I must apologize. With TAX season upon us; I got busy and didn’t realize my hosting fee was due. SORRY about that. But we are up and running again. Let me begin by re-affirming. I AM NEITHER A REPUBLICAN NOR DEMOCRAT. I FEEL THERE IS NO ROOM FOR POLITICS IN GOVERNMENT. Recent events have shown WHY I have this belief. Was Donald Trump my first choice for President of United States. NO! However given the choice between Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton ( a proven anti American candidate), there was little choice. I figure women voted for her because of their desire to have a WOMAN President. Then you have those people (of both parties) Who will vote for a candidate because he/she is of a certain party. If Hitler were alive and nominated for a political office there is NO doubt he would get the vote of those hard line PARTY MEMBERS. I do not think Donald Trump believed he had a chance to become President. And was really taken off guard when he got the nomination and then actually WON. Had the democratic party chosen an able candidate I may have voted for that one. However given the record of Barack Obama, IT would have been difficult to justify any DEMOCRATIC candidate.. I could write volumes about how Obama wasted eight years of being a very powerful person. (I did like that he appeared to to LOVE basketball). I could also fill volumes of why I feel Ms. Clinton is anti-American. Let me say that I was no fan of Republican Ronald Reagan, or H.W. Bush. Now on to my POST. As I see it TOO MANY OF YOU HAVE BECOME FOLLOWERS. You will sit there and watch a speech or a video account of something and RATHER, Than believe what YOU hear or see. YOU believe the editorialized version you receive from the MEDIA. We have so few NEWS “REPORTERS”. What we have are…” NEWS EDITORIALIZERS” They do not “REPORT NEWS” . THEY merely give you their version. (Or their boss”s version). I have seen many LIVE speeches given by Mr. Trump. Only to see the news version which has been edited. Omitting even a word or two can change the entire meaning. This is one trick they use to convince you to believe their way. I find it hard to believe the majority of DEMOCRATS are being truly represented by the people they elected. (Some Republicans are the same). It just seems that the DEMOCRATS now in office have no LOGICAL THINKING ABILITY. (I am one who relies on LOGIC more than not. Let us look upon Nancy Pelosi. A person totally void of LOGIC. I know for a fact that Mr. Trump tried in earnest to negotiate with her on the wall deal. But Pelosi (being one minded), refused to try to negotiate. (NEGOTIATE: TO DEAL OR BARGAIN WITH ANOTHER OR OTHERS IN THE PREPARATION OF A TREATY OR CONTRACTIN PRELIMINARIES TO A BUSINESS DEAL). Example: If you are wanting a raise in wages. Say you are really wanting a dollar an hour raise, or if on salary you want a $5000 a year raise. Do you go to your boss and say I want a dollar an hour more. He will com back and say I will give you a quarter and hour and somehow you reach an agreement between his offer of a quarter and your asking one dollar. No you go in and ask for say $2 an hour raise through negotiation you agree to the dollar raise ( or near it), you get your raise the boss feels he has saved $1 an hour. You both are pleased. BUT If you go to the boss and say I want to negotiate a raise. The boss says NO I won’t discuss a raise. Thus you have no negotiations. That is exactly what Ms Pelosi told Mr. Trump. So he did what you and I would do and walked out. Ms. Pelosi has her own agenda and thinks she is the sole charge of USA. An ego trip if you will. She is not interested in representing the majority of democrats, She is merely trying to make a name for herself. The name she is making I personally would hate to have. I know MANY Democrats whho have tuned her out and are ashamed to admit they are Democrats. People who have been Democrats for SIXTY to SEVENTY years. Now let’s move to this wall thing. Jim Acosta a CNN reporter was walking along a portion of wall and telling everyone the wall was not needed. After all the businesses behind that wall were all doing well and no trouble with people illegally crossing ACCROSS the border. FROM BEHIND THE WALL.. Did you see the interview of the tthree ranchers whose ranches are along the border? One rancher tells of 2 million illegal crossings on his property and tearing down his fences. (I think that number could have been stretched a little), BUT they are entering our country illegally.. Another tells of 38 trucks coming across with illegal guns to be sold in our USA. Another tells of truckloads of drugs crossing onto his ranch. The third tells of even more truckloads of drugs, crossing over his ranch. Ms. Pelosi and her comrade Schumer seem to go blind to these things. She claims we need “MORE GUN CONTROLS”; BUT ! Pretends there are illegal guns coming ILLEGALLY, into the USA.. Not to mention, in this day of “IDENTITY THEFT, HOW many of these illegal trespassers are using good citizens identities to obtain “ LEGAL GUNS”. As to PRESIDENT TRUMP stating he could have not used his power to accelerate the building of the WALL, (I personally don’t like the idea of a wall ….BUT). To delay the inevitable is like shutting the barn door after the horse is out. Lets curb these illegal activities as quickly as… Continue reading THE WALL, GUN CONTROL AND OTHER THINGS
Author: Wayne Lawrence
NFL DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND CONFIDENCE PICKS 01/20/2019
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. SEVENTEEN weeks; FIFTEEN OTs . 9 BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All TIMES EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE NFC SUNDAY 01/20/19 15:05 1 FOX Rams 26 @ SAINTS 23 (OT) 2 2/2 (NFC West) (NFC South) AFC SUNDAY 01/20/19 18:40 2 CBS Patriots 37 @ CHIEFS 31(OT) 1 3/3 (AFC East) (AFC West) Views: 94
NFL 2019 DIVISIONAL PLAY OFF CONFIDENCE PICKS
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. SEVENTEEN weeks; FIFTEEN OTs . When you check my picks. You will notice I picked the PATRIOTS as my lowest pick. I really feel they will fall this weekend, despite the numbers. ALSO Ihave a strong feeling th surging feel good COLTS are so numb with confidence; I picked them to UPSET the Chiefs at home. I Guess you could say I overestimated the COLTS. Who would think KC would have come out and play like a PROFESSIONAL team. And he COLTS would play like Amatuers. Maybe the pressure of the importance of the game would affect them that badly. Even the VEGAS odd makers were taken aback by the lackluster performance. BUT that is why they play the game. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All TIMES EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE AFC SATURDAY 01/12/19 16:35 1 NBC COLTS 13 @ Chiefs 31 2 2/2 AFC SATURDAY 01/12/19 20:15 2 FOX Cowboys 22 @ RAMS 30 3 1/1 NFC SUNDAY 01/0619 13:05 3 CBS Chargers 28 @ PATRIOTS 41 1 2/2 AFC SUNDAY 01/0619 16:40 4 FOX Eagles 14 @ SAINTS 20 4 5/5 Views: 173
NFL WILD CARD PLAYOFF 01/05,06, 2019
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. SEVENTEEN weeks; FIFTEEN OTs . Did we have that many for the last year. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All TIMES EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE AFC SATURDAY 01/05/19 16:35 1 Colts 21 @ TEXANS 7 2 2/2 NFC SATURDAY 01/05/19 20:15 2 FOX SEAHAWKS 22 @ Cowboys 24 1 3/3 NFC 01/0619 13:05 3 CBS Chargers 23 @ RAVENS 17 3 6/6 AFC 01/0619 18:40 4 NBC Eagles 16 @ BEARS 15 4 10/10 0%/100% GAMES 0/4 Points Possible 10 0%/100% Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 41 Total 31 Points Off +10 Views: 103
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 17 12/30/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. SIXTEEN weeks; FIFTEEN OTs . Did we have that many for the last year. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ BIG FLEX SCHEDULE FROM ORIGINAL SCHEDULE. SEE PICK SHEET For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SUNDAY 12/30/18 13:00 1 CBS Dolphins 17 @ BILLS 42 3 3/3 2 FOX FALCONS 34 @ Buccaneers 32 1 4/4 3 FOX Cowboys 36 @ GIANTS 35 6 4/2 4 FOX Panthers 33 @ SAINTS 14 9 4/11 5 CBS Jets 3 @ PATRIOTS 38 13 17/2 6 CBS Jaguars 3 @ TEXANS 20 10 27/12 7 FOX Lions 31 @ PACKERS 0 11 27/1 SUNDAY 12/30/18 16:25 8 FOX EAGLES 24 @ Redskins 0 8 35/9 9 CBS CHARGERS 23 @ Broncos 9 7 42/16 10 CBS Raiders 3 @ CHIEFS 35 14 56/30 11 FOX Bears 24 @ VIKINGS 10 4 56/24 12 CBS Browns 24 @ RAVENS 26 5 61/29 13 FOX 49’ers 32 @ RAMS 48 12 73/41 14 CBS Bengals 13 @ STEELERS 16 16 89/57 15 FOX Cardinals 24 @ SEAHAWKS 27 15 104/72 SUNDAY 12/30/18 18:20 16 NBC COLTS 33 @ Titans 17 2 106/74 82%/18% GAMES 12/4 75%/25% Points Possible 130 Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 43 Total 50 Points Off -7 Views: 106
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 16 12/22,23/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! With the Ravens and Titans Wins yesterday Regardless of the win today; The BROWNS have been eliminated from the playoff. Too bad they made a gallant effort. But this is time for the ‘WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR”(?) Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. FIFTEEN weeks; FOURTEEN OTs . Did we have that many for the whole season last year. THREE GAMES BY ONE (1) POINT LAST WEEK. Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SATURDAY 12/22/18 16:30 1 NFL Redskins 16 @ TITANS 25 14 14/14 SATURDAY 12/22/18 20:20 2 NFL Ravens 22 @ CHARGERS 10 5 14/9 SUNDAY 12/23/18 13:00 3 CBS Texans 30 @ EAGLES 32 2 16/11 4 TBA PACKERS 44 @ Jets 38(OT) 3 19/14 5 CBS Bengals 18 @ BROWNS 26 12 31/26 6 FOX Buccaneers 20 @ COWBOYS 27 11 42/37 7 FOX Vikings 27 @ LIONS 9 9 42/28 8 CBS Bills 12 @ PATRIOTS 24 15 57/43 9 FOX FALCONS 24 @ Panthers 10 4 61/47 10 CBS Jaguars 17 @ DOLPHINS 7 7 61/40 11 TBA Giants 27 @ COLTS 28 13 74/53 SUNDAY 12/23/18 16:05 12 FOX BEARS 14 @ 49’ers 9 8 82/61 13 FOX RAMS 31 @ Cardinals 9 16 98/77 SUNDAY 12/23/18 16:25 14 CBS Steelers 28 @ SAINTS 31 10 108/87 SUNDAY 12/23/18 20:20 15 NBC Chiefs 31 @ SEAHAWKS 38 1 109/88 MONDAY 12/24/18 20:15 16 ESPN BRONCOS 14 @ Raiders 27 6 109/82 GAMES 12/ 4 75%/25% Points Possible 130 Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 43 Total 41 Points Off +2 Views: 115
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 15 12/13,15,16,17/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! QUESTION: How many of you would have thought with TWO (2) weeks to go in the regular season the CLEVELAND BROWNS, would still have a shot at the playoffs? From the reviews of several BOTCHED CALLS Thursday night it would be difficult to actually call a DEFINITE winner in the game. Those calls or non calls could have had an effect or no effect on the game. There was definitely a helmet to helmet hit by KC. (No call). There was DEFINITELY NO CONTACT on the Chargers TD attempt by Williams. BUT there was a botched call there. There were several other questionable calls. One can never be sure just what the effect it could be. I am not sure of the ratio of bad calls or botched calls on both teams. Maybe it would even out in the end. But in the end the Chargers came away with the “W”. RE: The supposedly missed call in Monday Nights game. In which SEATTLE’S BOBBY WAGNER leaped over his team mates to block the FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT, by the VIKINGS.THE NO CALL WAS CORRECT. If you watch a rerun, and read the rule below you will see there was NO PROPULSION HIGHER. His head was no higher than if he was standing erect (maybe on his toes), but there would be no disputable proof of infraction of the ‘LEAPING RULE” LEAPING RULE: An unsportsmanlike penalty called when a player, who is no7t within 1-yard of the line of scrimmage, running forward and jumping or using a teammate as a launching point to propel higher and block a kick. The resulting penalty is 15-yards and an automatic first down for the offense, or if the extra point or field goal is good then the penalty is assessed on the ensuing kickoff. ONCE AGAIN. NFL showed they don’t know how to interpret their OWN rules. Regardless of how the above rule is stated. They managed to twist to say there should have been a call. JUST Shows how little they know. Like NASCAR. NFL interprets their rules as they want on a case to case basis. Merely another reason to stop watching, and patronizing them. ONE of the reasons after many years I ceased watching NASCAR. But as I was told at one of my jobs. “These are OUR RULES, we will interpret them how we want when we want”. Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. FOURTEEN weeks;THIRTEEN OTs . Did we have that many for the whole season last year. Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 12/13/18 20:20 1 NBC Chargers 29 @ CHIEFS 28 7 0/7 SATURDAY 12/15/18 16:30 2 FOX TEXANS 29 @ Jets 22 10 10/ 3 SATURDAY 12/15/18 20:20 3 NFL Browns 17 @ BRONCOS 16 4 10/ 1 SUNDAY 12/16/18 13:00 4 FOX Packers 17 @ BEARS 24 9 19/08 5 FOX Lions 13 @ BILLS 14 2 21/10 6 FOX Buccaneers 12 @ RAVENS 20 14 35/24 7 FOX Cardinals 14 @ FALCONS 40 15 50/39 8 CBS Raiders 19 @ BENGALS 30 5 55/44 9 CBS Titans 17 @ GIANTS 0 1 55/43 10 CBS Dolphins 17 @ VIKINGS 41 12 67/55 11 FOX Redskins 16 @ JAGUARS 13 13 67/42 12 FOX Cowboys 0 @ COLTS 23 6 73/48 SUNDAY 12/16/18 16:05 13 FOX SEAHAWKS 23 @ 49’ers 26(OT) 8 73/40 SUNDAY 12/16/18 16:25 14 CBS PATRIOTS 10 @ Steelers 17 3 73/37 SUNDAY 12/16/18 20:20 15 NBC Eagles 30 @ RAMS 23 16 73/21 MONDAY 12/17/18 20:15 16 ESPN SAINTS 12 @ Panthers 9 11 84/32 GAMES 9/7 56%/44% 65%/35% Points Possible 130 Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 43 Total 21 Points Off +22 Views: 120
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 14 12/06,09,10/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! I have a confession: I prematurely POSTED the PATRIOTS as the winner of their game with the DOLPHINS. Who? Would think the DOLPHINS would be able to cover 69 yards in 7 seconds. Hats off to the DOLPHINS, and their fans. BY THE WAY. I have to wonder how many of the LOYAL DOLPHIN FANS either left the game before that GAME WINNING PLAY, or turned the game off. Another FLEX SCHEDULE change: 13:00 RAMS @ BEARS moved to SUNDAY 20:20.. WITH the 20:20 STEELERS @ RAIDERS moved to 16:25 Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. THIRTEEN weeks; ELEVEN OTs . Did we have that many for the whole season last year. Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will ybe in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THUR 12/06/18 20:20 1 FOX Jaguars 9 @ TITANS 30 10 10/10 SUNDAY 12/09/18 13:00 2 CBS Jets 27 @ BILLS 23 6 10/4 3 FOX GIANTS 40 @ Redskins 16 3 13/7 4 FOX SAINTS 28 @ Buccaneers 14 14 27/21 5 CBS PATRIOTS 33 @ Dolphins 34 13 27/8 6 CBS Ravens 24 @ CHIEFS 27OT) 12 39/20 7 CBS Colts 24 @ TEXANS 21 9 39/11 8 FOX PANTHERS 20 @ Browns 26 1 39/10 9 FOX Falcons 20 @ PACKERS 34 11 50/21 SUNDAY 12/09/18 16:05 10 CBS BRONCOS 14 @ 49’ers 20 8 50/13 11 CBS Bengals 21 @ CHARGERS 26 16 66/29 SUNDAY 12/09/18 16:25 12 FOX Eagles 23 @ COWBOYS 29 (OT) 7 73/36 13 FOX LIONS 17 @ Cardinals 3 2 75/38 14 FOX STEELERS 21 @ Raiders 24 15 75/23 SUNDAY 12/09/18 20:20 15 NBC RAMS 6 @ BEARS 15 4 75/19 MONDAY 12/10/18 20:15 16 ESPN Vikings 7 @ SEAHAWKS 21 5 80/24 GAMES Points Possible 130 Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 45 Total 28 Points Off +17 Views: 86
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 13 11/29 –,12/02,03/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! Time changes for this week: CHARGERS @ STEELERS moved to 20:20 Sunday. 49’ers @ Seahawks moved to 16:25 Sundin ay Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGAE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. Twelve weeks; TEN OTs . Did we have that many for the whole season last year. Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME # TV VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THUR 11/29/18 20:20 1 FOX SAINTS 10 @ Cowboys 13 11 0/11 SUNDAY 12/02/18 13:00 2 CBS RAVENS 26 @ Falcons 16 1 1/10 3 FOX PANTHERS 17 @ Buccaneers 24 3 1/13 @ 4 FOX BEARS 27 @ Giants 30 (OT) 4 1/17 5 CBS Bills 17 @ DOLPHINS 21 6 7/11 6 CBS BRONCOS 24 @ Bengals 20 7 13/4 7 FOX RAMS 30 @ Lions 16 13 26/ 9 8 FOX Cardinals 20 @ PACKERS 17 15 26/ 6 9 CBS Browns 13 @ TEXANS 29 9 35/ 3 10 CBS COLTS 0 @ Jaguars 6 5 36/ 2 SUNDAY 12/02/18 16:05 11 CBS Jets 22 @ TITANS 26 12 48/10 12 CBS CHIEFS 40 @ Raiders 33 16 64/ 26 SUNDAY 12/02/18 16:25 13 FOX 49’ers 16 SEAHAWKS 43 14 78/ 40 14 FOX Vikings 10 @ PATRIOTS 24 8 86/ 48 SUNDAY 12/02/18 20:20 15 NBC Chargers 33 @ STEELERS 30 2 86/46 MONDAY 12/03/18 20:15 16 ESPN Redskins 13 @ EAGLES 28 10 96/56 GAMES 10/6 63%/ 37% Points Possible 130 74%/ 26% Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 45 Total 41 Points Off +4 Views: 110
NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS WEEK 12 11/22,25,26/2018
Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS !!!!! This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!! WHAT a Monday Night Game. I thought it would be a high scoring game; little did I think between these two teams (Number One RAMS and number 6 Chiefs), would score a combined 105 pts. Also being that close (54-51). Usually in HIGH SCORING GAMES it leans toward a lopsided score. I would think think the TIME ON FIELD for BOTH teams Offense and Defense must have been low. (DEFENSE)? Early Games This Week. First game at 12:30 Thursday. Second at 16:30. Third at 20:20 Will the Cleveland BROWNS tie an NFL RECORD Sunday? Which was set by the Detroit LIONS from 2007-2010. A record they could break next week at HOUSTON. IF the BROWNS LOSE to INTRASTATE Cincinnati BENGALS it will mark their 26th consecutive ROAD LOSS. Should I wish them GOOD LUCK? YES. Good Luck if they tie the record, or GOOD LUCK, if they WIN, and keep from tying that record. (Their last win was a 33-30 OT win was in week 5 of 2015 over the Buffalo BILLS). The answer is no! The Browns ended their Record tying streak by outscoring the BENGALS (on the Bengals home field) 35-20. Patriot QB Tom Brady SURPASSED Peyton Manning’s PASSING YARDS RECORD. It took him EIGHT games more. Manning had 79.279 passing yard in 293 games (regular season and playoff games). Brady now has 79,416 combined passing yards. Which leads us to the question “will Brees play long enough after Brady’s retirement to break his record whatever that will be. As a side note Brady is the first QB to have at least 26 wins against 2 teams. His victory over the Jets was his 26th, he also has 29 wins over the Buffalo Bills. (Green Bay’s Brett Favre had 26 wins against the Detroit Lions, and 23 wins over the Chicago Bears) However hot on his tail in 3rd place is Saints Drew Brees with 77,716 total passing yards Brady also has the most combined Rushing and Passing yards with 80,000. (More than any other player). Mobile users: To see entire post; SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE AND SELECT “MOBILE..”. Eleven weeks; TEN OTs . Did we have that many for the whole season last year. For the first time we have less OTs THAN weeks. Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league. BELOW is a link to the NFL rule changes for 2018 https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/ BELOW is a link to to explanation of FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING https://fromthemiddle.blog/2018/10/16/nfl-flexible-scheduling-explained/ For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score. We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring. 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. NOTE: TIME CHANGE: DOLPHINS @ COLTS GAME MOVED TO 16:25 BYE WEEK: CHIEFS AND RAMS All Times EST GAME # VISITOR SCORE HOME CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THUR 11/22/18 12:30 1 CBS BEARS 23 @ Lions 16 2 2/2 THUR 11/22/18 16:30 2 FOX Redskins 23 @ COWBOYS 31 10 12/12 THUR 11/22/18 20:20 3 NBC Falcons 31 @ SAINTS 31 15 27/27 SUNDAY 11/25/18 13:00 4 CBS Browns 35 @ BENGALS 20 1 27/26 5 FOX Seahawks 30 @ PANTHERS 27 5 27/21 6 CBS JAGUARS 21 @ Bills 24 3 27/18 7 CBS Raiders 17 @ RAVENS 34 13 40/31 8 CBS PATRIOTS 27 @ Jets 13 12 52/43 9 FOX 49’ers 7 @ BUCCANEERS 27 6 58/49 10 FOX Giants 22 @ EAGLES 25 8 66/57 SUNDAY 11/25/18 16:05 11 FOX Cardinals 10 @ CHARGERS 45 10 76/67 SUNDAY 11/25/18 16:25 12 CBS Dolphins 24 @ COLTS 27 11 87/78 13 CBS STEELERS 17 @ Broncos 24 4 91/82 SUNDAY 11/25/18 20:20 14 NBC Packers 17 @ VIKINGS 24 7 98/89 MONDAY 11/26/18 20:20 15 ESPN Titans 17 @ HOUSTON 34 9 107/98 GAMES 80%/20% Points Possible 120 89%/ 82% Tie Break (Total score Last Game) 54 Total 41 Points Off -13 Views: 114
