I’m going to try to make this recap short and sweet, since I’m currently on the road to meet my parents and deliver my kids for the weekend. Freedom for the weekend. Woo-hoo!
I am a little behind today because I started the day adding injury report info to our football depth charts, which is a nice feature if I do say so myself.
Okay, so survivor pool. I mean, survivor pools as of last week, when we kicked off the Second Half Survivor Pool to go along with our original Football Survivor Pool.
We started with 32 in the original, but lost rydel, Sideshow Bob and Team Dahlgren with the Arizona Cardinals laying an egg against the Carolina Panthers. Five INTs for Kurt Warner? We expected that from Jake Delhomme, not the other way around. Now just 29 carry on for the $1,600+ (talk about sweet) prize.
Over in the second half pool, we got 33 entries signed up, but lost 6 right off the bat. Four with the Cards – DiMuzio, DonS, fadeleyp and NickyJ – and 2 with the Lions – Buffalo Mudwings and cbob9999.
I feel a little bad about Buffalo Mudwings, a.k.a. Chris Prospero, because I more or less dared him to pick the Lions after he said on Tony Ricciardi’s Off the Air podcast that he had to stay true to his system picking against the Rams every week. On the other hand, I warned him the Rams were a good bet to win that game outright! So, I don’t feel that bad. Just a little.
As for this week, how are the choices looking? Not great, I’ll tell you that. A number of the dismal teams are off on bye this week, and there are some interesting pick’ems amongst the top teams. After much humming and hawing, I decided to go with the Packers, Seahawks and Falcons.
If you are still alive in either pool (or both, we have a few) then make sure to get your pick in before the 1:00 Eastern deadline on Sunday.