NFL Picks 2015: Week 15

by Zoneblitz Staff | Dec 16, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

We’re at the three-quarter pole of the season. The playoff races are starting to clear up, though our picks remain inconsistent, at best.

Andy and Tony tied at 11 last week with everyone else falling a game or so behind. Tony is running away with the season-long tally, however. Barring a complete collapse he’ll be hard to catch at this point.

Here’s where we stand:

I keep waiting for the barnburner week of division games with playoff implications. This season’s schedule has had a lot of weird, dud games throughout. That mostly continues, even this late in the season. Here’s what we think is going to happen: (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 14

by Zoneblitz Staff | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

So who would have thought the Carolina Panthers would be the last undefeated team in the league? And that they’d not lose a game by week 14? And that the next closest team to them would have two losses? And that the Patriots would lose to the Eagles at home, especially after taking a 14-0 lead?

We could play this game all day. The 2015 season has been one for the unexpected and that continued last week. Still, four of our pickers got 10 right and Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio paced us all with 11. If you didn’t look at the prior 12 weeks, you might think we actually know what we’re doing here… or maybe not.

But anyway, week 14 arrives in a couple days. And here is where our picks stand so far:

And here are our picks for week 14: (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 13

by Zoneblitz Staff | Dec 2, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

As a staff we’ve kind of rotated throughout the season as to whom actually seems to know what is going on in the league. It’s Andy’s turn right now, as he turned in his second straight week hitting 11 games.

If we could ever figure out who the hot hand was going to be ahead of time we might be able to hit Vegas and actually win some money. Unfortunately, the hot streaks seem to be coming from thin air.

Tony continues to have the highest mark for the season, but Andy is catching up. Everyone else in week 12 hit no more than nine games. That’s put Andy solidly in second, just three games behind the top spot.

Here are the standings:

And here are our picks for week 13:

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NFL Picks 2015: Week 12

by Zoneblitz Staff | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

The NFL continues to be delightfully unpredictable.

One week after nearly all of us tanked, Andy rebounded from a 5-9 week to go 11-3.

That allowed him to pick up three games in the overall standings, as nobody else cleared eight.

Seven games separate the top (Tony) from fourth (Maggio), with two of our pickers selecting winners accurately enough to rank in the top 25 (tied) with the so-called experts followed by NFLPickwatch.com.

We may be having a down season by our standards, but it appears as though it’s either not as bad as we thought or we are not alone.

Mild consolation after the struggles of the last month.

Here are the standings:

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NFL Picks 2015: Week 11

by Zoneblitz Staff | Nov 18, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

Let’s start out by talking about what went right last week.

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Now that we’ve gotten through that, let’s talk about the rest.

Holy cow, this football season is bizarre. Green Bay starts 6-0 then loses three straight, including at home to a team that hadn’t won in Lambeau Field since 1991?

Peyton Manning throws four interceptions and basically gives his team no chance to win on the day he breaks the passing yardage record?

The NFL irritates people with color blindness by putting teams in all green and all red uniforms in a nationally-televised Thursday night game? Actually, I kind of got a kick out of the furor the NFL faced on that one – well deserved. The best description I heard of those uniforms was that it looked like Christmas barfed up a football game.

But I digress.

Our week 10 picks were ugly. Very ugly. Only one of us – Tony – got more than half the games correct. John Vomhof Jr. got half of them right. The rest of us tied at five. Putrid.

Here are the standings:

Well, we’ll put this one behind us. Here are our picks for week 11. (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 10

by Zoneblitz Staff | Nov 11, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

Well … that was ugly.

Only one of our pickers hit eight games in week nine. Rich, who won our survivor pool, stayed hot in an unpredictable week.

The rest of us ranged from four (Andy) to seven correct. Just one of those weeks, I guess.

Here are the standings:

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