Picks n’ Bets: Wild Card Weekend, 2019

Picks n’ Bets: Wild Card Weekend, 2019

by | Jan 3, 2020 | 2019 season, NFL Gambling, We Forgot

We wrapped up the regular season with alternative picks and picks won fairly decisively. Our bets segment went down to the wire.

Alternative picks:

Week 17 Andy 12-4
Season Andy 134-121-1

Straight-up picks

  Andy Tony
Week 17 11-5 10-6
Season 156-99-1 162-95-1

Both Andy and Tony won significantly on the bets this season.

  Week 17 W/L Week 17 $ Season W/L Season $ Bankroll
Andy 3-1 +$5,241 34-31-3 +$10,127 $20,127
Tony 1-3 -$2,789 32-34-2 +$9,357 $19,357

There aren’t really enough games to make an alternative picks segment worth continuing in the playoffs, but we’ll keep up with the bets and picks in the postseason, especially since we’ve actually got some mythical money to work with…

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Fantasy Football Review – part two

by | Jan 23, 2015 | We Forgot

We started our debriefing of the 2014 fantasy football season yesterday. (You can read the part one here.) Today we fantasy-football-logo1finish up our discussion with Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio, who talked with us about how this season went and how things look heading into 2015.

Please let us know what you’d like to hear about during the offseason and share your thoughts on Anthony’s observations, whether you agree or disagree. And thank you for reading throughout the season.

Zoneblitz: Several rookie WRs continued to debunk the trend that it takes three seasons before they figure it out – who among the 2014 class do you see continuing to ascend and who might take a step back?

Maggio: Yeah, I think we can go ahead and retire the third-year receiver myth. The rookies this year were

Photo credit: Keith Allison, via Wikipedia

Photo credit: Keith Allison, via Wikipedia

incredible, and the top-end guys come back to very good situations. Odell Beckham Jr., Mike Evans and Kelvin Benjamin will all continue to be the No. 1 options on their respective teams next year, and my only concern with any of them would be Evans and what the quarterback situation there winds up being. But even if the Bucs are breaking in a rookie, Evans will still be fantasy relevant.

I expect Jordan Matthews and Brandin Cooks to be the next best, and they could be joined by Davante Adams, Donte Moncrief and John Brown depending on whether certain teammates in Green Bay, Indianapolis, and Arizona, respectively, depart.

Martavis Bryant deserves mention, but I don’t see him turning into a consistent, reliable fantasy option. He’ll be big-play dependent, and I could see the Steelers bringing in someone else to be the No. 2 to Antonio Brown and leaving Martavis as the deep-ball guy. Jarvis Landry probably stays flat as well, as I think he’s a very good No. 2 possession guy, but won’t be an elite receiver. Allen Hurns, Allen Robinson, Marqise Lee and Marquess Wilson all have too many others to contend with at the position for me to expect them to take another step up in 2015. (more…)

Pondering mock draft post Bucs/Jets Revis trade

by | Apr 25, 2013 | We Forgot

We were about two-thirds of the way through our Team Blogger Mock Draft when the trade between Tampa Bay and the New York Jets illustrated the complete futility of the effort by making a trade that made it obsolete.

I probably should have gone back and re-done it, but I was running out of time. So I left it as it was and moved on, but I did want to address the trade and its impact on the first round that will start now within a matter of a couple hours.

So I checked back with Joe Caporoso from Turn on the Jets and Leo Howell from the Pewter Plank to see what their first thoughts were. Both seemed fine with the moves their team had made.

Joe told me if the deal had gone down early enough that he’d had pick 13, he’d have taken Chance Warmack. That reaction both legitimized my decision to not re-do the draft, as it would have started a chain reaction starting with the very next pick at 14, and it made a lot of sense. (more…)

Little’s Hall nomination supported, perhaps enhanced by author Mackie

by | Jul 22, 2010 | Hall of Fame, We Forgot

Former Denver running back Floyd Little was one of Tom Mackie’s favorite players while the latter was growing up watching the Broncos. He was so dedicated a fan, in fact, that for years after Little retired he wrote letters and compiled statistics arguing for his idol’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

And as Little and Mackie suffered through years and years of disappointments, Mackie even got to write Little’s biography, which was titled “Floyd Little’s Tales from the Broncos Sideline.”

Little’s induction later this summer has been supported by some and panned by others both here at this site and elsewhere. Those who support him say his numbers don’t tell the entire story of what he meant to the Denver Broncos and the National Football League. Those who disagree with his enshrinement say he didn’t play long enough or put up dominant enough statistics.

Whether you agree with it or don’t, however, you can’t knock the efforts Mackie put forth in supporting his friend and one-time hero. SportsIllustrated.com penned a fascinating story this week that looked at the relationship that developed between the two and at the steps Mackie took to ensure that Little would one-day be memorialized in Canton.

It’s a good read. I’d suggest checking it out.