NFL - Discussion Thread

The NFC East will come down to divisional games. It will be very close. For Washington, they need to win this game to keep their playoff chances alive, otherwise they'll need to win @ Dallas later on to split the series.

Remember Dennis, Peterson's form has mirrored Washington's. One week he's a top 5 RB, the next he rushes for 6 yards (not THAT bad every week but you know what I mean). I predict he will have a 30 yard game, and Dallas will win 27-13.

...scratch that thought. Maybe Washington are going to break the duck. Dallas are 3-0 at home this season and 0-3 away.

This tipping of games is tiyrning out to be more difficult than I thought. You have to hand it to the NFL, they?ve devised a fair system that has given their league parity. Unlike the Premiersip in England and La Liga in Spain where the richest clubs simply buy the best players and win easily each week.

This week has a number of pick em games. Could go any way in them.

Urgh. So horrible to tip once again.

I went very bold this week. I was tempted by a number of upsets, but picked upset picks of:
Spoiler:
But as a clue, I went for 6 home teams and 8 away teams... 4 upsets this week

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Matt, if the current trend continues of Warrior13 gaining ground on us we will have no option but to take out chances with upsets in the hope of getting back in the game. How many games are we behind 5-6? It doesn't sound like much but even pegging him back one or two games is now going to be an achievemnet each week.

I'm still underided on the Washington vs. Dallas game. If one thing I have learned recently is regardless how teams do in the inter conference games you can pretty much guarantee they will perform pretty much the same each years against their conference rivals as they know them so well. If this is the case I have to pick Dallas for the win although the Redskin defense has improved dramatically from last year.

I went with Dallas mainly out of pessimism. To me it's a coin toss because it's @ Washington.

Yeah, that's why I went bold. Obviously it's not time to start picking 12 upsets yet, but if I get lucky I can peg him back. After I was trailing Warrior by 5 and you by 6 after week 2, I got back to just 2 behind you and 3 behind Warrior until his awesome week. Like you say we just need to gain 1 or 2 games every few weeks, and hopefully this can become a contest once again. After all, last year in my AFL competition I was trailing by 7 and got the lead back in the final week.

« Last edited by Matt77 on Oct 17th 2018 »

I went with eight home teams and six road teams. Like I said, I never pick more than six road teams.

In reality I should have gone with a 8:6 ratio too, but I need to catch up with you!!!

I may have to pick 9 away teams. Tannehill is out once again, and I doubt Osweiler can repeat his heroics.

I have 8 home teams and 6 away. Is it just me or do you make your selections and look at them and feel confident all of the are going to come in and then when Sunday comes around it doesn?t go according to plan?

I?m going Dallas, better receivers and they know how to beat Washington because they do it each year. I?m trying to figure out where the upsets are going to come from and am wondering if Chicago who are playing at home can pressure Brady enough to disrupt his game plan. The other game I?m wondering about is can the Bengals go to Kansas and get a win? Teams that need a win after a close loss tend to do well and Cincinnati need the win more than the Chiefs.

I get that same feeling Dennis. That's just tipping.

If Chicago sacked Brock Osweiler 0 times, they are going to find it hard to sack the GOAT. I would be shocked if NE dropped that game. I was actually going to tip Cincy, but I didn't because that would've been 5 upsets for me (way too many).

Yeah, you?re probably right Matt. Wishful thinking By me I think. The Bears are at home though which makes it a little bit interesting.

I?ve looked and I?ve looked again and the only two games I don?t feel confident about my tips are Denver vs the Cardinals and the Redskins v. cowboys game. I?ve gone Cardinals and Cowboys but I don?t feel good about it.

I can?t believe Denver are in such a mess, they were Super Bowl contenders only a couple of years ago.

Trust me, we'll all get around 7-11/14 this week. Theoretically we should be tipping perfect weeks multiple times, but it's just so hard.

Lol, not a good start by Arizona. Rosen has thrown a pick-6, and Denver are 14-0 up. If Denver win, I move up into 2nd place (me & Warrior tipped Denver).

...make that 21-3 and TWO Rosen pick-6s.

« Last edited by Matt77 on Oct 18th 2018 »

Darn! I was sort of hoping one of your upsets would've been Zona, Matt! lol

No way. Even at home, Arizona are disgraceful. 28-3 Denver lead.


...WAIT A MINUTE. 28-3 returns!!! Maybe Arizona can win in overtime

42-10 going into the 4th Quarter.

Chalk me up another W.

I don't think so Tortured Soul. I am your new competition now, and no lead is safe in a sport with 16 games per week... You are +0 on me this week

At least I have the tie breaker. :p

That will only be a consolation prize, after I easily beat you :p

I'll still hold it over you. :p

We'll see about that. Hopefully you'll accidentally tip a team to win by 77 instead of by 7

Oakland are going to have an awesome draft this season. Now that Lynch is injured for a minimum of 4 weeks, they're surely going to have a top 5 pick on top of their two 1st rounders from Chicago. Jon Gruden has a habit of being fed up with under-performing QBs. He's already started making this team the team he wants. Would he consider taking a QB with their first pick?
EDIT - I also just remembered, Oakland traded for McCarron from Buffalo.

I'm with Dennis. I'm just so amazed at how quickly Oakland changed from SB contenders, to #1 pick contenders. It goes to show that the consistency that NE have shown for nearly 15 years isn't easy to achieve.

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