NFL Picks: 2011 Season, Week 15

by | Dec 13, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

Andy gained one more game this week, by hitting the Atlanta/Carolina game in another solid week for both us, going 12-4 (me) and 13-3 (him).  Of course, this didn’t appear to be a difficult week to pick in the long run.

Three games separate us again this week—most likely the sink or swim week for me, with at least two considerable upsets needed for me to gain ground, in Indianapolis and Carolina, with Miami’s firing of Tony Sparano being the main reason for my choice of Buffalo over Miami.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Season, Week 14

by | Dec 6, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

Week 13 was yet another solid week for our picks. We don’t really have anything interesting or funny to say about it—as a Viking fan who works with Packers fans, it’s been a long season, and even with a solid season of picks, I’m actually ready for the season to be over with.

Andy managed to hit two of the three games we were different on last week, going 12-4 for the week, with my San Diego pick coming through last night to keep me at 11-5—that gives him a one game lead for the season, which I can erase with a Carolina victory over Atlanta this week, the only difference in our Week 14 picks.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Season, Week 13

by | Nov 29, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

Andy finished 11-5 last week, which would normally be a solid week—unfortunately, he was up against my great football mind, which went 13-3 for the week. OK, to be fair he pretty much handed me the Green Bay/Detroit game…and the Carolina/Indianapolis game.  Still, I’ll take tied after 12 weeks.

Week 13 brings three matchups where we differ, so we’ll definitely see a leader heading into Week 14. Andy appears to be using some of my own logic against me, avoiding two west coast teams that are heading east in picking Miami over Oakland (which might be a solid pick, given how the Dolphins have been playing) and Jacksonville over San Diego. I think the running games from Oakland and Tampa Bay (over Carolina) will carry the day, and that the turmoil in Jacksonville with Jack Del Rio being fired will reign.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Season, Week 12

by | Nov 24, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

We’ve reached Turkey Week—probably our favorite week of the regular season, with a huge meal followed by non-stop football for the rest of the day.  Even the fact that we have to watch the Packers and Cowboys today can’t ruin it.

Last week we managed to split the four games we picked differently, meaning I remain two back for the season.  I’ve lost track of our overall records, but we’re still picking ahead of several national “experts” with our 10-4 last week.  This week, even just the Thursday games provide two games that we go different ways on, followed by two more on Sunday, making for another interesting week.

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NFL Picks: 2011 Week 11

by | Nov 15, 2011 | 2011 season, NFL Picks

After weeks of struggling to work my way back to a tie for the overall season record in picking games, we had two games picked differently last week—and I managed to get myself on the wrong side of both of them. My faith in the Jets fans ability to make enough noise to slow down the Patriots and the Browns to do … anything … was clearly unfounded, and now I’ve got my work cut out for me (and yet I’m picking the Browns again this weekend?  Even I don’t know my logic on that one).

In week 11, though, we’ve actually got four games going differently—I would venture a guess that I’ve got the longer shot of being right on more of them, but it’s been a strange last few weeks in the NFL, so hopefully my upsets pan out.

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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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