2004 NFL Loser's Challenge, week 2
 

Week 1 is over, week 2 is coming. 59 played in week 1, I hope to see as many in week 2.

You can see the standings after week 1 here.

Rules are fairly simple: Try to find the team, one that you have never picked since the beginning of the season, that will lose its game with the worst deficit. If the team you pick loses, you will earn their margin of defeat as points in your season total. However, if the team you picked wins, their margin of victory will be deducted from your season total. Remember though: never pick the same team twice in the season. This shouldn't be a problem for this first week, but maybe your pick will be guided by matchups of upcoming weeks...

Deadline is kickoff of the team you select. This means you can still pick a team up until Monday, unless you've already used both teams. This also means that you don't have to have entered a pick before Thursday night's game.

If for a reason or another, you want to change your pick, simply post another team, as long as you're still before its deadline, I'll replace your first pick by your new one. Do not edit your pick once it's posted. Reason for this is simple: once I have registered your pick, I won't go back to see who has edited their posts. Please write a little note on the post for your new pick that this is in fact a second pick.

To help you out, here's the schedule for week 2, all times being Eastern US time...

WEEK 2
Sunday, Sep. 19
Carolina at Kansas City, 1:00 pm	Chicago at Green Bay, 1:00 pm
Denver at Jacksonville, 1:00 pm	Houston at Detroit, 1:00 pm
Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1:00 pm	Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1:00 pm
San Francisco at New Orleans, 1:00 pm	St. Louis at Atlanta, 1:00 pm
Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1:00 pm	Seattle at Tampa Bay, 4:05 pm
Buffalo at Oakland, 4:15 pm	Cleveland at Dallas, 4:15 pm
New England at Arizona, 4:15 pm	N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 4:15 pm
Miami at Cincinnati, 8:30 pm
Monday, Sep. 20
Minnesota at Philadelphia, 9:00 pm

Finally, as a reminder of who picked who so far, here's an alphabetical list of teams picked for every player in the game...

PICKS CHECKLIST
albionmoonlight	CLE
ardent enthusiast	MIA
atatange1	TB
Aylmar	OAK
Butter_of_69	SD
Chubby	NYG
Coffee Warlord	ARI
digamma	KC
DolphinFan1	NYG
Draft Dodger	SF
duckman	ARI
EagleEye11	NYG
EagleFan	NYG
fantastic flying froggies	DAL
FrogMan	ARI
General Mike	NO
heybrad	ARI
hhiipp	CHI
indoorsoccersim	SD
JAG	DAL
JeeberD	CLE
Jesse_Ewiak	SD
John Galt	ARI
Jon	ARI
jondoeforty1	ARI
KevinNU7	NYG
kingfc22	DAL
larrymcg421	MIA
Masked	MIA
mckerney	CLE
MIJB#19	GB
Mr. Wednesday	NO
Neuqua	TB
ntndeacon	NO
oliegirl	MIA
Peregrine	ARI
Pyser	IND
Radii	ARI
Raven Hawk	OAK
Router Help	CLE
Ryche	DAL
Silver Owl	SF
Solecismic	ARI
sterlingice	ARI
Sublime	JAC
Suicane75	DAL
TazFTW	MIA
Terps	DAL
The Afoci	DAL
The_herd	TB
TheLionKing	ARI
Tigercat	MIA
timmynausea	ARI
timmyw3	CLE
Travis	NO
TredWel	NYG
tucker rocky	ATL
Vince	NO
WSUCougar	MIA

Remember, you can't pick a team twice, and you can start playing at any time, so even if you missed week one, you can still join in.

FM

This is a tough week to pick. Can I just say the Giants again? ;)


Carolina

no you can't, or else you'd say Giants 17 weeks in a row, yes, even on their bye week :p ;)

FM

Carolina

**Pick changed**

Tampa Bay

Chicago.

Da Bears

jax

Chicago

Cleveland

This pains me so much to say.

Chicago.

New York Giants

Carolina

Miami Dolphins.

Gotto pick them before the chemistry between A.J. Feeley, Lamar Gordon, Martay Booker and the OL starts working.

Carolina

Miami

(MIJB convinced me! :))

Chicago

Jacksonville

Minnesota

Arizona

Arizona

Atlanta

But they're playing the Carson Palmer-led Cincinnati Bengals. Maybe I'm just trying to end up last for a change...

Cincy actually played well last week. If they can get their act together on the defensive side of the ball, they should rebound and beat Miami...

Miami

I might regret this, but Im going with Buffalo as a homer pick

da Bears

Chicago

Im going to root my ass off for Chicago this week.

For the record, this is your second pick for the week, it replaces your Buffalo pick made earlier.

FM

??? I still want Buffalo. I was just stating that if Chicago wins, a whole mess of people will be eliminated, so I will be rooting for them to win.

okay, gotcha, I thought you had changed your pick. Good thing I made sure :)

Buffalo it is then.

FM

A good week to go with:

Arizona

Know what. I'm changing my pick to Tampa Bay.

I just can't live with picking Da Bears to lose to the Pack, even when it's 90% likely.

You're confusing this with the high/low. No one can get eliminated in this one, only a mess of negative points for making a bad pick.

I have taken note of that change. Thanks for letting me know.

FM

Yeah, JAG is right, nobody can be eliminated, but he still can root for bunch of people to have negative points though :)

FM

I'm very tempted to try a curveball here and go with Indy but....

Chicago is my pick, too easy to pass up.

Arizona

Hopefully the Cards will get me back on track...

Vikings

Arizona

Gotta go with:

Arizona.

Seems like the week's best bet.

Carolina

I like KC to bounce back and do well against Carolina who is on the short week.

SI

CHICAGO


LaLazers
Hattrick

Jacksonville

San Fran

Arizona

Chicago

Arizona