NFL Picks: 2011 Week 10

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

Well, we’re a little late this week–we had our picks turned in with plenty of time, we just didn’t get them posted, due to our real jobs.  And sitting at the two minute warning of the San Diego/Oakland game, it certainly looks like we’re both starting 0-1.

As suspected, Week 9 produced a 1-win advantage for myself, tying Andy and I for the season record at 84-46, which isn’t bad—you’d think that if we could pick games straight up at a 65% clip, that we could pick better bets than we do.  But for whatever reason, no.

Another week of very similar picks this week, but two games (St. Louis/Cleveland and New England/NY Jets) will determine the overall leader.

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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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NFL Best Bets: 2011, Week 9

by | Nov 2, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Gambling

The good news: Our record was perfect last week in betting.  The bad news: That was a perfect 0-8.  Seriously, if we were really betting on these games, we’d be in hiding right now—not from kneecap breaking bookies, but probably from our wives.

By now it’s likely that if you’re coming to us for information on who to pick in Vegas that you probably have lost your bankroll for the season. You really shouldn’t be relying on us. You should instead maybe seek advice from this guy or this guy. Or maybe this guy.

But you’re here. And we’ve made weekly habit of making asses out of ourselves, so here we go again with our picks of the week.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Week 9

by | Nov 1, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

Fortunately I did NOT go back in and make last second changes to Indianapolis & Denver—I was still thinking they might pull off the upsets, but figured it wasn’t worth it to make the change.  Unfortunately, I didn’t think any more about Carolina or Philadelphia.  Of course, no changes meant we had the second week of the season where Andy and I matched all of our picks—so no change in the season race, Andy still leads by one game (75-41 vs. 74-42).

We finished the week 8-5, and this week’s picks show exactly why jumping out to an early season lead in a pool like this is so important—we have only one game different this week, with Andy going out on a limb with the San Diego Chargers against the currently undefeated Green Bay Packers.

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NFL Best Bets: 2011, Week 8

by | Oct 30, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Gambling

I’ve been avoiding picking my bets for the week, in part because the lines have looked so unappealing to me.  But, as any good(?) gambler should, I’ll throw something out there.

Andy and I both went 2-2 last week, which isn’t so surprising I guess, when we both had the same upset of the week.  Unfortunately, 2-2 was still pretty much the highlight of our football week’s–we didn’t quite lose all of our fantasy football match-ups, but most of the bigger ones.  This week, in addition to our betting picks, we’ve got some pride on the line as well, as we go head-to-head in the one fantasy league that we both have teams in.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Week 8

by | Oct 28, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

One more week, one more game picked up on Andy—my 9-4 record last week put me just one game back for the year, at 66-37 (vs. 67-36).  The key picks on my radar were the Jets (San Diego doesn’t travel east well), and the Tebows Broncos comeback over the Dolphins.

This week, right now we’re 100% the same, so no more gaining games—I’ve been wavering on picking the Lions to continue their slide, and I’m half tempted to take an extreme upset of Indianapolis over Tennessee for some reason.

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