NFL Office Pool Picks Week 8
by Trevor Whenham - 10/25/2013

Another week, another set of straight up office pool picks. I don’t even want to talk about last week because there were too many strange things for my taste — or at least for the health of my picks. It’s a whole new week, though, and I like how this card sets up. Following are my straight up picks for Week 8 NFL office pools.

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 7
by Trevor Whenham - 10/14/2013

Last week was a strange week — mostly predictable, but with a couple of real head scratchers. In other words, it was just another week in the NFL. This week promises more of the same. It’s weeks like these — not stunningly difficult but far from easy — that separate the office pool pretenders from the contenders. Here’s how the week plays out:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 6
by Trevor Whenham - 10/7/2013

Last week’s games weren’t perfect for me and the health of my office pools — far from it, in fact. These things happen, though, and it certainly could have been worse. This week is somewhat clearer, and things will be much better. Here is the way this week’s games break down, and the straight up picks for each contest:

NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 5
by Matt Severance - 10/2/2013

What's the biggest upset of the year? The Titans winning at Pittsburgh in Week 1? Now we know how awful the Steelers really are. How about Cleveland winning at Minnesota in Week 3? Or Indianapolis surprising the 49ers in San Francisco? I don't think those qualify as huge upsets. I don't think this will be the week where we see another large upset, either.

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 5
by Trevor Whenham - 10/1/2013

Early in the late afternoon slate of games on Sunday, I was pretty sure I was in trouble. In a sign of how things can and do change, though, by the time games were settled things had turned out pretty well. Sometimes you just need to be lucky and patient, I guess. The nice thing about last weekend is that I don’t really regret the ones I got wrong, either — always a good sign.

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 4
by Trevor Whenham - 9/24/2013

There are many weeks during the course of the NFL season in which you feel like you know what is going on. You had suspicions about how games would turn out, you made the picks in your office pool, and you were right far more than you were wrong. This past week was absolutely not one of those weeks. Ouch. I didn’t see Cleveland waking from the dead. Or the Giants being that bad. Or the Ravens laying a major beatdown on the Texans. Or the 49ers forgetting how to play football.

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 3
by Trevor Whenham - 9/17/2013

Last week was a solid week — 11 wins — and would have been better if I had maintained my faith in the Dolphins and Chargers and had given up on the Panthers instead. Lessons learned, and now we can apply them to this week. On the surface this seems like the most straightforward week we have seen yet in our pursuit of Office Pool glory. Here are my straight up picks for the week:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 2
by Trevor Whenham - 9/10/2013

It was a solid first week for me in office pools —12 wins that should have been 13 if someone had told new San Diego coach Mike McCoy that his team has to play for four quarters. Now that we know a little more about what to expect from teams than we did last week, let’s see if we can improve on that with these straight up picks:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 1
by Trevor Whenham - 9/2/2013

It’s time for another NFL season. Finally. That also means that it is the season for office pools. Egos and reputations are on the line as friends and co-workers duel to show who knows more about football and who can pick more winners from week to week. It’s office warfare. To help you claim your rightful place atop the heap at the end of the season, I’m going to help you out by providing a straight up winner for every game played all season.

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 17
by Trevor Whenham - 12/24/2012

It seems like this season has gone on forever, and so much that we thought we knew back when it started has changed now. Just think about some of the highlights and lowlights -- the replacement refs, the return of Peyton, the rise of the rookie quarterbacks, the brutal collapse of the Eagles and Chiefs, tragedy following tragedy, Chuckstrong - it goes on and on. Through it all we’ve managed to pick more winners than losers, and that’s really the point of it all. In hopes of finishing on a strong note despite facing a tough week where it’s so hard to know what to expect from too many teams with no pressing need to win, here are the straight up picks for the last 16 games of the 2012 NFL regular season:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 16
by Trevor Whenham - 12/17/2012

As we head into the second last week of the NFL season, it is the stretch drive of the office pools season. If you’ve had a good year then it’s time to buckle down and win your pool. If things haven’t gone so well then you can win a week or two to ease your frustrations and make a few bucks. Here’s how I see the games playing out this week:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 15
by Trevor Whenham - 12/10/2012

It was another strange week in the NFL last week. Last-second heroics, emotion, injuries and general chaos led to some unexpected results. The week ahead looks to have a few confusing ones as well, but that won’t stop me from picking straight up winners for every game this week:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 14
by Trevor Whenham - 12/3/2012

Last week’s action was ugly. There’s no other way to put it, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. When a week doesn’t turn out as you hope, you can sit around and mope or you can just do much better the next week. Let’s choose the latter, shall we?

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 13
by T.O. Whenham - 11/27/2012

Last week was Thanksgiving. I’m thankful that the picks have been relatively straightforward the last few weeks. Looking at this week, though, it seems like there could be much less to be thankful for. Compared to the last three weeks, this is a very tough week. Nothing is too tough for us, though, so let’s pick some straight up winners:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 12
by T.O. Whenham - 11/19/2012

I’m coming off my best weekend of the year so far — enough to win some cash from most office pools. Now, in the first week in far too long that we don’t have to deal with a bye week. We also get to enjoy the best single day of the NFL season — a triple-header plus more turkey and fixings than any human being would need to consume to survive for a month. What could be better? I’ll tell you one thing better — all that plus winning some more cash. Let’s find us some straight up winners for our office pools:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 11
by T.O. Whenham - 11/13/2012

It’s the last week of the NFL season in which teams will have bye weeks. That means that starting next week there are 16 games on the schedule, and you have to work harder to win your office pools. Before then, though, let’s enjoy the lighter schedule and win ourselves another week. Here’s how the 14 games on the schedule break down in our attempt to pick straight up winners:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 10
by T.O. Whenham - 11/6/2012

Last week was a reasonably straightforward week for office pool players — largely because favorites took care of business like they were supposed to. If you picked a lot of them you did fine. This week we’ll be relying on something a little different — road teams. Of the 14 matchups this week I expect at least six to be won by the visitors. If that does indeed materialize then it will be a very good week. Without further ado, here’s a look at all 14 games with winners picked straight up:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 9
by T.O. Whenham - 10/30/2012

We have made it to Week 9 — the halfway point of this NFL season. It has been a long, strange trip already, and the twists and turns are only starting. Thankfully, this week seems fairly straightforward — at least on paper. Of course, that probably means that we are in for all sorts of trouble as we try to pick all of the straight up winners to dominate our NFL office pools:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 8
by T.O. Whenham - 10/23/2012

Last week basically made sense in the NFL. There were a few surprises, but for the most part the teams that won were supposed to win, and vice versa. That’s good news when we try to win office pools. The bad news, though, is that in this topsy-turvy season it seems like every time we think things are making perfect sense we have a week in which nothing makes sense. Let’s hope that this coming week isn’t one of those:

NFL Office Pool Picks Week 7
by T.O. Whenham - 10/16/2012

This is the first week that we have seen six teams on their bye week, so our NFL office pool picks feature only 13 games. It’s probably good that there are fewer games than we have seen before. After last week that means there are fewer games to confuse and frustrate us. There were certainly more than enough of those last week. Let’s just pretend that a week that featured eight underdog winners never happened and start fresh this week: