The Wildcard’s NFL Picks - Week 17
Well, here we are. Seventeen weeks deep into what’s been a crazy and unpredictable season. For all but twelve teams it ends right here, for those twelve playoff bound franchises it’s only just beginning.
Well, here we are. Seventeen weeks deep into what’s been a crazy and unpredictable season. For all but twelve teams it ends right here, for those twelve playoff bound franchises it’s only just beginning.
Sing hallelujah and be merry dear reader because Thursday night footy is no more for the 2019 season – which is great news for players with niggling injuries not fancying a short turnaround and also for me because it gives me an extra day or so to write this bad boy which is never not a blessing. Busy times that we live in and all that.
With a 4-10 record at the half-way stage of their season, it’s pretty unlikely that the Breakers make the semis from here. They’re four back in the win-column from fourth place and second to last on the ladder.
Lamar Jackson is breaking records, Michael Thomas is breaking records, George Kittle is breaking tackles, Le’Veon Bell is breaking personal bests (but only at the bowling alley), the Dallas Cowboys are breaking hearts, Patrick Mahomes is breaking defences, and the old NFL picks might just be breaking even.
What’s happened since is that the Thunder have started to figure things out. Perhaps not coincidentally that’s happened as Steven Adams has been playing the best basketball of his season so far, looking as healthy as he has to date and living it up in the box scores as a result. Even his free throws have come good!
We’re now fully three quarters through the season and we’re at that stage where teams begin to fall into two distinct categories: playing for this year and playing for next year.