NFL Picks 2016: Week three

NFL Picks 2016: Week three

Hmm.

Our picks seemed to be going better through the early games on Sunday. Then the afternoon kickoffs hit and … everything went to hell again.

Losses by Seattle, Oakland, Jacksonville, Green Bay and Chicago took solid numbers and turned them into near .500 level performances by the ZB pickers again this week.

John Vomhof Jr. is the only one who seems to have any clue what’s going to happen. He paced the picks for the second week in a row, with 10 correct.

Here are the standings:

  Week 2 Overall
Vomhof 10-6 21-11
Maggio 9-7 15-17
Tony 8-8 17-15
Andy 8-8 16-16

Well, there’s still almost nowhere to go but up, I guess. Here are our picks for week 3. (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2016: Week 3

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2016: Week 2

Whew. We were about a minute from all five of us losing our survivor picks in week one. That would have been embarrassing.

As it turns out, playing it safe was the way to go. Three pickers took Seattle. Three pickers survived. One took Los Angeles and one took Arizona. They start the consolation round. Looks like the respective pickers’ strategies aren’t changing much in week two:

Vomhof: Carolina

Andy: Carolina

Tony: Carolina

Maggio: Detroit

Rich: Seattle

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NFL Picks 2016: Week three

NFL Picks 2016: Week two

Well … that was ugly.

Contributing writer John Vomhof led the pack by picking 11 games correctly in week one. Nobody else got more than nine. Fantasy Editor Maggio missed 10.

All in all, it was a rough start to the season for our pickers. Better things to come?

Here are the standings:

  Record
Vomhof 11-5
Tony 9-7
Andy 8-8
Maggio 6-10

 

It’s difficult to get a read on the NFL for the first few weeks of the season. And week two presents another collection of unpredictable match-ups. Here are our picks: (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2016: Week 3

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2016: Week 1

Last year the only person who could stop Rich in our Survivor Pool was Rich himself. He won going away and his perfect string stayed intact until week 9 – when he duplicated a pick (great editing on our part, eh?) and didn’t actually miss a game until week 14, when the Colts let him down big time against the Jaguars.

Rich returns to defend his title – and he’s starting the season with a gutty, contrarian pick right out of the gates.

Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio, who won the pool in 2014, contributing writer John Vomhof Jr. and co-founders Andy and Tony also will provide insight on survivor pool strategy.

It’s just about time for football. So here we go.

 

This week’s pick
Rich Los Angeles
Tony Seattle
Maggio Arizona
Vomhof Seattle
Andy Seattle

And here’s why:

Rich – Contributing writer and publisher and editor for SouthernMinn SCENE magazine (more…)