NFL Week 11 Confidence Picks Nov. 13-16-17

I am left with three questions after this week’s games.

1.  Have the bears lost confidence in Jay Cutler OR have they lost confidence in the whole team. Cutler keeps getting the brunt of the criticism; but in all fairness the ENTIRE team is really playing badly.  What to do about a team like this?  1.  If the QB is the problem oust him.   2.  Maybe the coach?  Put him out to pasture.  OR, just maybe, it lies in upper management.  Well we all know that is not even a probable,  MANAGEMENT is never to blame.

2. Is Peyton Manning more driven by RECORDS and his legacy than his own team.  Example:  Manning stayed in the game when a perfect opportunity for his backup QB to get some real game snaps.  WHAT happens if Manning gets injured and has to miss games?  The BACKUP QB becomes the starting, or finishing QB without any real game experience.  I ask you Is Manning being a TEAM player in this instance or just being selfish and padding his record.

3. Why did the Packers not let Aaron Rodgers SET a Record?  He needed just two TD Passes in the second half to set the record for single game TD Passes.  But Packers Coach Mike McCarthy decided to bench him most of that second half.   Things like this bring to mind the year the Colts of Indianapolis THREW a game when they had a chance to ACHIEVE A PERFECT SEASON!!!,   You thought I had forgotten that one didn’t you.

So now you are asking if I am being contradictory,  in my statements about Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rodgers.  Not really.  Manning had no immediate record in sight.  Rodgers DID.

 

2014 NFL Team Schedule

For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain.

If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT).  The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game.  EXAMPLE:  Say this week we have 17 games.  The team you are most confident will win you would ssign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1.   We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER.  The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over.

If we were playing this is how my sheet would look;  My pick will be in bold Capital letters.  you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting.  I will show my correct points in Bold

 

This year I am making a change in the scoring.  YOU can adopt the new scoring or continue to use the old scoring. This year we get a negative score for missed games.  We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions.  EXAMPLE:  LAST YEAR if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game you would still have a Positive 1.  HOWEVER. this year the same scenario would result with a -14 score.

I will fill in my picks Thursday.  Until then feel free to:

Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use.  Or to see if you can beat me.

IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL  FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED.

 

BYE WEEK:   Ravens, Cowboys, Jaguars, Jets

All Times EST

GAME	VISITOR	SCORE	Â	HOME	SCORE	CONFIDENCE	RUNNING SCORE
	THURSDAY	 11/13/14		20::25Â
  1	Buffalo Bills	9	 @	MIAMI DOLPHINS	 22	 8	8/8
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	SUNDAY	11/16/14		13:00
 2	Minn. Vikings	13	@	CHICAGO BEARS	 21	 6	14/14
3	Houston Texans	7	 @	CLEVELAND BROWNS	23	 4	18 /18
 4	Atl. Falcons	19	 @	CAROLINA PANTHERS	17	 1	17/18
 5	Cincy Bengals	27	@	N.O. SAINTS	10	 12	5/18
 6	T.B. Buccaneers	 27	 @	WASHINGTON REDSKINS	7	 11	6 /18
7	DENVER BRONCOS	 7	@	St. Louis Rams	 22	13	19/18
8	S.F. 49’ERS	16	@	N.Y. Giants	10	 7	26/18
 9	 Stl. Seahawks	 20	@	K.C. CHIEFS	 24	3	23 /21
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	SUNDAYÂ	11/16/14		 16:05
10	OAKLAND RAIDERS	6	  @	S.D. Chargers	13	 14	37/21
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	 SUNDAY	11/16/14		  16:25
11	Det. Lions	 6		ARIZ. CARDINALS	14	 2	35/23
12	Phila. Eagles	20	@	G.B. PACKERS	53	 9	24 /32
	 SUNDAY	11/16/14		20:30
   13	N.E. Patriots	42	 @	INDY COLTS	20	 5	29/32
	 Monday	11/19/14		20:30
14	PITT. STEELERS	27	@	Tenn. Titans	 24	10	19/42
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	Tie Breaker	(Monday	2	team total)	 47
	Actual Score				 51
	Points Off				 -4
	Possible Points				105