#Dattitude Podcast

In the grand scheme of things, Sunday's Saints-Panthers game is meaningless when it comes to the playoff participants. However, many think it is a very important game for the home team. Will it be a feel-good finish that could change the trajectory of the offseason for the Black and Gold? What will that mean for some of the changes Coach Dennis…

It's supposed to be about 10 degrees, super windy and potentially snowy in Cleveland for the Christmas Eve matchup between the Saints and Browns. Does that favor one team or another? Will Nick Chubb run all over the Black and Gold, or will the defense make a stand, while Alvin Kamara and Taysom Hill have a field day? Also, what odds do we give…

The bad news is there will be no Dattitude podcast on Friday. The good news is we have two episodes crammed into one, as in the Thanksgiving edition, Jeff Duncan makes his weekly appearance and Uncle Big Nick joins Jim Derry for the duo's best bets of NFL Week 12 and the final full Saturday of college football in 2022. Can Andy Dalton do something…

So what is it? What's the real reason New Orleans Saints coach Dennis Allen is sticking with Andy Dalton at quarterback over Jameis Winston? Jim Derry says it is one of three reasons, and none of them are good. Whatever the case, Jim shares his thoughts on the decision (we can guess what those thoughts are), before having his weekly chat with Uncle…

All good things must come to an end. The bad news first, as for the first time all season we finished sub.500 for the week in our best bets. The good news is that even in a 2-3 week, we won money at+$16 with our two biggest picks coming through, as we hit our teaser for the fifth consecutive week. And as just about any successful handicapper will…

Already through five weeks of NFL play, we have seen things we rarely see through the course of a regular season. We have had the lighting up of Scorigami, the web site who updates us every time there is a score that has never happened before in league history. We have had a game in primetime played without a touchdown being scored (last Thursday…

Four games into the season, and we now have a fair sample size of what teams really are. If a team is ranked 30th in defense heading into the second week of October, they're probably not going to jump into the top half this season. Conversely, if a team has been a surprise on the offensive side of the ball and is ranked significantly higher than…

Remember when you were a kid and you would make a bet with little Billy down the street, and then some kind of weird (stuff) would happen in a game and you could talk him into letting you out of the bet? "You can't make me pay for that miracle! You got let me off the hook! Tell you what, I'll buy you a Snickers. OK? Cool, let's go." Yeah, Caesars…

Have you missed Aunt Mabel, Drunk Joe and my antiquated Golden Rules? Well, you're in luck. The NFL picks column is back for a seventh season, and we hope to have as much fun as possible, all the while finishing the season with more money than we started with. With that, if you're one of my five or six regulars (OK, maybe there's a few more than…