Week 4: Flipping Coins



Ed Hochuli is back, and he has spent the entire offseason
lifting weights.  Get ready for the gun show America!

Well as I discussed in my Week 3 Recap, it was a brutal week to start making picks.  My picks were embarrassingly bad, and I encourage you to ignore the totals at the bottom.  I'm blaming the refs for my Green Bay pick being wrong, but I bet the people involved in the $250 million exchanging hands in Vegas were just a little bit more upset.  I could start making more excuses, but I think it was just a crazy week in another crazy year of the NFL.  While picking against the spread is supposed to be a 50-50 endeavor, through the first 3 weeks over 60% of underdogs have won.  So maybe I should take some more underdogs?  That would probably be enough to reverse the trend and have all the favorites win.......Okay, on with the picks:

Week 3: Quick Slants



This image of chaos is likely burned into most Packer fans' brains by now


So where do I even start....?  Week 3 of the 2012 NFL season had to be one of the most bizarre/incredible/unbelievable/crazy/(fill in adjective here) weeks I have ever witnessed in the NFL.  And I was saying that before Monday night's well discussed clash between the Packers and Seahawks.  It seems like the universe recognized that I started a blog and wanted to make sure I'd have plenty to write about.  And I do, I just don't have the time or energy to discuss all of the ridiculous things that happened on Sunday and Monday.  But I'll try to briefly cover some of the major points below:

Week 3 - Flipping Coins

So in a perfect world I would have started this in Week 1.  Or in 2011.  Or well before that.  But in any event, I'm starting Week 3 of 2012.  Just assume that every pick or call I've made before now was 100% correct.  And this public posting of my thoughts will likely continue that trend make me look like an idiot.  My goal is to have a weekly breakdown of all the games with a prediction for the score.  I figured that I spend enough time thinking and talking about NFL matchups, I might as well write some of it down and hold myself accountable.  I'll be keeping track of my overall win-loss record as well as my record against the spread (ATS).  If either of my percentages start falling below 50%, it will be comforting to know that a monkey flipping a coin can beat me.  I welcome anyone to challenge me and the coin-flipping monkey by posting your picks in the comments section below.

Without further ado, let's get to the breakdown...

You had your players hit my players!!! What do you think this is, football?