NFL Picks 2016: Week six

by Zoneblitz Staff | Oct 12, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

It seems like one of us gets it almost each week – but it’s never consistently the same person.

John Vomhof Jr. paced the picks last week and he now leads for the season. Andy and Tony have stabilized a bit. Anthony, after posting the best picks for week four, dropped to the bottom with a .500 mark in week five.

Week six includes another slate of largely non-descript games. This league can post a lot of mediocre schedules, when it backlogs divisional match-ups for the last couple weeks of the season and puts a couple teams each week on bye.

We’ll see what we can make out of this week’s jumbly mess.

Here are the standings:

And here are our picks:

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NFL Picks 2016: Week five

by Zoneblitz Staff | Oct 5, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

Well, one of us seems a step or two closer to figuring the league out.

Fantasy Expert Anthony Maggio hit 10 of 15 games to lead the pack.

The rest ranged from nine correct picks to Andy’s six – what’s he smoking?

“The games just seem so hard this year,” he says. “No way I can do that badly again this week … unless I do.”

Week five presents another weak schedule of mid-season games the league is trying to bury so the end of the season can be exciting.

Here are the standings after week four.

And here are our picks: (more…)

NFL Picks 2016: Week four

by Zoneblitz Staff | Sep 28, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

Ok seriously – what the hell is going on with the NFL this season?

It’s early and it’s harder to make picks, but we’re nearing the season’s quarter pole – and none of us have really figured the league out yet this year. Six times last week every single one of us picked a game incorrectly. That’ll happen once in a while, but six times?

I’ve never had a season where 50-50 was the rule. Three of us went 8-8 in week three. Anthony really struggled, pulling up the rear at 5-11.

There will be no .500 marks this week. … That’s because the bye weeks start. So, here’s hoping we end up on the right side of the line. Here are the standings so far.

And here are our picks for week four: (more…)

NFL Picks 2016: Week three

by Zoneblitz Staff | Sep 20, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

Hmm.

Our picks seemed to be going better through the early games on Sunday. Then the afternoon kickoffs hit and … everything went to hell again.

Losses by Seattle, Oakland, Jacksonville, Green Bay and Chicago took solid numbers and turned them into near .500 level performances by the ZB pickers again this week.

John Vomhof Jr. is the only one who seems to have any clue what’s going to happen. He paced the picks for the second week in a row, with 10 correct.

Here are the standings:

Well, there’s still almost nowhere to go but up, I guess. Here are our picks for week 3. (more…)

NFL Picks 2016: Week two

by Zoneblitz Staff | Sep 13, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

Well … that was ugly.

Contributing writer John Vomhof led the pack by picking 11 games correctly in week one. Nobody else got more than nine. Fantasy Editor Maggio missed 10.

All in all, it was a rough start to the season for our pickers. Better things to come?

Here are the standings:

It’s difficult to get a read on the NFL for the first few weeks of the season. And week two presents another collection of unpredictable match-ups. Here are our picks: (more…)

NFL Picks 2016: Week one

by Zoneblitz Staff | Sep 6, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Picks

I saw Peyton Manning doing another cheesy commercial the other day. This time he was inviting Eli over on Sunday to watch NFL Sunday Ticket. Eli was preparing to play a game.

Yes, Peyton is retired, but – the more things change, the more they stay the same. It seems we’ll still be able to count on him for some doofus TV ads. Those eye-rolling gems mean we’re just a couple days short of the kickoff of another NFL season.

And in keeping with the way the NFL does things, there are some good, tough games to pick in week one. We’re 80 percent back from last year, with Andy, Tony, John and Anthony returning to show our game-picking skills, or lack thereof. Here is our effort for week one. (more…)