Okay. It’s been impossible to pick a winner, just straight up, in the NFL this season. This is the most confounding regular season in recent memory just trying to pick a winner, forget about the spread.
In Week 3 alone, 9 underdogs won outright, including 5 favorites of 5.5 or more points. What’s down is up, and up is down. Teams that look like hot garbage 1 week are world beaters the next.
I know I’m not alone, as in the USA TODAY NFL Survivor Pool, only 244 players remain out of 10,357 players. That means we lost 1,436 players in Week 3, or roughly 13.9% of the entrants.
We were picking on the Carolina Panthers again in Week 3. While they made a change to veteran QB Andy Dalton, they didn’t change out the awful defense. But, perhaps the defense was just more rested, and less taxed, with the offense keeping the ball a little longer because Carolina looked like an NFL-caliber team again in a 36-22 beating of the Las Vegas Raiders on the road.