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JIGGY'S FREE NFL FOOTBALL PICKS
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Jiggy's 2005 Football Picks Season Record
Wins:30 Losses: 25 | Ties: 1
NFL Free Picks Winning Percentage: 55%
Record updated Mondays
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For those of you new to this football betting picks column, our expert NFL football handicapper Jiggy is coming off a money making 2003-20004 and 2004-2005 NFL season.posting a winning record on both his NFL football picks and NFL Lock of the Week against the spread. Each week during the NFL season Jiggy will share his free winning NFL football picks as well as his entertaining take on the current happenings of the NFL.
Week Fourteen Free NFL Football Picks
 It is getting so tiring to say this, but you are all welcome. Another 3-1 week and the jig-in-ator has pushed above 500. It was a tough year in the beginning, but the love that I have been shoveling out (not unlike dollar bills at the brothers) of late should have you all giddy like school girls. Of course the lot of you that actually are schoolgirls (above 18 of course) should continue to send the pictures of you in your naughties. And my little, darling fans who aren’t quite 18 yet, you know that you have to wait to send the good ones (wink wink).
I try in my life to be positive. I want to love, I want to enjoy and I want to be part of the community. But as a gambler and as a misanthrope, it isn’t always easy. This weekend, as I was be-bopping toward another lucrative Sunday I was on the ‘good path.’ I assumed that the cheerleaders on TV were actually women trying to work their way through college. I felt as if some of the players had pride in their work and were using their short NFL careers to learn life lessons and amass nest eggs for the grueling life after football. I listened to the announcers and I believed that they weren’t complete and total incompetents, but rather gifted orators who understood their audiences and wanted to communicate in a vernacular that was inclusive and not divisive.
I took a jolt during the Chiefs v. Broncos game when Jake Plummer decided it was wiser to throw an interception in the end zone than throw the ball away and then have the Broncos kick a field goal. And there was the agonizing 4th and 1 play where Mikey Anderson just didn’t have the balls to get a first down. But I was OK at that point. I hadn’t lost my mind. I had made beaucoup dollars (US, not Canadian) in the morning and the afternoon went well.
No, dear readers, the sound and fury, the hate, the rebuke all came to me during the evening game. I made my standard two bets. I took the Chargers (for only a dolt would place their financial future in the hands of Kerry Collins). But I also made my second bet, the Chargers teased with the Over. So I had Chargers -5.5 and over 46. In my analysis, I knew that the Faders were going to have to at least show up. They would have to contribute a little bit to the over. The Bolts can ball and they can definitely score, but they weren’t going to put up 47 on their own.
 I should have my testicles removed and have my eyes burned out with hot pokers. Why, oh why did I let myself depend on Norv Turner? If he isn’t fired before the beginning of next season, one must assume that old Al Davis has (instead of a commitment to excellence) a commitment to mediocrity. Let me set this up, the Raiders have had a tough year. They have had no significant injuries (though Randy was a little gimpy for a few weeks), they have their big-armed QB hanging and healthy, their newly acquired back, Lamont (which loosely translated means, ‘the mont’) Jordan actually performing well and their defense is not the embarrassment it should have been. In short, they were clicking on all cylinders. Now, it is true that they had been losing more than they should have.
At this point they were 4-7. They had lost two of their last three. But they were not numerically eliminated from the playoffs. Yes, they were mostly eliminated. It is hard being in the AFC, and even harder being in the AFC West with KC, Denver and San Diego. But strange things happen in life. Taylor Rain retired from porn (again). That is something that I never would have expected. So the Raiders could possibly survive and make the playoffs if they win out and some crazy events happen around the league. Low probability, I know.
People talk about the Jets quitting (and they did). But I have never seen a team pull up the tent spikes like the Raiders did in the second half of that game. They were only behind by 7 at the half and only two scores late in the third quarter. But instead of trying to win the game, Norv just threw in the towel. They just had no urgency and no desire to win. Even the worse-than-puke ESPN commentating team noticed them quitting.
In the last drive (the one where we could have gone over with any score) they Raiders started off with a run. Always a good idea to establish the running game late in the fourth quarter when you are down by three scores. And then, when stopped in the field of play, they chose to not call a timeout or go from the hurry-up. They huddled and lazily came out and then made bad plays. It was disheartening.
 Norv essentially told the fans, the ownership and the players that he has no faith in his team. But one can’t even make the argument that they are building for next year. He left in the starters and didn’t even work on his 2-minute drill. And now we learn that they are starting Tui???? What a backward and terrible organization. I look forward to Norv becoming a gardener or a clown – at least one doesn’t need the will to win in either of those professions.
Also around the league…
Colts win again – blah blah blah. They won’t go undefeated this season and they won’t win the superbowl. So, Indy fans, enjoy it whilst you can.
Great comeback for Miami – Mularky you should be ashamed.
Atlanta, can we finally stop hearing about how electric Ron Mexico is?
Herm Edwards, Norv Turner and Jim Haslett should all join some club for certified losers, or at least quitters anonymous. Oh, and one should really add Andy Reid (and Donovan McNabb to this list).
Now, the NFL picks:
Bienvenidos a Miami @ San Diego SUPER Chargers – Miami +13.5
I love me some sabor latino. The spicy chiquitas of South Beach and the unmatched leadership of the second best Jewish QB in the league, Sage ‘Judah Macabe’ Rosenfels will be too much for the Bolts. I suspect the bolts will win, but they won’t win by 14. So take the sultry squad from South Beach!
Mosi Tatupu (New England) at Thurman Thermal Thomas (Buffalo) – Mosi -4
Tom Brady still plays for the Pats. Their defense is still strong (though maligned). The Buffalo Bills are still led by Losman. And further, the Bills have to have had their hearts ripped out after rescuing defeat from the jaws of victory. The Bills have really lost it and the Pats need to win. Look for NE to take care of business.
Ryan Fitzpatrick (St. Louis) at Brad Johnson (Minnesota)– Brad -6.5
I cry at hallmark ads, I love teenage angst movies. I could watch (in succession), Heathers, Just One of the Guys, Breakfast Club, Ten Things I Hate About You, Zapped, Loverboy, Can’t Buy Me Love… you get the point. I know how this whole Ryan Fitzpatrick thing would end if this were a Hollywood movie, but it isn’t a Hollywood movie, it is real life. And in real life, the Vikes are going to eat that little Ivy League Piece of Shit for Breakfast (the vikes eat shit for breakfast?)
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Washington at Arizona – Washington -4
Come on man? The only team that Arizona can beat is the Niners. And the Niners can’t seem to do anything right. I know it is late in the season, I know that it is a long trip to Arizona from the East Coast – but someone must be joking.
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