This week's winners:
Patrick - 10-6 (+3)
Jonathan - 9-5 (+1.5)
Roger - 9-5 (+1.5)
Bob - 8-8
Joel - 8-8
John - 7-9
Jeremy - 6-10
Jarrett - 1-15 (didn't submit picks)
If you've ever watched sports with Patrick, you know he likes to yell at the TV. We assume he knows that the players can't hear him, but that never seems to stop him. If the Jaguars are driving to take the lead at the end of the game, Patrick will often yell, "DON'T SCORE TOO SOON!" And now as Patrick is so close to regaining the lead from John, all of his fans (Tara & Gillian?) are yelling, "DON'T SCORE TOO SOON?" Will Patrick ignore his own advice? Or will he peak too soon?
While we're thinking of questions concerning Patrick, other questions come to mind. Questions like, if Patrick takes the lead, will he start to become complacent (like John?) and not push the keyboard as hard when submitting his picks? Will the seemingly illogical reasoning behind Joel's weekly awards cause Patrick to suffer a nervous breakdown? (Right now, Joel's assessment of the Colts over the Jaguars as the worst pick of the week is probably driving Patrick crazy. I do think, though, that if you don't trust your favorite team to beat the Colts, you have absolutely no faith in them. Where is the loyalty?) Does Patrick have enough money to pay Bert's former advisers (whom Patrick claimed to have hired at the end of last season)? Yelling at the TV, hiring imaginary advisers--maybe he's already gone crazy!
The most satisfying pick of the week was Jonathan's pick of New England. (Roger also picked the Patriots, but he's not a New England fan.) By now it should be clear that you should be very careful about picking against the Patriots when everyone doubts them. The Patriots win allowed Jonathan and Roger to share second place this week.
With the excitement of Patrick's pursuit of John, perhaps no one has noticed that Jeremy has been tumbling down the standings. In week 7, he was less that one point out of second place. He now sits in fifth. The reclusive Jeremy was unavailable for comment.
"Lastly, I would like to say that my decisions as a coach affect not only our football team and our fans, but also the Football Pool. My decision to go for it on fourth down in overtime allowed Patrick to steal first place this week from Jonathan and for that I am deeply sorry."--Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith
--Jonathan
I'm really getting sick of NFL football. It's so tiring making the best picks week in and week out, and not getting the points for it!
There are lots of candidates for all of these, but here's what I'm dishing out this week. I'm sure these could be debated ad nauseum.
Best pick of the week: Giants over Niners. Just kidding. Titans over Panthers.
Worst pick of the week: Colts over Jaguars. And Patrick still won the week.
Critical game of the week: Patriots at Jets.
It's good to see the Bills back. And the Lions. Nice to see the Eagles living up to expectations. Nice for Atlanta to show no faith in their defence, even though they'd just 3-and-outed the Saints the previous possession. How about those Rams? Convincing win #2. Tim Tebow. 2 for 8, 60-some yards, and a 17-10 win.
--Joel
Current Standings
8 comments:
Perhaps John can hire Jarrett as his advisor. Are you serious? John took 4 home teams in key games and lost them all. What up with that? Panthers, Falcons, Colts, Browns and they ALL lost? Meanwhile his closest competition had 3 of those right. He must be turning into Joel. That could mean 10 years of wildernes ahead. That guy definitely tried and hardly was complacent at the send button.
Are we safe to assume that "Anonymous" is Patrick? In the immortal words of Herm Edwards, "Putcha name on it!"
Say what? whatever...can't win for trying. Jaguars are now 3-6 and that is as good as the Eagles.
One week I picked Dallas to beat the Eagles and Joel declared it the worst pick of the week - you know Dallas had an off night but the Eagles are pretty lame. Now I did pick a winless team to beat the Jags so I deserve worst pick, but it was strategic because I assumed John wouldn't pick the Jacksonville either. If you cant beat him - join him - it is funny that I got that wrong b/c Jaguars usualy do win off a bye.
Jonathan is still very much in contention this year if he keeps making picks like the last two weeks...come on where are the pleas: "somebody stop Jonathan"...
(Am I the only one that thinks Joel has sort of mailed it in already with the updates - what next? a line of question marks next to all his picks?)
Picking the Colts this year in any week, against any team, is automatic worst pick of the week.
@Joel
So will you retroactively give me "Worst Pick of the Week" for picking the Colts to beat the Browns?
In 2008 (the season without Brady), the score against the Colts was IND 18, NE 15. How close will it be without Manning?
That must mean Joel had the worst pick on weeks 2 and 5 - both weeks he chose the Colts. Or are we to assume they became a bad team only after they hit 0-5?
Some weeks it appears like the score dictates the award while on others it is reputation. On week 8 when Dallas went to Philly and lost 34-7 that was the worst pick. (three people picked them)
But I expect now that Philly officially suck the next time Dallas-Philadelphia play whoever picks Philly will automatically get "worst" pick unless they also pick Indy that week.
I think that nervous breakdown might be coming (see above comment).
I don't think anyone is shocked that Denver won again since they were the home team on 3 days rest BUT it continues to be HOW they win games. They average 7 yards per offensive possession until somehow engineering the final drive of 95 yards.
I have kept your blog afloat long enough Jonathan - but I have some articles to write. Strategically week 11 is a good time for me to start acting like Belichick by commenting less and concentrating more on making picks.
Surely some of the others (besides Joel) can try stirring the pot.
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