Like last year, Jay and I split the two Turkey Day games we differed on, so the five we differ on for the rest of the week will decide who had a successful Thanksgiving weekend. Jay doesn't want to be greedy and ask for the sweep, but I will, even though I still can't catch him for the season. No Lock-Offs, no Contingency-Offs, just our picks and Locks for the remainder of Week 13 in the NFL:
My connection held up for the second show in a row, so I'm happy and thankful that the podcast is not sounding like a nightmare for anyone listening. I'm thankful for Jay continuing to make time for the show in between his job and family and general weariness. And I'm thankful that I have the energy to fit this in to my schedule with my side hustles and college courses and making time for the wife. I'll probably crash at some point, but it's all good at the moment. Happy Thanksgiving to all reading. Check out our podcast In Much Less Detail on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and subscribe while you're at it. Here are our Turkey Day and Black Friday NFL picks, which have us head to head on a couple:
Folks, we've got a historic week for our NFL picks. Never in the 40-plus year history of Jay and I picking games going back to grade school have we ever had a Contingency-Off, where we both have a contingency pick on the same player but it's the opposite reasoning. In the Steelers-Bears game, Pittsburgh QB Aaron Rodgers is threatening to play despite breaking his non-throwing wrist last week against the Bengals. I don't want anything to do with a 40-year-old QB trying to play against NFL players with a broken wrist, so if he plays, I'll take the Bears, and if Mason Rudolph starts, I'll take Pit against the spongy Chi defense. Jay wants nothing to do with Rudolph, so if he starts, Jay has the Bears, and if Rodgers starts, Jay wants the old "owner" of Da Bears one last time. I think it's a historic number of games we disagree on as well. We're different on 11 games! We agree on only three, counting Thursday night. One of us may have a very rough Sunday, unless we split them as I suspect we will. Here are the Week 12 picks:
Jay's run continues as he bests me again in NFL picks ATS. He hasn't had a week below .500 since Week 4, putting up 9, 11 and 10 wins before throwing up 7s each of the last 3 weeks. Meanwhile, I haven't been over .500 since Week 7. It doesn't feel like I'm totally lost, but Jay's been better every week for over a month. Frustrating, but not as much as my internet connection which is making our podcast unlistenable as it keeps kicking me off the show mid-sentence. It's either time for a new computer or a new provider. Here are our picks for Week 11, as we differ on five games:
Jay and I apparently are sick and tired of favorites not covering spreads and screwing up our picks, so we both went heavier on dogs than normal in this week's picks. We only disagree on four games as a result, and one of them changes based on the Jets choice of QB. If coach Aaron Glenn decides to start Tyrod Taylor, I'll change my pick to Jets over Browns, but if he insists on putting Justin Fields back out there, I'll take Cleveland. Underdogs have been feasting this NFL season, so we took a few. I'm sure we both thought we would surprise the other with a couple of those dogs, only to concur. We'll see how it plays out. Here are our Week 10 picks:
After the bloodletting last week, where every NFL game was a double-digit win except the damn Jets, Jay and I hope the violence continues to some extent. We both took the favorites in the five biggest point spread games Sunday, this after taking the favorite Thursday (and being rewarded). Perhaps it's the point in a season where the best teams start to spread their wings and assert themselves. If so, we're all in on the beatings this week. Jay has a Contingency Pick with all the quarterback shenanigans being played: If the Bengals hold back Joe Flacco and have to start Jake Browning again, he will join me and take Chicago. I got the Bears either way. Here are our picks, which have us heads up on five games (or four):
