Playoff Picks Time: Streaking into January
What a run I finished the regular season on: 23-4 over my last 27 games (against the spread, that is), including a perfect 6-for-6 in Week 17. So I’m looking to stay sizzling hot as…
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Are the Patriots Unstoppable? Will it Matter?
The New England Patriots are the clear-cut favorites in the AFC, but are they unstoppable? A bigger question is, does it matter if they are? The latter isn’t a hard “no,” but it’s not far…
Preliminary Playoff Prepping: Patriots & Patsies
Has there ever been a weaker playoff field in NFL history than this year’s AFC grouping? Maybe NFL history is stretching it, but certainly in Brady & Belichick history. If you thought the Patriots’ road…
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…
NFL Week 16 Picks: Christmas Arrives Early
The NFL continued its tradition of playing the bulk of its games on Saturday in seasons in which Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, so we the public have a slightly shorter turnaround between the…
NFL Week 16: Feeling the Brotherly Love of Picks
Let’s get my red-hot picks started this week a little early; the Thursday Night Football finale features an old-fashioned NFC East showdown between the red-hot New York Giants and ice-cold Philadelphia Eagles. Since shifting to…
NFL Week 15 Picks: Time to Stay Hot
Things have gone north for me since shifting over to picking only games I feel confident in. At 22-13-3 for the year, I like my chances to finish the regular season above .500. Week 15…
Celebrities Weigh in on NFL Week 14
Backed by popular demand — fine, backed by my demand — celebrity impressions on NFL action are back. This week, Apu from the Simpsons gets us started, followed by Liam Neeson talking Titans, Lou Holtz…
Week 14: One Victory in Hand, Four More to Go
So my new strategy of picking only games I feel rather confident in is working out quite well thus far. If you include Thursday’s spot-on pick of the Chiefs, that’s 5-1 since the start of…