Week 7 (0-5)

Remember that scene in Rocky IV where Apollo Creed is coming out to fight Drago? He's strolling and dancing to the ring with music playing, crowd loving it, American streamers coming down and everyone having a good time? Then Apollo gets in the ring and not only gets knocked out by Drago, but freaking dies. I call that the mooch scene. Apollo was riding high, thinking nothing was going to go wrong, gonna be a nice fun match and bam, he gone. That was me going into Week 7 in the Circa. I was Apollo. Riding high off a 4-1 bounce back week in Week 6, thinking things were all figured out and smooth sailing here on out and then Week 7 hit and a brutal 0-5 week. Blah. Let's get into the carnage...

Jaguars -3

Broncos -1

Texans +7

49ers +2.5

Patriots -8

Jaguars -3

This was a weird line and when it's usually a weird line, it's better to not question it and just go with it. I thought this would be the week the bloom comes off the rose a bit for the Giants, but nope. Giants win straight up AGAIN to go to 6-1.

Broncos -1

I thought it was a good week to fade the New York teams. Nope. How the hell did Zack Wilson go into Mile High and win this game? Then again, he didn't do much. Hall and their defense did. Or should I say how awful the Broncos offense is. All things aside, I locked this game in before the Russell Wilson knew came out. Even with him out, I didn't think it mattered much because he's been terrible. But the Broncos offense is just terrible in general and this game was a loser.

Texans +7

My thought this week was "who the hell are the Raiders to be giving anyone a TD this week?" I should have known that it was a weird (see above for weird lines) and stayed off it or went with it, but I went Texans instead. I thought they'd run all over Vegas with Pierce and Mills would do enough to keep it close. But Mills has regressed this year and their D had a meltdown in the fourth. Texans were actually leading after 3. Then the Raiders scored 21 straight including a Mills pick 6 to put the final nail in my coffin. 0-3.

49ers +2.5

This was one of my favorites sides all week. And it looked great when the 49ers were up 10-0 at home early. But then Jimmy G did Jimmy G things like throwing picks in the end zone and taking safeties and and the 49ers vaunted defense decided to take the second half off. A close game ended up turning into a 21-point victory for the Chiefs.

Patriots -8

So I'm 0-4 after Sunday games with the Pats locked in at -8 at home against Justin Fields in primetime. Surely, Belichick will confuse Fields and make him look stupid and the Pats will run till the cows come home against this soft Bears D, right? WRONG. Instead, Fields made Belichick look an ass and like he's never seen a running QB before. And then Belichick was doing a two-QB rotation that was ridiculous, Bears were intercepting balls left and right as they routed the Pats 33-14. The only good bit of news was that this knocked out five people in a Survivor pool I'm in that's now down to 7 people total.

Bad week, followed up by great week and then again an awful week. Not a good trend for me in the Circa as I'm treading water in the middle.

Week 7: 0-5

Season: 16-18-1 (45.7%)