2026 Week #7

Our struggle bus season continues as Jay and I deal with swimming underwater on our picks. One or both of us by now had found a groove and put up a couple of double-digit win weeks, but not this year. I take solace in the fact that all the point spreads are so tight this season, so it's not like we're wildly missing on our picks. It's that the margins are so small. We're trying to pick NFL games in a week when all the spreads are four points or less except for like two games. Whoever's doing well ATS this year, congrats. And send us your secrets. We're battling on six games this week, like last week when we split right down the middle. Here are the picks:

 

2026 Week #6

Jay and I are coming off a really bad week of picks, so we're both probably hoping to split the six games we're on opposite sides of here in NFL Week 6. I know it really affects me when my picks are bad, but this season feels like the teams that aren't perfect or winless all can be anything any week. As an example, is there a believable explanation for why Patriots QB Drake Maye looks so much better than he did to open the season? Jay speculated Super Bowl hangover, which, okay maybe, but my point is, there's no telling who's going to be good or bad in my opinion. Well, we have the same Lock this week, so if that goes south, it's probably a sign that the rest of the week will be crap again. Here are our picks:

 

2026 Week #5

Not a lot of pre-pick yapping this week, we're getting the picks up close to gametime for the NFL early Sunday slate so here they are. Jay and I go heads up on seven games, including crapping each other's Lock for the second week in a row:

 

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2026 Week #4

The NFL brings the pain this week as many big stars are sitting out Week 4 after slamming their bodies around for a few weeks. Football hurts. That's why I didn't play, that and I was very out of shape. Jay and I navigated through the injuries to make our picks, and we weren't hugely in opposition, only disagreeing on six games, but we are crapping on each other's Locks. So in a small way we're seeing some things differently in this strange season. Here is the docket for Week 4:

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2026 Week #3

This has been the goofiest start to a season that I can remember. Teams that have no business being 0-2, teams that shouldn't be 2-0, teams that already have really good outings and really bad ones through two damn games. I got some crazy picks this week, not a whole lot but a few that fly in the face of what one would logically pick in those games. Because logic has been flying out the window anyway in the NFL thus far. Here are our picks, where Jay and I disagree on six games counting Thursday, and I crap on his Lock:

 

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2026 Week #2

Good old Overreaction Week 2 in the NFL is here, where everyone has to decide what about Week 1 is believable and what should be dismissed. Jay and I saw a lot the same because we agreed on all but four of the 16 games this week. We fear that means it will be a 4-12 style week, but we always fear that when we have that many together. Here are the Week 2 picks ATS:

 

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2026 Week #1

Jay and I never lose...on Week 1 weeknights in 2026! We're 1-0 with a push as the rest of Week 1 gets ready to play out. And we're more koombayah than usual, only differing on five of the remaining 14 games, and we're not crapping on each other's Locks. Unfortunately, as Jay speculated at the end of our podcast, that probably means we're losing double digit picks. Only one way to find out: Watch the games and see where our picks land. Here are those picks:

 

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