Season: 53-52 Last Week: 7-6 This Week: 0-1
Tampa Bay at Minnesota (-6.5)
A crushing home loss to New Orleans followed by a Thursday night road game in Minnesota should be enough to ensure the Bucs lose by at least a touchdown against the Vikings.
But why spend anymore time discussing the game when I can post this video of AU midfielder Colin Seigfreid celebrating his goal by giving the Stone Cold Stunner to AU grad and friend of the blog Zack Solomon?
The only thing that could have been better is if a teammate dropped down to count the 1-2-3.
The rest:
Indianapolis at Tennessee (-3.5) Miami (+2.5) at New York Jets New England (-7.5) vs. St. Louis (London)
San Diego at Cleveland (+3.5) Carolina (+7.5) at Chicago
Atlanta at Philadelphia (-2.5)
Seattle at Detroit (-2.5) Jacksonville (+13.5) at Green Bay
Washington at Pittsburgh (-5.5) Oakland (+1.5) at Kansas City New York Giants (-1.5) at Dallas New Orleans (+6.5) at Denver
San Francisco at Arizona (+7.5)
Season: 46-46 Last Week: 5-9 This Week: 0-1
Seattle at San Francisco (-7.5)
Going 11-17 over the past two weeks isn't the best way to begin October, especially after such a strong start to the season. I blame A-Rod.
For tonight I'm backing San Francisco at home, thanks to the following stat from our A+ research team here at the blog: With Jim Harbaugh as coach, the 49ers have allowed 11 points combined in four games following a loss.
Carolina at Dallas (-2.5)
With 26 seconds left and one timeout remaining, Tony Romo completed a one-yard pass to Dez Bryant to the Ravens 33. The clock ticked down to six seconds, before Dallas used its final timeout and Dan Bailey missed the game-winning field goal from 50+ yards out. Now that, that is just great clock management.
Cleveland (+3.5) at Indianapolis
Despite defeating the Bengals and picking up a win for the first time since November 2011, Cleveland's victory was immediately overshadowed by news of this guylast week.
New Orleans at Tampa Bay (+3.5)
With interim coach Joe Vitt taking over the Saints in Week 8, let's appreciate the chance to pick against interim interim coach Aaron Kromer one more time.
Washington (+6.5) at New York Giants
I'm surprised this line is almost a touchdown even though everyone knows 1) The Giants play better on the road than at home and 2) Washington is 3-0 ATS in its last three against New York.
Baltimore (+6.5) at Houston
Being on the wrong end of both the largest deficit overcome in Monday Night Football and Thursday's situation in San Francisco is just too much for one blogger to take in a 72-hour span. Hopefully John Harbuagh atones for his brother's wrongs by staying within six points in Houston.
Green Bay (-5.5) at St. Louis
The critics have come out in full force after I officially dropped to .500 on the year, and after hopefully a strong performance this week, I'll have the following message for them when sitting down for my weekly interview with Michele Tafoya:
Arizona at Minnesota (-6.5)
Tennessee at Buffalo (-3.5)
Two picks that are more against the away team than they are for the home team, and two games that, with six teams on bye, have a lot of implications on whether I win or lose Week 7 in fantasy football.
New York Jets at New England (-10.5)
An angry Tom Brady and Bill Belichick returning home after blowing a 13-point 4th quarter lead in Seattle? Thankfully, this is the Jets problem to deal with and not mine.
Jacksonville (+4.5) at Oakland
After getting blown out in both weeks prior to their bye and with another blowout looming in Week 8 (at Green Bay), this is Jacksonville's best chance at keeping up its pace of one win a month.
Pittsburgh (-2.5) at Cincinnati
After making the playoffs last year, Marvin Lewis and the Bengals are on track for two straight average or below-average seasons, before Lewis saves his job with an unexpected playoff berth in 2014; a script we've seen play out before in Cincy.
Detroit at Chicago (-5.5) Losing out on the Hail Mary in Seattle earlier this year and then with the comeback in San Diego last week, I'm pretty sure I'm due for a Charles Tillman interception Monday to stop Detroit's backdoor cover attempt you know is coming.
Season: 41-36 Last Week: 6-8 Pittsburgh (-5.5) at Tennessee
After watching him compile a 2.9 YPC average from afar over five weeks, Chris Johnson's fantasy owners will get their first live look at just how bad of a first/second round pick they made Thursday night in Tennessee. In their first (but not only) primetime appearance of the season, the Titans manage to get blown out for the fifth time in six games.
With midterms looming, my weekly schedule of watching games for 10 hours straight on Sunday will be altered as some semblance of studying must be done for them. Below are the picks for Week 6:
Kansas City at Tampa Bay (-3.5) Dallas (+3.5) at Baltimore
St. Louis at Miami (-3.5) Detroit (+5.5) at Philadelphia
Oakland at Atlanta (-8.5) Cincinnati (-2.5) at Cleveland
Indianapolis (+3.5) at New York Jets
Buffalo at Arizona (-5.5) New England (-3.5) at Seattle
New York Giants (+5.5) at San Francisco Minnesota (+2.5) at Washington Green Bay (+5.5) at Houston
Denver at San Diego (-2.5)
