Archive for October 29th, 2008
NFL Picks 2008 - Week 8 Results
With the Bears on a bye, Willie Parker hurt, Reggie Bush hurt, Jerricho Cotchery questionable, and Jerry Porter not playing — the week looked bleak for the Ms. L Superstars. The patchwork squad took the ball and ran with it, bringing the team to their largest win (52 pts) of the season. The beating was so bad I asked the opponent if he’d decided to play or just concede the rest of the season to me. Either way, I’d take it.
You may note by the fantasy football talk that I’m already over the season of picks, as I’m getting whipped in picks by everyone local. I need to re-examine how I do picks here for the 2nd half of the season… see if I can at least pull out a week or two to make it a respectable finish.
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W/W - Ravens -8 over Ravens, 29-10, Ravens cover: One of my one week stop-gap pickups was a Raider and I still won by 50. The Ms. L Superstars are too much for mortals to handle.
L/W - Saints +3.5 over Chargers, 37-32, Saints +3.5: I’m sure the NFL was a little more excited by this shoot-out in London as opposed to the incredibly boring game the Giants and Dolphins put on last year. I didn’t watch this game (there were too many NFC East and AFC East games on at 1pm for the bar to put this game on a big TV) but I would have liked to watch this game just to see the ridiculous things that go on in the NFL that would confuse the British soccer fans. You know… like stopping play for 5 minutes so the referee can determine if a guy’s knee is down 1 millisecond before fumbling the ball. This really is a ridiculous game we’re a fan of.
W/L - Jets -12 over Chiefs, 28-24, Jets cover: The Jets should thank their lucky stars that Herm Edwards is the coach of the Chiefs.
Kansas City Chiefs at 05:20
1-10-KC 20 (5:20) 21-K.Smith left tackle to KC 23 for 3 yards (99-B.Thomas, 93-K.Coleman).
2-7-KC 23 (4:40) 21-K.Smith left tackle to KC 27 for 4 yards (50-E.Barton, 97-C.Pace).
3-3-KC 27 (3:57) 21-K.Smith left tackle to KC 29 for 2 yards (77-K.Jenkins).
Thanks Herm!!
L/L - Dolphins +1.5 over Bills, 25-16, Bills cover: More evidence that reason and logic should be thrown out in divisional games.
L/L - Cowboys -3.5 over Bucs, 13-9, Bucs outright: The Cowboys “crazy offense” didn’t win this, that’s for sure… but it’s kind of unsurprising that Dallas made a stand at home and my hatred of Dallas blinded me to my NFC East rule (don’t pick against any team outside the division without a good reason ever).
W/W - Eagles -7.5 over Eagles, 27-14, Eagles cover: I remembered the NFC East rule here and I hate the Eagles almost as much as I hate the Cowboys. It really is disturbing how much I can hate one single organization. The unfortunate thing here is that Westbrook being healthy nerfs my Buckhalter pickup.
W/T - Patriots -7 over Rams, 23-16, Patriots cover: Pretty much exactly how I figured. The Rams are still a bad team and should get beat up by almost every other team on their schedule.
W/L - Panthers -4.5 over Cardinals, 27-23, Panthers cover: Stupid friggin half-points.
W/L - Redskins -8.5 over Lions, 25-17, Redskins cover: Twice.
L/W - Browns +7 over Jags, 23-17, Browns +7: As it turned out, the Jags have not caught up to the Browns defense. The Browns looked like a great team against the Giants… they’ve looked great since. Maybe it’s time to buy in to them? (Note: this guarantees a let-down game next week).
W/W - Giants +2 over Steelers, 21-14, Giants outright: For a “good team” the Steelers really make a ton of mistakes and have a horrifying bad offensive line. Like, I know people have been talking about how bad their line is but you really don’t understand until you’ve seen them play a whole game. I don’t know where people are getting that this is a Super Bowl team with this line. I really don’t.
W/L - Texans -10 over Bengals, 35-6, Bengals +10… potential for upset of the week: Potential… I said potential. Stick a fork in the Bengals for the rest of the year. There’s no reason to pick them for the rest of the year.
L/L - Seahawks +2.5 over Niners, 34-13, Niners cover: Whatever.
L/L - Titans -3.5 over Colts, 31-21, Colts cover: The window for this year has closed on the Colts. They have a terrible line, a defense designed to play from ahead playing from behind, and a quarterback who is not good behind a shaky line. The Colts probably aren’t going to get beat up by any moderately good teams.
Five Good Spreads
5 points - Bills -1.5 over Dolphins - L
4 points - Redskins -8.5 over Lions - L
3 points - Bucs +3.5 over Dallas - L
2 points - Browns +7 over Jags - W
1 point - Patriots -8 over Rams - W
Standings
Straight Up: 8-6 (59-57)
Spread: 5-8-1 (55-58-3)
Point Pool: 3/15 (54/120 - .450)
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*sigh*