Bik's Week 12 Thursday Night Pick

Don’t call it a comeback! Back after ANOTHER above .500 week (which included 3 pushes – how brutal was that!)  and we’ll keep going with what works. Keeping things quick and simple.

Onto the Thursday Night Pick. Home team in CAPS:

Saints (-8.5) over FALCONS

I really did everything I possibly could to find a way to take Atlanta. The only thing I could come up with was that with their season effectively over, how great it would be for them to jam up their rival Saints from home-field advantage in the playoffs. It would just be too sweet right? But to do that, you actually need a good team and I just flat out don’t think they have any makings of a decent team. They’re too banged up and will once again fail to win in the trenches. They struggle with the pass-rush and if you’re giving Brees even an extra second, he’ll find a way to hurt you. I do hate going against the HOME DOG, but I gotta!

Rest of Week 12 picks on Friday

Last Week: 7-5-3

This Season: 73-83-6

Bik's Thursday Night Week 11 Pick

TITANS (+3) over Colts

Gimme the HOME DOG! I think Chris Johnson can run all over this Colts D and Fitzpatrick can do enough to not lose at home to the Colts. And the injuries might start catching up to Indy.

Last Week:9-4-1

This Season: 66-78-3

Bik's Thursday Night Week 8 Pick: We Know Nothing

Let me start off by saying thanks.

Thanks for reading. Because the truth is we know nothing. We can pretend to know. But we just don’t. In a game that featured 2 explosive offenses, and poor defences – the Dallas Philadelphia game produced a combined 20 points. 20. As a point of reference, the anemic Titans offense put up 17 points in 1 quarter.

After getting 12 carries inside the 5 yard line last year converting 7 of those runs into TD’s, Alfred Morris got 1 in Week 7 for a 2 yard gain. His backup Roy Helu had 2 carries, both converted to TD’s from 3 yards out. Much to the dismay of fantasy owners.

But this isn’t just for football. On Monday night in the NHL, the Sharks played the Red Wings while the Penguins faced off against the Avalanche. 4 teams dripping in offensive power.... Combined for 1 goal. The Sharks-Wings game went to the lovely shootout to produce a winner.

This is me lamenting going 5-10 last week.... We know nothing (and yes I’m dragging you down with me, sorry). So since things are spirally out of control, it’s time to do the opposite. Yes, I’m channeling my inner George Costanza.

Onto the Thursday Night Pick. Home team in CAPS: 

Bik's Thursday Night Week 7 Pick: Power Ranks v2.0

I was originally going to do my power ranks every 4 weeks but then I realized, waaaay too much happens in just 2 weeks in the NFL Season to not do this every 2 weeks. So back again are my current power ranks for the NFL. The Number in brackets are the teams rank from Week 5:

Bik's Thursday Night Week 6 Pick

Home team in CAPS:

BEARS (-7.5) over Giants

What exactly is inspiring about this Giants team right now? They had a divisional game last week vs. the Eagles at home and got rolled. They can’t slow anyone down defensively (over 31 Points against in every game), can’t control the clock (averaging league low 25 minutes time of possession), and among the leaders in Sacks allowed. To top it all off they don’t generate a lot of takeaways (7 takeaways) and because the defense is so porous their starting field position is among the league’s worst (26^th), so even when the offense get the ball they have a long distance to travel to put up any points.... BUUUUUT they can’t even move the ball efficiently per drive (ranking 30^th).

Now the reason I’m pointing out all these flaws and highlighting none of the Bears flaws is because these aren’t things you can fix on 4 days rest when you have to travel and you lose a day to prepare anyways. Their spot to show something was last week vs. the Eagles and it didn’t come to fruition. What they need to fix these things, maybe fix is the wrong word...... What they need to remedy these problems back to a more average mark is a full week to prepare and home game. I’m fading them this week but might look to play them next week vs. the Vikings.

Rest of Week 6 picks on Friday

Last Week: 6-8

This Season: 36-39-2