First post, need help

[bardolino]

Hi all,
I've been trolling for a little over a month and have done pretty well (thanks Kaptain!). I hope I'm posting this in the right place, but since I'm looking for member's picks as input I thought this was it.

Now I'm in a spot. I'm in a survivor pool that only pays first place. I need to pick a winner without the spread and this week is a rough one so I thought I'd post it here.

The teams I've used (and can't use again) are:
Cardinals Jets Chargers Packers Saints Raiders Cowboys Ravens Texans Steelers Lions Falcons

I'm leaning towards the Bucs this week.

Thanks in advance.

[Hockeytown]

49ers!

Good luck

[vols fan]

Welcome to the site. The ole Kapt has won alot of us money. Glad you follow him

[kbsooner21]

I love the Vikes this weekend. 49ers also solid

[ToDaClub]

Me too, Vikes are Game of the year type action, but not a game of the year, hope this helps.

[ravenmaniac]

Hands down. The 9ers

[atolunch]

At this point of the contest, why the hell wouldn't you use New England this week?

[longnex]

New England

[plandbill]

Ne

[crazy1464]

49ers will not lose at home to a bad ram team!

[bryce]

Check out the following weeks schedule and see who has the tougher game SF or NE. If SF has the tougher game use SF this week and NE next week or vice versa.

That's what I would do. That way you got to weeks covered. Or.... Something easier( if that's possible) may come up the following week

[Kaptain]

thanks for the kind words.....looking ahead, here's what i'D DO....

Dec 4TH.......Bears OVER Chiefs
Dec 11th......49ers..OVER Cards
Dec 18th......NE......over Denver
Dec 24th......Cinn....over Az

Jan 1 you have the following possibilities
These can go either way....
PICK Denver or KC playing each other
........Jacksonville or Indy playing each other
........Phil or Wash playing each other
Seattle or Az playing each other.....

my pick would come from one of the 4 above choices......I lean to Jacksonville or Seattle.....depends on injuries......

Other possibilities, but not wise IMO....
Buff over NE
Car over NO
Clev over pITTS
mIA OVER jETS
Minn over Chi
NYG over Jets
T Bay over Atl
Tenn over Houston....

Bryce is right, on these kind of pools, you must look ahead, find 3-4 bad teams, and then find the teams playing against em.....

Thus my plays against KC-Indy-Wash-AZ....RAMS CAN BE INCLUDED IN THIS

Hope this helps you....

[mavskidd02]

New England. Easiest pick of the year, and many have likely already used them this season. It's late in the season, I would take it one week at a time, make sure you survive, and move on.

You don't want to lose at this point in the season, and look back on it and you had a 20+ point favorite sitting in your pocket.

[bardolino]

KBSooner - 49ers, Vikes
ToDa Club - Vikes
RavenManiac - 49ers
atolunch - NE
Crazy1464 - 49ers
Longnex - NE
plandbill - NE
bryce - 49ers or NE
mavvskid02 - NE
Kaptain - Bears

so the tally so far is:

NE - 5
49ers - 4
Vikes - 2
Bears - 1

I try not to look too far ahead. Some of my rules for doing this are to avoid:
Road teams at all costs
divisional games if at all possible
Sandwich games

No way I can take Minnesota. I think they'll win, but I'm not going to have Tebow beat me out of a 16,000 jelly bean first prize so they're out.

As much as I respect Kaptain, the QB situation is terrible in Chicago and I think Martz forgot that he has a stud running back last week. Martz is awful, and without a good quarterback to make him look good, Martz is overmatched. Plus Orton is playing this week so I'd expect KC to be better than they have been at QB all year.

Is anyone else afraid of the Indianapolis/New England rivalry somehow inspiring the Colts Defense to play again this year? I am. I'll have to think this one over...

San Fran. This could be the one. They play a lousy Arizona team next week so they're certainly not looking ahead. I'd also like to use 'em while the games still have some meaning for them.

No one liked my Buc call, eh? I still like 'em, and firing the coach only makes me like 'em more. I agree NE or SF are the safer calls this week though.

Thanks for all the insight folks. I'll let you know who I pick. Down to 17 survivors.

[jt4545]

kapt., who ??????? never heard of him !!!!!!!!!




BUT I LOVE "THE" MAN LIKE A BROTHER, HE IS "ONE" OF THE BEST
JT