Here are the standings as I have them as we await picks from ten folks in Week #7.
Through Week #6:
(-) Best ESPN expert (63-28 .698). Pretty stellar performance
(-) Cointoss (55-36 .604). Reached for comment, CT said "Cockadoodledoo"
(1) George (53-38 .582) He reclaims sole possession of 1st
(2) Cowdoc (52-39 .571) slips from a share of 1st as does
(2) Wandeljw
(4) Coastalrat (51-40 .560) advances from 5th
(5) Miz Cowdoc (33-26 .559) debuts in the standings
(6) JPLosman (41-33 .554) gets a good bounce from 14th
(7) Tico (50-41 .549) remains in 7th, along with
(7) Osso and
(7) Ragman, joined by
(7) Jespah who climbs from 10th
(11) McGentrix (49-42 .538) is up from 15th
(11) AndyD stays about where he was, while
(11) Liontamerx slips a bit
(14) Rhys (48-43 .527) drops from 10th
(-) Worst ESPN guy is also 48-43
(15) Region (47-44 .516) plummets from 6th
(16) Mysteryman (46-45 .505) is tied with
(16) Johnboy
(16) JPB and
(16) Edgar
(20) Ehbeth (40-51 .440) brings up the rear.
San Francisco
Arizona
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Green Bay
NY Giants
Houston
Buffalo
Indianapolis
NY Jets
Oakland
Cincinnati
Chicago (22-10)
Rolls eyes at the choices - and then at my own choices:
San Francisco
Minnesota
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Green Bay
NY Giants
Houston
Buffalo
Indianapolis
New England
Oakland
Pittsburgh
Chicago 31-27
@realjohnboy,
Quote:(16) Mysteryman (46-45 .505) is tied with
(16) Johnboy
(16) JPB and
(16) Edgar
Not to be a nag, but I think I'm at 48-43 after going 6-8 last week.
This week's picks:
WEEK #7 - Oct 18th/Oct 22 -
Thursday, 10/18:
Seattle @
San Francisco
Sunday, 10/21 - early:
Arizona @
Minnesota
Dallas @
Carolina
New Orleans @
Tampa Bay
Green Bay @
St Louis
Washington @
NY Giants
Baltimore @
Houston
Tennessee @
Buffalo
Cleveland @
Indianapolis
Sunday - late:
NY Jets @
New England
Jacksonville @
Oakland
Sunday - night:
Pittsburgh @
Cincinnati
Monday, 10/22 - night:
Detroit @
Chicago (28-24)
@JPB,
I guess that we should call you a homer, huh? (All home team picks).
NFL Pick-‘em Week #7 - Oct 18th - Oct 22
Thursday, 10/18:
Seattle @
SF
(More later)
@realjohnboy,
The Miz and I are on the road for meetings in Idaho Falls and Boise, with 450 cows waiting in Mackay afterward. Give us both the Niners tonight, please, and we'll get the rest of our picks in by Sunday morning. Thanks!
@ossobuco,
It sure is a bit of a facing. I have helped drive cows along lanes from the fields to be milked and 30 was a sufficient number to provide an inkling of what 450 must be like.
I did indeed mess up on JPB's score and I am curious to find out how I managed to do it. I will get around to fixing the standings later this evening.
AndyD's picks are in. He says he has selected a few upsets in order to make up some ground in the standings.
He chooses Sea, Az, Dal, Tbay, St L, NYG, Balt, Buff, Cle, NE, Oak, Pitt and Chi (28-7).
I still need picks from Liontamerx and Rhys.
(9000 views of this thread).
@spendius,
Once long ago, I was part of a film crew in a bunch of stockyards. I had the best of it, since I've an extremely poor sense of smell. I loved those faces. Not so much the end process, though I like my steak once in a while. I preferred, natch, the farms where there were being raised.
@ossobuco,
One should bear in mind osso that if there was no steak eating there would be no places to raise the lovely moo-cows. We would run them off the land if we didn't find them useful.
Have you ever seen the back of a cow's ear close up?
@spendius,
Driving milk cows to be milked along country lanes is a hell of a lot different than driving beef cattle, especially cattle that have been allowed to graze on open land their entire lives.
The threat of no picks = no supper prompted Rhys to respond:
SF, Minn, Dal, NO, GB, Wash, Hou, Buff, Indy, NE, Oak, Pitt, Chi (27-24).
@mysteryman,
I have a pair of longhorns live up the road a piece.
I'd like to see spendius attempt to move them off their graze...
We have 14 votes for SF tonight and 5 for Seattle (George, Region, AndyD, McGentrix and Mysteryman).
@spendius,
Yes, though it's been a while.
@Rockhead,
Me too.
We had - well, I hope they're still there - a lot of dairy farms in my area of Humboldt County - thinking of the roads around Ferndale and Arcata. Lovely sight. They're big on grass fed beef up there too.
Meantime, big trouble in the central valley area, with cattle ranchers of all sorts going bankrupt, a few committing suicide, due to a big pinch re cost of feed and too low pricing for them, especially milk. That was in the SF Chronicle a couple of days ago.
@realjohnboy,
There are quite a few choices I expect I may be sorry about, and that game is one of them.
The columnists are whining about parity..
