Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices Healthy quarterbacks. Injured quarterbacks. Teams striking out hot at the start and perhaps now returning to the pack. Teams arriving to the opening weeks cold and wondering if it’s too late. Divisions that may be over. Divisions where incompetence creates opportunity. Examples? We’ve got examples. No one in the NFC West can defeat the 49ers. No one in the NFC East wants to win a game at all. San Francisco is 6-

Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices There used to be a fairly basic, as in really basic and minimal, way of viewing the NFL season to gauge what was going on. Simply put, measure things every four games. Divide the run roughly every month into quarters. Or, as the tides shift and weeks overlap months, look at every four games. It wasn’t in any way scientific or perfect. But it did accomplish – in some ways if only by offering a no frills overvi

Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices Quick show of hands. Put them up in the air. Now, keep them up if you thought the Giants would be leading the NFC East after four games. Keep them up if you thought the Browns and Ravens would share the lead in the AFC North after four games. Keep them up if you thought the Chargers wouldn’t have a win after four games. There had better be no hands in the air. In fact, if you kept your hands up after

Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices Week three is done. Week four selections have been made. Due to some unforeseen events, we’re not going to have the usual full column this week. We'll recheck the results and update the full season next week. For now it appears Emmie went 8-7-1 with Bob and Canasta 7-8-1 for week 3. Everything will be back on track with next week's picks. For now… the games go on… As usual spreads taken from USA Today. Pitt

Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices Want to know why it’s too early to really tell what’s going on? Ok… The Raiders are 2-0. The Packers, Commanders, Saints, Dolphins, and Browns haven’t played a home game. And, for a bit more, the Chargers lost to the Cardinals and Raiders. Anyone telling you they are confident about anything right now. That doesn’t mean we aren’t about to get to some markers. After four games, we’ll have reached a go

Emmie and Canasta with Bob… offering up the Golden Choices I told you. Early season is a nightmare. Let’s take a look at Canasta… The Rams never arrived in Australia to even be competitive. The Lions look horrendous. The Packers are in disarray. The less said about the Chargers, the better. She picked the Cowboys. That’s five games where the teams she selected were embarrassing, not her choices. When we did this in 2024, Canasta showed an amazing ability to run

The NFL season is always a nightmare early on for making wagers. Not that it’s an easy win at any time of the year. But early on, before teams have had a chance in a live game that counts to demonstrate what they’re going to bring to the field, it’s just this side of impossible to be certain of what you’re looking at. Do you know how disruptive Aaron Donald will be? Is he going to be playing at an extreme high level for extended stretches of the first game? How about