They're very late, but you'll have to trust me that I made the Thursday picks before the game!Miami vs. Detroit (-3.5) (41 O/U)Tampa Bay vs. Dallas (-12.5) (39 O/U)Denver vs. Kansas City (-1.5) (38 O/U)Arizona vs. Minnesota (-6) (38.5 O/U)Carolina (-4.5)… more »

Is Indy / Dallas the premiere game this week? I guess you could also look at Chargers / Broncos, but I'm going with the first one. Not a very compelling match up to be your top one for the week, which is an argument for the latter - it's at least a divis… more »

Is Iny trying to avoid the undefeated tag? Beating Buffalo by one point? For a team on the scale of the Colts to only beat a team on the scale of Buffalo says two things: First, parity is working, and second, that should count as a loss for Indy! I guess… more »

The byes are gone! Now it's just pure football week in and week out for the next two months! Big games this week: Can Chicago bounce back against the Giants or have they been exposed? Yeah, their defense is solid, but that won't do it by itself. San Dieg… more »

I', still a?little bit in shock after this week - Detroit, Buffalo, Miami, and Santa Clara - oops, San Francisco all got W's this weekend. That's a lot of meaningless wins - unless you're Atlanta, Chicago or Minnesota, and then the win has meaning becaus… more »

The folks over at CodeSmith have released version 4.0 at DevConnections in Las Vegas (as I predicted during my talk at the GR .NET User Group back in October). The new features are pretty compelling, but by far my favorite right now is the ability to bas… more »

It's been about a week or so since I've finally gotten my issues with FeedDemon taken care of. I didn't post about the issues I was having because I didn't see it helping the situation at all, but now that it's over, I think the guys over at Newsgator de… more »

It seems the debate is still going. This time, it's between Scott Hanselman and Paul Stovell. Scott (and Keith Pleas) did a presentation at Tech Ed this year about building enterprise frameworks. Scott had a slide basically saying that when you build a f… more »

The latest ARCast podcast from Ron Jacobs is about Microsoft's Certified Architect Program. Normally, that wouldn't be enough for me to post about it. But this one features a former NuSoft employee - Jim Wilt. He's an extremely smart man, and is one of t… more »

Once again, I'm late in the week posting this, but still before Sunday, so it's still valid! There's some good games this week - Cincy / Baltimore, Denver / Pittsburgh, and Indy / New England all look really good. Then you have a few duds: Green Bay / Bu… more »