2025 Week #7

We're coming off our first double-digit winning weeks of the season, and we independently picked the same game this week as a Double Lock, so Jay and I were feeling good about things on our podcast. It's better than feeling like the world is going to end after a bad week of picks. Maybe we're figuring things out in this very unusual NFL season. We'll find out Sunday and Monday. We do disagree on six games for Week 7, but we were vibing so well about our successful Week 6 that Jay thought we had more picks that were the same. Nope, we just felt like we agreed more. Here are the picks for Week 7:

2025 Week #6

That was a goofy week of comebacks in the NFL last week, some earned, some gifted by the losing teams. I fell on the wrong side of most of them, and Jay has already made up the deficit from earlier in the season. I may be growing up a little, though, as I approach 50, because I didn't grind out my picks this week with extra research and stats. I stayed the course and trusted my instinct, because so many of my picks were good last weekend...until the final score. We'll see how it works out this week. Jay is against me on seven picks overall for Week 6, counting the Thursday night dub he already got over me. Not a good start, but I got lots of bounceback ability with four games Sunday and both Monday. Here are the picks:

 

2025 Week #5

Normally there are pending injuries that are up in the air for a week of NFL football the Friday night before, and there would be a mystery whether those players would suit up. There isn't a lot of mystery this week: A lot of guys are beat to hell and have already been ruled out. Jay and I made our picks a day earlier than usual in order to accommodate me working at the U. of Memphis football game Saturday night. But we didn't need any contingency picks because no major players were undecided. They're either up or down, which made our selections much easier. Of course, we're disagreeing on most of the picks. We're heads up on eight of the thirteen remaining games, and we differed on the Thursday nighter won by Jay. In fact, we're battling on each and every one of the early Sunday games, not counting the uber-early England game. And after all that, we'll probably split 'em. Here are the Week 5 picks:

 

2025 Week #4

Jay and I turned in winning weeks ATS last week. So why did it feel so bad? Well, there were quite a few games we both lost thanks to really screwy things, including special teams snafus and such, but we won the Eagles game that way, so there's that. I think we hated having a Lock-Off in such a blah game between the Cards and Niners, and it ended the way it should have, with the 2½-point favorite winning and still managing not to cover. But we should be thrilled that we went over .500. We'll try to keep the mo going this week, though Jay is crapping on my Lock because he thinks a hot 3-0 opponent (ClipperChargers) is the exact wrong time to put a rookie QB in the lineup, which is what Brian Daboll is doing in New York by starting Jaxson Dart and benching Russell Wilson. I say it's the exact right time. The Giants will rally around the kid, the D will get after Justin Herbert, and the G-Men will win straight up. And you can invest with confidence because I'm not betting on it. I'm taking a week off. Here are our NFL picks for Week 4, featuring seven head-to-head picks between Jay and me:

2025 Week #3

In a perverse way, this is what makes our picks fun: Jay and I independently took a random West Coast game with a backup QB that wouldn't normally get much attention from us, and we decided that one team was our Lock of the Week from that game. But he took one team, and I took the other. How?? It's so out of left field, and it's why the unpredictability of our picks is the secret sauce. We don't even know which way we're going to go sometimes. It's our first Lock-Off in some time, probably a couple years, and it's big because Jay is already up 1-0 and I don't want to go down two Locks, much less drop my first three of the year. We're battling on seven games total for the week, and not all early either. Here's the slate for NFL Week 3 against the spread:

 

2025 Week #2

Time for some Overreaction Theatre as always happens to some extent in picking NFL games in the second week of the season. I tried really hard to stick to my guns and not pick games based on last week, but in some cases you have to pay some mind because otherwise you might pick Bryce Young. And no one should pick Bryce Young after that crap in Jacksonville. Jay and I fight in the early window, differing on six games and singing Kumbaya on all the others. Here is the Week 2 slate:

2025 Week #1

It's a new era for our podcast here at IMLD. Tonight was our first picks show on our new platform, riverside.fm. There are pluses and minuses of course. The biggest minus is, there isn't a singular website where you can just go to a URL and poof, there's the show. You can subscribe to it on either Apple/iTunes or Spotify. Just search for In Much Less Detail. So there will be no link to the show on the weekly picks post here. The show is out there, you have to find it yourself but it's there. Jay and I disagree on seven games this first Sunday of the new NFL season, and we had some solid arguments for and against those picks, so if you really want a football breakdown before you make your investments, find our show and subscribe. Here is the Week 1 board: