{"id":90,"date":"2006-10-10T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-10-10T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:21:08","slug":"checking-in-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Checking In Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bears are undefeated and looking good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"96\" alt=\"chicago_bears.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/section30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/chicago_bears.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the WORM&#8217;s post title, he thinks his picks, or maybe just his locks, are well, LOCKS.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see about that:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Indy<\/strong> &#8211; 18 over Tennessee &#8211; No siree.\u00c2\u00a0 This one was actually close.\u00c2\u00a0 Weird tho, I would&#8217;ve been with Slim: <strong>0-1<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>NYG<\/strong> &#8211; 5 over Washington &#8211; Nice call.\u00c2\u00a0 Ugly game for the indians.\u00c2\u00a0 They clearly didn&#8217;t give the ball to Portis enough: <strong>1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolina<\/strong> -7 over Cleveland &#8211; Always gotta pick your team.\u00c2\u00a0 A real gambler knows this is not true, but as you can tell from Slim&#8217;s record, he is not such a person: <strong>2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnesota<\/strong> -6 over Detroit &#8211; Getting hot here.\u00c2\u00a0 I know Minny has been pretty good this year, but they bore me: <strong>3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nawlins<\/strong> -4 over Tampa &#8211; Not quite.\u00c2\u00a0 Closer game than the spread.\u00c2\u00a0 And Bush finally does something to warrant the hype: <strong>3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis -3 over <strong>Green Bay &#8211; <\/strong>Push, and only the second all year.\u00c2\u00a0 I would blame Martz, and I have no idea why: <strong>3-2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miami +9 over <strong>New England &#8211; <\/strong>Almost, but not quite.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do you pick against Belicheck?: <strong>3-3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buffalo +10 over <strong>Chicago &#8211; <\/strong>You must be smoking crack.\u00c2\u00a0 What do I say?\u00c2\u00a0 NEVER PICK AGAINST MY BEARS: <strong>3-4-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NY Jets +6 over <strong>Jaxsonville &#8211; <\/strong>Wow, a shocker.\u00c2\u00a0 Impressive showing from Jax, but not from SLIM: <strong>3-5-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arizona<\/strong> +3 over Kansas City &#8211; Another PUSH in a 23-20 game.\u00c2\u00a0 Coincidences abound: <strong>3-5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Fran<\/strong> -3 over Oakland &#8211; NIce call, but everyone should be going against Oakland this year: <strong>4-5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philly<\/strong> -2 over Dallas &#8211; Another premium pick.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea what that means, but SLIM was correct: <strong>5-5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Diego<\/strong> -3 over Pittsburgh &#8211; Highlight of the week, Football Jesus&#8217; scramble late in the game: <strong>6-5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baltimore +4 over <strong>Denver &#8211; <\/strong>Not so fast, Denver&#8217;s D looked like the better one last night: <strong>6-6-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Locks of the Week: San Diego and St. Louis &#8211; <strong>1-0-1<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A decent week on the locks, but these should right each week<\/p>\n<p>Overall Record: <strong>34-39-3<\/strong> Still losing overall, so he&#8217;s got to be in the hole.<\/p>\n<p>I think he is just barely treading water.\u00c2\u00a0 After the poor showing in Week 4, I was expecting a dramatic improvement this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps his travel schedule cut into his research.\u00c2\u00a0 This coming week should&#8217;nt leave him any excuses.\u00c2\u00a0 Good luck my friend.<\/p>\n<p>In a fantasy update, I am the king of the hill for now.\u00c2\u00a0 Well see what happens in the next couple weeks when I have some important players taking their BYE weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I am disappointed in the lack of a challenger to Slim&#8217;s crown of Section 30 Gambler.\u00c2\u00a0 One might expect the good doctor to challenge him, but he seems to be to busy making up his sexual escapades in enough detail to convince the rest of us that he actually has a sex life.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Till next week&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bears are undefeated and looking good. As you can see from the WORM&#8217;s post title, he thinks his picks, or maybe just his locks, are well, LOCKS.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see about that: Indy &#8211; 18 over Tennessee &#8211; No siree.\u00c2\u00a0 This one was actually close.\u00c2\u00a0 Weird tho, I would&#8217;ve been with Slim: 0-1\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NYG &#8211; 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=90\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Checking In Week 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}