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: