Come on man. We're re-launching our football section in full force right now. There's plenty of Warrior topics on the front page and this is still the most active Warriors blog and community out there. We're just expanding.

How many times can we possibly write to Cohan and company to just pony up and pay Nellie?

I think you're painting a really inaccurate picture about this "zero tolerance" to criticism. I haven't written anything in weeks because of work obligations, but look back at the comments for any piece that I've written in the fact. I encourage criticism and critical thinking about anything I personally write. What I do not and will not tolerate is personal shots at authors or other community members, people telling GSoM writers what they can or cannot write, people distorting or straight up lying about what a GSoM writer posted, or anything that risks the family show atmosphere environment that we've worked hard to create here at GSoM.

I'll be real with you- the welcome or lack thereof that our latest additions to the fam that some commenters have given Tony.psd and R Dizzle disgusts me. These guys are doing it for the love of the game and basically pitching in to make GSoM stronger especially when the GSoM staff is low on resources, but fools think it's okay to question why they're even here. That's garbage.

I have no problem with anyone disagreeing with one of R Dizzle's NFL picks or saying they think Tony.psd's art could do X to look better stylistically and posting why they think so in a constructive manner, BUT the whining about why they're posting here or telling them what they can write is unacceptable (not that you did any of this- I'm just giving you the context Coma). I feel bad when people say stupid things to them, because I personally went out of my way to add them to the team.

You're absolutely right that it would be ideal if the Sunday picks went up much earlier. But given the context of the messed up welcome these two cats got here, sorry- I'm just not feeling comments like this:

Jacked? Come on man. You act like he was intentionally trying to be malicious. He was overloaded with work that week, but still managed to finish up all of the division previews and get the picks up (although late at night as you noted) while learning the horrendous backend/ posting system we have for GSoM writers (it's awful). "R Dizzle you're lacking in your macking"? Why even post that?

Anyhow it's all good. I agree with you 100% that the picks need to go up earlier. Please excuse the tardiness and chalk it up to week 1 jitters and confusion. My comment "check GSoM frequently" was intended to be a joke- apologies if it seemed like I was trying to pass that off as anything more than a joke.

My bad for not getting it up earlier but like Atma said, I had other things going on. These things aren't as easy to post up as they look - they take time.

The next ones will be up earlier (as you can already see) and just because you missed Week 1 doesn't mean you're not eligible for the Warriors tickets. I set the minimum of 15 weeks of predictions and there are 17 weeks in the regular season. So, if you missed Week 1, it's no big deal. You can even ignore the last week (which most teams won't play because they're already in the playoffs).

As for me "lacking in my macking," that's a pretty unnecessary comment. You can say some of my predictions are ridiculous (because they are - I'll even admit that) and I'm down to discuss that or any other comments you might have about the posts, but there's no need to call me out and say all that.

Just to note - 13 people posted their predictions last week not 5.