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Last week went down just like it's supposed to. The Colts scored a touchdown in the first quarter, which would have been enough to beat the Texans. But, they decided to put up a bunch more on their way to a 31-3 shellacking. If you went with me, and the majority, you were sipping champagne by halftime!

Gonna keep it short and sweet this week. The Arizona Cardinals are the pick against our familiar opponent, the Houston Texans. Starting to notice a theme in my picks the last 3 weeks. Not much to explain here. The Cardinals are yet to lose and are favored by more than 2 touchdowns in this game at home. This also is the best spot for the Cardinals as I look through the remainder of their schedule, but I guess you could say that about most teams on their Texans week. So this week just sit back and relax, tougher weeks are down the road.

Cheers! Drink Five!

Pretty much everybody survived last week albeit some by the skin of their teeth. Detroit's overall stink managed to overpower Minnesota's clutch kicking stink to prevent a massive 209 player elimination. Baltimore and the Patriots also made late comebacks in games they were favorites. It seems I wasn't the only one afraid to pick the Titans, with only 22 picking them in a game they won handily against the Jags.

I struggled mightily this week in making my selection. Do I pick a bad team that is playing good? Or the really good team that is playing bad? The last few weeks I've been hearing Washington's defense is garbage and forget the pre-season hype they received. We all know that the Chiefs defense is trash, so Mahomes should be able to beat Heineke in a shootout. But, stranger things have happened and the Chiefs haven't looked good all season, so I will be fading this match-up on the road.

I will be doing this in favor or the Indianapolis Colts at home taking on the Houston Texans. With Daniel Jones being cleared to play, the Colts overtook the Rams as the biggest favorite of the week currently at -10. If you followed my pick last week in the Patriots, you already love the Texans for being the worst coached team in the league and gifting us a miracle survival. The Colts almost pulled off a nice upset Monday night against the Ravens and desperately need a win this week to make up a game on the Titans. Carson Wentz may not be able to beat the upper echelon teams, but fortunately that list does not include Houston. 

Cheers! Drink Five!

    ENTRY #1            ENTRY #2

    RAMS                BUCCANEERS

    BUCCANEERS        BROWNS

    BRONCOS            CARDINALS

    BILLS                TITANS

    PATRIOTS

    COLTS

A few big upsets in week 4 and the field has dwindled to 790, a little less than half of the original entrants. If the Bengals wouldn't have been able to complete their comeback Thursday against the Jags half of the remaining survivors would have been eliminated. As expected, the top pick Buffalo Bills with 420 selections blazed their way through the Texans 40-0. But sadly my secondary pick fell short when the Titans couldn't pull out a late comeback against Jets in OT. To my surprise the Jets 1^st win was only the second biggest eliminator of the week, with 146 losing on the Saints compared to 123. The Titans showed me they are too weak to trust against the Jaguars even with all the distractions. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice.... you can't get fooled again.

A team that did impress me last week were the New England Patriots and there stout defense against the Tom Brady and the Bucs. This defense will give the rookie Mills fits and the Pats offense will score enough to pull off this road win. I went back and forth between Pats and Vikings for this pick. But last week the Vikings offense got shut down and for some reason I'm not comfortable picking against Detroit here. The Pats won out here because picking against Houston and getting to use a middling team like the Pats was too good to pass up.

Another strong pick is the Cowboys, but I think I'll be able to find a better spot to use them.

Cheers DrinkFive!

ENTRY #1                               ENTRY #2

            RAMS                                   BUCCANEERS

            BUCCANEERS                       BROWNS

            BRONCOS                            CARDINALS

            BILLS                                  TITANS

            PATRIOTS

Week three was relatively safe for everyone in the pool, with all the big favorites taking care of business. About 15% of the league were resurrected by Saint Justin Tucker's NFL record 66 yard field goal as time expired, but who could root against that kick? The Chiefs loss against the Chargers knocked out 18 for the highest number of the week bringing the total survivors down to 1064. Already 199 people have moved on this week with that actually exciting Thursday night game, where the Bengals pulled out a comeback win with a game-ending field goal. That may have been the best spot all year to play Cincinnati and they almost punished you for it. After watching my first Jaguars game, I don't see a winless season in their future.

I decided to use my two picks on the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans. The Bills are the biggest favorite of the week opening at -16.5 against the quarterbackless Houston Texans. Buffalo looks to be rolling now ever since their week one slip up against the Steelers. Houston has no chance against any of the better teams in the league until they upgrade their QB. 

The Titans are my second choice for the week. There is no need for concern about them not having any wide receivers, they are playing the Jets. The Titans will get plenty of receptions on defense to make up for the absence of Brown and Jones. Zach Wilson must be ecstatic for Justin Fields' start for the Bears so he is no longer the biggest embarrassment at QB so far. Titans defense and a heavy dose of Derick Henry should be all it takes.

Good luck everyone! And Drink Five!

ENTRY #1           ENTRY #2

RAMS                 BUCCANEERS

BUCCANEERS      BROWNS

BRONCOS           CARDINALS

BILLS                 TITANS