Week 13

This week’s biggest game is Dallas home to Green Bay with Indianapolis hosting Jacksonville as a close second. The Genie likes Green Bay and Indy to cover.

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In the Team Rankings, New England has finally caught Indianapolis and is now the top ranked team with. They both still have rankings that are even lower than last year, which puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 12, the top 3 teams are now; New England – 189.45, Indianapolis – 195.82 , Dallas -220.00. Pittsburgh is still sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the 49’ers are again THE worst team in the league right now.

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Week 12

A couple of big games this week are on tap with New England home to an Eagles team that has been playing much better. The Genie likes the Eagles to cover but lose. San Diego at home to Baltimore could be a good game as well with the Genie taking Sand Diego to cover.

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In the Team Rankings, Indianapolis is still the top ranked team with New England even closer than last week. They both still have rankings that are even lower than last year, which puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 11, Dallas has ousted Pittsburgh from the top 3 teams, they are now; Indianapolis – 191.90, New England – 196.60, Dallas - 225.40. Pittsburgh is now sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are now telling us that the 49’ers are THE worst team in the league.
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Week 11

There really aren’t any huge games this week but Jacksonville home to San Diego is a pretty big one with both teams fighting to secure a play off spot. The Genie likes Jacksonville to win and cover. You’d have to look hard to find another big game this week but Seattle at home to Chicago might qualify. The Genie sees Seattle winning and covering in this one.

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In the Team Rankings, Indianapolis is still the top ranked team with New England getting ever closer. They both still have rankings that are even lower than last year, which puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 10, the top 3 teams are the same as the last two weeks; Indianapolis – 187.11, New England – 192.89, Pittsburgh -210.33. Dallas is still sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the Jets are still THE worst team in the league right now.
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Week 10

Will Miami ever win, will New England ever lose? These are just two of the questions surrounding this weeks’ schedule. Indianapolis has another tough game this week after taking on New England, they venture into San Diego where the Chargers have been much more like last year’s version in recent weeks. The Genie likes Sand Diego to win and cover this week so Indy could be on its way to a second loss in a row. In another big game this week, the Giants are home to Dallas who’s only loss is to unbeaten New England. The Genie likes the Giants here to win and cover.

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In the Team Rankings, Indianapolis is still the top ranked team with New England closing the gap though. They are both looking with rankings that are even lower than last year, which puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 9, the top 3 teams are the same as the last two weeks; Indianapolis – 181.13, New England – 190.11, Pittsburgh -220.00, and Dallas still sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the Jets are still THE worst team in the league right now.
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Week 9

Probably the most anticipated game of the year is this week’s clash obetween New England and Indianapolis in Indy. The Genie likes Indy to win and therefore cover so it will be interesting to see how it turns out. The next biggest game this week is the Philly-Dallas game where the Genie is picking Philly to wine and cover at home.

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In the Team Rankings, Indianapolis is still looking like a team for the ages with an even lower ranking than last year, which puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 8, the top 3 teams are the same as last week; Indianapolis – 187.14, New England – 202.38, Pittsburgh -221.71, and Dallas still sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the Jets are still THE worst team in the league right now.
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Week 8

No question that the big game this weekend is the Washington-New England game at New England. It will be interesting to see how New England’s offence performs against one of the top defense’s in the league. The Genie is picking Washington to cover and New England to win. Another interesting game this week is Denver at home against Green Bay, it will be interesting to see if Green Bay is for real as this is a big test going into Denver on a Monday night. The Genie is picking Green Bay to win and to cover.

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In the Team Rankings, Indianapolis is beginning to look like a team for the ages with a ranking that puts them in guaranteed Super Bowl winner territory. Their ranking is the lowest since the 1996/97 Green Bay Super Bowl team. After Week 7, the top 3 teams are Indianapolis – 193.67. New England – 211.0, Pittsburgh -223.33, and Dallas sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the Jets are now THE worst team in the league right now.
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Week 7

The biggest game this weekend is the Monday night game with Jacksonville hosting Indianapolis. The Genie is picking Jacksonville to both win and cover despite facing the undefeated Colts. The Eagles at home against Chicago is another big game that promises to be a good clear a few things up about both teams. The Genie is picking Philadelphia to cover at home.

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The Team Rankings are beginning consistently include the same three teams at the top on a weekly basis. After Week 6, they are New England, Indianapolis, and Washington with the Giants sitting 4th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that St. Louis is THE worst team in the league right now and given their 0-6 record, this isn’t surprising.
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Week 6

The biggest game this weekend is Dallas at home against New England. The Genie is picking Dallas to both win and cover despite having played Monday on the road in that thriller in Buffalo. Green Bay at home to Washington is another big game that promises to be a good one. The Genie is picking Green Bay to cover at home.

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The Team Rankings are beginning to look quite normal as the top three teams this week are Indianapolis, New England and Pittsburgh with Washington sitting 4^th. The Genie’s famous rankings are telling us that the NY Jets are THE worst team in the league right now, even worse than 0-5 Miami and St. Louis.

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Week 5

Who would have thought that after 4 weeks the following teams would have these records:

San Diego 1-3
New Orleans 0-3
Chicago 1-3
Cincinnati 1-3

And who would have thought that after 4 weeks, the following teams would have these records:

Green Bay 4-0
Detroit 3-1

The standings truly look like they’ve been turned upside down. Except for Indianapolis, New England, Dallas and Pittsburgh, none of the favorites coming into the season are performing well and are in danger of making it very difficult to make the playoffs. San Diego after a 14-2 season was considered a strong Super Bowl contender but now will find it extremely difficult to grab the wildcard.

The big Week 5 games are Chicago at home against Green Bay(the Genie is picking Green Bay), Pittsburgh at home against Seattle (the Genie likes Seattle to cover) and Denver at home to San Diego (only because if San Diego loses their season is toast).

In this week’s Team Rankings the top three teams are Indianapolis, New England (after running up 56 points) and Arizona (Arizona??????, we’re shocked too) , with Dallas in 4^th. These rankings will really help you separate the good teams from the bad and ordinary teams, the true winners from the so-so teams that only show up to play sometimes, especially as the season goes on.

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Week 4

Overall Week 3 wasn’t a bad one! But again, who would have thought that San Diego would and New Orleans, would both lose again after being two of the best NFL teams last year.

In Week 3 The Gridiron Genie went 7-9 against the spread and a stellar 11-5 straight up. Against the spread, the Genie usually tends to be about 50% but usually throws in a few gem weeks with nice enough scores to win a week or two of your pool. In Best Bets, the Genie is off to a pretty solid start going 5-2 last week and is now 11-8 on the season. Two main highlights from last week were the Genie’s picks of Green Bay and Tennessee to cover the spread and both went on to do so against the aforementioned San Diego and New Orleans. Pretty gutsy picking there!

In Week 4 the biggest games look to be Cincinnati at home against New England (the Genie likes Cincy) and the NY Giants at home to Philadelphia (the Genie likes Philly). This week should start to sort out which teams are for real and which are pretenders as up until now, it’s hard to tell how good some of the winning teams really are. (i.e. Green Bay, Houston, etc.)

In this week’s Team Rankings the top three teams are Indianapolis, Philadelphia (after running up 56 points) and Tennessee, with New England a close 4th.

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Week 3

Wow, what a week!. Who would have thought that San Diego would get clobbered like that by the Pats, especially after how dominant they were last year. And who would have thought New Orleans, who we thought were one of the best NFC teams last year, would be 0-2.

Week 2 turned out ok for The Gridiron Genie as our software went 9-7 against the spread and a stellar 10-63 straight up keeping in mind that there are some things the software can’t account for in Week’s 1 and 2 of the season as it uses statistics from the previous season to calculate its version of the spread. For instance, it has no way of knowing that Michael Vick is not playing and therefore, Atlanta is a much different team than they were last year. So keep an eye out in the first two weeks for teams that may have been very good last season but due to injuries, free agency and now, even legal issues, may have lost key players. Now it gets interesting as the software will be able to use actual stats from this season’s games to measure how good (or bad) any given team may be.

Week 3 has a few interesting games such as the Green Bay at home against San Diego. Is Green Bay as good as their record so far? Is San Diego better than they looked last week, are they team from last year? The Genie is picking GB in this one so we’ll have to wait and see. Similarily, New Orleans has looked terrible and now faces what looks to be a strong Tennessee team this Monday night with the genie picking Tennessee to win.

Our famous Team Rankings are now available, check out some of the surprises in there although we caution, with only two games under everyone’s belt, these rankings don’t mean much at this point. The good news is that these Team Rankings get better as the season goes on.

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Week 2

Welcome back everyone. Week 1 wasn’t a bad first week for the Gridiron Genie as our software went 8-8 against the spread and a stellar 13-3 straight up. Still, there are some things the software can’t account for in Week’s 1 and 2 of the season as it uses statistics from the previous season to calculate its version of the spread. For instance, it has no way of knowing that Michael Vick is not playing and therefore, Atlanta is a much different team than they were last year. So keep an eye out in the first two weeks for teams that may have been very good last season but due to injuries, free agency and now, even legal issues, may have lost key players.

Week 2 has a few interesting games such as the New Orleans game against Tampa. New Orleans looked absolutely horrible last week against Indianapolis and it remains to be seen if they are any closer to becoming Super Bowl contenders, something they were beginning to resemble late last year. New England against San Diego is a game we’d rather see later in the season but still, it should be a good one and interesting to see how both those teams are looking. San Diego beat the Bears pretty convincingly last week but LT was held to the least amount of rushing yards in for him in years.

As usual, our famous Team Rankings won’t be available until Week 3 as it takes 2 weeks of play for there to be enough statistical data to use to compile them. The good news is that these Team Rankings get better as the season goes on.

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Week 1

Welcome to Week 1 of the 2007/08 NFL Season. Week 1 is always one of the toughest weeks to pick for a number of reasons; the huge turnover in team rosters and the fact that our software must use last season’s statistics as a basis for calculating its spread. In the current NFL a team can go from very bad to very good in one off-season. Witness last year’s Saints who were a much improved team over the year before.

But we’ve had many successes in Week 1 over the years hitting 11-4 against the spread three times since 1997 and an average of almost 10 wins straight up. Last year we went 4-12 in the first week against the spread, a terrible record but many great weeks followed.

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