and McFadden beat up as well, maybe not….

Minnesota is a talented football team. More so than I think the Titans. The win last week against an undefeated Carolina team may just give the Vikings the boost they need to say, “Hey, let’s go out and take down another undefeated team!”. I may be wrong, but it’s a chance I was willing to take this week. Can’t always go for the favorite if you want to win it all. ;-)

As for San Francisco…I am already second guessing my pick there, but everyone else took N.O. so I won’t lose any sleep over it. :)

I’m taking a lot of chances this week on teams that I think are better than they have played so far. The status quo will have to change if I’m going to have a good week.

For fun I put some additional formulas onto the end of my power ranking spreadsheet, and let the computer pick the games (not the picks above, a separate list I emailed to Zappa). The computer had the TB/GB game as a push (amazing when you figure that it calculates out to three decial places), and the NO/SF game had the niners favored by one point. I particularly liked the score for the Denver game: 93-7. It also had TEN, CIN, JAX winning by 2 or more scores. The computer is smarter than I am, methinks…

And once again I have selected Baltimore. Has no one watched Baltimore play or what? Why are mdierk and I the only ones who ever select them?

Guru needs to stay the course and be patient. If he panics too early, he’ll find himself too far behind to hope to make up the difference. Judging by his picks, he is being patient and staying the course.

Besides, I think you played Week 3 the right way. When you are leading, you can take the additional risks by picking more than the normal upset picks. It’s a high risk, high reward type of situation. Unfortunately, you lost on almost all of them…but you also had a two game lead so now you are only a few games out of first. Sometimes a risky play doesn’t work out.

My problem is, I tend to panic too soon or if I jump out to a lead I tend to become too bold. I’m am making a concerted effort to be consistent…you all are just too good at this for me to be careless. :)

more of a beat-down than the Eagles gave them…

The last rookie QB to go into Pittsburgh and win……

It’s not his fault really, if he hadn’t picked Cleveland all those times he’d be right in the thick of things. Naughty naughty.

lol, I really should switch to the Browns cause now that Guru has picked against them they’re gonna win. heheheh

Guru will come in second place this week because of his Arizona pick. I, of course, finish first again. ;-)

I think the CLE/CIN game can be somewhat of a coin flip, however the Bengals are the better of the two bad teams and I think they’ll take this one. Baltimore I am not sold on beating PIT even though Big Ben had some trouble. The one I think he might have a chance to win is the MIN/TEN game. Tennessee is a good team, however the Vikings might have a chance to eek one out here.