2018 Week #17

The final week of the NFL regular season traditionally gives some very unusual results, so as you know if you're a regular reader of this blog, Jason and I flip a coin for each and every pick to see if we can do better than a random coin flip.  Most of the time, we don't.  I added an extra element of randomness this year.  Thanks to nflpickwatch.com, I can see which teams I pick well and which teams I'm the worst at picking, and I found a couple of matchups this week between teams that I'm under .500 picking both squads.  So since I don't know what I'm picking with those teams anyway, and this is the extra-screwy Week 17, I just picked the opposite of what I actually like for those games.  I have those picks italicized for full disclosure.  And I'm winning the fan challenge by two games with one week to go, so if those two games are the ones I lose, I have no one to blame but myself.  Here are our official Week 17 picks, where Jay and I go head-to-head on six games:

Fav	Spread	Dog	Final		Dre	Jay	Coin
GB (6-8-1)	7½	Det (5-10)			GB	GB	GB
NO (13-2)	7	Car (6-9)			Car	NO	NO
Atl (6-9)	2	TB (5-10)			Atl	TB	Atl
HOU (10-5)	7	Jack (5-10)			Hou	Hou	Jack
NE (10-5)	14	NYJ (4-11)			NY	NE	NE
BUF (5-10)	5½	Mia (7-8)			Buf	Buf	Mia
NYG (5-10)	6	Dal (9-6)			NY	NY	Dal
LAC (11-4)	6	DEN (6-9)			LA	LA	LA
SEA (9-6)	13½	Ariz (3-12)			Sea	Sea	Sea
MIN (8-6-1)	5½	Chi (11-4)			Min	Chi	Chi
LAR (12-3)	10½	SF (4-11)			SF	LA	LA
BAL (9-6)	6½	Cle (7-7-1)			Bal	Bal	Bal
PIT (8-6-1)	14½	Cin (6-9)			Cin	Cin	Pit
Phi (8-7)	7½	WASH (7-8)			Phi	Phi	Phi
KC (11-4)	14½	Oak (4-11)			KC	Oak	Oak
	Sun. Nite
Ind (9-6)	3	TENN (9-6)			Ind	Ind	Tenn
				Week 16	7-9	7-9
					0.438	0.438
				Season	132-103-5	114-121-5
					0.562	0.485
				Lock Total	9	9

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NFL 2018 Week #17