2022 Week #8

Every football season has its unusual occurrences that make it unique, and this is no exception. But I don't believe we've watched a man's marriage disintegrate before our eyes in the middle of an NFL season. No sooner did we read that Tom Brady's wife had given him an ultimatum of "me or football" than we read that the divorce is final. Guess he made his choice. I get that he is a grown-ass man and wants to do what he wants when he wants, but is this Bucs team worth throwing your marriage away? Not to mention, how many more seasons do you need? It's not like you're going to be left wondering how your career would have gone if you didn't walk away. You already played 93 years. Oh well. Jay and I are married to the number 5, as we are again doing battle on five picks. I believe this is my first time opposing his Lock, but I'm just taking a hunch that the Bills aren't trying to kill a blood rival, so maybe they take it easy on the Packers. But I could see them destroying Green Bay just for fun. Here are our picks for Week 8:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2022 Week #8: Pros Before Hoes

2022 Week #7

The rare Friday night podcast for us was fitting this week because the slate of games for NFL Week 7 was unusual and rare. When you have a week "featuring" one game with two winning teams, you're talking some weird, wacky stuff as Johnny Carson would say. We also rose to the occasion with weird Locks, as I declared my respect for what Geno Smith has done by Locking the Seahawks, while Jay, coming off going against Denver and Nathaniel Hackett and saying "Fuck the Broncos" now says if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and rides with Russell Wilson and Broncos Country. The whole week deserves a big shoulder shrug, because I don't think either of us feel very strongly about our picks. But we pick them all. Always have. Here's our Week 7 ATS, which yet again have us battling on five games, not counting my crazy Thursday night Cardinals win over the Saints:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2022 Week #7: McCaffrey Runs To The Bay

2022 Week #6

Jason and I are finding a way to challenge each other on five games seemingly every week, and this week is once again at the magic number. The latest example on our podcast of us knowing each other's thoughts and tendencies for far too long was that we both wanted to highlight the same exact point about the same exact moment in the same exact game as our "WTF?!" moment of NFL Week 5. You'll have to listen to the show to find out what that was. Here are our picks for what appears to be a tough Week 6 full of evenly-matched contests:

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NFL 2022 Week #6: Tackle Football, But No Tackling

2022 Week #5

Jason and I rebounded in NFL Week 4 with a couple of double-digit weeks winning vs. the spread. That's never easy to do, so we're proud of that despite there being a lot of favorites in those wins. It would be awesome to pick 9 or 10 underdogs and nail them all, but we've been picking these games for almost 40 years. We know that picking a bunch of dogs gets you beat most weeks. We're agreeing on more picks than normal this season, and we think it's because Jay not working Sundays gives him better perspective on the teams since he can actually see them. He's also dipping toes into the analytic pool. Come on in, the water's fine. Here are our picks for Week 5, where we again differ on only five games, not counting whatever that Thursday night horseshit was:

 

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2022 Week #5: Back On Track

2022 Week #4

The NFL season is only three weeks old, but it already feels like a whirlwind. Upsets, wild rallies, guys running out of the back of the end zone, punting off dudes' asses...the entertainment value is high, even if the football is bad. And it's a good thing the entertainment is there, because if people really stopped to think of how disgusting the Tua Tagovailoa situation is, some of them would swear off football. But not us. We will continue to watch and marvel at the athletes, and just hope that we don't see an actual death on the field someday. On that cheery note, here are our picks for Week 4, which has Jay and me disagreeing on five games:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2022 Week #4: Tua Concussed His Back Again

2022 Week #3

If you have been waiting for us to do a picks show where we aren't fitting in the last pick as the show is ending, you're in luck. It was only about 30 seconds to spare, but we did manage to get in all of our picks this week without squooshing in the final one. Only took us ten years. Jay and I had a lot of thoughts and observations about the crazy comebacks last week. We couldn't totally explain away our bad picks, but all we can do is dust ourselves off and try again, Aaliyah-style. I have a contingency this week: The Justin Herbert uncertainty will make me declare that I will take him and the Clippers -3 over the Jaguars if he starts the game, but I'll take Jacksonville if Chase Daniel gets the start in Los Angeles. We only disagree on three games tomorrow, not counting that contingency or Jason's win over me on Thursday. Here are our NFL Week 4 picks:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2022 Week #3: No Lead Is Safe, Officially

2022 Week #2

I'm no stranger to tooting my own horn. Hey, someone has to do it. So I'm proud of posting a 10-6 record ATS in Week 1, considering how wild and crazy the NFL action was. Jay went 8-8, which is still much better than a lot of the "experts." And he's looking up stats and coming up with things he's researched, so we're making our picks with a little more knowledge every week. We're going head to head on six games in Overreaction Week 2, so we'll see who has the edge. On to our picks:

 

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NFL 2022 Week #2: Double-Play Monday