win on the day he breaks the passing yardage record?
The NFL irritates people with color blindness by putting teams in all green and all red uniforms in a nationally-televised Thursday night game? Actually, I kind of got a kick out of the furor the NFL faced on that one – well deserved. The best description I heard of those uniforms was that it looked like Christmas barfed up a football game.
But I digress.
Our week 10 picks were ugly. Very ugly. Only one of us – Tony – got more than half the games correct. John Vomhof Jr. got half of them right. The rest of us tied at five. Putrid.
Here are the standings:
| Week 10 | Season | |
| Tony | 8-6 | 96-50 |
| Vomhof | 7-7 | 82-64 |
| Rich | 5-9 | 92-54 |
| Maggio | 5-9 | 89-57 |
| Andy | 5-9 | 88-58 |
Well, we’ll put this one behind us. Here are our picks for week 11. (more…)
Hmm.
We may need to hire an oversight editor. Contributor Rich won this Survivor Pool about a month ago, but his quest for a perfect season ended last week – not because he missed a game, but because he duplicated a previous pick.
We’re low tech and low budget here at Zoneblitz. We don’t have an alarm or anything to alert us to something like this, so if the posting editor gets busy and misses it … oops. Our bad.
At any rate, Rich has still picked each game correctly this season – and it’s still feasible that some people in survivor pools still had the Jets available to them last week. So … hopefully, no harm, no foul. Nonetheless – we’ll do better going forward.
Now, moving forward, everyone was correct in their picks last week except Andy. Andy isn’t doing much of anything right this season. Listen to everyone else.
Here’s where we are at: (more…)
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Robert ok see you then
Robert ok see you then
Brian i could 100% see that in terms of anderson being the next senior elected by the hall of fame…
Malcolm Butler for ruining my 16th birthday Russell Wilson for throwing out his loyalties and Arthur Blank for trading Matt…
Why would you be upset with Butler, Wilson and Blank, Andy?