NFL week 9 game picks, predictions, week 8 results

Can you believe the second half of the 2017 season starts tonight? Man, where does the time go.

It was a banner day for the staff picks last week. Had we not all been stupid enough to pick the Raiders to win in Buffalo, Chris and Marcus would’ve had a perfect week. But alas, homerism won again.

I guess we’ll never learn because once again we have all picked the Raiders to win (*unless RDreamer has a surprise in store). With my historically terrible season on Raiders picks (I have correctly picked just one Raiders game this season), I thought about doing everyone a favor and picking them to lose. But that seemed like the wrong reason, and I prefer banging my head against a wall.

*RDreamer’s pick will be revealed in his Friday Foretelling.

At least we’re not alone. It would appear the readers also picked the Raiders to win because no one had a perfect week. Six readers matched our staff best of 12 correct picks.

Week 8 best

1 Marv#44 12 63

2 Elk_hunter77 12 74

3 TorinDorn4Life 12 72

4 Riglord 12 79

5 uk_raider 12 73

6 Montana Raider 12 75

Overall leaderboard

1 Riglord 79 79-40

2 dafe2cat 77 77-42

2 RunAMuck 77 77-42

4 Demnes 76 76-43

4 ED35 76 76-43

6 Montana Raider 75 75-44

6 autumn wind 75 75-44

6 RaiderBorn 75 75-44

9 Elk_hunter77 74 74-45

9 InReggieWeTrust 74 74-45

9 Harvey Williams' Neck 74 74-45

9 PriceCube 74 74-45