It’s time for another update for the Pigskin Pick’em. This week, the Redskins handled the Detroit Lions, winning 25-17, allowing the Redskins to keep pace in the NFC East with the second best record. If we can get by the Steelers next Monday Night, we’ll either be in first place in the East, or have a strong 2 game lead over the Cowboys for the second slot. Either way, if the Redskins win this week, we’re in good shape. I had been hoping to get the second part of the three part Draft look back up before this, but my PhD work came up (yeah, I’m working on a PhD, along with my regular full time job), and didn’t get to it yet, but Jason La Canfora at the post kind of jumped my thunder (seemingly again getting his idea here… Hi JLa!) by hitting the 2nd rounders in the Redskins Insider Column anyway, which is actually a pretty decent read. However, let’s get to this weeks Kudos and Props.
This week’s big winner was El Gaupo, with 11 wins in a 14 win week… not bad at all. 5 others had 10 win weeks, also keepers, and deserve some respect, but El Gaupo gets the Props this week. BTW, as an aside, my old favorite Redskins beat writer, Jim Ducibella, was a huge fan of El Gaupo, and had an ongoing bet with O’Halloran at the Washington Times over who would pay on their next trip to El Gaupo in Seattle… shame he retired. Props to El Gaupo!
Upset pick of the week this week is Cleveland handing it to Jacksonville. I’ve been fairly warm on the Jaguars this year, having penciled them in as a first round playoff winner in the AFC…. so for them to lose to the Browns this week was a bit of an upset to me. It was an upset for most of the rest of us, too, but not to everyone. Kudos have to go out to Fletchskins, Texas Redskin, Vetetax’s Picks, and coooooley for properly prognosticating that pick.
As always, we close out with the Season Props. This week, El Gaupo has extended his lead, and now leads by a game over Hot Stuff Coming Through and 22209, 69 to 68. However, the top 22 players are all within 9 games of the lead, so just a couple of good weeks could easily vault anyone up into the top spots, and with 16 game weeks starting again in two week, it won’t be long before it’s easy to make up huge amounts again. Regardless, however, El Gaupo is our big Season Prop winner for this week! Remember to get you picks in, because you need to get in it to win it!