Watching ‘This is 40’ while making football picks is more depressing than I thought possible. The film is grossly accurate with a sense of humor that I find compelling… and terribly familiar. I’m not even 40. Days like this I feel like I’m living in a sitcom—The League maybe. I’m going to plow right through that and make some picks.
I went with a general theme here: For half these games the more talented team isn’t going to win. That strategy is the result of specific game situations. Minnesota will beat Green Bay based on the D-line. The same can be said of the Jets. San Diego is a sleeper team and so on.
1. NO over ATL
2. NYJ over BAL
3. PIT over CLE
4. DET over TB
5. MIN over GB
6. HOU over JAC
7. SD over KC
8. CAR over MIA
9. CHI over STL
10. IND over AZ
11. OAK over TEN
12. NYG over DAL
13. DEN over NE
14. SF over WAS