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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2019, 11:42:39 AM »
I saw this as a trap week a mile away. Way too many "obvious" choices. The good news is that weeks like this are usually pretty much a wash. Nobody does well.
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« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2019, 08:23:03 AM »
Well, at least Pitt gave me one more point in what was otherwise a shit week.  :-\
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« Reply #37 on: October 13, 2019, 10:23:10 PM »
Damn I was 1 for 5 this afternoon/evening.

I see everyone picked the Chargers, and everyone save one picked the Cowboys, so I didn't lose too much ground.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #38 on: October 14, 2019, 08:22:15 AM »
The NFL is dumb.  :\
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #39 on: October 14, 2019, 05:57:12 PM »
I'll tell you what, though:  there are a lot of teams losing games they shouldn't lose if they want to be contenders.  Two in a row in KC?  Defense not carrying the water, and the offense not as dominant as it was that one year (saw that coming, sorry, not sorry).  Chargers missing an opportunity (and I'm sorry; Phillip Rivers does not look good this season).  Dallas? 

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« Reply #40 on: October 15, 2019, 04:19:43 PM »
Let's not forget the Rams.  They aren't nearly the team they were a year ago.  Dallas is banged up on offense, but the defense has no excuses for the way they've played the last 2 weeks.  Still not sold on the 9er's.  Their schedule has been easy so far.  In this league, 5-0 can go south on ya real quick.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2019, 05:21:23 PM »
In this league, 5-0 can go south on ya real quick.

So true... just ask the 2009 Broncos that started 6-0 and finished 8-8  :lol

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« Reply #42 on: October 15, 2019, 09:05:10 PM »
Or any Andy Reid team ever.

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« Reply #43 on: October 28, 2019, 08:58:04 PM »
EB is pulling away slightly, with a big logjam between 2-9.
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« Reply #44 on: October 28, 2019, 09:33:39 PM »
And Rattlehead just turned in a perfect 15-0. WTG.  :tup
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« Reply #45 on: October 29, 2019, 07:00:45 AM »
Thanks Barto! It's been a brutal season for me with picks, so I'm hoping to keep moving up in the standings from here on out  :lol

Aside from a few games I would say it was the easiest week of the season to pick so far.

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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #46 on: October 29, 2019, 07:41:49 AM »
Although I had a good week, relatively, I cannot find my mojo.  I usually do pretty well on these things (I've won a couple times, though not in DTF), but I can't seem to get the feel for this season (and that's what it is, a "feel").  This past week was a fairly easy week, but this week coming up is fraught with peril.   There are a LOT of traps in it, as far as I can see.  Easily half the games, in fact. 

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« Reply #47 on: October 29, 2019, 08:06:22 AM »
My best week so far since week 1, but I'll never be lucky enough to pick a perfect week.
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« Reply #48 on: October 30, 2019, 11:18:05 PM »
Way to go, Rattlehead.    :tup:hefdaddy

I've been here for four years, and jingle.boy's the only other one that I remember with a perfect week.
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« Reply #49 on: November 04, 2019, 08:41:21 AM »
Well, the wheels coming off GB and NE certainly didn't help.  :\
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« Reply #50 on: November 14, 2019, 06:42:39 AM »
What a week!   :tdwn  Other than DoC going 9-5, no one else picked more than six games correctly!  The absolute worst group effort in the four years I've been doing this.  Guess like minds think alike.....

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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #51 on: November 14, 2019, 07:20:26 AM »
It was a stupid week of teams losing that should've won.  Shit happens.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #52 on: November 14, 2019, 10:45:32 AM »
It was a stupid week of teams losing that should've won.  Shit happens.
Yep. Happens a couple of times a year. I've gone as low as 1-15, and my longtime adversary and I have both turned in a few 3-13s. We've also turned in our fair share of 15-1s. It's what makes the whole thing worth doing.

There's only one of those games that I regret picking, and that was the Tenn upset over KC. I saw it coming, albeit for a different reason that what actually occurred. I just didn't have the cajones to bet against KC. The rest were all perfectly reasonable picks that just didn't work out.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #53 on: November 15, 2019, 01:56:37 PM »
Last week was my worst so far.  This week not starting off well.  How many of us picked Pitt last night?  :\
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« Reply #54 on: November 15, 2019, 02:18:34 PM »
Last week was my worst so far.  This week not starting off well.  How many of us picked Pitt last night?  :\
I picked. . .nobody. I pick Thur and Sat games before the season starts as a fallback in case I forget. I didn't forget and checked yesterday. I saw HOU/Indi, saw that I had HOU ticked and forgot about it. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Pitt was playing CLE last night. In September Pitt seemed like a safe bet. Yesterday not so much. I can't honestly say I wouldn't have picked them anyway because I didn't do my due diligence, but I damn sure would have made a better informed decision.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #55 on: November 24, 2019, 02:37:02 PM »
Bart , what did you see in that Washington game?   Not sure there’s a scenario - short of natural disasters - where I pick them. 

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« Reply #56 on: November 24, 2019, 02:59:26 PM »
I can't speak for anyone else but Washington is a better team than their record indicates ( slightly ). I believe it was a home game for them as well vs Detroit I would have picked The Skins.

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« Reply #57 on: November 24, 2019, 08:49:56 PM »
Bart , what did you see in that Washington game?   Not sure there’s a scenario - short of natural disasters - where I pick them.
Thanks for asking. I'm kinda proud of that one. I saw exactly what what wound up happening. DET had no means of picking off WAS's rookie QB. WAS had the secondary to pick off DET's rookie QB once or twice. Two shitty teams with two inexperienced QBs. One had a -12 TO diff and one was +2. One had 3 INTs after 10 games. The other had 12. That's really all I needed to know.
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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #58 on: December 02, 2019, 06:01:30 PM »
Everyone picked Philly, and lost; everyone picked Carolina, and lost.

EB has a 5 point lead with 4 weeks to go. Insurmountable?
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« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2019, 06:07:57 PM »
I'm just hoping to not finish last (among the people that actually picked every week).    Fucking embarrassing if you ask me.   

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« Reply #60 on: December 03, 2019, 08:28:02 AM »
Usually most of my picks look pretty good in the 1st half of the games.  It's amazing how many of them go to shit in the 2nd half.
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« Reply #61 on: December 03, 2019, 09:22:08 AM »
I'm just hoping to not finish last

Stadler: dtf.org's own Jeff Fisher.
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« Reply #62 on: December 03, 2019, 09:37:22 AM »
I'm just hoping to not finish last

Stadler: dtf.org's own Jeff Fisher.


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« Reply #63 on: December 04, 2019, 08:52:53 AM »
Everyone picked Philly, and lost; everyone picked Carolina, and lost.

EB has a 5 point lead with 4 weeks to go. Insurmountable?

I gained five games on him in a two week span a few weeks ago.  So, 'No', his lead is not insurmountable.

btw.....I proceeded to give back four of those the following two weeks.   :facepalm:
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« Reply #64 on: December 29, 2019, 06:19:30 PM »
El Barto racks up a three-peat after this week's performance.
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« Reply #65 on: December 29, 2019, 06:36:54 PM »
I just want you all to know how deeply disappointed I am in each and every one of you.

(And it's just a repeat. I pre-filled in the this season's winner in the OP because, well, because.   :hat)
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« Reply #66 on: December 29, 2019, 07:54:51 PM »
(And it's just a repeat. I pre-filled in the this season's winner in the OP because, well, because.   :hat)

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Re: 2019 NFL Pick'em
« Reply #67 on: December 29, 2019, 09:45:22 PM »
what does 6th place win?
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« Reply #68 on: January 01, 2020, 05:03:12 PM »
I couldn't get out of the rut that I created in the first four weeks or so.   No question Bart earned it, but I'm deeply disappointed in my performance.  I would never have won, but I should have been in the top five or seven or thereabouts. 

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« Reply #69 on: January 04, 2020, 12:52:13 PM »
I fought the good fight, and finished 3rd.  Kudos to El Barto again for putting us to shame ;)

It is great to be a participant, and able to have that website to keep tabs.  I just checked on the season tallies for the seven Baltimore Sun sports writers and editors.  Only one matched my record, and their main writer (who reviews the Ravens as if he were watching the Browns and Lions) finished ten games behind me.  Considering I make all my picks on Wednesday night, perhaps we should switch occupations.....

Finished second in the survival league here, and won money in my fantasy football league, so it was a good year.

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