There are still 2 games remaining in week 1 tonight for Monday Night Football, but our picks are in, and we had a nice weekend with 2 wins, 1 loss, and 1 push! The pushes never count, so it's 2 out of 3 success, or 67%!

Let's briefly review what happened:

(1) Arizona +2.5 covered by tying the Lions 27-27 in overtime after an amazing comeback and superb play by quarterback Kyler Murray on his starting NFL debut. He is going to be around a long time!

(2) Green Bay +3.5 easily covered on Thursday night by defeating Chicago 10-3. 

(3) Carolina +3 made a nice late comeback to lose by only 3 points 30-27, and prevent an MPI loss.

(4) Our only loss was when Jacksonville +4 failed to show up against Kansas City, losing 40-26.  

Our overall record is now 56-42-4, or 57% success!

I will always take a 2-1 weekend! That 67% success is superb! 

As I will do each and every week of the 17-week NFL season, I will send you my exclusive picks based on the analyses. Use them for recreation or for more serious purposes, or just follow along as I continue adding to the database of what is the most exciting project in the NFL - the quest to show how mental factors can enhance prediction, and this is the second year of this major quest. 

We are slowly but surely validating what I believe will become the most successful football picking method in the world, and it is based on the fact that we measure the mental game and implement it in the selections using an adaptation of the patented MPI scoring system.

It is all an offshoot of my book "The Mental Performance Index" written in 2011 and revised in 2013 and supported by some of the biggest names in pro football including Don Shula, Tom Flores, NFL Films and many more. 

If you review the site at https://www.FootballShrink.com 
you will see that the best NFL handicappers on the planet who pick sides are not able to get above 52% success long-term. We are doing better than that. When enough games have accumulated that show statistically that this is not a function of chance, we will know what we have, and I am confident we will be very pleased. Let the data collection continue, and the entire story and challenge is posted on the pages of the above site. 

I will be in touch in a couple days with all the picks for week 2. Thanks for tuning in and Good Luck!