Revealing the Magician’s Secrets – How I’m Acing the NFL Landscape in 2016
I’m not a bookie, and I don’t play one on TV. I’m not perfect, and I don’t pretend to be perfect in real life. But when it comes to picking NFL games for the 2016…
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Closing the Season in Style: Week 17 Picks
Talk about staying hot. Since adapting the new strategy of only picking games I feel confident about, my record has soared. After a rough Week 12 in which I went 4-7, I have rebounded in grand…
NFL Musings: For Patriots, Christmas Comes Early, Stays Late; Raiders Face Worst Nightmare
It’s December 28, 2016, but judging by the AFC landscape, you’d swear it was 2011. Or 2007. Or 2004. Or 2001. The holiday season is generally a bevy of television marathons of reruns of all…
1 More Time: Top Seeds Again Reign Supreme on Championship Sunday
Between 1994-2008, it never happened. Now, it’s happened three years in a row. That would be both No. 1 seeds meeting in the Super Bowl, as both home teams and top seeds in each conference…
Once Again, “Drama” Reigns Supreme in Home-Cooked Divisional Weekend
Undoubtedly, football fans cannot stop gushing at the water cooler about the “crazy” divisional weekend that just unfolded. Where all four games were decided by six or seven points, a Hail Mary sent one game…
Karma a Factor in Unnecessarily Dramatic, Predictable Wild Card Weekend
For the first time ever, all four road teams won in one playoff weekend. Shocking, isn’t it? Actually, not really, when you consider three of the road teams were favored, a fourth was a slight…
Championship Game picks; A Harbaugh Bowl looming?
We’ve reached the Final Four and perhaps more refreshingly, two of the league’s three offensive sideshows have been put to rest. The Saints and Packers and their circus-like attack will be home watching three teams…
You can usually count on one roadie on Championship Sunday — Usually
When you have made it this far in the season, you are less concerned with homefield advantage and more concerned with momentum and capitalizing on the opportunity at hand. …
How the West was lost
Coming into this year, I had a theory: the right teams will always be there come playoff time. No matter what, the team that has a chance to do damage…
Why the parity in the NFC only?
If there is to be a 2011 NFL season, one trend people will keep an eye on is the disparity of parity between the AFC and NFC. In an unprecedented run of unpredictability, the NFC…