Sometimes you're the hammer...

and sometimes you're very much the nail.

Week 5 saw us not hit on an underdog winner for the first time in over three years. I had been very cautious during the week, and had only 3 underdogs on the docket, but over the week that upgraded, and in the end, we came close to winning three of our picks in overtime, which would have been pretty amazing in itself, but to lose them all? The bad beats the last two weeks have been tough. We've lost on the Bucs, Bengals, Bills, Saints, and Jaguars, all in the final seconds of their matchups.

But that's the life and how we know it can go. The good news is that while it's setback, it's not unusual to have a bad week here or there, and our overall total was robust enough to handle it. While I'm sure the unit loss over the season isn't so bad, it's still annoying to end up back at square one in total picks, and top picks be so badly impacted by 5 bad beats in 2 weeks.

This week, we're going to talk teasers and other strategies for making sure you're iron clad against risky picks, in the quick picks list. I'm not one for micro-managing bets for others, but being aware of teasers and ways you can limit risk is a good idea, and a user or two in the Discord are having success with these near misses because of them.

Top picks

We didn't win any of our top picks

All underdog picks

We didn't win our one other underdog pick (The Bengals) either.