Being wrong feels just right for new GBF leader
Week 10 results | ||||
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90-57-1 3-10 |
91-56-1 4-9 |
86-61-1 4-9 |
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 | ||||
L.A. Chargers @ Oakland | L.A. Chargers | Oakland | Oakland | |
Sunday, November 10, 2019 | ||||
Arizona @ Tampa Bay | Arizona | Arizona | Tampa Bay | |
Atlanta @ New Orleans | New Orleans | New Orleans | New Orleans | |
Baltimore @ Cincinnati | Baltimore | Baltimore | Baltimore | |
Buffalo @ Cleveland | Buffalo | Buffalo | Buffalo | |
Carolina @ Green Bay | Green Bay | Green Bay | Green Bay | |
Detroit @ Chicago | Chicago | Detroit | Detroit | |
Kansas City @ Tennessee | Kansas City | Kansas City | Kansas City | |
N.Y. Giants @ N.Y. Jets | New York Giants | New York Giants | New York Giants | |
Miami @ Indianapolis | Indianapolis | Indianapolis | Indianapolis | |
L.A. Rams @ Pittsburgh | L.A. Rams | L.A. Rams | L.A. Rams | |
Minnesota @ Dallas | Dallas | Minnesota | Dallas | |
Monday, November 11, 2019 | ||||
Seattle @ San Francisco | San Francisco | San Francisco | San Francisco | |
Byes: Denver, Houston, Jacksonville, New England, Philadelphia, Washington | ||||
© 2019 Gehlke Bros. Football |
With any activity based largely on statistics, you should eventually expect a once-in-a-lifetime event. Just as in hydrology you have the 100-year flood, or the Great Depression in economics, or the perfect 6-of-6 lottery ticket, the rules of probability state that you will occasionally fail to select most of the winners on “any given Sunday” in the NawFuL. And that is precisely what happened in Week 10.
It was a disastrous week for football predictions, and if there was any saving grace then it was the fact that there were only 13 games on the schedule, which gave us three fewer opportunities to be wrong. This is not to say that we were all wrong in equal proportions, and for the Junior Bro it could mean that if being wrong feels this good then he doesn’t want to be right.
There were three splits for the Bros, starting with the Thursday night game between the Chargers and Raiders. L.A. has had Oakland’s number for years, but on this night Philip Rivers looked more like Ryan Leaf as the mistake-prone Chargers fell to their hosts by a 26-24 final, giving Sean a rare leg-up heading into the Sunday contests.
Glenn scored an unlikely win when a gametime scratch of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford led him to change his pick to Chicago, and after a slow start the Bears pulled away to a 20-13 victory. It was a highlight reel that was to be short lived; the Senior Bro’s struggles on Sunday night this year continued when his Cowboys fell to the Vikings, 28-24, and by virtue of Sean’s other victory on Thursday he was able to win the week and capture his first lead in the Surfy standings of 2019.
Meanwhile, there was little to cheer about from a prognostication standpoint. Sean and Ben won the week with identical 4-9 records, while Glenn sputtered to 3-10 — his worst showing and first sub-.500 performance since Week 9 of the 2017 season. The Senior Bro, now trailing by a game in defense of his GBF championship, hasn’t won a week since Week 2. Joining him in the losers column will be the 49ers, who became the last team in the league this season toppled from the ranks of the undefeated — a 27-24 home loss to the Seahawks.
With so many blown predictions, the only winners we all correctly guessed were Baltimore and Green Bay. There were seven games that we all missed, the winners of which were Atlanta, Cleveland, Tennessee, the New York Jets, Miami, Pittsburgh and Seattle.
PROGRAMMING ALERT: The Gehlke Bros. head out for adventure on the high seas for the next few weeks, so some of our posts may be sporadic between Weeks 11 and 14. We’ll still be on Twitter for game days.