Week 15 Picks

by Tony | Dec 11, 2008 | NFL Picks

Actually getting picks posted before the first game of the week for once–what a concept.

Lots of diffrences between Andy and I this week–could go a long way towards determining who wins for the season…

Catching Up on Picks

by Tony | Dec 10, 2008 | NFL Picks

We’re a couple weeks behind on picks–as usual, they’ve been made each week, just not posted.  In part because I misplaced my AtS picks from Thanksgiving morning–but they have been found, and standings have been updated.

Head to Head Rank’em Picks – I have taken a 2 game lead for the season.  It was up to 4 games after a 7-1 performance in Week 12–only Andy’s 3-5 kept us from cashing in that week.  I followed it up with a 4-4 week (vs. Andy’s 6-2), and we both finished 6-2 last week.  Knock on wood (or whatever this desk is made out of), we’re sitting quite nicely for the season overall right now too.  Current Standings: Andy 68-35, Tony 70-33.

Straight Up – I’ve closed the gap significantly, helped most by a 13-3 performance last week.  It’s just too bad that 2 of my 3 incorrect picks were games I picked in the Rank’em game.  Current Standings: Andy 123-70-1, Tony 121-72-1.

Against the Spread – After pulling to a tie, I took a 1-game lead after Week 12–and promptly choked in Week 13 with a 6-10 mark.  Fortunately, Andy hasn’t pulled away.  Current Standings: Andy 93-83-2, Tony 91-85-2.

Week 15 picks will hopefully be up before game time tomorrow (for once).  Week 13 and 14 are after the jump…

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Week 11 & Week 12 NFL Picks

by Tony | Nov 20, 2008 | NFL Picks

Alright, getting caught up (again)–week 11 picks are below.  After 11 weeks, things are very tight in our races.  In our ranked draft head to head match up, things are tied at 53-26 after we both went 6-2 in week 11 (the Philly/Cincy tie counted as a loss–at 15 points, that hurt us–but a lot of people had it that high, so a Philly win probably wouldn’t have put us in the money).

I closed the gap in our straight picks with a 13-2-1 week, versus Andy’s 11-4-1 week.   He still has a five game lead on me, though, at 94-51-1 to 89-56-1.

And against the spread, I tied things up with a 9-7 week, while Andy went 7-9 overall, to bring both of our totals to 67-61-2.

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ZoneBlitz Picks – Getting Back on Track

by Tony | Nov 9, 2008 | NFL Picks

OK, so two weeks ago we delayed posting our picks–and finally won some money.  So last week we did it again–and didn’t fair so well.  And ended up not posting them at all–although we did have them done.

This week, we were so busy trying to make a last second trade in Fantasy Football–a trade that didn’t happen, and may have cost us a win this week (since a couple of the players being discussed killed us Thursday night)–that we forgot to make our spread picks until this morning.

So here’s a two week update:

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Picks: Update & Week 7

by Tony | Oct 19, 2008 | NFL Picks

While the posting here at ZoneBlitz has admittedly slowed, we are still at least getting our picks up each week, so we’ve got that going for us.  And this week, I finally found the time to add up where we’ve been the last few weeks.

In our ranked pick ’em game, we had a brutal week last week, with our 80 dropping us 27 spots to 56th place for the season.  In our head to head draft, based on our ranked picks, I had substantially closed the gap between Andy and myself with back-to-back 6-2 weeks, before dropping a game back last week.  Going into Week 7, Andy leads by four games–32-15 to 28-19.

Straight up, we’re in a similar situation–we both finished an ugly 6-8 last week, and for the season Andy leads by five games, 56-32 to 51-37.

Against the spread–which we’ve kind of determined is stupid, since we would never bet all games anyway, is the one place where I’ve gotten the better of him–largely thanks to a 10-4 Week 5.  I lead 42-29-1 to 40-31-1.

As for Week 7:

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