Weekly NFL picks from the winner of NR’s Search for the NFL Handicapper Contest…

Here are week 12 NFL Picks…

3 Units:

• Miami -1 vs. New England. Why is one team only getting 30% of the action when they beat the other team on the road by 25 and are playing home this time around? Oh yeah, the other team is the Patriots.

• New Orleans -2.5 vs. Green Bay. Should be a shootout with the soft Saints D. But Brees is good and they might get Bush back.

• San Diego -2.5 vs. Indianapolis. Hopefully LT breaks out for a good game. What a waste of a #1 pick in fantasy for me.

2 Units:

• Tennessee -5 vs. New York Jets. Game of the week. And I hope Favre returns to his old self and starts slinging INTs.

• Seattle +3.5 vs. Washington. I HATE Seattle.

• Arizona +3.5  vs. New York Giants. Arizona can’t stop the run and the Giants don’t stop the pass very well. If Kurt Warner doesn’t get knocked out I think the Cards cover.

1 Unit:

• Houston +3 vs. Cleveland. I’ll take Sage over Brady and his bad finger.

• Atlanta -1 vs. Carolina. Who cares?

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Weekly NFL picks from the winner of NR’s Search for the NFL Handicapper Contest…

Here we go for this week. Just like to start by saying this is an ugly week for betting. A lot more plays in college than in the pros.

3 Units:

• Seattle +3 vs. Arizona. Hasselbeck is back. And how average did the Cardinals look on MNF?
• Jacksonville +3 vs. Tennessee. The Jags have burned me a lot this year, but I think they get it done at home.

2 Units:

• San Diego +5 at Pittsburgh. Where has LT gone?
• Kansas City +5.5 vs. New Orleans. The Chefs — not the Chiefs — over the Saints.
• Green Bay -3.5 vs. Chicago. Blah.

1 Unit:

• Cleveland +5 at Buffalo. Officially on the BQ bandwagon.
• Denver +6.5 at Atlanta.

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Weekly NFL picks from the winner of NR’s Search for the NFL Handicapper Contest…

Don’t have much time to write these up because I’m at the Phillies parade. Here are my stone cold locks. I bet a lot of losing teams, so beware…

3 Unit Picks:

• Seattle +6.5 vs. Philadelphia. Going against my hometown team on this one. Just don’t like teams that have to fly across the country to play.

• Washington -2 vs. Pittsburgh.

• Miami +3.5 at Denver. Try to get it at 3.5.

2 Unit Picks:

• Oakland +3 vs. Atlanta. Both teams aren’t good.

• New York Giants -8.5 vs. Dallas. The Cowboys are old and in trouble. They may not make the playoffs.

• Houston +5 at Minnesota. The Texans are rolling and I’ve got a lot of their players on my fantasy team.

PHILLIES RULE!

And his name is Frank C.

Frank obliterated the competition and made the National Football League his bitch over an eight week period, fully convincing us that we should be betting his NFL picks.

Frank finished a remarkable +22.1 units overall. To put that into perspective, if you’d bet $100 on each of Frank’s picks you’d be up over two grand right now. To put that into further perspective, second place finished +5.3 units (and that guy didn’t participate every week like Frank did).

Paint us gay for Frank C.’s NFL handicapping ability.

We recommend you spend the rest of today liquidating your assets so you can roll hard on Frank’s Week 9 NFL picks that are to be published in his new Friday afternoon article. We personally guarantee they’ll be a better play than the stock market.

Week 8 results and the final overall standings after the jump. Thanks to everyone who participated.

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It’s Week 8. The final week. Frank C. has a ginormous lead that he probably couldn’t lose if he tried, but the rest of us might as well go down swinging. Or just start betting his picks one week early. Below are my bet-the-mortgage picks followed by the overall standings. Good luck on Sunday.

Contest Info: Enter your picks in the comments section. The overall winner after Week 8 gets their own Friday column as NextRound’s resident NFL Handicapper. To be eligible to win you must participate in 6 out of 8 weeks and submit at least 30 picks overall. Check out the full guidelines here. We’ll be using Sportsbook’s NFL lines for the purposes of the contest and will make judgment calls on discrepancies.

Booth’s Week 6 Picks:

3 units:
Bucs +1.5
Falcons +9
Panthers -4
Giants +3
Patriots -7.5

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The legend of Frank C. continues to grow as Frank went +9.8 units this past weekend and overwhelmingly took home Week 7’s Shannon Sharpe Award. It’s to the point where we’re beginning to wonder if Frank has just simply figured out how to hack into our comments section. Pretty clever of him to always lose one game though, hmmm… Frank has almost an insurmountable lead going into the final week and we wish him the best of luck in not epically shitting the bed. Speaking of epically shitting the bed…

Week 7’s Flaccid Penis Award goes to Team C&T’s own Toast, who went 0-4 and a -8.8 units, which, ironically enough, completely wiped out his winning margin and leaves him at exactly zero for the contest. If you know Toast, you know just how fitting this is. Actually, we guess you don’t really have to know him to put together that he’s a big zero.

Here are the rest of the Week 7 results followed by the overall standings. We’re just one week away from crowning a winner…

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Contest Info: Enter your picks in the comments section. The overall winner after Week 8 gets their own Friday column as NextRound’s resident NFL Handicapper. To be eligible to win you must participate in 6 out of 8 weeks and submit at least 30 picks overall. Check out the full guidelines here. We’ll be using Sportsbook’s NFL lines for the purposes of the contest and will make judgment calls on discrepancies.

It’s the next to the last week. Get excited. Here are my surge-up-the-leaderboard picks for Week 8 followed by the overall standings. Good luck on Sunday.

Booth’s Week 7 Picks:

3 units:
Jets -3

2 units:
Browns +7.5
Colts -1

1 unit:
Broncos +3

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In a shocking turn of events Week 6’s Shannon Sharpe Award goes to yours truly. My ex-girlfriends would probably take issue with me bringing home this honor, but those skanks can suck it. I managed a respectable +3.8 units, going 2-1 on two unit picks and 2-0 on one unit picks. That’s what happens when you hop on the Matty Ice bandwagon. I’m happy to announce that I’m back in the top 5 thanks to my weekend effort and a couple of horrendous collapses by my competitors. Speaking of which…

Week 6’s Flaccid Penis Award goes to Boruboru, who — by his very own accord — was “going for broke”. Man, did he succeed in Orlovsky-esque fashion. Boruboru went -12.2 units for the weekend, dropping every single game but the 1 unit he put on the Browns last night. At first we thought it was a shame he didn’t go 0-fer, but the more we think about it it’s kind of fitting that the only W was a one unit bomb on Cleveland. Congrats, Boruboru. You went out with a bang. And now you’re firmly in donkey dick last place.

Here are the rest of the Week 6 results followed by the overall standings…

WEEK 6 RESULTS

Booth: +3.8 units

2 Units

Saints -7 - W
Falcons +3 - W
SF +4.5 - L

1 Unit

Browns +9 - W
Rams +13.5 - W

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Contest Info: Enter your picks in the comments section. The overall winner after Week 8 gets their own Friday column as NextRound’s resident NFL Handicapper. To be eligible to win you must participate in 6 out of 8 weeks and submit at least 30 picks overall. Check out the full guidelines here. We’ll be using Sportsbook’s NFL lines for the purposes of the contest and will make judgment calls on discrepancies.

Here are my bet the mortgage picks for Week 6 followed by the overall standings. Good luck on Sunday.

Booth’s Week 6 Picks:

2 Units

Saints -7
Falcons +3
SF +4.5

1 Unit

Browns +9
Rams +13.5

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After getting slaughtered in Week 4 and being awarded the Flaccid Penis Award, BigSnack98 went balls to the wall and claimed Week 5’s Shannon Sharpe Award, going a legendary +15 units, winning five 3 unit games and pushing the sixth. Damn. You. Flacco. The Herculean effort catapulted him from the bottom of the standings to fourth place overall.

Week 5’s Flaccid Penis Award goes to Frank C., who felt the need to heat up the competition by dwindling his massive lead with a -5.0 unit outing. He’s still in first, but the margin has significantly narrowed.

WEEK 5 RESULTS

Booth: -2.4 units

2 units

Eagles -6 - L
49ers +3 - L
Cards -1.5 - W

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