Week 8 picks

Carolina
@ Chicago
Pick: Chicago -9.0

San Diego
@ Cleveland
Pick: San Diego -1.0

Seattle
@ Detroit
Pick: Seattle +1.0

Jacksonville
@ Green Bay
Pick: Green Bay -14.5

Miami
@ New York
Pick: New York -1.0

Atlanta
@ Philadelphia
Pick: Atlanta +1.0

Washington
@ Pittsburgh
Pick: Washington +5.0

Indianapolis
@ Tennessee
Pick: Tennessee -3.5

Oakland
@ Kansas City
Pick: Oakland +1.0

New York
@ Dallas
Pick: New York -2.0

New Orleans
@ Denver
Pick: New Orleans +6.0

San Francisco
@ Arizona
Pick: San Francisco -6.5

Bye: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Houston

Can the weekend start already?

This game couldn't be any more boring if you painted it fifty shades of gray.

Tampa Bay
@ Minnesota
Pick: Tampa Bay +5.5

Week 7 picks

Tennessee
@ Buffalo
Pick: Buffalo -4.0

Dallas
@ Carolina
Pick: Dallas -1.0

Baltimore
@ Houston
Pick: Baltimore +6.5

Cleveland
@ Indianapolis
Pick: Indianapolis +1.0

Arizona
@ Minnesota
Pick: Minnesota -6.5

Washington
@ New York
Pick: Washington +5.5

Green Bay
@ St. Louis
Pick: Green Bay -5.0

New Orleans
@ Tampa Bay
Pick: Tampa Bay +1.0

Jacksonville
@ Oakland
Pick: Jacksonville +6.0

Pittsburgh
@ Cincinnati
Pick: Pittsburgh +1.0

Detroit
@ Chicago
Pick: Chicago -6.0

Bye: Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego

Last week: 5-7

Season: 31-49-2

Wasting my time here

But at least I can provide sound gambling advice. In the form of TNF!

Seattle
@ San Francisco
Pick: Seattle +7.0

Week 6 picks

Oakland
@ Atlanta
Pick: Atlanta -9.5
Best team in football right now. By a mile.

Dallas
@ Baltimore
Pick: Baltimore -3.5
Second-best team in football. Even with Joe Schmoe Flaccer.

Cincinnati
@ Cleveland
Pick: Cincinnati -1.0

St. Louis
@ Miami
Pick: St. Louis +4.5

Indianapolis
@ New York
Pick: Indianapolis +3.0

Detroit
@ Philadelphia
Pick: Philadelphia -3.5

Kansas City
@ Tampa Bay
Pick: Tampa Bay -4.0

Buffalo
@ Arizona
Pick: Arizona -5.0

New York
@ San Francisco
Pick: New York +6.5

Green Bay
@ Houston
Pick: Green Bay +3.5

Denver
@ San Diego
Pick: Denver (pick 'em)

Bye: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans

Last week: 5-8

Season: 26-42-2

Thu-hu-hu-hu-hursday!

I'm still not used to these all-season TNF games. It's weird. But I guess it makes the game safer.

Pittsburgh

@ Tennessee

Pick: Pittsburgh -5.5

Animals

Recently, I have found myself enjoying my time away from other people more than normal. I have long disliked people, but I think in the past month or so this feeling has gotten to the point where I shake my head and curse under my breath when I see or experience utter incompetence from my fellow humans. It can be as benign as not having any clue what to wear or being incredulous as to how much alcohol one can handle, to lack of driving skills and generally disturbing attitudes on certain topics.

I'm not about to go postal on anyone, far from it. I need people in my life. Some of my best friends are people. But there are so many wasteful interactions everyday - and not just interactions, but people who just pop into my life for a few minutes on my daily commute - that I just find it incomprehensible that this society actually functions (to a certain degree).

From up here on my high horse it is easy to pass judgment on people like this. And I am well aware that I have many flaws, some glaring, some less so. But if I'm not allowed to be mad at people for being stupid, oblivious, brainwashed or retarded (not the mental illness. I mean actual, dumb retardation) then who the fuck am I allowed to be mad at?

Week 5 picks

Finally, a timely submitted one!

Miami
@ Cincinnati
Pick: Cincinnati -3.5

Green Bay
@ Indianapolis
Pick: Green Bay -7.0

Baltimore
@ Kansas City
Pick: Baltimore -6.0
Riding this team like I'm in a western.

Cleveland
@ New York
Pick: Cleveland +9.5

Philadelphia
@ Pittsburgh
Pick: Pittsburgh -3.5
For the life of me, I can't understand either of these teams this season. It's just, crazy.

Atlanta
@ Washington
Pick: Atlanta -3.0
Atlanta looking a lot like a Super Bowl contender up in this mother...

Seattle
@ Carolina
Pick: Seattle +3.0

Chicago
@ Jacksonville
Pick: Chicago -5.5

Tennessee
@ Minnesota
Pick: Minnesota -5.5

Buffalo
@ San Francisco
Pick: San Francisco -9.5

San Diego
@ New Orleans
Pick: San Diego +4.0
These chargers are like Pittsburgh or Philly: can't decide what the fuck they are.

Houston
@ New York
Pick: Houson -9.0
You know you have a bad situation when the owner starts mulling about starting the backup QB after handing his starter a $40 million extension in the offseason. Someone tell me why I am not running an NFL franchise?

Bye: Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, Tampa Bay

Last week: 4-10

Season: 21-36-2

Meh

I had severe plans on writing more on this thing. Legitimate stuff. But cutting down on alcohol coupled with some chronic sleep issues has left me a bit, well, not in good standing. The plan is to change this over the next few weeks, so hopefully I can stick with that.

For tonights game, who'da thunk that this would be kind of exciting? Cards v Rams, a serious matchup in the NFC West. Kolb has been doing work (lest we forget the Arizona D which has been tremendous) and St. Louis have eeked out a few dubs themselves. Still, I think that Arizona is going to win this one.

Arizona
@ St. Louis
Pick: Arizona -1.0

Week 3: 6-9

Season: 17-26-2

(Clearing the backlog this week)