2008 NFL Picks, Discussion, and Betting Topic

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Some questionable strategy from Larkin this week. Nothing better than picking only one game and getting it wrong.

Elite Pickem - Week 5

1 Mor Lemonparty - 10
1 Poteau Jedi - 10
2 wiff's super DUPER picks - 9
2 MMF Moles - 9
2 StoneHands - 9

Fairly strong totals from some unexpected sources. SZ manages to finish first, joined with Nate on 10 correct picks.

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 Boss - 49
1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 49
3 mikerspd miscreants - 48
3 Shep's Ridic Picks - 48
5 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 47
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 47

Elite Pickem - Win Table

More new joiners to what is fast becoming a cluttered mess!

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
2 Boss - 2
3 mikerspd miscreants - 1
3 Matt8000's Pants - 1
3 Come - 1
3 QB's Surefire Successes - 1
3 wiff's super DUPER picks - 1
3 DK's Penalized Picks - 1
3 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 1
3 Esox Magnus - 1
3 MMF Moles - 1
3 Mor Lemonparty - 1
3 Poteau Jedi - 1

Elite Pickem - Pick breakdown (winner in bold):

Bears 19 Lions 2 - I'm not high on the Bears at all, but against the Lions? QB felt otherwise and took Detroit

Falcs 1 Pack 20 - This result was pretty much locked up as soon as Jimbo opened his fat mouth and said that the Pack were a good bet.

Chargers 18 Miami 3 - Theres a recurring theme this week in that there were several upsets that those you see at the top of the weekly leaderboard picked out. What happened to cause this Chargers slump other than me drafing LT #1 in my $ league?

Sealols 1 Giants 20 - Nothing interesting here

Skins 4 Eagles 17 - Poor Eagles. Just can't get a break ever. That being said, Washington continue to impress and may actually be the best team in the NFC right now.

Chiefs 0 Pants 21 - Pants are quietly putting together an impressive string of performances that could see them end up as a solid playoff team. The Chiefs are woeful, but any time you shut out a team its not a bad thing. Except when youre facing that D in Fantasy

Tits 14 Ravens 7 - Damn those Tits are looking mighty fine right now. I really don't think they are as good as their record says, but they are probably one of the best teams in the AFC nonetheless, possibly the best.

Colts 17 Texans 4 - I think picking the Colts here was the right play, but the suckout win was absolutely ludicrous. Why does this kind of thing NEVER happen when you want it to?

Bucs 8 Broncos 13 - So the Broncos arent really as good as everyone thought after 3 weeks, but are probably going to the playoffs given the state of their division. I had the bucs here but I think that may have been the wrong play.

Bills 14 Cards 7 - I think the Cards were the correct play here, although we were certainly helped by Edwards getting laid out early. I know Come agrees.

Pats 16 Niners 5 - Taking the niners here was a good play, although I didnt go as far as to do that myself. This weeks game against the Chargers could be a total lolfest.

Bengals 0 Cowboys 21 - Fortunate time to play the Bengals really as Dallas have started to get exposed recently.

Pitt 7 Jax 14 - I flat out hate watching Pitt play as I like just about noone on their team. Jax played reasonably well at times but several bonehead penalties must have had Del Rio on suicide watch on the sideline.

Vikes 4 Saints 19 - Probably the best game of the year so far. Incredibly entertaining and some huge individual performances including one of the best blocks I've seen in a long time. This was the result that gave Jim/Nate top spot for the week as more or less everyone else, including guest pickers Larkin and co, had the Saints.


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 5

Another low scoring week is topped by drag, who finished one ahead of a bunch on 7.

1 MMF Moles - 8

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 45
2 Ng Says Spread'Em - 42
3 Boss - 41
4 Octo's Spread Picks - 37
4 QB's Spread Offense - 37


Elite Survival

No change this week as both Youse and Neo progress. Who will be first to forget to pick and hand the other a win by default?

Alive

Eye of the Tiger
Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)

[Jimbo]

I never said GB was a good play, in fact I strongly opposed QB taking GB -5.5 and begged him to go the other way! I totally called that loss!

[NathanStinson]

yay I won a week (tie)

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Six

Cardinals to defeat the Cowboys straight up

Risking $5 to win $9.50

YTD: -9.09
QB Tab YTD: -$19.09 (includes two 360 controllers)

[Neo]

Ladies and gentleman, your new Elite Survival Champion for 2008 is... me!

[Jimbo]

Rodgers is now six TDs ahead of McNabb, scared yet Youse?

[youseinthehouse]

Nope, see my last post regarding the matter. Still applies. Also Kevin Curtis is back next game.

Congrats Neo!!! You Neowned me, and everybody! I'll contend that we truly deserved to tie, as even Boss will tell you Minny had no business winning today, what with that absolutely ludicrous phantom PI call late in the game to seal the easy winning FG.

Regardless, I never should have believed the 'Skins hype. I was stupid and deserved to lose.

[Neo]

Eh, I stand by my Vikings pick, but I'll be the first to admit it should have gone the other way. For a good while there I was sure it would be Skins-Lions victories, so I most certainly agree that we both should have won or lost together this weekend.

I still think I could have taken you in the long run though, so I think it's unfortunate that I should win in such lucky circumstances... hopefully I can go a good many weeks yet and prove it hasn't all been luck. In any case, just glad to get my first gold Yahoo Trophy!

[youseinthehouse]

Yes, I still commend you, and didn't mean to take anything away by sounding like a whiny bitch! I mean, speaking in terms of lucky victories, I should have lost with both Buffalo and Jacksonville earlier in the year, so I can't really complain too much. I'm just disappointed I couldn't make the year more epic. Imagine if we were still going toe to toe in week 13! (I am really going to let my two Skins fans buddies hear it-- they gave me such shit for hyping up the Eagles huge win over the Rams by saying what a joke team they were... welp: joke's on you guys now!)

Still, I'm rooting for you to go the distance in Survival... you've picked adeptly so far and have lots of good teams left to use.

[Jimbo]

Great job Neo, just don't use Indy/GB this week! Youse I don't think you'll ever give Rodgers enough credit

[youseinthehouse]

Rodgers is certainly exceeding my expectations, and for getting 3 TDs with a very sore shoulder definitely earns bigtime props from me. Tell me one good defense he has carved up so far, and don't even try to say Minny! He got pwned by Dallas and their defense isn't even that great as it stands.

Super 5 isn't so much playing below expectations as the entire team is just not finding the end zone right now. There have been maybe 3-5 TDs this season that were set up by beautiful pass plays to within the 5 yard line or so that were then punched in by a running play (not even counting the DeSean gaffe or the TWO different should-have-sneaked goal line series). These things will even out. I hope.

[Jimbo]

Carved up Tampa Bay nicely, too bad Brian Griese tore up our defense as well

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Remember its never too late to start to play, that goes for you too wheat!

Elite Pickem - Week 6

1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 10
2 Shep's Ridic Picks - 9
2 Tuffy - 9

Since everyone has no doubt already heard him celebrating, it is fairly old news to report Wiff's stunning victory this week with 10 correct picks. He now opens up a little lead overall.

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 59
2 Boss - 57
2 Shep's Ridic Picks - 57
4 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 55
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 54
5 Neo's Aussie Picks - 54
5 mikerspd miscreants - 54

Elite Pickem - Win Table

Wiff joins Boss with 2 weekly wins.

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
2 Boss - 2
2 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
4 mikerspd miscreants - 1
4 Matt8000's Pants - 1
4 Come - 1
4 QB's Surefire Successes - 1
4 DK's Penalized Picks - 1
4 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 1
4 Esox Magnus - 1
4 MMF Moles - 1
4 Mor Lemonparty - 1
4 Poteau Jedi - 1

Elite Pickem - Pick breakdown (winner in bold):

Bears 19 Falcs 3 - Just an awesome finish to what was otherwise a fairly entertaining game. As much as Ryan's college stats suggest he shouldnt have a succesful NFL career, he is actually doing a reasonable job right now. Could Alec be right about this guy afterall?

Pants 12 Bucs 10 - I'm kinda surprised so many people took Carolina here, although the scoreline probably didnt reflect the quality gap between the two sides.

Rams 0 Skins 22 - A true matt8000 special. Except he didnt pull the trigger and the Rams still won! Even though this loss is very ridiculous for the redskins I still have them as one of the better teams in the league.

Miami 14 Texans 8 - The Texans finally manage to win a game that they should have. Crazy play calling at the death.

Ravens 6 Colts 16 - Meh I was on the Ravens and it clearly was the wrong side. Although again I dont believe the scoreline accurately resembles the quality difference between these teams.

Lions 0 Vikes 22 - Well we all caught a break here as the Vikes struggles immensely in a game full of coaching blunders, retard qb plays and critical turnover moments.

Raiders 2 Saints 20 - Very dull game as the Raiders offered up almost nothing of interest except their standard 60 yard fg attempts.

Bengals 4 Jets 18 - I guess even the 4 who had picked the Bengals outright would have changed once Palmer was ruled out.

Jax 6 Broncos 16 - I had Jax but I'm not sure it was the correct side to play. Can probably pass it off as an ok gamble pick.

Cowboys 18 Cards 4 - WOOOO Cards. This one was wrapped up before a ludicrous finish almost threatend to undo everything. And now Romo is gone for a month... or is he???

Eagles 20 Niners 2 - Despite everything the Eagles might be the best team in the league, but they try so hard to make every game closer than it needs to be.

Pack 17 Seapack 5 - This pick was locked up as soon as Jimbo put $ on it.

Pats 11 Chargers 11 - Meh I had the Pats and it might have been my worst pick of the year.

Giants 21 Browns 1 - Woll obv.


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 6

Some higher scoring by all this week. Shep pulls off the win with 10.

1 Shep's Nonsense - 10

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 55
2 Boss - 48
2 Ng Says Spread'Em - 48
4 Octo's Spread Picks - 46
5 QB's Spread Offense - 45


Elite Survival

The Rams destroy Youse as Neo's Vikes barely scrape by. A pitiful Elite performance this year is thus mercifully brought to a premature end as we crown your 2008 Elite Survival Winner... Neo!



Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[Jimbo]

Ha, I plan on betting GB vs Indy too =P

[mikerspd]

That, sir, is probably a mistake. But with Jennings and Harrison/Peyton on my fantasy team (not this league), I just hope it's high-scoring.

[Jimbo]

Yeah but imo it's a pickem game, and I have to go homer on this one

[Quiet Bol]

If any of Youse's friends are Cowboys fans, I suppose the joke is on them now.

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Seven

Packers to defeat the Colts straight up

Risking $5 to win $5

YTD: +$0.41
QB Tab YTD: -$9.59 (includes two 360 controllers)

[youseinthehouse]

Heh, I have a disgustingly high number of Cowboys fans for friends. I don't know who parented these people, allowing them to become 'girls fans growing up around here. I'm not sure if the America's Team phenomenon is everlasting or if it was just because the Cowboys were dominant in the age when my specific generation was very young and had such a malleable mind (early 90s). Yes, the specific joke's on them now with the Rams thing and I'm going to have another great week of trash-talking. But let's face the bigger picture-- the joke has more or less been on them since early 1996 IMO

In fact one of the biggest Eagles fans friends of mine used to be a Cowboys fan... switching over around the beginning of the Eagles glory years in 2000 or 2001. We didn't warm up to it for a while since it was obvious how much of a huge front-runner he was being. Now it's pretty much accepted because you can tell he never gave a shit about the Cowboys and was sucked into that whole youthful exuberance thing I mentioned.

[Jimbo]

Man I can't believe how badly the Packers made Manning look. This game was probably the best I could have gone to this year (barring playoffs if we get there, and I'm sure Ngamer would agree). The decibel level of the crowd was absolutely ridiculous on most 3rd and 4th downs. The INT/TDs by Collins and Rouse were super awesome and this game had everything one could ask for. Rodgers only got 1 TD in McNabb's bye but it still stands at Rodgers having a 7 TD lead going into HIS bye. We'll see how this 2nd half goes

[youseinthehouse]

McNabb will throw approx 8 TDs this week.

(and run for 3)

[wishiwasfamous]

all to the same team?

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Probably the worst week ever so not much to say

Elite Pickem - Week 7

1 Boss - 10
1 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 10
1 QB's Surefire Successes - 10
1 Mor Lemonparty - 10
1 Matt8000's Pants - 10
1 Esox Magnus - 10

The presence of Matt/Jim at the top of the weekly leaderboard tells you all you need to know.

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 Boss - 67
1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 67
3 Shep's Ridic Picks - 66
4 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 65
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 64

Elite Pickem - Win Table

I cant even recall that this many people had even 1 weekly win appearance last year, let alone 2 - and we arent even half way!

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
1 Boss - 3
3 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
3 Matt8000's Pants - 2
3 QB's Surefire Successes - 2
3 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 2
3 Esox Magnus - 2
3 Mor Lemonparty - 2
9 mikerspd miscreants - 1
9 Come - 1
9 DK's Penalized Picks - 1
9 MMF Moles - 1
9 Poteau Jedi - 1

Elite Pickem - Pick breakdown

I really dont have much to say this week. My feed was dead or otherwise intermittently active on Sunday and recording of the games likewise failed for S/MNF. Suffice to say I contemplated suicide on several occasions as a consequence. In fact only last night I actually woke from a nightmare where I had dreamt that there was no NFL chat during the early games in the Elite Chatroom True story. Anyway, there wont be much if any chat from me again this week as I'm off to watch the Chargers play the Saints in London! Should be a lot better than last years miserable affair between arguably the two worst teams in the league at the time (Miami improved a little afterwards).


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 7

Dykstra takes the win in the spread as just about everyone else couldnt hit a thing.

1 Danny Ds picks - 9

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 59
2 Ng Says Spread'Em - 55
3 Boss - 53
3 QB's Spread Offense - 53
3 Octo's Spread Picks - 53


Elite Survival

Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[Jimbo]

Gah could have mentioned how awful we made Manning look

[Jimbo]

Wow McNabb only had one TD to counter Rodgers' bye week, yay! How unlucky for me to have Witten get injured

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Eight

Titans to defeat the Colts by 5 or more points

Risking $5 to win $4.76

YTD: +$5.41
QB Tab YTD: -$4.59 (includes two 360 controllers)

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Wooo NFL in the UK

Elite Pickem - Week 8

This is so unbelievably ridiculous it isnt even funny. Jim 'SHADOWZERO' Söderlund somehow has an outright weekly win, with no less than flippin TWELVE correct picks. This NFL season has absolutely gone to hell.

1  Mor Lemonparty - 12
2  QB's Surefire Successes - 11
2  mikerspd miscreants - 11

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 76
2 Boss - 75
2 Shep's Ridic Picks - 75
2 QB's Surefire Successes - 75
5 mikerspd miscreants - 74
5 Mor Lemonparty - 74

Elite Pickem - Win Table

Jim takes the first individual weekly win for a while and bumps himself up into a tie for first.

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
1 Boss - 3
1 Mor Lemonparty - 3
4 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
4 Matt8000's Pants - 2
4 QB's Surefire Successes - 2
4 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 2
4 Esox Magnus - 2
9 mikerspd miscreants - 1
9 Come - 1
9 DK's Penalized Picks - 1
9 MMF Moles - 1
9 Poteau Jedi - 1

Elite Pickem - Pick breakdown (winner in bold)

Bucs 14 Dallas 8 - Noone had any business taking Dallas this week.

Redskins 22 Lions 0 - Fun fact I read on 2+2. In 6 of the Lions first 7 games this season, the opposing QB has set his career high passer rating. Guess the exception?

Bills 19 Miami 3 - Miami are a very strange team and I'm really not sure what right they have to be winning any games.

Rams 0 Pats 22 - Kinda surprised that nobody took the Rams here, although the Pats were justifiably a reasonably sized favourite.

Chargers 11 Saints 11 - Well this was an infinitely better game than last year. It sucks that it seems no one in the US got to see it live though. Crowd was excellent - I lold at fact Rivers got booed out of the building at his player introduction for example. Watching football live is just so awesome and I wish I could do it every week. You get to see so much that you dont on TV, particularly the CB/WR play which interests me a lot, and any time the ball is aired out the anticipation in the crowd is really something. Hopefully there will be a game to go to next year.

Chiefs 0 Jets 22 - Thought someone might take a flyer on the Chiefs here as well, but not to be.

Falcs 2 Eagles 20 - The Eagles are back on track with two wins over the resolute niners and plucky falcons. Youse HAS to feel comfortable now with the odds of a playoff appearance.

Raiders 1 Ravens 21 - Lark was our rogue picker this week.

Cards 9 Pants 13 - Not much to say about this other than it was sone of the two games Jim got incorrect, the other being the Bills.

Browns 2 Jax 20 - If theres one thing worse than Jax blowing games its the Browns winning games. DK is going to have to start accepting some responsibility now for these losses

Bengals 1 Texans 21 - Just how bad are the Bengals this year? Sucram thinks theyre still capable of winning on the road though.

Giants 8 Steelers 14 - God the Steelers are just so useless.

Seawheatfield 9 Niners 13 - I hate meaningless games.

Colts 5 Tits 17 - At the start of the season it would have been quite unimaginable that we would have had this kind of prediction set for a Colts/Tits game. Now lets see the Pack end the Tits domination next week.


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 8

Everyone gets killed for the second week in a row

1 Come - 7

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 64
2 Ng Says Spread'Em - 60
3 Boss - 59
3 QB's Spread Offense - 59


Elite Survival

8 weeks in and Neo is still going!

Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Nine

Packers to defeat the Titans straight up

Risking $5 to win untold millions

YTD: +$10.17
QB Tab YTD: +$0.17 (includes two 360 controllers)

[Quiet Bol]

Don't forget to get your picks in early this week! There's a Thursday game!

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Bungles!

Elite Pickem - Week 9

Fairly average week for the Elite as the winners only managed to get 10 picks correct. Furthermore a poor week for the rest of the top overall pickers thus far lets QB rise to the top of the leaderboard.

1 DK's Penalized Picks - 10
1 Come - 10
1 StoneHands - 10
1 Cyber's picks - 10
1 Esox Magnus - 10

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 QB's Surefire Successes - 84
1 Boss - 84
3 wiff's super DUPER picks - 83
3 Shep's Ridic Picks - 83
5 mikerspd miscreants - 82

Elite Pickem - Win Table

A Bearder now moves into a tie for the most number of wins, with Jon lagging way way behind.

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
1 Boss - 3
1 Mor Lemonparty - 3
1 Esox Magnus - 3
5 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
5 Matt8000's Pants - 2
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 2
5 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 2
5 Come - 2
5 DK's Penalized Picks - 2
11 mikerspd miscreants - 1
11 MMF Moles - 1
11 Poteau Jedi - 1
11 StoneHands - 1
11 Cyber's picks - 1

Elite Pickem - Pick breakdown (winner in bold)

Jets 1 Bills 20 - VERY surprised that only one peson too the Jets (Cyber). This seemed like a tossup really.

Lions 0 Bears 21 - Somehow the lions almost won this. At least wheat got his wish and Rex is back at QB.

Jax 19 Bungles 2 - Are Jax really this bad? I mean I know they are bad thanks to their ridic unluck with injuries, but the Bungles?

Ravens 8 Browns 13 - Another surprising pick distribution with the majority inexplicably taking the Browns. Still, Jimbo will be much more optimistic about his Browns bet now Brady Quinn has been named starter.

Cards 17 Rams 4 - Meh I picked the Rams here and it wasnt a misclick. That proved to be an awful choice! And FO has the Cards ranked as the 4th best team in the league!

Texans 6 Vikes 15 - Feels like a meaningless game, except the Vikes are somehow still in legitimate contention for a playoff spot.

Pack 5 Tits 16 - I really thought the Pack had a great shot at winning this game so am very comfortable with picking them. Oh well, Jimbo lost money at least.

Bucs 21 Chiefs 0 - Everyone dodged a bullet, although the relative overall scores obviously wouldnt have been affected either way

Miami 3 Broncos 18 - Don't know what to say about this, Miami apparently have one of the top offenses in the league now according to FO, whilst Denver are in complete freefall.

Dallas 3 Giants 18 - Dallas are a total mess right now.

Eagles 18 Seagles 3 - Always a relief to see the Eagles actually win a game they are expected to.

Falcs 19 Raiders 2 - lol

Pats 11 Colts 10 - Odd that more people thought the Pats were favourites. I didn't give them much chance at all of winning this game. Bob Sanders makes the dumbest play of the season.

Steelers 7 Skins 14 - Highly frustrating to see the Steelers get this done, especially with Leftwich win for so much of the game. I dont really rate Pitt that well at all right now.


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 9

QB has a great week whilst everyone else was average

1 QB's Spread Offense    11

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 QB's Spread Offense - 70
1 Shep's Nonsense - 70
3 Ng Says Spread'Em - 68
4 Boss - 66
5 Octo's Spread Picks - 64


Elite Survival

9 weeks in and Neo is still going!

Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[rshepherd1000]

There is a game on THURSDAY so don't forget those early picks!

[Ngamer]

Game starts in two hours! At least make your first pick for this week, guys!

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Ten

Packers to defeat the Vikings straight up

Risking $5 to win $6.16

YTD: +$5.17
QB Tab YTD: -$4.83 (includes two 360 controllers)

[rshepherd1000]

There is a game on THURSDAY so don't forget those early picks!

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Eleven

Brock Lesnar to defeat Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture at UFC 91

Risking $5 to win $3.90

YTD: +$0.17
QB Tab YTD: -$9.83 (includes two 360 controllers)

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

uhhhh forgot about this, so no time for pick breakdown this week

Elite Pickem - Week 10

1 MMF Moles - 13

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 mikerspd miscreants - 94
1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 94
3 QB's Surefire Successes - 93
3 Boss - 93
3 wiff's super DUPER picks - 93

Elite Pickem - Win Table

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
1 Boss - 3
1 Mor Lemonparty - 3
1 Esox Magnus - 3
5 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
5 Matt8000's Pants - 2
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 2
5 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 2
5 Come - 2
5 DK's Penalized Picks - 2
5 MMF Moles - 2
12 mikerspd miscreants - 1
12 Poteau Jedi - 1
12 StoneHands - 1
12 Cyber's picks - 1


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 10

1 Octo's Spread Picks - 11

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 80
2 Boss - 77
3 Ng Says Spread'Em - 76
4 QB's Spread Offense - 75
4 Octo's Spread Picks - 75


Elite Survival

10 weeks in and Neo is still going!

Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[Ngamer]

With Aaron Rodgers now out to a commanding 18 to 15 lead in total touchdowns, I wondered if Youse might have lost faith in winning his season long bet against Jimbo. Here's how he responded.


TopRogue7: what is it now, 15 to 15?
ImNgamer: no, actually Rodgers also has three rushing TDs, so-
TopRogue7: I've never been a part of a tie. I never even knew that was in the gambling rule book.
TopRogue7: If it's part of the rules, I guess we have to go with it. I was looking forward to getting the opportunity to support my team and try to win this bet.
TopRogue7: But unfortunately, with the rules, it looks like we might settle with a tie.
TopRogue7: Which would result in something called a "push." I guess I'm aware of that now...
TopRogue7: But I hate to see what will happen in the Super Bowl and in the playoffs.
ImNgamer: uhhh, pretty sure this bet is just for the regular seas-
TopRogue7 has signed off

[youseinthehouse]

Heh, good one.

On the contrary, I'd love to see what would happen in the Super Bowl or in the playoffs, since I'm giving us virtually no shot at even making them this year (~1%).

And it pains me to see so many Packer TDs within the 2 yard line be passing or QB sneaking when they have Ryan Grant (there must be 5-6 such TDs at least so far this year). My logic on this one is that Mike "Ultimate dumbass" McCarthy needs to pad AR's stats as much as possible to make it seem like he's not the ultimate dumbass he is for letting Brett Favre go.

[Jimbo]

Don't playa hate on A-rod.

Edit: In all seriousness, Youse, that has a lot to do with our top-notch WR core!

[youseinthehouse]

Not hatin'. A-Rod has been a key to my success in my hometown fantasy league ($$ league). Almost as much of a key as everyone else in the league being terrible at fantasy football. I'm even starting to lose faith on this bet. I figured this past weekend would have equalized the two QBs at the very least. Instead, AR gained ground on Donny Mac despite playing a supposedly stout Bears D while we had the Bungles to tear up all day....

The only thing we got goin' in our favor here is that the Eagles are in absolutely must win mode. Also, McNabb should internally be putting himself into must-be-completely-phenomenal mode in order to remain the quarterback here. All the haters on the radio/tv/newspaper are calling for his head on a silver platter. It's depressing, because he's definitely still the guy.

Andy Reid, OTOH, should GTFO.

[Quiet Bol]

This may be surprising, but the Bengals pass D has been much better than the Bears pass D this year. In fact, one might call the Bears pass D deplorable.

[Jimbo]

I'd go as far as saying that their run D is just as bad!

Another edit: Both the Eagles and the Packers are in absolutely-must-win mode, for us it's a 6 game season between 3 teams, so we're in the same boat.

[Quiet Bol]

I'd go as far as saying that their run D is just as bad!  
 
  Another edit: Both the Eagles and the Packers are in absolutely-must-win mode, for us it's a 6 game season between 3 teams, so we're in the same   boat.

I'd go as far as saying that the Packers give up 60 more rushing yards per game than the Bears.

[Jimbo]

That was a total hit on their ability to stop Tennessee, but their inability to stop an overrated Ryan Grant from running 145 yards!

[youseinthehouse]

Cincy locking us down had less to do with how good they are at pass D (which looking over it, they do seem legit there) and more to do with them completely not caring about the run. We ran the ball four (FOUR!) times in the first half on a day with >15 mph wind for much of the day. Short of Westbrook being "secretly" slightly hurt, I see absolutely no justification for that play calling given the conditions.

What didn't help was when receivers were open, there were a few poor throws (wind) and dropped passes (WTF?).

[rshepherd1000]

There is a game on THURSDAY so don't forget those early picks!

[rshepherd1000]

Elite Pickem

Elite Pickem - Week 11

1 StoneHands - 13

Elite Pickem - Overall Table

1 QB's Surefire Successes - 106
1 Boss - 106
1 wiff's super DUPER picks - 106
4 Neo's Aussie Picks - 105

Elite Pickem - Win Table

1 Shep's Ridic Picks - 3
1 Boss - 3
1 Mor Lemonparty - 3
1 Esox Magnus - 3
5 wiff's super DUPER picks - 2
5 Matt8000's Pants - 2
5 QB's Surefire Successes - 2
5 Ng's Picks of Awesome - 2
5 Come - 2
5 DK's Penalized Picks - 2
5 MMF Moles - 2
5 StoneHands - 2
13 mikerspd miscreants - 1
13 Poteau Jedi - 1
13 Cyber's picks - 1


Elite Spread Pickem

Elite Spread Pickem - Week 11

1 MMF Moles - 11

Elite Spread Pickem - Overall

1 Shep's Nonsense - 87
2 Ng Says Spread'Em - 86
3 Boss - 84
3 QB's Spread Offense - 84


Elite Survival

11 weeks in and the opponents of the Raiders/Lions are still winning!

Winner

Neo's Aussie Picks

Dead

Shep's Ridic Survivors (1), Octo's Boss's Picks (1), Sucram goes pew pew on you (1), mikerspd maintainers (1), Drag (1), Boss (1)
Encrypted Salvation (2), springadero (2), packattack (2), springadero (2), Topes (2), Mr. Twishall's Selecsheeowns (2), DK's Natural Selections (2), Jimbo (2), mostfrantic (2)
Insanity (3), Cyber's unsurviving picks (3)
Come (4), Ng Survives & Advances (4), Matt8000s Pants (4), QB's Unwavering Champions (4), Octo's Survival Picks (4)
Eye of the Tiger (6)

[Neo]

Elite Survival  
 
  11 weeks in and the opponents of the Raiders/Lions are still winning!

Picks against Detroit: 3
Picks against Raiders: 1

Ouch, try again.

[youseinthehouse]

Looks like I'm gonna oweski!

[Ngamer]

Ngamer Bets the NFL - Week Twelve

Packers to defeat the Saints straight up

Risking $5 to win $5

YTD: +$4.07
QB Tab YTD: -$5.93 (includes two 360 controllers)