Tony fell into an even deeper hole when his two big bets didn’t hit last week, so he’s gone into pretend hiding for the weekly-betsoffseason as he attempts to avoid having his legs broken by his hypothetical guy.

His rough season came to an end with a loss of more than $20,000.

My bets weren’t exactly stellar throughout the year – more on this in a later post – but a solid finish to the season put me up a little over $1,000 for the season.

With Tony suddenly MIA, I’ll be going solo on the bets throughout the playoffs. Here’s where we stand right now.

Last week Last week $ Overall Overall $ Bankroll
Andy 3-1 + $2,809 32-35-1 + $2,809 $11,568
Tony 2-2 – $6,548 29-38-1 – $27,343 – $17,343

There are four really interesting games on slate for this weekend. Here’s how I see them playing out:

$1,000 – Kansas City at Houston: Under 40 (-105) – The Chiefs offense is not dynamic, but it’s been playing well of late. But so has Houston’s defense. The Texans lack star power at QB and, with Arian Foster out, don’t have a great run game. I see this game going Kansas City’s way, but I expect it to be in the 17-10 realm.

$1,000 – Pittsburgh (-3, even) at Cincinnati – It would be interesting to see how the Bengals would fare in this game with Andy Dalton. That said, the Steelers enter the playoffs on a relative hot streak. Save for a week 16 bumble against Baltimore, this team has been on fire. Even full strength, I sort of have a hard time seeing Cincinnati pull this one off.

$1,000 – Seattle (-5, -102) at Minnesota – I don’t see this game being a blowout of the proportion of the game in late November. Frigid temperatures will act as an equalizer. Minnesota has made tremendous strides this season and the defense is back close to 100 percent healthy. That said, this is a young team that still has more growing to do. And Seattle has back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in its back pocket. The Seahawks will win. It won’t be a blowout, but it will be comfortable.

$1,000 – Green Bay at Washington: Over 45 (-105) – The Packers have been putrid and the Redskins have been hot. Kirk Cousins is outplaying Aaron Rodgers. But let’s take a step back – this is the postseason. It’s a whole different ballgame. Washington comes from the weak NFC East. I expect they’ll continue to score, but I also think the Packers have drawn a team they can get healthy against, if only for a week. I believe in our picks segment I was the only one to pick Green Bay to win. I don’t feel confident in that prediction. But I do feel confident in this: Expect this to be the highest-scoring game of the weekend.

Cheers.