NFL Predictions Roundup

Yahoo:

Yahoo likes Vikings, Packers, Steelers and Jaguars.


The Ringer's Super Bowl Picks

Mays: Rams over Vikings
Clark: Patriots over Vikings
Kelly: Saints over Patriots
McAtee: Rams over Patriots
Sherman: Rams over Patriots
Heifetz: Saints over Chargers

So the Ringers likes Rams, Patriots, Vikings and Saints.


NFL.com has 21 experts making picks which makes it hard to summarize, but their top teams to win the Super Bowl are Rams, Saints, Falcons.


Compositing all three sites, and here are the consensus top 8 teams.

Vikings
Packers
Rams
Saints
Falcons
Patriots
Steelers
Jaguars

Here are our Calcutta owners by number of these top 8 teams:

Kirat: 3
Niraj: 1
Dave: 1
Matt: 1
Savan: 1
Mark: 1

As a bonus, here is the Ringer's NFL Wins Pool draft, a vastly inferior version of our Calcutta auction. (The biggest flaw is doing a snake draft instead of an auction which robs the whole thing of validity. The other flaw is only doing wins not including the postseason.)

The consensus 8 is born out except for the inclusion of the Eagles.

I think the top 3 squads are easily Kevin, Riley and Bill. The key is the last pick. I think the Cowboys, Washington and Dolphins could all win 6 or 7, possibly more. I think it comes down to Kevin and Riley and the difference should be Watson's Texans vs Garoppolo 49ers (as I think Pats/Steelers and Dolphins/Cowboys are washes.) The people predicting Mal to win are insane. Seahawks and Broncos will be bad.

Edit: And I happened to see a Chiefs SB pick, so I'm including it.