2021-2022 NFL Pick Em/Discussion Megathread

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I've seen enough.  The Falcons stink.

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1427721895860912129

At least we can lead the league in something positive!

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For those considering playing the pick'em game, here are the rules.  These will seem familiar if you're following the college football thread or played in previous years.

The game will run weekly through the NFL season, including the playoffs.  NewYorkExpress will post each week's slate of games in this thread.  Make your picks by replying in this thread one or more times; don’t send them by PM to either him or me.  You can either copy the list of games and bold your predicted winners, or just post your list of winners. 

If bolding your winners, games with zero or both teams bolded will not be counted.  If listing your winners, slight errors in team names will be counted if the intent is unambiguous.  I (or anyone) may point out errors so you have a chance to correct them, but this is not guaranteed to happen – ultimately, you’re responsible for getting your picks posted correctly.

Your pick for a game must be posted before the official start time for that game.  This is a hard cutoff.  You can change any of your picks by making a subsequent post, as long as it's before the game start time.  Please post a new reply for any changes; just editing your original post is easy for me to miss and could also raise timestamp questions. 

You don’t have to post your whole list at once.  For example, in a week with Thursday and Sunday games, you could optionally post only the Thursday game picks by Thursday, and then follow up with the Sunday games anytime before they kick off.  Or if you forget and miss the Thursday games, you can still post picks for the later games.

If a game is canceled or postponed due to COVID or any other reason: if it's just delayed within its originally scheduled week, it remains on the list for that week.  If it's pushed to a later week or delayed indefinitely, it becomes a "no contest" for the original week.  If it gets rescheduled in a later week, that's considered a new game and you'll need to pick it again; the original pick will not carry over.

Each correct pick is worth one point.  After all of the week’s games are complete (usually on Tuesday morning) I’ll post the results for that week and the year-to-date standings.

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Possibly a poor choice of words here, but a great idea.

https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/1427498520513327131

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Bucs

Falcons
Bills
Bengals
49ers
Titans
Colts
WFT
Panthers
Texans
Chiefs
Patriots
Packers
Giants
Rams

Ravens

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DAL @ TB(-7.5)

PIT(+6.5) @ BUF

NYJ @ CAR(-5)

JAX(-2.5) @ HOU

ARI(+3) @ TEN

PHI @ ATL(-3.5)

LAC @ WFT(+1)

SF (-7.5) @ DET

SEA @ IND(+2.5) (Seattle on the road in a noon CT start? EZ money)

MIN(-3) @ CIN

MIA @ NE(-2.5)

CLE(+6.5) @ KC

DEN(-3) @ NYG

CHI (+7) @ LAR (hammer the under)

BAL @ LV(+4.5)

You do realize that we pick straight up, not against the spread?

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You do realize that we pick straight up, not against the spread?

lol my b fixed

That's great, now do you want to pick the 16th game?

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Touchdowns > field goals.

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Why is the schedule so big?

It's full of big games!

On a practical note, if people want to make things easy for the scorekeeper, it's helpful when your picks are single-spaced (especially in the college pick'em) so I don't have to scroll down as I'm entering them in the spreadsheet.

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I've seen enough.  The Falcons stink.

Narrator: this was a correct evaluation.

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Some weird upsets today.

As a group, we're just barely over .500 so far (if the Bears and Raiders win, we'll finish below it).  Politics Fan is currently leading at 10-4 with a few people at 9-5.

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Saints played a really good game today

Clearly they need to play all their home games in Jacksonville!

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Some weird upsets today.

As a group, we're just barely over .500 so far (if the Bears and Raiders win, we'll finish below it).  Politics Fan is currently leading at 10-4 with a few people at 9-5.

You were saying the Bears were gonna win, Stafford knows the Bears very well as a Lion

I didn't pick the Bears (in fact, nobody did).  I just said that if the Bears & Raiders both win, the pick'em players will collectively have a losing record this week.

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WEEK 1 RESULTS

There was a three-way tie for first at 11-5 between olawakandi, Politics Fan, and Thunder 98.  Full results:

11 olawakandi, Politics Fan, Thunder98
10 CraneHusband, Grumps, Illiniwek, NY Express, Smash255, SWE
9 nclib, Spark
8 ExtremeRepublican, fluffypanther19, JGibson, S019, slimey56, texasgurl
7 Donerail, GeorgiaModerate, Storr
6 Terry
5 Drew
1 Ishan (only picked the Thursday night game)

There were two unanimous picks (Panthers-Jets and Rams-Bears) and both were correct.  There were also two games with a single dissenter (Bucs-Cowboys and 49ers-Lions) and the dissenter was wrong in both of them.

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New York Giants @ Washington Football Team

Cincinnati Bengals at Chicago Bears FOX
Houston Texans @ Cleveland Browns CBS
Los Angeles Rams @ Indianapolis Colts FOX
Buffalo Bills @ Miami Dolphins FOX
New England Patriots @ New York Jets CBS
San Francisco 49ers @ Philadelphia Eagles FOX
Las Vegas Raiders @ Pittsburgh Steelers CBS
New Orleans Saints @ Carolina Panthers FOX
Denver Broncos @ Jacksonville Jaguars CBS
Minnesota Vikings @ Arizona Cardinals FOX
Atlanta Falcons @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers FOX
Dallas Cowboys @ Los Angeles Chargers CBS
Tennessee Titans @ Seattle Seahawks CBS
Kansas City Chiefs @ Baltimore Ravens NBC

Detroit Lions @ Green Bay Packers

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Everyone picks the Bengals, the Beats lost on the Road, they are a tough team to beat at Home

I didn't. 

In fact, only 6 of 14 people so far have picked the Bengals over the Bears.

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Everyone who picked Washington Football Team is saved by a single point.

As was everyone who picked the Dolphins last week.

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Damn, so looks like the Packers just suck more than the Saints are good. I don’t think anyone saw the Panthers clobbering them today.

Raiders beating the Steelers pretty easily also is a shocker, and suggests maybe this Raiders team is way better than anyone thought going into the season.

Oh and have no idea why the Colts would have ever wanted Carson “Glass Bones” Wentz. He’s already injured again hahahaha! Who could have seen this coming???

I saw some reports this morning about some Saints coaches being out for COVID protocols and thought about changing my pick to the Panthers, but I don't like to change from my initial picks (because it usually turns out wrong).

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Well, I'm glad I watched the Braves game and not the Falcons.  Good grief.

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The Cowboys make a long FG at the end to win their game, while the Vikings miss a short one to lose theirs.

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With the Sunday night and Monday games left, S019 leads the week with 11-3, a game ahead of SWE and fluffypanther19.

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Truly heartbreaking way for Kansas City to lose, in addition to the late fumble, they blew 10+ point leads at multiple points in the game. Much like the last game that the Ravens played, the team out in front slowly saw the game slip away from them, only this time, the Ravens were the beneficiary of that. Also a question for Georgia Moderate was one of New Orleans-Carolina or Tennessee-Seattle the first unanimous wrong pick? Those two seemed like results that really came out of left field.

Tennessee-Seattle is the only unanimous wrong pick so far.  One person picked Carolina over New Orleans.

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WEEK 2 RESULTS

S019 won the week with 12-4, with three people a game behind.  The full results:

12 S019
11 fluffypanther19, olawakandi, SWE
10 Donerail, GeorgiaModerate, Illiniwek, NY Express, Politics Fan, texasgurl
9 Drew, ExtremeRepublican, Grumps, nclib, Terry, Thunder98
8 CraneHusband, JGibson, slimey56

There were 3 unanimous picks:

Browns-Texans
Bucs-Falcons
Seahawks-Titans (wrong)

There were 5 games with a single dissenter (asterisk means the dissenter was right):

Rams-Colts
Patriots-Jets
Saints-Panthers (*)
Chiefs-Ravens (*)
Packers-Lions

Year-to-date standings (32 games):

22 olawakandi
21 Politics Fan, SWE
20 Illiniwek, NY Express, S019, Thunder98
19 fluffypanther19, Grumps
18 CraneHusband, nclib, texasgurl
17 Donerail, ExtremeRepublican, GeorgiaModerate
16 JGibson, slimey56
15 Terry
14 Drew
10 Smash255
9 Spark
7 Storr
1 Ishan

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Panthers

Giants
Bills
Browns
Ravens
Titans
Chiefs
Patriots
Steelers
Cardinals
Broncos
Raiders
Rams
Vikings  Toughest one to pick.
49ers

Cowboys

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Panthers
Cardinals
Giants
Ravens
Browns
Steelers
Titans
Chiefs
Patriots
Bills
Raiders
Broncos
Vikings
Rams
49ers
Cowboys

Great minds think alike.