Congrats to this year’s Over/Under Champion: Joe
He narrowed a victory by correctly guessing 16, narrowly edging Alex and Sam (both with 15) and bringing up the rear myself and Martin with 14. Only a few predictions separating us all.
In the case of both Minnesota Vikings (8) and Denver Broncos (9), the final win total equalled exactly the preseason betting line, which counts as a push. I’ve just decided to score us all 0s for these two teams since in real life, money is just returned to all bettors.
Some of the interesting ‘out of consensus’ bets that paid off were:
– Martin taking the Over on the Cowboys
– Myself taking the Under on the Jaguars
– Martin taking the Under on the Bengals
– Sam taking the Under on the Jets
– Joe taking the Over on the Lions
– Sam taking the Over on the Dolphins (I guess he knows his own division well)
In terms of our group consensus predictions, we got correct:
– Ravens (under), Bills (under), Patriots (over), Steelers (over)
Got wrong:
– Panthers (over – yikes), Packers (over), Seahawks (over).
So as a team, we ended up 4-3. Not bad.
Now you have a few days to get your playoff prediction brackets to us. Significant others are also welcome as usual!
Here are the final tallies below.
| Team | Final | Jake | Joe | Martin | Alex | Sam |
| Arizona Cardinals | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Atlanta Falcons | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Baltimore Ravens | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Buffalo Bills | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Carolina Panthers | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago Bears | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cincinnati Bengals | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cleveland Browns | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dallas Cowboys | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Denver Broncos | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Detroit Lions | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Green Bay Packers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston Texans | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Indianapolis Colts | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jacksonville Jaguars | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Los Angeles Rams | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Miami Dolphins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Minnesota Vikings | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New England Patriots | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| New Orleans Saints | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New York Giants | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| New York Jets | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oakland Raiders | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Philadelphia Eagles | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| San Diego Chargers | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| San Francisco 49ers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Seattle Seahawks | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tennessee Titans | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Washington Redskins | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 14 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 |
Poor form this year from myself.
That being said, I successfully picked the Cubs to win the World Series a few months ago, so perhaps my playoff predictions are my forte. Read it and weep chumps.
Playoffs Predictions!
AFC:
Wild Card:
Raiders @ TEXANS
God this game is going to suck. Brock Osweiler might be one of the worst QBs ever to play this much. They have something vague on defence though, and could take advantage of a few of Oakland’s O-line being banged up. I also just can’t take a rookie QB on the road in a playoff game in his first start.
Dolphins @ STEELERS
Not a big believer in the Dolphins, especially going into a cold Pittsburgh. The 3 Bs roll over the ‘phins.
Divisional Round:
Steelers @ CHIEFS
Big fan of what the Chiefs are putting together this year. Big Ben on the road is a different QB than at home, and by different I mean pretty damn bad. Chiefs shut down the Pittsburgh offense and Alex Smith does his boring, mediocre play enough to not throw it away.
Texans @ PATRIOTS
Texans suck. Patriots are good. Easy one.
AFC Championship:
CHIEFS @ Patriots
Andy Reid gets some sweet revenge over the Patriots for 2004. Patriots defence is pretty garbage this year and their all-white offence isn’t enough to get it done.
NFC
Wild Card:
Lions @ SEAHAWKS
Still don’t really know how the Lions made it this far. Staffdog has played alright with short throws but you need more than that doe. His broken hand can’t get it done over the Seahawks D and Wilson slings it to his boys for the W.
GIANTS @ Packers
Packers have a hot Rodgers, but McAdoo will cool him off with his Cheesecake Factory menu. Think the Giants D does enough, OBJ makes his standard 70 yard slant route TD and the Giants get a win to piss me off.
Divisional Round:
Seahawks @ FALCONS
Missing Earl Thomas, Seahawks defence just hasn’t been as good. Falcons and MVP Matty Ice are able to get things moving, while Vic Beasley wreaks some havoc against a porous Seattle O-line.
Giants @ COWBOYS
Hopefully both teams lose with a giant nuclear bomb exterminating them from history. In the case this doesn’t happen, Cowboys probably win the FuckingAsshole Bowl. They’re 0-2 against the Giants this season but I don’t seem them falling to 0-3 with this roster. Eli throws a few picks and does his Eli face.
NFC Championship
Falcons @ COWBOYS
Eagles were able to beat the Falcons by running the ball with Ryan Mathews over and over. Cowboys can do that but better with Elliott, so this doesn’t really turn into much of a contest.
Super Bowl
COWBOYS over Chiefs
First Brexit, then Trump, now the Cowboys win the Super Bowl to cap off what has been a shit year for my rooting interests. Andy Reid does some Andy Reid type coaching mistakes, calls some early timeouts, mismanages the clock and chokes it away in excruciating fashion. America’s Team win it all, go to the Trump White House and the world implodes.
Written By An Englishman 