Week 11 starts tonight. Get your picks in by 8:20 pm TONIGHT. If you don't make a pick you'll get a loss.
Dolphins/Panthers tonight, sans Ronnie Brown. I guess the only Wild Cat tonight will be the Panthers. The Saints should have a field day with the 1-win Bucs. The Giants and Falcons will battle, both being in the thick of a wild card race. The Steelers should roll over the Chiefs. And in the Game of The Week (not because it will be a good game, but because of the bitter history between the two teams) the Ravens welcome the Colts and former Raven kicker Matt Stover, who now kicks for the enemy.
Good luck to everyone and don't forget your picks... 8:20pm tonight.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Week 10 Review
As I said, over these couple of weeks, the playoff picture is beginning to come into focus. With the Cowboys loss I (LuMon) became the first player to be eliminated from playoff contention. At 3-5 I am 4 games behind LRobbins (7-1) in the Kent Division and 4 games behind Jay Dub (also 7-1) in the Wild Card with only 3 regular season Frenzy games to go.
With a Vikings win and an Eagles loss, Cam2109 took sole possession of the New Castle Division with jharris falling a game behind and Mark two games back. And thanks to the Titans win, bfaries holds on to hope for another week. However with a loss in week 11 or wins from Cam2109, LRobbins, Fumble, and Jay Dub in week 11 he will be eliminated.
As I mentioned in the week 10 preview I didn't think LRobbins would go undefeated this year, and with the Eagles loss she took her first L of the season, though she still retains the division lead with that huge points differential lead. In a bit of a surprise Jay Dub was able to draw even (record-wise) with LRobbins and Fumble at 7-1 as the Panthers pulled one out over the Falcons in Charlotte. With an ugly Ravens win over Cleveland Monica kept pace at 1 game out in the Kent Division.
The Vikings win coupled with a Steelers loss switched Kinger and wissinger positions in the Sussex Division with both of them 2 games behind division leader Jeff C. In an interestingly decided game J.D. Gravatt was able to keep his playoff hopes alive as the Colts came from 17 points down in the 4th quarter to beat the Patriots 35-34 and remain undefeated. It was interesting because with just over 2:00 left in the game on 4th and 2 at their own 29 yard line, Bill Belichick decided to go for it. The Patriots didn't convert and Peyton Manning got the ball back on the New England 29 and ran the clock down to :13 and scored the game winning touchdown.
In the ugly game of the week the 49ers used 5 Jay Cutler interceptions to beat the Bears 10-6. That's right, 5 picks and only 10 points... like I said, ugly game... and boring too. With that Niners' win, Gridiron Guru overtook the Delaware Division lead as the Colts come-from-behind win also helped SAW push D10206156 to third in the division. In the closest division in the league this year, JKing took the Vikings and kept pace at 5-3 and only 1 game behind Gridiron Guru.
So, with 3 weeks left in the Frenzy regular season, I am eliminated from playoff contention and two others, bfaries and J.D. Gravatt, are hanging by a thread. If the playoffs started today the matchups would look like this:
Round 1
#3 Jeff C (7-1)
vs.
#6 Jay Dub (7-1)
#4 Gridiron Guru (6-2)
vs.
#5 Fumble (7-1)
BYES:
#1 LRobbins (7-1)
#2 Cam2109 (7-1)
As you can see, things can change quite a bit in just one week. Good luck to everyone, and from the first player eliminated, nice job to everyone in your picks this season.
With a Vikings win and an Eagles loss, Cam2109 took sole possession of the New Castle Division with jharris falling a game behind and Mark two games back. And thanks to the Titans win, bfaries holds on to hope for another week. However with a loss in week 11 or wins from Cam2109, LRobbins, Fumble, and Jay Dub in week 11 he will be eliminated.
As I mentioned in the week 10 preview I didn't think LRobbins would go undefeated this year, and with the Eagles loss she took her first L of the season, though she still retains the division lead with that huge points differential lead. In a bit of a surprise Jay Dub was able to draw even (record-wise) with LRobbins and Fumble at 7-1 as the Panthers pulled one out over the Falcons in Charlotte. With an ugly Ravens win over Cleveland Monica kept pace at 1 game out in the Kent Division.
The Vikings win coupled with a Steelers loss switched Kinger and wissinger positions in the Sussex Division with both of them 2 games behind division leader Jeff C. In an interestingly decided game J.D. Gravatt was able to keep his playoff hopes alive as the Colts came from 17 points down in the 4th quarter to beat the Patriots 35-34 and remain undefeated. It was interesting because with just over 2:00 left in the game on 4th and 2 at their own 29 yard line, Bill Belichick decided to go for it. The Patriots didn't convert and Peyton Manning got the ball back on the New England 29 and ran the clock down to :13 and scored the game winning touchdown.
In the ugly game of the week the 49ers used 5 Jay Cutler interceptions to beat the Bears 10-6. That's right, 5 picks and only 10 points... like I said, ugly game... and boring too. With that Niners' win, Gridiron Guru overtook the Delaware Division lead as the Colts come-from-behind win also helped SAW push D10206156 to third in the division. In the closest division in the league this year, JKing took the Vikings and kept pace at 5-3 and only 1 game behind Gridiron Guru.
So, with 3 weeks left in the Frenzy regular season, I am eliminated from playoff contention and two others, bfaries and J.D. Gravatt, are hanging by a thread. If the playoffs started today the matchups would look like this:
Round 1
#3 Jeff C (7-1)
vs.
#6 Jay Dub (7-1)
#4 Gridiron Guru (6-2)
vs.
#5 Fumble (7-1)
BYES:
#1 LRobbins (7-1)
#2 Cam2109 (7-1)
As you can see, things can change quite a bit in just one week. Good luck to everyone, and from the first player eliminated, nice job to everyone in your picks this season.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Short Week... Week 10
So this week starts Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network. That means it's a short week and all of your picks need to be in by 8:20 tonight (Thursday, November 12th). This weeks Game Of the Week puts the surprising Bengals (6-2) in Pittsburgh (6-2) in a battle for the AFC North Division lead. A win by the Bengals this week would put them 5-0 in the Division with sweeps against the Ravens and Steelers, and at 7-2 they'd be in great position for a playoff run.
The other key matchup this week, which I think is overhyped, is the Patriots in Indy. While this is always a good game, I just don't think the Patriots have what it takes to knock out the undefeated Colts. This isn't the 16-0 Patriots from two seasons ago, and it certainly isn't the dynasty Pats from the early part of the decade, but surprisingly the Colts are only 2.5 point favorites AT HOME. For those of you who aren't aware, the home team always gets 3 for home field advantage. So what that means is that if this game were held on a neutral field the Patriots would actually be a very slight favorite. Apparently the oddsmakers aren't fans of Indy at home this week.
One other somewhat interesting game, if only because of the history, is the Cowboys in Green Bay.
If you're interested in train wrecks, may I suggest the Chiefs in Oakland? That game should be ugly... of course you could just go watch your local pop warner team and see the same level of play... and you'd be supporting the community.
Remember, short week this week... get your picks in by 8:20pm tonight. Good luck to everyone below me in the standings... J.D. Gravatt and bfaries.
So week 9 sucked. That's all I'm saying about it. For me to have a chance and for the Ravens to have a chance in the AFC North they needed to win. They didn't and they loooked terrible doing it. So now I'm 4 games out in the division and 3 games out in the wildcard with only 4 to play until the Frenzy playoffs start. With a Colts win LRobbins remains undefeated. In the four seasons that I've run this game only one person has gone undefeated the entire season... Me... and that was the first year I ran it and there wasn't any money on the line so it didn't even really count. I'm not so sure she'll be able to put it off this year, though, as her remaining schedule looks pretty difficult.
On to the 1-loss players... Cam2109 and jharris got wins out of the Steelers, so they are neck and neck atop the New Castle Division, Fumble kept pace with LRobbins by also choosing the Colts, Jay Dub got a 1 point win out of the Chargers over the struggling New York Football Giants to remain up there as well, and the Patriots kept Jeff C. on top in the Sussex division.
In other games from week 9, the Eagles looked listless in their loss to NFC East rival Dallas, the Saints came out flat again, but made a comeback to beat the Panthers and remain unbeaten along with the Colts, the 49ers got beat by the Titans, and the Falcons got a win over the Redskins.
It's time to start talking playoffs as the playoff picture should start to firm up over the next couple of weeks. If the playoffs started this week, these would be the matchups (with several good records on the outside looking in):
Round 1
First Round BYEs, who would still have to make a pick only to be used in tiebreaking if necessary:
#1 LRobbins (7-0)
#2 Cam2109 (6-1)
#3 Jeff C. (6-1)
vs.
#6 jharris (6-1)
#4 D10206156 (5-2)
vs.
#5 Fumble (6-1)
So that means, 5 5-2 players and 1 6-1 player wouldn't be in the playoffs. That's a pretty strong year so far.
The other key matchup this week, which I think is overhyped, is the Patriots in Indy. While this is always a good game, I just don't think the Patriots have what it takes to knock out the undefeated Colts. This isn't the 16-0 Patriots from two seasons ago, and it certainly isn't the dynasty Pats from the early part of the decade, but surprisingly the Colts are only 2.5 point favorites AT HOME. For those of you who aren't aware, the home team always gets 3 for home field advantage. So what that means is that if this game were held on a neutral field the Patriots would actually be a very slight favorite. Apparently the oddsmakers aren't fans of Indy at home this week.
One other somewhat interesting game, if only because of the history, is the Cowboys in Green Bay.
If you're interested in train wrecks, may I suggest the Chiefs in Oakland? That game should be ugly... of course you could just go watch your local pop warner team and see the same level of play... and you'd be supporting the community.
Remember, short week this week... get your picks in by 8:20pm tonight. Good luck to everyone below me in the standings... J.D. Gravatt and bfaries.
Week 9
So week 9 sucked. That's all I'm saying about it. For me to have a chance and for the Ravens to have a chance in the AFC North they needed to win. They didn't and they loooked terrible doing it. So now I'm 4 games out in the division and 3 games out in the wildcard with only 4 to play until the Frenzy playoffs start. With a Colts win LRobbins remains undefeated. In the four seasons that I've run this game only one person has gone undefeated the entire season... Me... and that was the first year I ran it and there wasn't any money on the line so it didn't even really count. I'm not so sure she'll be able to put it off this year, though, as her remaining schedule looks pretty difficult.
On to the 1-loss players... Cam2109 and jharris got wins out of the Steelers, so they are neck and neck atop the New Castle Division, Fumble kept pace with LRobbins by also choosing the Colts, Jay Dub got a 1 point win out of the Chargers over the struggling New York Football Giants to remain up there as well, and the Patriots kept Jeff C. on top in the Sussex division.
In other games from week 9, the Eagles looked listless in their loss to NFC East rival Dallas, the Saints came out flat again, but made a comeback to beat the Panthers and remain unbeaten along with the Colts, the 49ers got beat by the Titans, and the Falcons got a win over the Redskins.
It's time to start talking playoffs as the playoff picture should start to firm up over the next couple of weeks. If the playoffs started this week, these would be the matchups (with several good records on the outside looking in):
Round 1
First Round BYEs, who would still have to make a pick only to be used in tiebreaking if necessary:
#1 LRobbins (7-0)
#2 Cam2109 (6-1)
#3 Jeff C. (6-1)
vs.
#6 jharris (6-1)
#4 D10206156 (5-2)
vs.
#5 Fumble (6-1)
So that means, 5 5-2 players and 1 6-1 player wouldn't be in the playoffs. That's a pretty strong year so far.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Week 8...
Looking back at week 8, LRobbins is still unbeaten as she's coming of her BYE week. Week 8 in the NFL saw the fall of one more undefeated team. My boys gave the Denver Broncos, who we all know weren't 6-0 good to begin with, a thorough BEATDOWN. The Broncos who had only given up 10 2nd half points and 0 2nd half third down conversions all season went into half time down only 6-0. But the Ravens ran the second half opening kickoff back 95 yards and didn't look back, winning 30-7. That's 24 second half points and only 7 didn't come on offense and they had one drive in which they pushed 4 third down conversions across for 1st downs.
Now that I'm done hyping up the Ravens who finally learned how to play defense again, I'll move on to some of the other games that were picked. There were only two losers this week, JKing, who took the Cardinals who were just outplayed by a bad Carolina Panthers team, and SAW, whose homer pick, the Packers, almost worked out for her but in the end didn't.
Now for the winners, who didn't help those of us trying to climb back into our divisions... As I mentioned the Packers lost, which means the Vikings, in "Brett Favre's TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LAMBEAU IN PURPLE" (geez, I'm so tired of hearing about this man. I repect him, but enough already), won 38-26. For once, Peyton Manning didn't throw a touchdown pass. Of course he still threw for almost 350 yards and the Colts remain one of two undefeated teams left as they had a tougher battle against the Niners then they expected, I'm sure, and won 18-14.
Wow how the mighty have fallen... the Giants before the injury to the other Manning brother looked like they might be the best team in football. Then the Saints put 48 points on them, the Cardinals beat them, and now the Eagles just put 40 points on them. In a division rivalry, the Chargers eeked out a win over the Raiders, and Tony Romo finally got a win at Seattle... luckily this time it didn't come down a last second field goal attempt as the Cowboys won 38-17.
There's really not a whole good to talk about in Week 9. There's about four interesting games this week. In the Game Of The Week, the the Eagles will welcome the Cowboys for the NFC East division lead and the Broncos will welcome the Pittsburgh Steelers, fresh off their BYE week, into Mile High or whatever they're calling it now. With a Broncos win and a Ravens victory in Cincy this week there will be a three-way tie for the AFC North division lead. The last of the remotely interesting games in week 9 will put the somewhat surprising Dolphins in New England to take on the Patriots.
The Giants will take on the Chargers, the Packers go to Tampa, Texans to Indy, Cardinals in Chicago, 'Skins in Atlanta, Panthers to the Big Easy, and the Niners welcome the Titans who just got their first win of the season.
You all have until Sunday at 1:00pm to make your picks. Good luck with that.
Now that I'm done hyping up the Ravens who finally learned how to play defense again, I'll move on to some of the other games that were picked. There were only two losers this week, JKing, who took the Cardinals who were just outplayed by a bad Carolina Panthers team, and SAW, whose homer pick, the Packers, almost worked out for her but in the end didn't.
Now for the winners, who didn't help those of us trying to climb back into our divisions... As I mentioned the Packers lost, which means the Vikings, in "Brett Favre's TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LAMBEAU IN PURPLE" (geez, I'm so tired of hearing about this man. I repect him, but enough already), won 38-26. For once, Peyton Manning didn't throw a touchdown pass. Of course he still threw for almost 350 yards and the Colts remain one of two undefeated teams left as they had a tougher battle against the Niners then they expected, I'm sure, and won 18-14.
Wow how the mighty have fallen... the Giants before the injury to the other Manning brother looked like they might be the best team in football. Then the Saints put 48 points on them, the Cardinals beat them, and now the Eagles just put 40 points on them. In a division rivalry, the Chargers eeked out a win over the Raiders, and Tony Romo finally got a win at Seattle... luckily this time it didn't come down a last second field goal attempt as the Cowboys won 38-17.
Week 9...
There's really not a whole good to talk about in Week 9. There's about four interesting games this week. In the Game Of The Week, the the Eagles will welcome the Cowboys for the NFC East division lead and the Broncos will welcome the Pittsburgh Steelers, fresh off their BYE week, into Mile High or whatever they're calling it now. With a Broncos win and a Ravens victory in Cincy this week there will be a three-way tie for the AFC North division lead. The last of the remotely interesting games in week 9 will put the somewhat surprising Dolphins in New England to take on the Patriots.
The Giants will take on the Chargers, the Packers go to Tampa, Texans to Indy, Cardinals in Chicago, 'Skins in Atlanta, Panthers to the Big Easy, and the Niners welcome the Titans who just got their first win of the season.
You all have until Sunday at 1:00pm to make your picks. Good luck with that.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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