I have always operated from the premise that on any given Sunday any National Football League team can win. Motivated right, I would take a mouse in a horse race.
But the next generation of handicapping prowess in the Qoxhi Picks organization does not blindly subscribe to this theory. My son, Kevin, who has worked with me for years and has now earned an increasing role in the selections we deliver on Sunday, believes talent matters. While I was content on winning two out of three games on the point spread with the mouse in the horse race, Kevin would like to eliminate those games where we are simply overmatched and lose big.
If motivation is a drug, I’m an addict.
This season, Kevin has had me stay off a couple games I saw as motivational gems and he has proven right both times. My motivated team didn’t win or cover the point spread. So, understand I enter this week humbled by those results and pleased our clients were not pinned with two avoidable losers.
But now, this week, should I really let another motivational masterpiece just slip by because one team is in first place and the talk of the football world and their opponent by most estimates is the worst team in the league?
Let me explain.