NFL Survivor Pool Picks - Week 1 Targets and Avoids for Survivor Leagues
Survivor is one of the oldest yet simplest pools in football. Its popularity has been overtaken by fantasy football , but that has more than a dozen variables needed to win. Picking an NFL team to win each week, and not being able to take them again -- can't get any easier. You don't need... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 18) - Targets and Avoids
Welcome back RotoBallers to another edition of our Survivor Pool Picks article. So far 11 playoff spots are already locked up heading into Week 18, and seven teams are vying for the final three. All the big favorites took care of business last week, but the Jets were awfully close to beating the Bucs. How... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 17) - Targets and Avoids
What usually is the season finale is now the penultimate week of the regular season. 24 out of 32 teams are still in playoff contention. Just eight teams have officially been eliminated. This is why the NFL is the best. The major upset of Week 16 was the Texans beating down on the Chargers. The... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 16) - Targets and Avoids
The NFL seems like a short season with only 17 regular season games played, but then you look back at Week 8 and realize the Chiefs lost 27-3 to the Titans, it feels like eons ago. After that loss, I wrote, "If there's ever been a better buy-low chance on any team, it's Kansas City... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 15) - Targets and Avoids
It's wide open with four games left in the regular season. Five teams in the AFC and the NFC are within one game of the top seed. Only three teams in the AFC have been eliminated from playoff contention, one team in the NFC, but we can go ahead and cross off the Giants and... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 14) - Targets and Avoids
The genius of Bill Belichick. Everyone needs to stop with that. We know how great of a coach he is, but they did absolutely nothing to win that game offensively. Yeah, they broke a touchdown run in the first quarter, but other than that, it was their defense. The Bills could not convert anything in... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 13) - Survivor League Targets and Avoids
Before putting money on a game, check who the referees are. If Shawn Hochul is the head ref, I will not touch it anymore. What he and his crew did during the Raiders-Cowboys Thanksgiving bout was nothing short of egregious. 28 combined penalties for 276 yards including the final pass interference that put the Raiders... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 12) - Survivor League Targets and Avoids
Thanksgiving Week is arguably the greatest sports week of the year. We have NFL, college football rivalry week, college basketball games on all day, and NHL and NBA but who really cares about the latter two this early on. But what I continually here this time of year, is get the Lions off Thanksgiving Day.... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 11) - Targets and Avoids
The Kansas City Chiefs are back. I wrote in my Week 8 column, there would not be a better chance to buy low on the Chiefs. It was after their 27-3 drubbing by the Titans. Since then, they've won three straight. It's been ugly; they barely beat the Giants, eked by a Packers team without... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 10) - Targets and Avoids
Favorites were winning an unprecedented clip. It was bound to happen. NFL doomsday. It’s the one week where favorites go down. Some didn’t just go down, but rather got knocked out. The biggest shock was Buffalo losing in Jacksonville. Other surprises included the Cowboys getting rolled by the Broncos and Rams dominated by the Titans.... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 9) - Targets and Avoids
Football. The game doesn't add up. Sometimes all stats point to one team dominating but just the opposite happens. That transpired with the Bengals Sunday, but the game that really made no sense was the Titans-Colts. Indy jumped out to a quick 14-0 lead before the Titans crawled back and then it was back-and-forth. Now... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 8) - Targets and Avoids
If there's ever been a better buy-low chance on any team, it's Kansas City this week. They looked so bad Sunday against Tennessee. Patrick Mahomes got knocked around, the offense even failing to score a touchdown. Their odds to win the Super Bowl are 9-1, and the AFC Championship is +450. All week we're going... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 7) - Targets and Avoids
We are now a third of the way through the football season and it seems that we already have some of the division winners. In the AFC, the Bills, Ravens, and Titans all seem to be in control. In the NFC, the Cowboys, Packers, and Bucs have at least a two-game lead. The only two... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 6) - Targets and Avoids
By the growing weeks, football is becoming more like a video game. The deep passing attacks, defenses having such trouble to get a stop, and coaches going for it more and more often on fourth down. Chargers head coach Brandon Staley went for it with 10:34 to go in the third quarter. It was a... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 5) - Targets and Avoids
You can't get a third down stop or fourth down stop without seeing some yellow laundry. It's an epidemic. I wrote about this last week and usually don't like to have the same lead two weeks in a row, but it's out of control. The referees don't stop calling holding and pass interference penalties. When... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 4) - Targets and Avoids
As good as football has been this young season, the game is also laughable. The league wants these referees to call these ticky-tacky penalties. On the winning touchdown drive for the Chargers, they had a 4th-and-9 from the Chiefs 35 when Justin Herbert's pass was incomplete. But of course, a pass interference was called. It... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 3) - Targets and Avoids
The games get better and more dramatic by the week. It's like the NFL scripts these games. There were three games Sunday that were blowouts all the way through, not counting the Bucs which used two pick-sixes to not only cover the spread, but knock out Falcons teasers (that one really hurt). I won't go... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 2) - Targets and Avoids
It's time to overreact. Aaron Rodgers should've stayed retired, the Falcons are going to be one of the five worst teams, the Vikings have no hope, and the Rams are still going to the Super Bowl. There are some justified reactions like the Jets are the same ol' Jets, Daniel Jones is not an NFL... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 1) - Targets and Avoids
It's one of the oldest pools out there. It used to be the most popular league during football season until fantasy came along. But picking a team to win each week, not being able to take them again, is as simple as it gets. You don't need to worry about every little injury like you... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 17) - Targets and Avoids
If you've made it this far in your survivor pool, what a remarkable job you've done. It hasn't been easy especially with the last two weeks of upsets from the Jets. As for the rest of Week 16, favorites went 9-6 against the spread (Colts-Steelers closed pick 'em). There were four outright upsets, none bigger... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 16) - Targets and Avoids
It took 15 weeks for there to be crazy unexpected upsets and we got not one, but two. If you thought the Jets beating the Rams as 17-point underdogs was shocking, what about the Bengals beating the Steelers? Ryan Finley completed just seven passes for 89 yards and somehow the Bengals managed to win wire-to-wire.... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 15) - Targets and Avoids
The last play of Week 14 caused six-figure swing at MGM. And that's just what we know, imagine all the swings with bookies across the country because of that safety. The Cleveland Browns continue to lose the biggest games in the most heartbreaking way. As for Week 14, underdogs went 10-6 against the spread. There... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 14) - Targets and Avoids
You think you've seen it all in the NFL, but then you realize the league continues to amaze. Teams find different ways to lose like the Jets blitzing the house and Mitchell Trubisky getting strip-sacked when all they needed was to run. And then there was the remarkable play of Tyreek Hill not even realizing... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 13) - Targets and Avoids
Last week I railed against the referees, but after what this past week showed, some coaches were simply horrendous. From Mike McCarthy running that awful fake punt, to Anthony Lynn's numerous mistakes, it was downright awful. Everyone is going after Lynn for the debacle at the goal line with under 20 seconds left and rightly... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 12) - Targets and Avoids
The referees have gotten out of hand. It seems like every single play there's a defensive holding, illegal contact, or pass interference. Even if it's third-and-20 and the ball is thrown to the right side of the field, but a hold is called on the left side, that gives the offense a first down. It's... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 11) - Targets and Avoids
Week 10 good had its usual close games and blowouts. Favorites were nearly perfect straight up, going 12-2. The two blemishes were the Ravens losing to the Patriots and Eagles dropping one to the Giants. The Packers who were 14-point favorites, had to go down to the last drive with the Jaguars. And the game... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 10) - Targets and Avoids
The three biggest favorites of Week 9 not only almost loss but all went to the final snap. The Chiefs beat the Panthers by two after Carolina missed a 67-yard field goal. The Steelers hung on to beat the Cowboys after a last-second shot at the end zone. And the Patriots scored 13 points in... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 9) - Targets and Avoids
It finally happened. Underdogs finally came through with some outright upsets in Week 8. We've had some small-ish upsets here and there but not many touchdown underdogs winning in the same week. Underdogs went 10-4 against the spread with seven outright upsets. The biggest was the Bengals beating the Titans as seven-point underdogs. Another one... Read More
NFL Survivor Pool Picks (Week 8) - Targets and Avoids
Last week had the feel some underdogs would come through knocking remaining entrants of survivor pools in half. But that wasn't the case. Underdogs went 8-5 against the spread with four outright upsets. The biggest was the Cardinals +3.5 beating the Seahawks. The Chargers gave many remaining entrants a scare when they fell behind in... Read More