I’m still in a holiday hangover and quite busy so I just don’t have time to do a Weekly Digest post. But I want to let you know that I am very close to fully decided on the winners of the book review contest and will announce them this week. I know which are in the running for winner or runner up, but I can’t decide which is the #1 winner among them. (In general it’s been so hard.) But this week!
And to get my picks in before kickoff, I like…
the Pittsburgh Steelers +3.5 over the Cincinnati Bengals, as the Bengals are a classic “could beat anyone or lose to anyone” flukey team right now
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -3 over the Indianapolis Colts, as the Colts are bound to be a little overvalued after that Buffalo game and the Bucs just have more talent all over the field, and
I absolutely love the Tennessee Titans +7.5 over the New England Patriots. The Mac Jones hypetrain is ready to derail and I just don’t believe in New England’s skill position talent. Just love those points.
Win-Loss-Push: 9-6-0, including a win on that Lions over the Browns pick from last week, which everyone on Facebook made fun of me for.
Tomorrow morning’s post is a special one for me, hope you guys like it. We’ll be back to a full Digest next week. Cheers.
The Lions are 7-4 against the spread. I don't know if a team's record and a team's record ATS are at all correlated but I'd think so at the extremes. It just seems like a brutal season for a Lions team that has been in so many games.
During the last Lions winless season Coach Rod Marinelli gave a speech about trying to dig their way out. Many people mocked it but I always found to be an inspiring and existentialist speech. "My shovel is sharp, my pick is sharp, my will is outstanding."
Ahh that Mac Jones train did not derail. Quite the opposite