Branson Wright takes a seven-game lead over Chuck Yarborough with three weeks to go. Watch video
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Frank Amato of Sunbury went 14-2 last week to win a $25 gift card and qualify for a spot in the finals in our "You Pick the Winners" football pick 'em contest.
Host Branson Wright stretched his lead over co-host Chuck Yarborough by going 11-5, and 128-78 overall. Chuck went 9-7 and is 121-85. Mr. Wright (all the time) stretched his lead thanks to victories by Arizona and Philadelphia's victory over Chuck's unbeatable Dallas Cowboys.
Branson will stretch his lead even longer this week when St. Louis, Arizona, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Houston all come away with victories.
Each week, fans can go online to cleveland.com/footballpicks and make their predictions. The winning prognosticator gets that $25 gas card and the opportunity to be the guest of SBTV hosts Chuck and Branson on "You Pick the Winners," streaming on cleveland.com.
In the event of a tie, we'll use the total score of the Browns game as a tiebreaker, which is how Matt emerged the winner in this week's contest. Whoever comes closest to the total without going over will prevail. If there's still a tie after that, we'll do a random drawing. See official contest rules for further details. Whoever makes the most correct picks will become a finalist for a $250 gift card to be awarded at the end of the season. (OK, it's not much; this is mostly for fun.)
Here are Chuck's and Branson's picks below:
Thursday
San Francisco at San Diego (cy,bw), 8:20 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 19
Washington at Dallas (cy, bw), 1 p.m.
Houston (bw) at Tennessee (cy), 1 p.m.
Detroit at Tampa Bay (cy, bw), 1 p.m.
Buffalo at Miami (cy, bw), 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at Indianapolis (cy, bw), 1 p.m.
Atlanta (cy,bw) at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.
Denver at Oakland (cy, bw), 4:15 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh (cy, bw), 4:15 p.m.
Green Bay at New England (cy, bw), 8:20 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 20
Chicago (bw, cy) at Minnesota 8:30 p.m.