# NFL Picks - Week 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2002, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641 "2002-10-10T07:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/21 "2002-10-13T15:55:12Z")
Giants, Jaguars, Bengals, Bucs, Raiders ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/22 "2002-10-13T20:27:47Z")
Looks like the Steelers came through big. šŸ˜ƒ Even better, if Indy can hold off the hated Ravens, weā€™ll be tied for 1st place. Granted, it would be with a 2-3 record, but 1st place is still better than last. Pittsburgh is on thier way back. Mark my words. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/23 "2002-10-13T20:33:51Z")
Well Iā€™k doing crappy so far, so much for confidence. Omniscient, on the Raiders arguement. See last years Rams. \ Offense does not a champion make\. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/24 "2002-10-13T21:01:47Z")
Stuffy, Oaklandā€™s defense is playing _much_ better than last years Rams. And Iā€™ve still yet to hear you name a team thats better right now. I guess I should start remmebering to let you guys in on my picks before crashing on saturday since I always oversleep Sunday. Hereā€™s my OMNI picks: **NY Giants, Carolina, Buffalo, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville** **Shibbs** glad to see you get in here, was about to be very very disappointed in you. šŸ˜‰ However, it looks like your last minute picks on the early games were all pretty damn close. Except for GB and Cincy of course. Can I mention how itā€™s no shock that just as I drop Alstott he explodes for 126 and 2 TDs. Damnit. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/25 "2002-10-13T21:24:32Z")
You are watching the Rams/Raiders game right? I still havenā€™t seen enough games to name a better team, in fact counting today this is only the second Raiders game Iā€™ve seen (they canā€™t seem to sell enough tickets for the game to be televised). Still the Rams defense last year seems pretty similar to what Iā€™ve seen of the Raiders. I think several teams have the potential to outperform the Raiders, yes including the Niners and Philly. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/26 "2002-10-14T00:12:57Z")
_snort_ The ā€œbest team in the NFLā€ just lost to the Rams. Bwaaahaaahaaaahaaa. I knew the Raiders wouldnā€™t let me down. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/27 "2002-10-14T00:50:53Z")
When your defense canā€™t rattle the third-string quarterback in his first NFL start, you gotta start asking questions. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/28 "2002-10-14T03:58:12Z")
[Note: Yes, I actually completed this before todayā€¦damn board froze again. Sheesh, are they _ever_ going to fix this? Anyway, make of it what you willā€¦] This is something of a down week for me, as not only do I have a lot on my mind other than football (not the least of which is my first full-time temp job ever), but I just donā€™t have any strong likes for this week. Philadelphia is streaky, Cleveland just canā€™t seem to seal the deal, New England is reeling, Arizona is winning awfully ugly, and Detroit isā€¦well, Detroit. But, as with elections, no matter how shaky the field looks or how uncertain my opinions, I never miss an NFL week. And so, however slowly, the bandwagons roll onā€¦ **1. Bills** Screw rationalityā€¦I want Drew Bledsoe to _romp_, I want to see who wins that $1,500 interception wager, and I want to see the dangerous, high-scoring Bills of old. Thankfully, they shouldnā€™t have much trouble against the straggling Texans. **2. Panthers** They drop two _close_ games to contending teams, and already the brayingā€™s going full blast. Beating Dallas wonā€™t end it, but it will put them in good standing where it actually counts. **3. Colts** Another spite pick? Well, I definitely think this oneā€™s justified, for a number of reasons (especially all the favorable calls the Ravens have gotten). The Colts were _supposed_ to be a contending team, and the Ravens were _supposed_ to get hammered this seasonā€¦letā€™s see it. **4. Steelers** You can make a case that the Rams, by getting arrogant, had their crushing plummet coming to them. The Steelers, I feel, deserve a lot better. **5. Vikings** Hey, why the hell not. Detroit still hasnā€™t suffered enough, and the Vikings should be good for at least one win. Besides, this is probably the last chance Iā€™ll be able to pick them for anything before the inevitable total meltdown makes this impossible. Bandwagon standings: 7 - 49ers, Eagles, Panthers 6 - Bills 5 - Saints, Vikings 4 - Browns, Rams, Steelers 3 - Cardinals, Colts, Dolphins 2 - Patriots, Raiders 1 - Packers, Buccaneers, Bears Doesnā€™t get much tighter than this. From the looks of it, though, the 49ers and Eagles look to be the favorites. Now, to answer a few items from Omniscient from last week. > [@](#): > > Actually the rings are bought, designed and presented by the team owner to the members of the organization. Has absolutely nothing to do with the league. Just a ritual thatā€™s become popular, not sure when it started. Thanks for the correction. Nonetheless, I fail to see why a team owner wouldnā€™t be just as offended. And in any case, there is no possible justification for MAKING A DAMN CARDBOARD CUTOUT OF FOUR TEAM MEMBERS GIVING THE BIRD TO ANOTHER TEAM. Thatā€™s simply disgusting. > [@](#): > > Also, the Pats were one of the few teams that actually had a reason to bitch about ā€œrespectā€. They caught alot of flack saying they were the worst championship team ever in any sport. Disrespect is part of the game. There are plenty of reasons to hate the Yankees (Just an example! Donā€™t shooot!) despite the fact that theyā€™re one of the most dominant teams ever in any sport. What I donā€™t like is how itā€™s taken over every discussion, every analysis, every damn bit of press thatā€™s come from this team. This is old news, peopleā€¦Iā€™ve already brought up the Giants example, and there almost certainly were many before that. The seasonā€™s on, for crying out loud; letā€™s focus on that. > [@](#): > > For a guy who just a few posts above bitches about the ridiculousness of the BCS Look, Iā€™ll spell it out real simple-like for youā€¦I WANT PLAYOFFS OR NOTHING. The best that can be said about the BCS is that it might be a tiny improvement over the old figure-skating style (i.e. after a tremendous down-to-the-wire competition, the champion is decided by a bunch of guys with the athletic ability ofā€¦well, me). Nebraska didnā€™t belong in the same _city_ as Miami in the last Rose Bowl, and itā€™s a travesty that many far more deserving teams got locked out. Iā€™m mystified at the sycophantic sportswriters who point to this horribly flawed system as evidence that we donā€™t need playoffsā€¦or, even worse, an argument for bringing back the figure skating judges. Both systems are ridiculous, and as long as college football insists on using either, I will never take the ā€œnational championshipā€ in this sport seriously. I know that there are a bunch of reasons not to adopt playoffs. That does not automatically make the current system good. In fact, hereā€™s another ideaā€¦_no_ national champion. Go ahead and have your big rivalries, your Games of the Century, your proud traditions, your homecoming, your pomp, your pageantry. Have a whole bunch of bowls just for bragging rights, like the old days. Then, at the end, everyone just go home and not have some stupid debate about who was ā€œreallyā€ #1. I mean, how many people would actually miss it? ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/29 "2002-10-14T05:08:52Z")
I never did get the whole idea that Philadelphia is a streaky team. They havenā€™t lost two in a row in a while, and have been rather consistant for the past two years. Granted, the loss to Jax was an upset and you could hear the collective groan from the entire city by half-time, but Mcnabb always comes back off a tough loss with a remarkable game. If they are streaky, I just no seeing it. Sorry to barge in on your conversationā€¦I usually just observe. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/30 "2002-10-14T07:22:50Z")
**DKW** , I never said I was pro-BCS. Granted I donā€™t think the solution is as easy as ā€œlet there be playoffs!!ā€, and Iā€™ve spouted off on it in other threads at length. The point of my statement was to note the irony of the fact you bash the Patriots who won a playoff system to claim the championship, and then a few paragraphs later you comment that the lack of a true playoff winner in college is a travesty. Seems a touch inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/31 "2002-10-14T16:29:50Z")
That Miami/Denver game had to be one of the best games of the season. Itā€™s the best Iā€™ve seen this season anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/32 "2002-10-14T22:06:09Z")
Might be one of the best ever IMHO. Its up there with the Rams-Bucs game on MNF a couple years ago. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/33 "2002-10-15T13:38:20Z")
Bad pick week all around in my pool. The winner only picked 7. And I was right. The Jests didnā€™t lose! Originally _Jests_ was a typo, but it looked so appropriate I left it like that. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/34 "2002-10-15T14:06:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by me_ > Iā€™d like to to test my theory concerning football tipping, being that the accuracy of ones tips is inversely proportional to their knowledge about the game. Hence, being a foreigner who does not keep up with the sport at all, I can tell you without doubt that this weekends winners will be: > > Atlanta > Baltimore > Houston > Carolina > Detroit > Green Bay > Tennessee > New Orleans > Cincinatti > Tampa Bay > Kansas City > St Louis > Denver > San Francisco. Well, letā€™s see how the theory turns out. ::checks NFL website:: And I got 7/14. Exactly half of my random picks were correct. Stupid mathematics. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/35 "2002-10-15T15:32:29Z")
I had a long-winded, detail recap of all my picks this week done up, and just as I previewed the hamsters died. So youā€™re all spared that. Summary: I sucked this week, on about half of the games, and had good insights on the other half. So just about as good as **gex gex** did with no idea of how things work. In other news: itā€™s **C-i-n-c-i-n-n-a-t-i**. Three 'nā€™s, three 'iā€™s, only a single ā€˜tā€™. I realise that they suck and donā€™t deserve a correct spelling, but itā€™s also not a city in Italy. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/36 "2002-10-15T15:40:59Z")
Yeah, I did a crappy job this week too. But was that a great Monday night game too, Seattle had me worried for a minute there. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/37 "2002-10-15T17:13:29Z")
Not too bad considering how much trouble most people had. Went 9-5 Straight Up, and the inverse, 5-9 ATS. I can handle that. I went 2-3 in my OMNI picks again, but at least this time the average score was right about there and it rolled again. Gotta be on the money this week. Won my fantasy too, so thats nice. **Shibbs** , Iā€™ve gotten in the habit of selecting and copying all my text before clicking the submit button just for those cases. I got burned the second week on my huge first post, and its svaed my ass 3 times already. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/38 "2002-10-15T17:32:47Z")
Not too bad considering how much trouble most people had. Went 9-5 Straight Up, and the inverse, 5-9 ATS. I can handle that. I went 2-3 in my OMNI picks again, but at least this time the average score was right about there and it rolled again. Gotta be on the money this week. Won my fantasy too, so thats nice. **Shibbs** , Iā€™ve gotten in the habit of selecting and copying all my text before clicking the submit button just for those cases. I got burned the second week on my huge first post, and its svaed my ass 3 times already. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641/39 "2002-10-16T07:16:13Z")
Still a ton on my mind (will have some verrry choice words about Altres Staffing sometime in the futureā€¦donā€™t feel like talking about it right now, so donā€™t ask), and not really a whole lot to comment on this week, so Iā€™ll keep this short. Omniscient - I stand by everything I said about how the college champion is decided. Sure, implementing a workable, fair playoff system isnā€™t going to be easy. I say do it anyway. A championship without legitimacy is no championship at all. Otherwise, donā€™t have any championship, just the conference titles, rivalries, traditions, big games, pomp, pageantry and annual bowl madnessā€¦which have always been the best things about the college game anyway. And I never bashed the Patriots. I think that they have a legitimate beef about being dissed even after winning the championship. A titleā€™s a title no matter who itā€™s againstā€¦I reminded myself of that after the Houston Rocketsā€™ back-to-back. The thing is, they _were_ lucky, so the disses werenā€™t totally offā€¦and in any case, the new season is on, so thatā€™s what should be commanding their attention. So in brief: Fluky, but it counts, congrats. Now quit yappinā€™ and start defending it already! And, to reiterate, there is _no_ possible justification for making a cardboard cutout of four players flipping the bird with the Super Bowl Rings. Jesus freaking _Christ_. everyone - Again my picks didnā€™t disappointā€¦I may eventually figure out this season after all. If I had to do a power ranking, Iā€™d have Miami at #1, followed by either San Francisco or New Orleans. Miamiā€™s had a history of flagging down the stretch, but thereā€™s absolutely no reason to doubt them right now. San Francisco is, predictably, strong as ever. The Saints has made a ton of amazing clutch plays and could be The Team No One Wants To Meet come crunch time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-picks-week-6/131641.md?page=1)