Stampede Blue’s NFL Week 7 staff picks

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports A month and a half of football is in the books and, if we’ve learned anything from the first six weeks, it’s tough to accurately pick winners in the NFL.

Road teams are off to an all-time high success rate in hostile environments, and the difference in talent between the 10th-best team and the 25th-best team isn’t as great as it’s been in years past.

Much as the parody in the NFL, the Stampede Blue staff has some still competition in its game picks. Through 91 games, Greg Rader — who’s picked just over 68% of his games correctly — holds a slight two-game lead over Zach Hicks — hitting nearly 66% of his picks — but the drop-off between those following behind is…