Raw Dawgin' is Nearly perfect in week 16 Pickem' With 134 out of a total possible score of 136, 4th and 9ers cruised to the week 16 Confidence victory; his third win this season. After dropping just 2 points on the Bears/Packers matchup, 4th and 9ers went on to be perfect the rest of the way, including scoring 6 points on the Titans win, 11 on the Jags, and a huge 13 points on the Steelers. Raw Dawgin' tried to keep pace after being perfect heading into Sunday, but lost 7 points on the Jets to finish in second place, just 5 points back of the leader.

Week 16 featured 8 matchups that ended in upsets, but the league was well ahead of that pace and as a group we correctly picked 12 of the 16 matchups. Raw Dawgin' and 4th and 9ers did even better and finished the week as the only players to correctly pick 15 of the matchups. Both players correctly picked the Jags, Steelers, Panthers, and Titans to finish tied atop the Pickem' leaderboard. Though neither player was particularly close on the Niners winning MNF score of 48 points, Raw Dawgin' was 5 points closer than 4th and 9ers to win the week 16 Pickem' contest, and prevent the sweep.

The Chiefs 2025 freefall continued in week 16 as they lost another QB and another game, this time dropping to the lowly Titans. They also took down a player in the Survivor contest, who lost his last life and is out of the competition. Now 13 players remain in total, with Dawgman still on the top of the heap with two lives remaining. There were lots of picks on Houston and Philly by the winning Survivors, and now Dawgman just needs to be right two more teams to take homw the crown.