If you’re looking for assistance on your NFL Survivor Pool, we’ve got you covered … kind of.
Three of our four writers remain standing in this modified, double-elimination tournament. And we all held serve in week three. There are a couple tasty looking options this week. Here are our picks – let us know who you are choosing in your pool.
Here are this week’s picks. (more…)
As the furor surrounding several off-field issues faded into the background for 
a couple days, normalcy returned to the field a bit in week three, as well. Good teams beat bad teams, mediocre teams played other mediocre teams close in games that swung our standings and two or three really good games stood out.
And we managed to fare alright this week, coming back nicely after a brutal week two. John Vomhof Jr. hit 12 of 16 contests while the rest of us trailed by a game. Tony still leads the overall pool for the season – though friend of Zoneblitz Dr. Phil went 12-4 in week three to tie him for the lead. If he can match us for the entire season we’ll have to hunt down some Zoneblitz swag for the good doc.
| Name | Week 3 | Overall |
| Tony | 11-5 | 30-18 |
| John | 12-4 | 28-20 |
| Maggio | 11-5 | 28-20 |
| Andy | 11-5 | 28-20 |
The bye weeks start this week, so there are only 13 games on the slate. And again there are maybe a couple standout matchups along with a couple duds. Division games are at a minimum. So if there were a week you needed to take off for work or something, this might not be a bad one to pick.
Here are our picks:
And the fun continues. Entering week three, just as we’re starting to figure out who might be good and who might have taken a step back on the field this season, more teams are starting to lose guys to domestic violence issues off the field.
Arizona Cardinals RB Jonathan Dwyer is the latest Neanderthal (allegedly, I guess) to see his season affected. Allegations surfaced that Dwyer abused his girlfriend and an 18-month-old child. Classy. At least the Cardinals learned from the Vikings’ mistakes and immediately saw to it that Dwyer would not set foot on the field again in 2014 by putting him on the Reserve-Non Football Injury list. So part of what I’m watching will be how the Cardinals, already down a QB and playing a less-than-totally-healthy Andre Ellington at RB, react heading into a big game against San Francisco. (more…)
If you’re looking for assistance on your NFL Survivor Pool, we’ve got you covered … at least kind of.
Our four writers are playing a slightly modified version to help you make your weekly decisions. Well, three of us are. Even though we’re giving ourselves two strikes instead of one, Tony had a rough go of it the first two weeks. Despite leading our overall NFL Picks segment, two of the games he missed were Survivor Pool choices.
So the three remaining among us will attempt to help you make your weekly decisions, and hopefully we’ll all make it through Week 17 unscathed. Whoever’s left standing at the end will be declared the winner.
Two of us head into week three 2-0 … unfortunately not me. I was bit by Chicago’s improbable comeback win over San Francisco in the opener out west. So I’m 1-1. John and Maggio are 2-0, having respectively ridden Denver and Green Bay to victory.
Here are this week’s picks. (more…)
There was a lot of carnage in the NFL this weekend and it didn’t all happen on the field.
Several upsets – at least in how we picked the games, anyway – dotted the landscape, sending spiraling a picks segment that going back a few years has generally been fairly solid.
Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio led the way this time around with an 8-8 record, to give you a sense for how bad things got. Weekly guest picker Dr. Phil got roughed up a bit too, going 7-9 – but he remains a game behind Tony for the overall lead after two weeks at 18-14.
Here are the standings through two weeks:
| Name | Week 2 | Overall |
| Tony | 7-9 | 19-13 |
| Maggio | 8-8 | 17-15 |
| Andy | 7-9 | 17-15 |
| John Vomhof Jr | 6-10 | 16-16 |
We’re shaking our heads and licking our wounds, but we’re getting back on the bicycle and taking another crack – while we wait to find out when superstars like A.J.Green and Jamaal Charles will return from injuries and ponder whether or not Adrian Peterson should be dressing this weekend for the purple.
Here are our picks for Week three: (more…)
It was a bad week for the NFL. A week dominated by bad news off the field ended with a weekend full of games more memorable for a flurry of injuries to big-name players, many of whom will be out several weeks, and for nationally televised, flag-ridden games that, at times, made the football unwatchable. The NFL is still at the top of the professional sports popularity poll, but many more weeks like this one and the league’s critics who say it’s on a downhill spiral may get their collective wish.
Here are some things we observed:
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