2026 Week #8

Desperate times call for desperate measures. I got blanked versus Jay last week, losing all six of our head-to-head picks and also dropping my Lock while he won his. I got Blutarski'd. Zero point zero zero. How embarrassing for a football podcast co-host to go 3-11 picking NFL games. I've been trying to pick through the games and find the underdogs since so many dogs have covered this season, but obviously last week I picked the wrong ones. So for the first time in our 40-year history of picking games, one of us is going all in on favorites or underdogs for every pick in a week. I admit that I didn't realize I picked all favs until after I made my picks, but that's because I had been seeking out my choice underdogs before I really dug into all the games, and I didn't do that this time. This is what getting blanked will do to a man. Wish me luck. Jay has five underdogs, so it's not like he's swimming in dogs, but that's five more than me. Here are our picks:

 

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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