Back to Football: Week Ten In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

I didn't really trust Cincinnati, but I went with them for Thursday anyway, incorrectly. In a way, though, I was still right, but it won't count, of course. I'm now 9&1 for TNF.

I had a similar feeling about my picks for the rest of the week, and after I started watching around the end of the first quarter for most games, things looked bleak. My risk on Miami didn't pan out, Pittsburgh decided to take the week off, and New Orleans could not defeat the 49ers - though they did go into overtime. At first, it looked like I made a mistake with Kansas City and Baltimore was going to screw up, but then they won, as did Dallas and, unsurprisingly, Atlanta, which put me at 50% for the early games - much better than expected.

I fared even better on the late games, as did the Cardinals, going 8&1 for the first time since over a decade before the current NFL even existed. Oakland did not achieve their first win against Denver, and Seattle finally played like themselves and defeated the Giants. I do hope that the Packers are well rested this week and can defeat Jay Cutler and his pack of Bears, but the fate of NFL teams are not decided by me. They're just picked, every week, with 65% accuracy.