Welcome to Week 5 of the NFL Season, which at it’s conclusion will see (hopefully) a Washington Redskin victory over the Detroit Lions. But first, we’ll have Week 4′s Kudos for the Redskin Report Pigskin Pick’em contest to hand out!
In a week where the visitors were favored in most games, the default strategy of choosing home games that all of the accounts should do would have (you would think) been a big loser; however, there were a huge number of upsets, and the “Choose the Home Team” would have earned enough to get this weeks Weekly Kudos. Too bad no one did that….
We did have some people who got more than half right this week in what is promising to be the low week (at least for now) for most players. Best of the lot, with 8 points each, were D. McGann, D. Wagner, N. Magee, K. Terminella, and B. Pierson. Kudos to all 5 of you for a decent performance in what is otherwise a bad week, and keep up the good work.
This week, I’ve arbitrarly decreed that there are not one, but TWO upset picks of the week. In my mind, the bigger upset was Detroit brushing aside Chicago in Chicago; however, a number of you disagree, and are on the “Lions are for real” or the “Bears are posers” bandwagon, because D. Wagner, B. Moore, P. Pottberg, M. Edmonds, D. Buss, and Lee Gibbons all correctly predicted that Detroit would be on a winning streak coming to FedEx this Sunday. On the other hand, in a game I thought could go either way, but chose to play safe and call (incorrectly) that the Eagles would tough it out, only D. Wagner and D. Buss correctly predicted that the Donnovan McNabb would find the turf more than the end zone (12 sacks!). Kudos to all who predicted these upsets.
However, in this drop the lowest week contest, the leaderboard for the season didn’t change much; only one person is, at present, keeping week 4s results for the season (i.e., Week 4 was the low point so far for all put one person, who did well this week) However, it did open up a bit at the top, which now is being led by… well, ME, with 37, Jon Martin is second with 36, and Lee Gibbons is third with 35 (I must have miscounted last week in reporting raw scores, as a week like this, which saw the leaders faulter, means that the raw scores will be the real scores the following week). Raw scores, however, do see some significant movement this week; I’m still first, with 43, but A. Fishman has moved into second with 41, followed by Jon Martin, Lee Gibbons, and D. McGann (40). While we aren’t using raw scores for final tallying, they are indicative of how well people are picking. Props to all of our season leaders at this point. There are still 194 points out there to be earned, so it’s still anyones contest to win!