NFL Picks 2014: Week 14

by | Dec 2, 2014 | 2014 season, NFL Picks

Tony has been caught and Dr. Phil has some late-season competition. John Vomhof Jr. has rocked a 27-4 record the last two weeks to pull into contention for the top slot. He’s got a ways to go yet, but I’ll be weekly-pickspeaking at his picks this week before I fill out a couple of confidence pools.

Tony’s 9-7 in week 13 allowed everyone to gain some ground. Can he hang on and remain the top staffer in the contest? Or has the pressure of remaining on top started getting to him? Only time will tell.

Here are the standings:

Name Week 13 Overall
Dr. Phil 10-6 134-57-1
John 13-3 127-64-1
Tony 9-7 127-64-1
Andy 10-6 122-69-1
Maggio 10-6 115-76-1

Well, we’re into the final four weeks of the season. It’s crunch time – time to separate the pretenders and the contenders … and to see which worthless NFC South team steals a playoff spot from a team that deserves it.

Here are our picks for Week 14: (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool: Week 13

by | Nov 26, 2014 | 2014 season, NFL Survivor pool

One would hope Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio has entered himself in a few survivor pools this season. He’s on a roll.

Our format – double elimination – isn’t the norm for these pools. But he’s still at an impressive 11-1.

The rest of us, well, take our picks for what they are worth – between us I think we’re missed about eight or nine games now. Frankly, we stopped keeping track.

Maggio: Detroit over Chicago
Teams used: Miami, NY Jets, Green Bay, Atlanta, San Diego, New Orleans, Denver, New England, Dallas, Seattle, Baltimore, Indianapolis (more…)

NFL Picks 2014: Week 13

by | Nov 25, 2014 | 2014 season, NFL Picks

For as bad as week 11 was, week 12 was equally as good. It got off to a rough start, with Oakland picking up a surprise win against weekly-picksrival Kansas City. But after that things played out mostly to form, save for a snow-delayed Bills/Jets game that ended up getting played in Detroit.

John nailed 14 of 15, but didn’t gain a ton of ground as nobody missed more than four games. Anthony rebounded from a brutal three for 14 performance in week 11 to hit 11 of 15 in week 12 – but that still carried the rear. Here are the standings:

Name Week 12 Overall
Dr. Phil 13-2 124-51-1
Tony 12-3 118-57-1
John 14-1 114-61-1
Andy 13-2 112-63-1
Maggio 11-4 105-70-1

 

Thursday marks my favorite holiday – and the strongest slate of Thanksgiving games in quite awhile. The Lions open the day with a should-win game against the Bears, but after that it’s two must-watch games – Eagles/Cowboys and Seahawks/49ers. That’s some good viewing as you’re napping off your gluttony.

Here are our picks for week 13: (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool: Week 12

by | Nov 19, 2014 | 2014 season, NFL Survivor pool

This is getting embarrassing.

Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio continued to rock the Zoneblitz Survivor Pool, selecting Miami to win over Buffalo last Thursday night. So he runs his record to 10-1 for the season in this double elimination event.

But Tony’s incorrect selection of Cleveland over Houston means the other three of us have not only been eliminated from the regular pool, but have flunked out of our consolation round as well.

So … take these picks with a grain of salt – and probably don’t pay attention to anyone but Maggio.

Maggio: Indianapolis over Jacksonville
Teams used: Miami, NY Jets, Green Bay, Atlanta, San Diego, New Orleans, Denver, New England, Dallas, Seattle, Baltimore

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NFL Picks 2014: Week 12

by | Nov 17, 2014 | 2014 season, NFL Picks

Well … that was humbling. Week 11 was a rough one – both for a lot of teams expected to be among the NFL’s best this season and weekly-picksfor those of us trying to predict the winners.

I finally won a week, but it was a pretty weak effort at 8-6. Tony, John and Dr. Phil all tied with six correct. Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio owns the survivor pool, but his picks last week overall left a bit to be desired – he hit just three of 14 games.

Here are the standings:

Name Week 11 Overall
Dr. Phil 6-8 111-49-1
Tony 6-8 106-54-1
John 6-8 100-60-1
Andy 8-6 99-61-1
Maggio 3-11 94-66-1

There are some really interesting games on the slate this week, including a crossover conference game between Detroit and New England and divisional tilts with the Giants hosting Dallas and Arizona traveling to Seattle, where the Cardinals were the only team to deal the Seahawks a loss in 2013. Should be a fun week. Here are our picks: (more…)