NFL best bets, Week 8: A salty Scumbag's streak rests on the Jaguars in Pittsburgh
Last week’s Rhode Island Scumbag Locks ™ continued a worrying trend. Despite going 2-2 on the week, the weighted value of those bets constituted a two-unit loss — enough to suggest that after a smoking hot start (plus-17 units in five weeks!) a cold snap was upon us.
On the other hand, his picks are still hitting at a 64 percent success rate, so maybe it’s not so bad.
Anyway, he’s back for Week 8 and at least a little salty about that recent slide. His (still pretty successful) picks are below. All his analysis is in blockquotes.
Week 7 was a good week to be on the sharp side and NOT the public side. We really should have been 3-1 by taking three ugly dogs that public bettors wanted nothing to do with.
Arizona was covering the spread for 58 minutes, but was unable to cash for us. It was especially devastating because Christian had Seattle as one of his selections, and despite his analysis being completely wrong and ours being completely correct, he wins and we lose. This is not easy, but we have to regroup and make some money in week 8.
My response: fwaaaahhhhhh. Sorry about your “should haves.” Maybe next time you can just agree that the Arizona Cardinals are not a good team. My analysis boiled down to “Joshua Dobbs is playing bad football,” and his way of proving me “completely wrong” was … to throw for 146 yards and 4.4 yards per attempt.
Yeah, you got me there professor.
Anyway, if this feels more antagonistic than usual it’s because he and I are squaring off in the Rhode Island Scumbag Fantasy Football League this weekend. We’ll probably be back to normal after Calvin Ridley has another 1.5 point week and my team crumbles into dust in a loss I’m reminded about for the following 364 days.