NFL WEEK 1 POOL

[Scottler]

For those of you who don't know how football pools work, here's the easy version.

You pick the winners for the entire week's schedule.  Usually, a contribution is involved, and the winner gets the pot.  However, this is a friendly pool, and no money will be involved.  We're playing for pure bragging rights here.

Anyone interested needs to get their picks in (by replying to the week's post) by Friday night at midnight easterm time.  (Saturday morning, depending on how you view it.)  The exception to this is week 13, where there is a game on Thursday, November 27th.  That week, picks will be due on Wednesday.

Here's the week 1 schedule (a little late):

NY Jets @ Washington (Thursday)
Arizona @ Detroit
Denver@ Cincinatti
Indianapolis@ Cleveland
Minnesota @ Green Bay
San Diego @ Kansas City
Atlanta @ Dallas
New Orleans @ Seattle
Baltimore @ Pittsburgh
Houston @ Miami
Jacksonville @ Carolina
New England @ Buffalo
St Louis @ NY Giants
Chicago @ San Francisco
Oakland @ Tennessee
Tampa @ Philadelphia (Monday)

Reply with a list of your winners.  (And be honest about last nights game.  I still haven't seen the score, but I know that the team I picked was down in the 3rd quarter.)

[Scottler]

My picks for week 1 are:

NY Jets, Arizona, Denver, Indianapolis, Minnesota, San Diego, Dallas, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Houston, Jacksonville, Buffalo, NY Giants, San Francisco, Oakland, and Tampa Bay.

[Smoke2much]

Manchester United 1 Liverpool FC 3
Norwich City 1 Ipswich Town 72

Hold on... Wrong sport... Sorry

[Craig.]

Arizona @ Detroit:   Arizona
Denver@ Cincinatti :   Denver:)
Indianapolis@ Cleveland:  Indianapolis
Minnesota @ Green Bay:  Green Bay
San Diego @ Kansas City:  Kansas
Atlanta @ Dallas: Atlanta
New Orleans @ Seattle: New orleans
Baltimore @ Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh
Houston @ Miami:  Miami
Jacksonville @ Carolina: Tie game  
New England @ Buffalo:  New England
St Louis @ NY Giants:  St Louis
Chicago @ San Francisco: San Fransisco
Oakland @ Tennessee:  Oakland
Tampa @ Philadelphia (Monday)  Tampa
i Know the result on last nights so i cant vote there:)

[RichieB16]

OK, here we go:

Arizona @ Detroit-Detroit (Week 1 upset)
Denver@ Cincinatti-Denver
Indianapolis@ Cleveland-Cleveland
Minnesota @ Green Bay-Green Bay
San Diego @ Kansas City-San Diego
Atlanta @ Dallas-Dallas (because of no Vick)
New Orleans @ Seattle-Seattle
Baltimore @ Pittsburgh-Baltimore
Houston @ Miami-Maimi
Jacksonville @ Carolina-Jacksonville

[Craig.]

i have the fun of listening to all of denvers games on the online radio sadly sky sports only shows 2--3 games of theirs a year

[RichieB16]

I know the feeling, I won't be able to watch more than 2 or 3 or Carolina's games (my favorite team) or of the Bears (my 2nd favorite team).  Fortunately, they televise just about every Lions game here (yes clear out in Oregon) so I will be able to see my favorite ACTIVE player-Joey Harrington.

[Craig.]

they say for every good theres a bad. i am guessing getting to watch the fav player is the good so having to watch a detroit game is the bad:)

[RichieB16]

Actually, I think that Detroit is on the rise.  I mean, 2 years ago they won like 1 or 2 games.  The same was true of last year but about 5 of them had very close/last minute finishes.  In my opinion, Harrington (who I got to watch in person in college) has the tools and ability to become the next Joe Montana (who was my favorite player)-just watching him reminds me of Montana-same style of play.  If Charles Rogers pays off (Randy Moss comes to mind) this could be a very powerful offense, last year they really lacked a go to reciever.  Unfortunately, this year isn't gonna be real great because they lost James Stewart (starting RB) for the season during the preseason (yes-preseason is way to long) so they're going to depend on their passing game a lot more than they should.  Anyway, watch to see a lot of improvement out of Detriot this year.  

[Craig.]

i do agree on preseason, i think it should be changed to one game and kept to the division, ie the winning team should play the third placed team and second take on 4th. that way it gives all teams more time to practise but gives them a good measuring stick for the year

[RichieB16]

It seems like the length of the preseason is just too long (I mean it's like 5 weeks!).  Now, I do understand the neccessity of warming the veterans and giving the rookies first hand experience in an actual game environment-but because of the amount of violence in the sport, it gets to a point where the preseason become more damaging than helpful.  Names like Michael Vick and Chad Pennington come to mind (and thats just this year-every year at least one star gets seriously hurt).  I just think they need to shorten the preseason to maybe 3 weeks.  That should give adiquate time to get everybody all warmed up and will minimize the risk of losing a franchise player for the season before the season actually starts.  

[Craig.]

another thing is the injured reserve rule, as i understand it once a player is on the IR list they are out a season, whether they heal up or not, some big names are kept from the game because of that,am i right on that rule?

[RichieB16]

The injury reserve rule is a little weird but there is a reason for it.

[Craig.]

thanks for the info:)
never knew the reason behind it but now i do:) and it did make sense
Cheers

[RichieB16]

Glad to help.

That took me a long time to figure out when I first learned about it.  It seems like one of those rules that they really shouldn't have had to make-but because of people trying to gain an upper hand they had to.