2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pools Strategy & Advice: Week 9 Predictions

NFL Week 9 has arrived and it’s time to make our picks for 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pools. It opens up with yet another prime-time game for Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets as they host C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans for Thursday Night Football.

The Jets are in dire need of righting the ship for the season while the Texans are preparing for life without Stefon Diggs. Also, without Nico Collins, this receiver group is going to have a tough time with the Jets secondary which should make this game an interesting one for our NFL Week 9 confidence pool picks.

Last week was another tough one. It wasn’t that we had the Ravens at such a high confidence level as most people in 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pools did the same thing. We racked up some good points at the top of our confidence levels, but then the upsets in the lower half of our picks piled up and we ended up 8-8 for the week. 

Our points weren’t terrible, but between the Ravens and Vikings, who we also had at a high level, we didn’t make up any ground. We didn’t lose a ton, but we didn’t gain. As we look ahead to this week, having a strong confidence pool strategy is important. 

Are we looking at mostly favorites? If not, which upsets are we looking to predict and how much confidence do we put into that? There is still plenty of time to make up some ground, but at some point, my confidence pool advice is going to go off the rails and we’re going to be taking some major chances to climb the standings.

Is that time now? Probably not, but let’s dive into some helpful confidence pool advice before finalizing our 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pool picks this week.  

2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pools Strategy For Week 9

Again, strategy for your 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pool picks is always relative to your place in the standings. Up top, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. My confidence pool advice is to lean into the chalk, don’t take too many chances and stay the course. You’re just looking to maintain your place in the standings.

If you find yourself in the middle or back half of the standings of your 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence pools, rather than try to pick a bunch of upsets, we’re going to play around with some of our confidence ratings. We’re going to lean into the chalk and, based on what I am seeing in the Vegas lines and odds, we’re going to increase our confidence in some of the games that may not have a juiced-up money line but still indicate a clear advantage. 

A game like Thursday’s Jets/Texans game is a good example. The Jets are favored by two points and their money line is only at -130, but I feel like I have a good read on the game and will try to gain some extra points with the pick. There are a few others, so let’s keep looking and get ready to make our 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence Pool picks for Week 9.

NFL Pick Em Confidence Pools Advice

There is no real addition to my current confidence pool advice other than what you just read. You should definitely go to one of the Sportsbooks and check out the point spreads and money lines. In addition to the Jets, there are a few other intriguing picks to make. 

We won’t get greedy – at least not yet – and see if we can make up some ground. We were climbing up the standings for a couple of weeks, hit a stumbling block last week and are ready to get back to moving on up like we’re The Jeffersons.

Now, let’s get to the rest of my picks for Week 9 of your 2024 NFL Pick Em Confidence pools.

NFL Week 9 Confidence Pools Expert Picks