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…
NFL Week 14: A Thursday Night Pick, and a Parody
Welcome to Week 14, when the weather is bad and the football is supposed to be good. What a way to kick off the slate, with one of the biggest games the Raiders-Chiefs rivalry has…
Lucky Week 13: Picking to Bounce Back
Okay, so instead of picking every single game every week, I figured it would be better for everyone if I narrowed it down to a few games I felt (relatively) confident in. So here goes for…
NFL Week 12 Picks: Post-Turkey Madness
How about this “start” to the season? I use the air quotes because my first slate of game picks didn’t occur until Week 11, but I’ve arrived in style. While I took Turkey Day off from…