damn, Ray had the same selections as Johnboy was planning to post. There is nothing wrong with great minds running in the same gutter, but
I changed one game I was ambivalent about:
Carolina
Jacksonville
Cincinnati (although Balt plays well when there is as an * )
Atlanta
Detroit
San Diego
Tennessee
Oakland
Chicago
Seattle
NY Giants
Pittsburgh
Washington
Indianapolis (46)
I pondered hard about picking New England. Is Indy for real? How will they perform once they get out of their domed stadium? If this game was a month later when they have to play outside...
Anyway, that is how Week 9 will turn out. But yall are still welcome to submit.
Carolina-TB will start to fade
Jax-I love this team, I pick them every week
Cincy-Chad Johnson is amazing
Miami-I can't remember the last Falcon game, rusty.
Minnesota-Joey Harrington is really bad
San Diego-NY Jets are the worst
Tenn-McNair is better than anything Cleveland has
KC-Beast of a team
Chicago-That D will feast on Brooks
Seattle-Best in NFC
Giants-Niners have Cody Pickett at QB
Green Bay-Yep, that's right
Philly-Washington will fade
Indy(62)-That is right, it is their year
Thank yall who are inclined to pick early for, um, picking early.
I am pleased to report that el-diablo checked in on another thread, reporting that he just got power back on after 10 days. He seemed pretty sane; johnboy would not be. I hope he will be joining us after he catches up with other stuff.
Carolina
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Detroit
NY Jets
Cleveland
Kansas City
Chicago
Arizona
NY Giants
Pittsburgh
Washington
Indianapolis (61)
Tough games to pick again this week! Nonetheless.....
Carolina
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Detroit
San Diego
Cleveland
Kansas City
New Orleans
Seattle
New York Giants
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Indianapolis (43)
Ok
CAR
JAX
CIN
MIA (fingers crossed)
DET
SD
CLE
KC
NO
SEA
NYG
PIT
WASH
IND (50)
Sorry I missed last week but as you may have guessed ole Wilma literally knocked down the electricity pole outside mi casa and FPL didnt get around to it till about Tuesday and I got power back on Wednesday. SOme of the people I knwo on the west coast (of Florida) STILL don't have power.
Almost forgot...
Carolina
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Detroit
San Diego
Tennessee
Oakland
Chicago
Seattle
San Francisco
Pittsburgh
Washington
New England (45)
Tampa Bay
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Detroit
San Diego
Cleveland
Kansas City
Chicago
Seattle
NY Giants
Pittsburgh
Washington
Indianapolis (52)
Sometimes I feel like I am herding kittens. I get jpinmilw back in line, but than both panzade and gus wander off. Neither picked this week.
So be it. Some of the other players who are not too far behind them in the Cumulative Wins Minus Losses can do some serious gaining this week.
If they pick right.
In the Deviant of the Week segment, Liontamerx is at (1), Johnboy (4), Dragon (6), Ray (7), Jpinmilw (9) and Cowdoc (10). A little further out are El-diablo ((14) and Fbaezer (16). And then, and then I say, are George (20), Region (21) and Child of Light all the way out at (27)..
The first games will be over shortly. I don't watch tv much so I have no idea how things are going but I'll let yall know where we stand.
Where is our update Johnboy?
For what it's worth, I think I wound up at 11-3. How about everybody else? If memory serves me right, I think other people did better than that.
I had my best week ever this week.
I was 11-3, and nailed the points on Monday's game.
I missed doing the Monday update prior to the NE-Indy game. Sorry. So for Week 9, most of us did quite well. It probably isn't quite fair to single out Region for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...but his pick of NE hurt him badly.
Region, Jpinmilw and Liontamerx each finished at 12-2 and JPinmilw went for the tiebreaker to be a high scorong game. His pick of 52 was closest so he is this week's winner. JPinmilw didn't play for two weeks, but he is back and bad. Well done. Our 7th different winner in 9 weeks.
A bunch of us came in at 11-3. A bunch: Dragon, Johnboy, Fbaezer, Cowdoc, and El-diablo. Dragon and Fbaezer each had 61 in the tie-breaker. Unfortunately, they were a game short in the win column.
Child of Light and Ray finished at 10-4 and George was at 9-5.
Most of the ESPN experts also finished at 12-2.
Panzade and Gus sat out in this week that saw many of us with some impressive wins minus losses scores. For the year-to-date:
Cowdoc (38); Gus (34); Panzade (33); Child of Light, Region and Liontamerx (32) and Johnboy (30). Then there a bit of a gap before we find Dragon (20); El-diablo and George (18); Fbaezer (14); JPinmilw (10) and Ray (8).
Even without Panzade and Gus it was, as a group, our best week of the season. Either we are getting smarter or it was easy picking in Week 9.
Week 10 coming up shortly here. I hope Gus and Panzade will be back
now might be a good time to re-think my "27 points" rule...
I thought about commenting on your 27-point tiebreaker thing in my post above, Region. But when I was doing my research on Week 10, I was impressed with the number of low-scoring games there were in Week 9. Could it be an NFL/TV conspiracy to schedule potentially high-scoring games for Monday night? And is the now contrite Terrell Owens ever going to fly with the Eagles again?
Week 10 in the usual format with * indicating conference games:
1pm Nov 13:
*New England (4-4 for the season) @ *Miami (3-5)
Minnesota (3-5) @ NY Giants ((6-2)
Washington (5-3) @ Tampa Bay (5-3)
Baltimore (2-6) @ Jacksonville (5-3)
*Houston (1-7) @ *Indianapolis (8-0)
Arizona (2-6) @ Detroit (3-5)
San Francisco (2-6) @ Chicago (5-3)
Kansas City (5-3) @ Buffalo (3-5)
4pm:
*Denver (6-2) @ *Oakland (3-5)
New York Jets (2-6) @ Carolina (6-2)
*St Louis (4-4) @ *Seattle (6-2)
Green Bay (1-7) @ Atlanta (6-2)
8pm:
*Cleveland (3-5) @ *Pittsburgh (6-2)
Monday:
*Dallas (5-3) @ *Philadelphia (4-4)
14 games plus the tie-breaker. It looks like an easy week? Right?
Thanks for playing. -johnboy-
Here we go again...
Kansas City
Tampa Bay
New England
Chicago
NY Giants
Detroit
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Carolina
Denver
Seattle
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
Dallas (37)
New England
NY Giants
Washington
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Arizona
Chicago
Kansas City
*Denver
Carolina
Seattle
Atlanta
Cleveland
Dallas (42)
