Offensive Rookie of the year winner

Alfred Morris 1 votes
RG3 - 2 Vote
Winner RG3

I dunno what the vote composition was but I changed mine to RG3.  RG3 had the bigger influence on his team and he had better stats than Wilson - Christian.
I looked at some stats and i think that Morris is the right pick - Maceo

MVP Winner

Adrian Peterson - 3 Votes
Peyton Manning - 1 Vote
Winner: AP

Defensive Player of the Year Winner

J.J Watt - Consensus

Coach of the Year winner

Coach of the Year winner
Chuck Pagano ( 3 Votes )
Leslie Frazier ( 1 Vote )

The 2012 Pick 'Em results and Rules Explanation

Results

Sadly, the regular season of football has come to an end, and with that so does this years family Pick 'Em.  We had a great, competitive season where everyone managed to make it above .500!  Here are the results:

1st - Christian 172-84 (.672)
2nd - Bishop 166-90 (.648)
       Tammie 166-90 (.648)
3rd - To be determined
4th - Herb 166-90 (.648)
5th - Maceo 142-104 (.555)

Rules Explanation

 As you can see, Herb, Bishop, and Tammie all tied with a record of 166-90, so why are Bishop and Tammie listed at 2nd while Herb falls to 4th?  Earlier in the season Herb missed a game (Week 6, Steelers @ Titans).  Ultimately everyone picked this game incorrectly, but it was determined that missing games would be one of the criteria for a breaking a tie.  The game went down as a loss for everyone, but since Herb missed one game and the rest missed none, Bishop and Tammie win the tie breaker.

"Overtime"

 We've never had a tie before, so we have some options for determining how this works.  Input would be awesome and is encouraged.  The tied individuals could simply pick games by playoff round until one emerges victorious, with a final tie breaker at the end (should no one take the lead) being a coin flip.  Alternatively, the three people who are -not- involved in the tie breaker can select the games in the round that will determine the tie breaker.  This is an option because there are always an even number of games in the playoff rounds until you reach the Superbowl.  An uneven number ensures that both parties pick the same or a winner is determined during that round of playoffs.

Finally, secret choices should be considered.  Players may be tempted to drag this out for 5 weeks, believing that they have a better chance of at winning a coin flip.  However, we didn't do this for the regular season so its up to what you guys think.

Prize

 Although the winner gets all of the prize, I determined that I will follow in last year's winner's footsteps (Herb) and split the money.

1st Prize - $50

2nd Prize - $30

3rd Prize - $20 

Defensive Rookie of the year

Luke Kuechly ( 2 vote ) Maceo, Christian.

Although you spelled his name wrong :P.

MVP Vote

Cast your MVP Vote to see who the family votes for the 2012 - 2013 MVP
Peyton Manning ( 1 Vote )  Bishop
Adrian Peterson ( 2 Votes ) Maceo,Tammie
Too early to tell, but I'm going with either Brady or AP.  Really depends on how the rest of the year plays out.

Hilarious Commercial

Cam Newton PLAY 60 Commercial

Great Moments Week 5 - 7

This is more work than you'd  think.

Week 5 - Danny Amendola makes an amazing one handed catch against Cardinals on Thursday Night

Week 5 - Weeden throws ball, catches, and throws it again for an (illegal) touchdown

Week 5 - Harvin's great year continues against the Titans

Week 5 - Colemon (temporarily) takes Brown out by throwing his shoe out of bounds

Week 5 - Beautiful Weeden bomb

Week 5 - Dalton to Green chemistry

Week 5 - Kerrigan pick six against Ryan

Week 5 - Reggie Wayne's insane catch to help in their epic comeback over the Packers

Week 5 - RG3 knocked out of game with a concussion

Great Moments Week 2 - 4

Going to LA kept me pretty busy, so I wasn't able to update.  Here are some of the great moments from the past few weeks.

Week 2 - Eric Wright intercepts Eli Manning

Week 2 - Bucs rush Giants victory formation, cause controversy

Week 2 - Bengals can't tackle Trent Richardson

Week 2 - Browns can't tackle Pacman Jones

Week 2 - Brent Celek hurdles Ed Reed

Week 2 - Golden Tate destroys Sean Lee in a cheap shot

Week 2 - Vikings demonstrate that they're the "lucky team" this year

Week 2 - Alex Smith leads touchdown drive against Lions with bloody nose

Week 2 - Josh Morgan throws the ball at Cortland Finnegan, costs Redskins the game

Week 3 - Jamal Charles leads Chiefs comeback with 91 yard touchdown run.  Ends game with over 200 rushing yards

Week 3 - Three turnovers on one play

Week 3 - Titus Young catches hail mary pass, sends Lions to overtime

Week 3 - Bengals wide receiver Mohamed Sanu throws 73 yard touchdown pass to AJ Green

Week 3 - MJD untouched (?) 60 yard touchdown run

Week 3 - Replacement ref incorrectly throws his hat onto the field, right in the path of Cowboy wide receiver Keven Ogletree, tripping him

Week 3 - Steeler Ryan Munday knocks Raider Heyward-Bey unconscious for 10 minutes in helmet to helmet hit

Week 3 - Raven and Patriot game turns into a boxing match

Week 3 - Controversial Ravens field goal at the end of the game gives the Ravens the win

Week 3 - The call that brought the regular refs back: Packer interception on a hail mary play ruled Seahawk touchdown, gives the Seahawks the win.

Week 4 - Regular refs make their return

Week 4 - Vince Wilfork destroys a Bills player

Week 4 - Marcus Sherels scores returns a punt for a td over a terrible Lions special teams

Week 4 - Peyton Manning throws a beautiful touchdown

Week 4 - Jamaal Charles goes one way, reverses, scores touchdown

Week 4 - Bengals go "Gangnam Style"

Week 4 - Refs rule Sproles down by contact, clearly fumbled.  Nearly costs Packers the game

Week 4 - Giants miss what would be a game winning field goal.  Eli reacts

Week 4 - Backup 49er QB Colin Kaepernick slides to avoid touchdown and end risk of injury to Niner players

Great Moments - Week 1

Here are a few of the great moments from Week 1 of the NFL:

David Akers 63 yard field goal

Frank Gore moonwalks into the endzone


Jay Cutler's 42 yard touchdown pass to Alshon Jeffery


Brandon Weeden tackled by US flag


CHOOCHOO!  The Trent Richardson Train stops for no one


Vernon Davis rejected


RG3's first touchdown: 88 yards

Edit: More!

Panthers offensive line - lol


The Raiders miss their long snapper 


Matt Cassel doesn't care

Prediction for the HOFs of the 2012 draft

This is not really a prediction for this season but rather for the future. This is my prediction for which players of this Draft Class will make the Hall of Fame

Andrew Luck
Trent Richardson
Luke Kuchley
My bold Prediction: Kirk Cousins gets traded/signed and makes HOF
Surprising Miss: RG3 - Maceo

Week One Picks

Until we come up with a better system, here are my picks.  If anyone else wants to posts their picks here you can make another post or edit this one and add it.

Here are my picks for week 1.

Get your picks in!

Just a reminder for everyone to get your picks in before the Cowboys play the Giants on Wednesday.  Some of us prefer to use an electronic method to keep track of your picks so I went ahead and put together the week one schedule on excel.  You can find it here. 

Fantasy Football

Last year we talked about setting a fantasy football league for the family, so this year I took the initiative and set one up.  I've had good experiences with fantasy and I think we will too.  Everyone has now been invited to both this site and the fantasy league so hopefully we can get this up and running before the preseason is over.  Make sure to check your emails and accept the invitation.  The draft is automated so just rank your players (the base rankings are good and you should be ok) and once its draft day we'll be good to go!

Good luck everyone!

Introduction

Welcome!

Hello everyone!  The purpose of this site is to make this year's football experience a more enjoyable experience for everyone.  It will allow us to track our wins and losses far more easily, share any cool little stories or pictures that are NFL relevant, and can be used to direct us toward a fantasy league (if anyone is interested in that).

You can get started by creating a blogger account.  Let me know which email you used and I'll make you a co-author on the blog.  You can then post your pre-season predictions if you're so inclined.