Rhode Island Scumbag NFL Locks, Week 6: Trusting New York's previously untrustable teams
The Scumbag System ™ didn’t fail us last week. We failed it.
Our resident handicapper threw out a list of potential plays but the official recommendations wound up a money-losing 1-2 when the Miami Dolphins defense crumbled late vs. the New York Jets and the Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs put on a fireworks show (albeit rarely at the same time). This put a damper on the “bet the unders on division games” trend that had coursed through the first four weeks of the season — but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad system. It just means we picked the wrong games.
Or, to hear him tell it:
For anyone who actually read the article last week, there was a lot of good information. I just didn’t use it properly. I put out nine selections as possible picks and they went 6-3… I just decided to roll with two suggestions from the loser pile. Bad week for the picks that I gave out in this column, but great week overall. We are going to keep it going with four selections this week.
Here’s what we’ve got.