# NFL Picks - Week 11 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775 "2002-11-14T23:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/21 "2002-11-17T16:40:33Z")
I’d take the Rams if it weren’t off (sorry, Chicago fans) Bills Browns Broncos Panthers Chargers ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/22 "2002-11-18T17:26:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*I’d take the Rams if it weren’t off (sorry, Chicago fans) > Bills > Browns > Broncos > Panthers > Chargers \*\* 4-1 on the Omni picks. If I’d just trusted my hometown boys to come through it would have been 5-0. But at least the Bucs are 8-2, tied for first place with the Packers for the NFL lead. And they have to come into our house next week. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/23 "2002-11-18T18:33:15Z")
Gah! The AFC West is driving me crazy! One week everybody sucks, the next week everybody wins! I’m getting gray hair over here. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/24 "2002-11-18T19:19:40Z")
(Expletive deleted) Minnesota Crykings, and their (expletive deleted) sissy dome! I am so sick of the Packers losing to the Crykings in that godforsaken dump. Oh well, the Crykings fans can have their moment of happiness. When playoff time comes, their team will be sitting at home watching the Packers win the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/25 "2002-11-18T20:06:34Z")
[Pats fan’s whinge fest] GRRRRRR. Nasty, evil Raiders. Doing such mean things to my beloved Patriots. They should be ashamed. A blight upon them and their extraordinary scariness. They must have the most terrifying fans in the league. I wish Brady had been wearing those fancy-schmancy gloves of his in the first half. He might not have thrown so many crazy, whacked out, God-Himself-couldn’t-reach-'em passes. Or maybe he would have thrown them anyway, but hed have done it wearing some super-cool gloves. Which is really what matters. BUT, no great ill w/o some small gain: Bruschi’s interception + TD. Heehee. I enjoyed that little fluke. On the other hand, if the Raiders had lost, it would have given them something to bitch about for another year. [/Pfwf] ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/26 "2002-11-18T20:32:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*Here’s Jon Gruden’s take on this whole deal: > > I also saw an interview with one of the Raiders DBs who said that a reason that they were on Brady likes flies was that he overheard the call go in from the Patriots bench while he was on the sideline talking up the side judge. He was complaining that Brady kept moving before the snap, heard the play call, and then went back and told the others what was coming up. \*\* They were half-brained inbreeds for not keeping Gruden. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/27 "2002-11-18T21:28:08Z")
I knew _I knew_ I shoulda went with Green Bay being the Holy Shit team this week. Damned Pats. Is this how you repay my loyalty? What happened to love of your country? Huh? Huh?! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/28 "2002-11-18T22:13:46Z")
Should I point out that the Packers are the latest victims of the First Place in all of the Power Rankings curse? ooooo, very scary boys and girls! ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/29 "2002-11-19T04:17:38Z")
Looking over my “power” (snicker, chortle) rankings: Buccaneers win. Bills keep it to within a point; were it not for some really lousy luck (One toe. One lousy, stinkin’ toe!), they would’ve won it easily. Raiders win. Steelers lose, but the injury obviously played a big part. Packers lose, but I forgot that they usually turn into a third-rate JV squad in the Metrodome (I remember saying something like this in a previous season). So all in all, it was a pretty good week. (There’s a reason they’re _bandwagon_ picks and not _OMNI_ picks.) I wouldn’t blame the Packers’ stumble on any “first place curse”. This is actually an example of a JFB…Just Freaking Because. I call it Just Freaking Because because there’s no explaining these bizarre sports phenomena…they just happen. The Vikings _always_ beat the Packers in the Metrodome, and why? Just Freaking Because. The Red Sox never, never, ever win the World Series, ever…JFB. Pete Sampras slow-burns for almost two years, then comes out of nowhere to win the US Open…JFB. Korea gets about 50,000 bad calls in its favor in the World Cup, and everyone just laughs and jokes about the “home field advantage”…JFB. Michael Jordan gets a sweetheart supporting cast and fantastic coach Charles Barkley would do nude pantomime for, and _not a single one of them_ gets any credit for those championships today…you bet your kidneys it’s JFB. In any event, I’m not jumping off the Packers’ bandwagon. Losing the game they _always_ lose is no cause for alarm. However, they have the Buccaneers this week, and this is quite possibly the best Buccaneers squad _ever_, so it could be a tough call. I don’t think I’m jinxing anyone if I do, however. (Gad, I wish it were that easy…) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/30 "2002-11-19T12:33:57Z")
Not that I’m superstitious, but… just pick the Packers. They deserve a mulligan. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775/31 "2002-11-19T18:46:00Z")
Playing the Bucs at their house is never easy, but after the letdown in the Minnecrapa Crappydome, I think that Brett and the Packers will pull it all together and beat Tampa Bay. The NFC North will be clinched, and the Pack can then focus on making sure that the road to the Super Bowl goes through the Frozen Tundra. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-11/136775.md?page=1)