Jason and I are glad to take 3-1 records from all of the pre-Sunday Week 16 action in the NFL. Never bad to go 75% ATS no matter the scenario, unless you're parlaying. We actually have some dispute among our other picks, and he's not just going against my Lock but rooting hard against it. I'm up one in Locks, so if I win this week and he loses, it's all over. Here are our Week 16 picks, where we do battle on six games:
It's so 2020 to wake up on Christmas morning with some hope and happiness...and then find out that downtown Nashville was car-bombed. At this point, you can't do much but shrug. Jay and I checked in to make our picks for the Saturday NFL tripleheader and found ourselves hand in hand yet again with our picks. Maybe the Sunday games will produce some argument. At least we started the week off right thanks to the Saints. Here are the picks for the Saturday Three-Way:
All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:
2020 Week 16 Saturday Three-Way
Two games! Jason and I disagree on two games this week. TWO! In all our 30 years of picking NFL games, I don't believe we've ever been this lockstep with our picks in a given week. I don't even know how to respond to us being that kumbaya with each other. And to think, we filled up our podcast (and spilled over into the aftershow) discussing the picks even though we were the same on 13 of them, 14 counting Thursday night. Guess when you love football, you can talk about it to infinity. Here are the very same-looking picks, which do not have us with the exact same Lock, at least:
All our thoughts and observations can be heard here:
There are more quality matchups this week than there normally seem to be, so for me it made picking more difficult. I had a number of picks where I could see either team coming out on top, and even talked myself out of a couple. Jay sees the week similar to me as we only disagree on five games not counting my Thursday victory, but the ones we disagree on, we really debated them. After his jokes about Taysom Tebow, he's Locking the Saints, and I'm picking against them and going Eagles even though I've been impressed with Taysom. Go figure. Here are all of our picks for NFL Week 14:
This past week will go down as very memorable in the NFL. It wasn't good by just about any standard, but it was unforgettable. It lasted from Thanksgiving morning to the following Wednesday evening thanks to coronavirus complications. It saw a bad college QB forced to play at the highest level, with predictable results. It saw a very good defense try to contain a stud RB while missing several defenders, also with predictable results. And it saw reschedulings and contortions and the league trying everything to keep the sanctity of the 17-game schedule. It was awful, and personally, it made me nauseous. The shit part about 2020 is that seeing the naked greed of the NFL makes one want to stop watching, but the NFL is one of the few things making this year manageable. Here are the picks for Week 13, where Jason and I go head-to-head on seven games:
All of our thoughts and observations, including an aftershow chat with our Steelers megafan Bryce in Brooklyn, can be heard here:
