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ABG Picks: Week 3 Results

Well here are the standings after Week 3 (which is technically Week 2 for this contest).

(indicates week points) [indicates total points]… I’ll also drop your lowest total of the week and that’s automatically factored into the total points

Faraz: New York Giants, Denver, New England (8) [9]
Mike D.: New York Giants, Baltimore, New England (8) [9]
Mike C.: New York Giants, Atlanta, New England (7) [8]
Ayaz: Denver, Seattle,  Buffalo (8) [8]
Sabih: New York Giants, New England, Indianapolis (3) [7]
Krishna: Seattle, New York Giants, Indianapolis (7) [7]

Those are the scores after this week. All picks are due 5 minutes before the start of your first game. Remember to pick three teams and spread out 10 confidence points amongst them.

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ABG Picks: Week 2 Results

Well here are the standings after Week 2 (which is technically Week 1 for this contest). 

Faraz: Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New Orleans (9)
Mike D.: New York Giants, Pittsburgh, Kansas City (9)
Mike C.: New York Giants, Green Bay, Kansas City (8) 
Sabih: New York Giants, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys,  (7)
Ayaz: New York Giants, Cincinnati,  New York Jets (5)

Those are the top 5 after this week. All picks are due 5 minutes before the start of your first game. Remember to pick three teams and spread out 10 confidence points amongst them.

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ABG NFL Contest!

So its a little late right now but I play NFL Pick ‘Em every week on Yahoo and I’ll post them here as well. Feel free to post yours or challenge me on a couple of games a week, I’ll even keep score starting next week if you want. Maybe the winner at the end of the season gets a prize?

Let me just set a couple of rules for that contest and people can e-mail me their picks so its confidential until the games start. Picks will lock once the first game of that week starts. Each team can pick 3 games from a week, can be any three games and tell me the winner. You will also need to place 10 confidence points on the three games with each game getting at least one point. You choose a game correctly, you gain the points for that game and your points will add up as the season progresses.

I’ll post updated scored here Tuesday morning or once after all the games from the week have been decided.

You can email your picks at me@angrybrownguy.com and I won’t look at my emails over there until the picks deadline has passed.

Happy Picking! Continue reading “ABG NFL Contest!”

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NFL Predictions… What Are Yours?

I’ll post my NFL predictions for this season now and talk about a couple of things I think will crucial this upcoming season. A couple of things to look out for will be the age of the New England Patriots’ defense. No one expects them to run the table again in the regular season but people might be in for a surprise if their age finally catches up to them and they end up losing 4 or 5 games. Also, who knows how injured Tom Brady really is and how effective he’ll be in the early parts of the season?

In the NFC, Aaron Rodgers has been handed a wonderful team but a great receiving group and all he has to do is not try to be Brett Favre. If he can stick to the short passes and allow the receivers to do their work with YAC as they did last year along with the new found running game in Ryan Grant – the Packers could really repeat as one of the top two seeds in the conference. New York Giants on the other hand have lost two considerablely talented players on defense and will that blow be big enough to keep them out of the playoffs? I doubt it because their offense has matured well enough and Eli should be able to carry a team to a couple of wins just by himself this year.

In the playoffs, you can never count out Brett Favre and certainly he’s not done with the way he played last year. Cold weather will be not be an issue and just might be something to provide Jets’ fans with something to hope for. However, let’s all be realistic. The Jets went 4-12 last year and just making the playoffs this year will be a dramatic improvement so I doubt they advance much further even though I do have them winning a game in the post-season.

Is this the year that Tony Romo finally breaks through and stops choking in the clutch? I think so. Packers losing Favre drops their main threat to be #1 once again in the conference and they had all the opportunities in the world to beat the Giants last year in the Divisional Round and if Romo can control the ball, they would have at least been a game away from going to the Super Bowl. No reason to expect the same progress this year, if not a little bit more poise and potentially a couple more wins in the post-season.

Does a Manning win a Super Bowl this year as well? Well that would make it three years in a row with Peyton and his Colts beating the Bears in 2007 although the loss of Jeff Saturday in the early parts of the season can slow down their progress but probably not enough to keep them from winning the division yet again en route to the Super Bowl XLIII victory on February 1, 2009.

Predictions are after the break. Continue reading “NFL Predictions… What Are Yours?”

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Congress: Hard At Work?

So early this morning my best friend from Ireland sent me this article reporting that Senator Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee from Pennsylvania, wants to call National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell in for hearings regarding why the confiscated video tapes which allegedly implicated the New England Patriots in the SpyGate scandal were destroyed and never made public.

Immediately after reading the story, my initial response was “Congress really needs to find better things to do.” With the economy failing and the dollar dropping, there being no end of the war in sight and the rest of the world cannot stand for anything American… one would think Congress really has more pressing matters to sort through than the Steroids in Baseball and now SpyGate in Football. Yes those are troubling issues plaguing the sports world but let the commissioners and owners and players clean that up and certainly if the fans really care this much about cleaning up their sport, they should stop attending… but we know that is not happening so just the sports clean it up themselves. Baseball was a little late but they eventually did it, and yea Patriots probably cheated with SpyGate but adding asterisk to their season does not prove anything. You can have all the information in the world but you still need to have coaches and players on the field who can execute plays game in, game out. No amount of cheating and make up for that.

Congress… just go back to work on more pressing issues and get these American fans some jobs or try fixing the economy or how about improving the situation in Iraq or the way Americans are viewed around the world? Baseball and Football are really third-class issues when compared to those.