October 21, 2015

NFL Pick 'Em, Week Seven: Don't Snap It, Griff Edition: The seventh week of the NFL season begins Thursday when Seattle battles San Francisco for the chance to fall to 2-5. On Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, Buffalo and Jacksonville give London the NFL's version of West Brom vs. Sunderland. Pick this week's winners, the spread and up to one lead pipe lock, May all your gates be swinging.

posted by rcade to football at 03:56 PM - 28 comments

Current Standings

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PlayerTotalW1W2W3W4W5W6PlAvg
nomich9423920141513615.667
tommytrump94121220201812615.667
holden92211016201411615.333
rcade9021915161415615.000
yerfatma8822816131514614.667
ic23b8814918161516614.667
billsaysthis88111216151717614.667
goddam87121217151714614.500
goyoucolts8713725112011614.500
owlhouse84121316201112614.000
cixelsyd8213418181514613.667
jagsnumberone801771818614613.333
tahoemoj8018718131410613.333
howard_t7816816151112613.000
538781715161317--515.600
ufez jones761662313711612.667
jjzucal7615613121515612.667
tron77610623121114612.667
grum@work7611141415166612.667
bender7319415121310612.167
forrestv67185141416--513.400
ying yang mafia659131516--12513.000
algorithm5712161397--511.400
rumple578141713--5511.400
irish62757--517111014511.400
littlelebowski12------12----112.000

NoMich climbs into a tie with Tommytrump for first place, with Holden 2 points down in third. But none of the top three scores over 13, narrowing their lead over the next group in the peloton.

Six players break their locks, with NoMich, Bender and Yerfatma picking Atlanta, Rumple and Holden Seattle and Grum@work Arizona.

These players hit games perfectly: Minnesota by 6 (tron7, ic23b, yerfatma), Detroit by 3 (cixelsyd, yerfatma), New England by 7 (owlhouse, nomich), San Francisco by 5 (jjzucal, nomich), Carolina by 4 (billsaysthis, yerfatma), New York Jets by 14 (irish627), Houston by 11 (goddam) and Green Bay by 7 (nomich).

Week 6 Results

New Orleans by 10 over Atlanta
Cincinnati by 13 over Buffalo
Denver by 3 over Cleveland
Detroit by 3 over Chicago
Miami by 28 over Tennessee
Minnesota by 6 over Kansas City
New York Jets by 14 over Washington
Pittsburgh by 12 over Arizona
Houston by 11 over Jacksonville
Carolina by 4 over Seattle
Green Bay by 7 over San Diego
San Francisco by 5 over Baltimore
New England by 7 over Indianapolis
New York Giants by 20 over Philadelphia

This Week's Games

Seattle at San Francisco
Buffalo at Jacksonville (in London)
Minnesota at Detroit
Atlanta at Tennessee
New Orleans at Indianapolis
Pittsburgh at Kansas City
Cleveland at St. Louis
Houston at Miami
New York Jets at New England
Tampa Bay at Washington
Oakland at San Diego
Dallas at New York Giants
Philadelphia at Carolina
Baltimore at Arizona

Byes: Denver, Cincinnati, Chicago and Green Bay

Note: The Buffalo/Jacksonville game starts in London at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Sunday and will be streamed live on Yahoo.

Make your picks and a spread for this week's games to score 1-3 points. Pick one game as a stone cold lead pipe lock (optional) and triple your score in victory or lose 3 points in defeat. Full contest rules here.

Check your score last week on the results spreadsheet at Google Docs.

posted by rcade at 03:56 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 10

Buffalo by 10

Minnesota by 7

Atlanta by 20 : LOCK

Indianapolis by 9

Pittsburgh by 3

St. Louis by 4

Miami by 8

New England by 6

Washington by 4

San Diego by 11

New York Giants by 10

Carolina by 11

Arizona by 10

posted by cixelsyd at 04:53 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 4

Buffalo by 8

Detroit by 2

Atlanta by 24

New Orleans by 4

Pittsburgh by 3

Cleveland by 7

Houston by 3

New England by 17 (Lock it in)

Washington by 6

San Diego by 8

New York Giants by 12

Carolina by 6

Arizona by 5

posted by ic23b at 06:04 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 5
Buffalo by 9
Minnesota by 10
Atlanta by 5
Indianapolis by 7
Pittsburgh by 9
St. Louis by 7
Houston by 5
New York Jets by 5
Washington by 6
San Diego by 5
New York Giants by 4
Carolina by 7
Arizona by 7

posted by NoMich at 07:09 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 6

Buffalo by 10

Minnesota by 7

Atlanta by 13 (Lock and load for triple points!)

New Orleans by 7

Pittsburgh by 9

St. Louis by 3

Miami by 10

New England by 3

Tampa Bay by 10

San Diego by 14

Dallas by 10

Carolina by 7

Arizona by 21

posted by Goyoucolts at 08:18 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 9

Buffalo by 17

Detroit by 4

Atlanta by 24 - One, two, three, o'clock, four o'clock, LOCK

Indianapolis by 6

Kansas City by 5

Cleveland by 6

Miami by 10

New England by 2

Washington by 9

San Diego by 17

Dallas by 3

Carolina by 10

Baltimore by 7

posted by tahoemoj at 08:35 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 15

Buffalo by 5

Minnesota by 7

Atlanta by 8

Indianapolis by 4

Kansas City by 2

St. Louis by 1

Miami by 5

New England by 11

Washington by 10

Oakland by 4

New York Giants by 3

Carolina by 9

Arizona by 12

posted by tommybiden at 10:07 PM on October 21, 2015

rcade, check your score on New England - Indianapolis. The final was 34-27, which I believe calculates to a 7-point spread. Applying the derivative of the Bessel Function might make it 13, but I think not. What I believe happened is that you turned your TV off with the score 34-21, before Colts scored what amounted to a garbage time TD.

posted by Howard_T at 10:33 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 3
Buffalo by 10
Minnesota by 6
Atlanta by 7
Indianapolis by 3
Pittsburgh by 1
St. Louis by 4
Houston by 7
New England by 11 - my Loch Ness Monster
Tampa Bay by 9
Oakland by 7
Dallas by 3
Carolina by 9
Arizona by 12

posted by grum@work at 10:40 PM on October 21, 2015

Thanks for the correction, Howard. The results have been updated and I climb into fourth. Huzzah!

posted by rcade at 11:53 PM on October 21, 2015

Seattle by 6

Buffalo by 11

Minnesota by 3

Atlanta by 18: lock

Indianapolis by 9

Kansas City by 5

St. Louis by 4

Miami by 8

New England by 6

Washington by 7

San Diego by 12

New York Giants by 6

Carolina by 7

Arizona by 10

posted by goddam at 12:28 AM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 14 (Peter King hates Jarryd Hayne already so I call it a successful move to the NFL)
Buffalo by 7
Detroit by 3
Atlanta by 14
Indianapolis by 7
Pittsburgh by 3
St. Louis by 3
Miami by 7
New England by 14
Washington by 7
San Diego by 14
New York Giants by 7
Carolina by 10
Arizona by 14

posted by owlhouse at 12:54 AM on October 22, 2015

First my lock last week was New England, so I should have 2 more points (thanks). Now for this weeks dart throws.

Seattle by 10 -- Locked in in the bay, well sort of the bay/lol

Jacksonville by 13

Detroit by 6

Atlanta by 7

Indianapolis by 3

Pittsburgh by 4

St. Louis by 2

Miami by 10

New England by 9

Washington by 3

San Diego by 11

NY Giants by 8

Philadelphia by 13

Arizona by 10

posted by jagsnumberone at 02:59 AM on October 22, 2015

Seattle 7

Buffalo 11

Detroit 3

Atlanta 10

Indianapolis 2

Pittsburgh 10

St Louis 14

Miami 11

New England 6

Washington 6

San Diego 7

New York Giants 3

Carolina 11

Arizona 21 LOCK

posted by Irish627 at 03:09 AM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 6
Buffalo by 10
Minnesota by 3
Atlanta by 14
New Orleans by 6
Pittsburgh by 7
St. Louis by 10
Miami by 3
New England by 11
Washington by 7
San Diego by 6
New York Giants by 13
Carolina by 7
Arizona by 6

posted by Ufez Jones at 08:53 AM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 4
Buffalo by 7
Detroit by 8
LOCK Atlanta by 17 LOCK
Indianapolis by 7
Kansas City by 3
St. Louis by 10
Miami by 7
New England by 7
Tampa Bay by 7
San Diego by 11
Dallas by 10
Carolina by 7
Arizona by 7

posted by bender at 09:17 AM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 6
Buffalo by 10
Detroit by 3
Atlanta by 7
Indianapolis by 7
Pittsburgh by 4
St. Louis by 7 - A very tentative lock
Miami by 10
New England by 3
Washington by 7
San Diego by 7
New York Giants by 3
Carolina by 3
Arizona by 10

posted by tron7 at 10:08 AM on October 22, 2015

First my lock last week was New England, so I should have 2 more points (thanks).

Fixed.

posted by rcade at 10:43 AM on October 22, 2015

San Francisco by 3
Buffalo by 9
Minnesota by 14
Atlanta by 17 (Locked up like Marriota's knee)
Indianapolis by 4
Pittsburgh by 8
St. Louis by 21
Miami by 3
New England by 10
Washington by 7
Oakland by 4
New York Giants by 10
Philadelphia at Carolina
Baltimore at Arizona

posted by billsaysthis at 11:32 AM on October 22, 2015

Time for the weekly exercise in complete ineptitude. I may fall asleep halfway through. Early wake up calls the last couple of days, and my workout this morning was somewhat more rigorous than usual. So now that I've pissed off all those who thought they had the spread on Patriots - Colts, and were not about to say a word to rcade, on we go.

Seattle by 12
Buffalo by 15
St. Louis by 14 This LOCK is bigger than Lock #25 at Winfield, MO.
Washington by 8
Atlanta by 15
New England by 3
Indianapolis by 4
Kansas City by 10
Miami by 12
Minnesota by 9
San Diego by 6
Dallas by 7
Carolina by 10
Arizona by 5

posted by Howard_T at 02:06 PM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 10
Buffalo by 3
Detroit by 7
Atlanta by 14 LOCK
Indianapolis by 7
Kansas City by 7
St. Louis by 4
Miami by 8
New England by 7
Washington by 4
San Diego by 7
New York Giants by 13
Carolina by 3
Arizona by 14

posted by holden at 05:43 PM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 9
Jacksonville by 4
Atlanta by 10
Cleveland by 3
Houston by 6
Minnesota by 3
Indianapolis by 7
New England by 13 <-- Alfred Hitchlock in Locked Window
Pittsburgh by 3
Washington by 2
San Diego by 10
New York Giants by 6
Carolina by 3
Arizona by 7

posted by rcade at 07:37 PM on October 22, 2015

Seattle by 12

posted by yerfatma at 07:41 PM on October 22, 2015

Seattle at San Francisco damn too late

Jacksonville by 10

Minnesota by 14

Tennessee by 10

Indianapolis by 14

Kansas City by 17

St. Louis by 10

Miami by 4

New England by 21

Washington by 3

Oakland by 10

Dallas by 9

Philadelphia by 6

Arizona by 10 LOCK

Did I miss a week? Hope that doesn't disqualfy me for the Costanza. Well, it's been nutty out here.

posted by rumple at 11:27 AM on October 23, 2015

Buffalo by 6
Minnesota by 6
Atlanta by 10 - LOCK
New Orleans by 3
Pittsburgh by 5
St. Louis by 7
Miami by 9
New England by 3
Tampa Bay by 3
San Diego by 6
Dallas by 3
Carolina by 9
Arizona by 9

posted by yerfatma at 12:28 PM on October 23, 2015

Seattle by 17 ... wait ... oh

Buffalo by 7 (On behalf of American football fans, I wish to apologize to The FA for sullying the long history of Wembley by sending low-quality competition)

Minnesota by 10

Tennessee by 3

New Orleans by 13

Pittsburgh by 10

St. Louis by 11

Miami by 15

New England by a LOCK BLOCK at 16 points Washington by 3

San Diego by 13

N.Y. Giants by 9

Philadelphia by 17

Arizona by 2

posted by jjzucal at 02:38 PM on October 23, 2015

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