Blanco and Hunter pull away

The dynamic duo did it again last week as John Blanco and “Good” Will Hunter racked up identical 12-2 records to stay atop the prognostication pack with twin totals of 60-28 through the first six weeks of the National Football League season.

With a run of successful weeks, the pair of pickers has begun to separate from the pack, but they did so in different fashion as Will went out on a limb last week by taking the Denver Broncos over the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. While injuries have taken their toll on the battered boys from Beantown, it was tough to figure that Coach Shanahan would be able to guide the Broncos to their fifth straight win after their ugly 34-10 opening day loss to Miami.

Everybody jumped off that band wagon, but it looks like he hopped back on just in time, while John went with Drew Bledsoe and the Dallas Cowboys over Eli Manning and the New York Giants. After looking like a joke for the past few years, Peyton’s little brother and the Giants have been looking good as of late, but the budding bomber took one on the chin Dallas got a field goal to give Blanco the edge.

Little things like that killed Cramer, but the third placer actually won with that one. The dude with the “do” erred from the path of the righteous when he went with the lowly Lions of Detroit over Super Bowl bound Carolina. It was a close one that could have easily went either way as the Panthers won by a point, but Jon also mis-picked the Minnesota Vikings over the Chicago Bears.

One week of success didn’t make Culpepper look like a better choice to anyone but him and the Lil’ Mahi, but the Mahi seems to like just about every fishy team out there. If you look up the word loser in the dictionary, you might find an Arizona Cardinals logo next to it, but the birds took a week off and allowed the Mahi a winning week at 11-3.

He was two games better than Brooks, as the “psycho gnome” went 9-5 after opting for sure losers like Tennessee and Houston, but he redeemed himself by joining Will as the only two to pick Denver, and with a stroke of blind luck as the Jaguars beat the Steelers.

With plenty of season left to go, Cramer dropped to five games behind the duo at 55-33, with Brooks is improving to 46-42, and the Lil’ Mahi creeping toward .500, at 42-46.