Last week was fairly uneventful in Survivor as most of the biggest favorites won. You had a scare if you took Washington, but it really doesn’t matter how the game went once it’s over.

Let’s take a look at this week’s slate:

(Screenshot from officefootballpool.com as of early Thursday morning.)

With no team more than 30-percent used, this will come down to picking the team you believe is most likely to win. (There is no “pot-odds play” here.)

The Bills and Cowboys are the two biggest favorites, and if you agree with the market, you would choose whichever among those two you thought had the slight edge. Right now, I’m leaning Buffalo because I think the Cowboys are a sell-high, and the Jets are going to slow down games by running and playing stout defense. But if someone were big on the Cowboys, I wouldn’t try to talk them out of it, and in fact among my 12 survivor entries I will sprinkle some of both.

The Niners, Eagles and Giants are the next tier down, and it’s conceivable one could put any of them in the tier with the Bills and Cowboys, but the Giants have a bad offensive line, and Andrew Thomas, by far their best lineman, is iffy for the game with a hamstring injury.

The Eagles were life and death in New England, and the Vikings could shoot it out with them. And the Niners are on the road against a team that just notched a blowout win. I’m going Bills and Cowboys, with a majority of my entries on Buffalo.

Alan Seslowsky and I discussed this in more detail on our podcast:

https://www.realmansports.com/p/week-2-survivor-podcast#details