Each week, Around the League sticks a fork in the NFL teams that have no chance to make the playoffs. Entering Week 11, I'm sticking a fork in something rather different: Dan Hanzus and Jim "Rhino" Reineking.
Hanzus
and Rhino are nine games back of leader Marc Sessler in our season-long
picks competition. With Kareem Copeland and I each trailing Sessler by
only one game, there's just no way Hanzus and Rhino can pass all three
of us. And there's little reason to think they'd have the guts necessary
to make a comeback anyhow. Sessler
and I have seven "hero picks" each. That's when we correctly pick a
game that no one else got right. Rhino and Hanzus have combined for
three hero picks. Copeland has just three hero picks of his own, but at least he's efficient at making boring picks. Kareem is the Matt Schaub of
our competition. That's a compliment. Like Schaub -- and unlike Hanzus
and Rhino -- Kareem still has a shot to win a title this season.
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