2024 Week #11

Twelve years of BlogTalk Radio will come to an end for us as the website has announced that it will shut down in January 2025. I have mixed emotions about it. Obviously, I'm grateful that Jay and I found a place that (for a fee) allowed us the platform to figure out our show and our rhythm and what we found enjoyable and entertaining. The constant technical difficulties were extremely frustrating, of course, so the eventual demise wasn't that surprising. The lack of customer service for us as paying clientele was bad business. So whatever the future holds for the show, I'm excited, and also a little nervous for the unknown, which is my normal state of existence anyway. As for our picks this week, it's always good to clear out the Lock on Thursday, which I did in picking the Eagles, which you know I did if you follow me on X/Twitter @imlddre. Jay and I battle on six picks, including the entire late slate Sunday and SNF. I hope to avoid the slaughtering he gave me last week, winning four of those five. Here are our NFL Week 11 picks:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #11: Project-Pat: The Rivalry Continues

2024 Week #10

The NFL reaches its halfway point, and Jay and I are still struggaling to make it to .500. It's been a tough season thus far. No excuses, but there have been a ton of games we've both lost by a point or a half point ATS. But that's why we play the spread, for the challenge. Now we just gotta live up to it. We're heads up on five of the remaining 13 games this week. Maybe we're coming out of it based on how accurate we were on Thursday: We knew the Ravens would beat the Bengals, but we knew the Bengals and Joe Burrow would put up a fight, and boy howdy, did they. Here's the rest of our picks for Week 10:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #10: Apologies To Allianz

2024 Week #9

Somehow I crossed off a game we won last week as a loss, so it shows that this season is such a struggle that I'm giving us Ls where we actually earned a W. That's not good when you expect the loss because you're losing so much. Jay and I disagree on eight games this week, so one of us may be taking a lot of Ls. I know these favorites are gonna break through one of these weeks, and I'm putting my money on this week. I like the Eagles, Ravens, Saints, Bengals, Falcons, and of course my Lock, the Bills, to win by two or three (or more) scores. Here are our full picks for NFL Week 9:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #9: Aw Hail Naw

2024 Week #8

The NFL season rolls along, and Jay and I have very different views of some of these games. We're opposed on eight of the remaining 15 games for Week 8, and on most of those we were very opposite of each other. We're crapping on each other's Lock, which is always fun, although Jay is invoking a contingency on his Washington pick: If Marcus Mariota winds up getting the start, he will join me in taking Chicago. I'm on the Bears no matter who the Potato Skins send out there. Here are our Week 8 picks:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #8: Godspeed, Tua

2024 Week #7

It had been a long time since Jay and I had a late night Football Party, and by the time it wound down, we were both feeling it and ready to call it a night. It will be an interesting Sunday of football though, as we went against each other on nine of the 15 NFL games between Sunday and Monday, ten counting Thursday. Seeing that Jay took five of the six that we battled on last week, I'm sure he feels really good about this week. But this is my week to get him back, so I hope. Here are the picks for what might be a wild Week 7:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #7: Wait...Davante Feels Better

2024 Week #6

In this very odd year of football, we have a couple of oddities in our picks this week. First, Jay and I have a Double Lock for the second time, and the first time was trusting the Brown Fever over the Giants in Week 3, so hopefully this time it works. We also had a run of Kumbaya, agreeing on four straight, then going head-to-head on five straight, then Kumbaya on the last three games, which I can't remember us doing before. But in this NFL season, nothing make sense, which makes anything and everything make sense. Here are our picks, which looks like it will include a Chicago win over Jacksonville for Jay at the time of this writing:

All of our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #6: Up For Grabs In The DMV

2024 Week #5

Jay and I got some battles head to head in the early games today, disagreeing on five of the six noon contests. We're going to know how good or bad the week is by 3 o'clock today. We handled our business in a timely fashion on the podcast, picking our NFL games in a tidy amount of time, so the last segment is a tribute (in our own way) to two all-time sports stars from our youth who died on the same day last week, Dikembe Mutombo and Pete Rose. Very vivid legacies, but very different reasons. Here are our picks for Week 5:

All our our thoughts and observations can be heard here:

NFL 2024 Week #5: Rice Cooked, By Pat