2010 NFL Season - Week 8

Sunday Games - winning picks are in red


Miami at Cincinnati - talk about 2 backwards teams, Miami plays better on road and CinCin can't get it together yet

Jacksonville at Dallas - Both teams are poor, poor, poor but if I had money on this match up i would go Dallas's way

Washington at Detroit - These 2 teams always put on a good game and I giving Detroit one more chance to show me they have changed...

Buffalo at Kansas City - KC has 2 losses which were to better teams and Buffalo does not rank as a better team this year

Green Bay at New York Jets - Jets more then likely will be going to the Superbowl and GB is not going to slow that movement down

Denver at San Francisco - San Francisco plays better at home although they still lose, Denver plays away just as bad as at home

Carolina at St Louis - have to favor Big Lou at home over a sad Carolina

Tennessee at San Diego - First trip to west coast for Tenn. this year and will not be fruitful

Tampa Bay at Arizona - read Buffalo/KC above except change team names

Minnesota at New England - Please why is Farve still playing besides just to pacify his big ego

Seattle at Oakland - Seattle is still bad on road no matter what happened 2 weeks ago in Chicago

Sunday Night Game -

Pittsburgh at New Orleans - NO is finding out how hard it is to try and be a top NFL team year after year and they're not doing very well - - BONUS: Pittsburgh 24 - New Orleans 18

Monday Night Game -

Houston at Indianapolis - Battle #2 this year and I really don't think Mr. Manning will be forgetting what happened in battle #1 and will correct that problem just fine...

2010 NFL Season - Week 7

This not going to be my usual pick mode this week as I have studying to do and Nov. is coming which means I will be slowly picking up more tax studys/classes and working my way to tax season...

Sunday Games - winning picks are in red

Cincinnati at Atlanta

Buffalo at Baltimore

San Francisco at Carolina

Washington at Chicago

Jacksonville at Kansas City

Pittsburgh at Miami

Cleveland at New Orleans

Philadelphia at Tennessee

St Louis at Tampa Bay

Arizona at Seattle

Oakland at Denver

New England at San Diego

Sunday Night Game;

Minnesota at Green Bay - - BONUS: Minnesota 28 - Green Bay 25

Monday Night Game;

New York Giants at Dallas

2010 NFL Season - Week 6

Sunday Games - Winning picks are in Red


Seattle at Chicago – Seattle is still a lousy road team and Chicago even without Cutler should be able to handle them for another win

Miami at Green Bay - GB has not had a hard team to play at home yet and just barely beat the ones they did play; Miami has won on the road against NFC North

Kansas City at Houston – Houston has a very loose defense and if KC can make the right offensive plays and defense plays like it has been, they should come out victors even though it is their 2nd week on the road

Baltimore at New England – Baltimore’s defense is tops, their offense can play up or down, New England looks like they have it together now but it might have been just the teams they’ve played

Detroit at New York Giants – Yes Detroit is pumped from last week but have they turned the corner? Giants last two games have been solid playing with wins, only downfall I see is if NYG take Detroit lightly

Atlanta at Philadelphia – Atlanta has a knack this year of winning close ones and Philadelphia’s only losses this year have been at home

Cleveland at Pittsburgh – Cleveland is equal on both sides of the ball with low scoring, Pittsburgh has done very good without Big Ben but he does come back this week

San Diego at St Louis - St Louis will be trying to overcome their terrible showing against Detroit and SD should provide what they need to do it, since they haven’t won on the road yet this season

New Orleans at Tampa Bay – This match up is interesting considering you have one team who plays down to their opponents level and another team who has only played one good team this year

New York Jets at Denver – Denver lost to the Colts at home and the Jets are 10 times better then the Colts this year

Oakland at San Francisco – Oakland has a chance to maybe get to play-offs if they put the playoff hopes of SF to rest this week

Dallas at Minnesota – Two sad teams, playing sad players, being watched by a sad crowd and sadly Mr Favre should have just stayed retired instead of going out like this

Sunday Night Game:

Indianapolis at Washington – Just remember in every ones eyes Washington actually beat Houston - Bonus: Redskins 23 - Colts 21

Monday Night Game:

Tennessee at Jacksonville – Lets just say deja-vu from 2009 shall strike Tennessee

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Leaning against the Goal Post

Day late and a dollar short with posting this week - - -

Another wacky week in the Neutral Football League where for some unseen reason the
little man in the closet wants all the teams as close to equal as possible.

I ended up winning 4 out of 14 and it don't even matter why I did because IMO what matters is what's taking shape in the league.

WEEK 1 - teams came out like stormtroopers with 12 home teams winning, 4 away teams winning, 9 high percentage pick teams winning and 7 underdog teams winning

12 - 4 - 9 - 7

WEEK 2 - NO! NO! NO! that will not do - The little man in the closet tells them to tone it down; 8 home teams win, 8 away teams win, 10 hpp teams win and 6 underdogs win

8 - 8 - 10 - 6

WEEK 3 - We must become more neutral on the field says little closet man; 8 home teams win, 8 away teams win, 8 hpp teams win and 8 underdog teams win

8 - 8 - 8 - 8

WEEK 4 - Nice says the little closet man, lets try to stay in them boundaries during the bye weeks; 8 home teams win, 6 away teams win, 7 hpp teams win and 7 underdog teams win

8 - 6 - 7 - 7

WEEK 5 - AHHHHHHHHHH! how wonderful closet man says while sipping tea and enjoying feng seng music; 7 home teams win, 7 away teams win, 7 hpp teams win and 7 underdog teams win

7 - 7 - 7 - 7

I can hardly wait to see what this week will bring because somewhere during the remaining season, the little man needs to boost the numbers up for the away and underdog teams

Anyways, that just my take of the whole thing while leaning against the goal post...

For up - to - date daily NFL news during the week go to Mac's Football Blog

2010 NFL Season - Week 5

Sunday Games - Winning picks are in Red


Denver at Baltimore - 2nd week on road and against a tough defensive team

Jacksonville at Buffalo - We know what Buffalo can do at home but we really don't know what Jags can do on road since they only have had one road trip and that was a loss. Both teams though have lousy defenses.

Chicago at Carolina - I am going to treat last week as just a fluke game for Chicago and should get back to winning against a team that so far this season plays poor at home

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati - Tampa Bay is rested and Cincinnati needs to focus on the game at hand in order to win games, they should this week after letting Cleveland get over them last week

Atlanta at Cleveland - Don't take Cleveland lightly like Cincinnati did, they not that bad and don't be surprised when they win by a point

St Louis at Detroit - It ain't going to happen this week for Detroit either, St Louis is getting in their groove and Detroit is Detroit so close but no cigar

New York Giants at Houston - NYG needs to start scoring points. Houston has a very, very loose defense,the trouble for NYG is Houston also can score points to overcome

Kansas City at Indianapolis - OH! this is a tough pick, because KC can run the ball and Colts do not have good run defense and I love the Colts over all other teams but...

Green Bay at Washington - Washington will be ready for this close, close match-up

New Orleans at Arizona - NO defense has been playing like the teams they play against and they have just barely escaped with wins in some games, Arizona's downfall is bad defense against a high passing QB

Tennessee at Dallas - Dallas is rested and finally looks like they might be coming around and just in the nick of time before Ol' JJ starts kicking

San Diego at Oakland - Will be a good game but SD will continue adding to their win stats vs Oakland

Sunday Night Game:

Philadelphia at San Francisco - McNabb is gone, Vick is hurt and SF needs a big win - BONUS; SF 24 - Phil. 20

Monday Night Game:

Minnesota at New York Jets - Moss will not make a difference this week for his new/old team and I'm afraid the Jets are real deal this year


For up - to - date daily NFL news during the week go to Mac's Football Blog

Leaning against the Goal Post

Week 4 is over and again I question myself as to why I even bother doing this especially when I read others who say I pick teams by what color uniforms they wears or I just flip a coin and they end up like 14 out of 16 right, LOL. I went 7 -7 for the week (makes 36 out of 62 games) and wasn't even close on some, why?why?why? do I torture myself... I blame my poor picking this week on my blasted head cold that I can't get rid of.

Cleveland was a complete surprise to me, never even seen that win coming over Cincinnati

Green Bay did not play as well as I thought they would against Detroit

I knew Baltimore /Pittsburgh was going to be rough and tumble but looks like I guessed wrong as to which team had the edge offensively

Seattle continue losing on the road like I thought they would

Oakland played tough against Houston just came up short on points to pull off a win for me.

Colts, Colts, Colts - it was a nice kick but they should never had allowed Jags to get to that position, still a poor defense this year...

Chicago looked POOR, very POOR, at times it seemed like the offense didn't know what to do or who to block, like first year high schooler's out there

Miami started great, so I went to bed and woke up to find that NE whipped their butts good after I stopped watching and so it was a fitting end to a horrible picking week for me

Maybe next week I'll just pick teams by what letter comes first in the alphabet

Basic stats for advantages:

14 TEAMS TOTAL:

8 teams won at home this week

6 teams won on the road this week

7 teams won who were picked as favorites

7 underdog teams won

That's a wrap for this week and I'm going to go keep warm, drink my fluids, take my vitamins and continue to search the field for the ultimate pick week, while leaning against the goal post

For up - to - date daily NFL news during the week go to Mac's Football Blog

2010 NFL Season - Week 4

Sunday Games - Winning picks are in Red


San Francisco at Atlanta – West coast/East coast thingy with a team that is in 2nd week of road travel and still trying to gel together this season against a good run defense

New York Jets at Buffalo – Jets coming in on 2nd week of road travel and Buffalo seems good with new quarterback last week but Jets defense should handle the job. Just beware that Jets could suffer a let down in 2nd half…

Cincinnati at Cleveland – Cincinnati is coming on strong this season while Cleveland has not played terrible but they have played without the eye of the tiger…

Detroit at Green Bay – Yeah right, after last week good luck in GB being this will be 2nd week on road for a weary, confused team already…

Carolina at New Orleans – Carolina after this week will be 4-0 and IMO out of the playoffs already…

Baltimore at Pittsburgh – Both teams have allowed their opponents so far this season very few points, Pittsburgh though has a slight offensive edge. Should be a close, tough and tumble game…

Seattle at St Louis – OK, what have we learned so far this season boys and girls with one of these teams that have continued their old ways?

Denver at Tennessee – Defense and Denver traveling from high to low will win it this week for Tennessee…

Indianapolis at Jacksonville – One team is going upwards and one team seems to be going downwards…

Houston at Oakland – Houston’s defense is lousy this season; they lucked out against Washington by rattling their FG kicker at the last minute but not against the Cowboys. Oakland played tough against Arizona. Hint: Oakland did beat Houston in an even year gone past…

Washington at Philadelphia – Here’s the question is Green Bay as good or equal as Dallas and Houston?

Arizona at San Diego – Arizona is poor and San Diego is looking like one of them plays better at home teams…

Chicago at New York Giants – Although it does not look like it when you watch them but, Chicago has played close, solid, full 60 minutes games with a defense that has not allowed more then 20 points in a game. NYG have bungled and bopped their way into a 1 & 2 record so far and they stand 19th versus aerial attacks, and have just two sacks since the opener… BONUS: Bears 24 – Giants 20

Monday Night Game:

New England at Miami – Mr Hoody and crew will not do much down in Florida, they have lousy defense this year and they have only beaten Buffalo and a lackluster beginning of the season Cincinnati team…

For up - to - date daily NFL news during the week go to Mac's Football Blog