There are good days, there are bad days, and then there are days when a hydrogen-filled balloon of steel explodes over the New Jersey landscape.
We had one of those explode-over-the-New-Jersey-landscape days on Sunday: a rough 7-6 mark straight up, and a disastrous 3-10 slate against the spread.
Oh, Troll-anity!
It's easily the worst week in the history of the Cold, Hard Football Facts. Even worse are the ramifications for the season: we need the Titans to win by more than 3.5 on the road to salvage a .500 mark ATS through six weeks (we entered Week 6 a respectable six games above .500).
We've never been below .500 ATS this deep into the season. So we're feeling the pressure. On the bright side, this is just our sixth losing slate in the 23 weeks since the start of the 2009 season. So the long-term trends have been very favorable.
There were successes
In our
Sports Illustrated Game of the Week, Baltimore-New England, we nailed it almost perfectly. We said the 3.5-point favorite Patriots would eke out a 21-20 win. They eked out a 23-20 win.
We're a perfect 6-0 telling you when Houston is going to win or lose this year, often right down to the margin of victory: we predicted a three-point win over Kansas City by the 4.5-point favorite Texans. They won by four.
In the primetime Indy-Washington showdown, we told you that the 3.5-point favorite Colts would win 28-27. The Colts won 27-24.
But other than that, it was a disaster. But we're big boys. We can take it. Expect sunnier days ahead.
