Yeah, so sometimes we get into the habit of overcomplicating things. Like fatty, up there. Who, instead of utilizing the professional broadcaster that both his company and the sport they're partnered with had hired to do the actual broadcasting, decided that he'd try it himself despite being out of breath and on the verge of diabeetus. And as you can see, the results weren't good. Rikk Wilde (the Matt Foley impersonator in question, up there), bumbled all over himself, barely avoided heart failure, and used the term "technology and stuff" in order to describe his company's featured product...
Yeah, so the lesson here is leave it to the professionals...and to resist the urge to deep fry everything you eat in chocolate sauce and whiskey. OR, more importantly, the lesson is to keep things simple, and they should probably go according to plan. Something that I'm going to try with this week's picks in order to get myself back on track. Between trends, streaks, fancy analystics, and past successes and failures, I've been seeing too many trees and not enough forrest. OR maybe you'd prefer "too many chiefs, and not enough Tedskins"?...

Either way, it means I'm scaling back. I'll stop trying to outsmart myself, and stick with what are my first and most vivid instincts when it comes to picking a side. Will it work? Meh, probably not. And I don't like my chances of resisting the urge to give myself paralysis by analysis. But I'm gonna give it a go, anyway. Because when you overthink, you end up like our plump friend up there (who I'm presuming lives in a van down by the river). And I think we can all agree that's probably a good fate to avoid...
Oh, and props to the Giants, who aren't a dynasty. But only because we all regularly misuse that word. They're on a damn good run over the past 5 years, though. Maybe even an "era", more so than a run. And their manager sounds just like Lou Brown from Major League. So above all else they've got that goin' for them. Which is way better than being labeled a word that now merely serves as an easy talking point for the Teds at Cold Take...
OK, now onto the picks. Where I promise I didn't use any fancy technology or stuff in order to come up with my selections. Well except for the computer...and the Interweb. Yeah, whatever. That dude's fat and he probably cough/chokes himself awake at night on a regular basis because of the fat man apnea he almost definitely has. AND I REFUSE TO LET THAT HAPPEN TO ME!! Not literally, of course. I'd have to swallow a deep fried pony in order to get that fat. But, yeah. You get what I'm throwin' down. So now let's get to it...
Enjoy...