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So Graham is continuing his good run. Whilst we both get caught out on some games (Yes, I’m looking at you New York Giants) where there is a marginal call he generally gets them right and I generally get them wrong. And come the early games, it was all looking so good for me…

That said, 10-3 is not to shabby at all. Graham’s 11-2 outscored all the Yahoo! experts and Users this week where everyone got caught out by the Cowboys and Bills. So nice work Mr. G!

Craig had some solid calls across the week including some score predictions that were very close (34-6 for the Pats @ Bucs for instance) but overall came in at 9-4. A great first week from our guest, who gets our thanks.

If you’d like to take a stab in the next few weeks, drop us an email and we’ll see what we can do: mac@mactalksnfl.com

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So another 7-7, my worst result since… well, last week. Graham took another impressive 10-4 and Lawrence and Brian filled in the gaps between us.

We all got beat backing the Eagles. Oakland with a massive catch and run from a Tight End put them ahead in the first quarter and the Raiders never looked back. We also all got beat backing the Jets over the Bills. Next time I’ll check the weather reports… in a windy day in New York both teams struggled, but the Bills did enough to snatch an overtime win.

But let’s face it, everyone got beat backing the Eagles and Jets this week.

A good call from Lawrence picking the Texans and by Brian with the Cardinals. But Graham pulled ahead of us by being the only one to pick the Chiefs and the Broncos. Good calls both.

There were some great finishes to a lot of the early games though, which made up for the appalling game I’d watched from Washington.

Still no panic, but I need a couple of good weeks to catch up with Graham’s 7 game lead

So we say a big thank you to Brian from http://www.footballdiner.com/ and Lawrence from http://nflfaninengland.wordpress.com/ and look forward to this weekend, which of course includes the Wembley game. Bring it on!

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Oh dear. I just want to forget about this week after tumbling to an appalling 7-7. This is the worst I can remember doing in many years of predictions. The only thing that keeps it even vaguely respectable is that pretty much everyone else had a bad week too: The Yahoo! Experts all went 8-6.

Actually, if it hadn’t been for Graham’s 9-5 then perhaps it wouldn’t seem so bad. Still… mustn’t panic quite yet.

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For Graham and me, it came down to last night as we were both 9-4 heading into it and I’d gone with the Vikings where he had the Packers. So I beat Graham this week, as did John from TheBettingAdvantage – both of us on 10-4.

Two upsets this weekend, with the Jaguars sending the Titans tumbling to 0-4 and with the Broncos surprising pretty much everyone to go 4-0 over a Cowboys team that are looking bad. As a Redskins fan, I approve, but even I was embarrassed for them watching Brandon Marshall outwit the entire secondary for a 51 yard score. Anyway… I’ve included it here for the chuckles it gives me (and as a Redskins fan, I have to take pleasure wherever I can this season!)

The Broncos though! Like most (outside of Denver) we haven’t been convinced. They have two tough games coming up (Patriots, then travelling to San Diego) but we’re keeping a wary eye on them now. The Titans are surprising us just as much, but in the other direction.

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So a respectable showing from both of us with 11-5 each, but I can’t help thinking that we could have done better.

Denver have surprised us again, but it’s still to early to say if they’re genuine. The Texans are proving to be the most vexing team of the lot, as neither Graham or I have predicted them correctly at all yet. And don’t get me started on the Bengals…

The full matchcards can be viewed at nfl.com or at Yahoo! Sports.

We have the bye-weeks starting in week 4, which is going to make it harder to close the small gap Graham has on me.

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So we knew this was a hard week to predict, and that’s exactly how it turned out. From a fan point of view though, it was a great weekend with a lot of close games that went the distance.

Anyway, no full write-up of results this week as we’ve been overtaken by other events somewhat, such as me being in bed all day today with a virus of some kind. The full matchcard can easily be viewed at nfl.com or at Yahoo! Sports.

Summary
With it being such a hard week I’m happy with 9/16. Graham did slighly better at 10/16.

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Thursday, 10th September
Tennesse @ Pittsburgh, 10-13
This was a tight, tight game and the Titans can walk out of Heinz Field with their heads held high. Well, maybe apart from Rob Bironas. Chris Johnson lit it up a couple of times, as did the Ben/Santonio connection. But the real stars were both defensive units, certainly against the run.

Anyway, we both called this one correctly.

Sunday, 13th September
Jacksonville @ Indiana, 12-14
Well, we thought that this would be a close game and so it proved! Jones-Drew looked good as the focal point of the Jags attack, and the Colts did enough but will need to show us more if we’re going to believe in them this year.

Detroit @ New Orleans, 27-45
Drew Brees put on another passing clinic, completing 6 TD passes to 5 receivers. Matt Stafford wasn’t quite as impressive, but did get the Lions moving when the running game was shut down. On the plus side, the Lions did put up 27 points which is more than in any game last year. There were signs, but there’s still work to do.

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