NFL Week 7 Picks: Cowboys Are Surging, but Broncos Are Leading the Polls

October 18, 2014   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Riffs, rants, observations and dissenting opinions from the voices in my head: Here's a warped and dented take on this weekend's games, this week featuring a disproportionate number of Terry Pegula-inspired all-caps rants. 
Note: All times listed are Eastern, lines are via Odds Shark and game capsules are listed in the order you should read them.
 
49ers at Broncos
Sunday, 8:30 p.m.
Line: Broncos -7
A Harris poll decreed this week that the Broncos have replaced the Cowboys as America's Team. Since election season is the perfect time of year to criticize pollsters and my entire career has been a misguided effort to bite Nate Silver on the ankle, it's time for Game Previews to utterly debunk this statistically dubious balderdash.
The pollsters surveyed 2,543 adults, 1,275 of whom said they followed professional football. That's right, Harris (a Nielsen company) found a cross-section of America in which only half the population has any interest...

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