After last week's wins by the Rams and Browns over the Redskins and Giants, I'm thoroughly convinced that no one in the NFL is as good or as bad as they seem to be. When Atlanta and Arizona are suddenly division-leading powers, you can't count on anything to make sense. The Dolphins could come out this week in the Wishbone and the Patriots could start punting on first down, and it wouldn't surprise me. As Henrik Ibsen said, "These are crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy nights."

Actually come to think of it, that might have been Paul Stanley. I'll look it up later.

Anyway, here are the NFL picks for week seven. As always, these are merely the opinions of one man and should not be used as the basis for any financial investment of any kind, especially if I have another week like last week. Your mileage may vary. If rash develops, discontinue usage.

WEEK SEVEN:

San Diego at Buffalo - After Sunday's Chargers win over New England, I can honestly say I haven't seen someone enjoy a long-awaited beatdown of a hated rival like that since Mel Gibson stuck that evil Redcoat guy at the end of "The Patriot."
Pick: Chargers

New Orleans at Carolina - Whose bright idea was it to take the team that gets run out of town by hurricanes and make them play away from home for five weeks and go overseas to London in the middle of the season? That's just cruel.
Pick: Saints

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati - Cincinnati Bengals tickets are now officially as hard to unload as Tony Danza autographs.
Pick: Steelers

San Francisco at NY Giants - The Giants went almost ten months between defeats, while the Niners have found they're not bothered at all by getting knocked off every seven days. In pure propaganda terms, San Fran should have the edge here since they're on familiar ground.
Pick: Giants

Baltimore at Miami - This is a real mismatch. The Dolphins have two offenses, and the Ravens have none.
Pick: Ravens

Dallas at St. Louis - Brett Favre called Tony Romo to encourage him about his pinkie finger injury. Apparently, he called him a big sissy, because the next thing you know he was talking about playing, broken finger and all. The question here shouldn't be "Is Romo healthy?" It should be "If we need Romo to beat the Rams, why aren't we panicking more?"
Pick: Cowboys

Detroit at Houston - Things are finally looking up for Lions fans. After this week, at least you can get their old jerseys cheap on EBay.
Pick: Lions

NY Jets at Oakland - What's up with those blue uniforms the Jets wore last week? It should be a law that your throwback unis actually are from your team, and not a throwback to when you didn't have the same colors and name. It's an homage, it's not the NFL witness protection program. It would be like the Ravens wearing their old Browns uniforms. It's just wrong.
Pick: Jets

Indianapolis at Green Bay - Peyton Manning was afraid to mention he had a second knee surgery because it might give his opponents information they could use as an advantage. For this same reason, the Giants once went an entire season without putting Ron Dayne's name on the back of his jersey.
Pick: Packers

Seattle at Tampa Bay - The Seahawks offense is beginning to look like an NFL team from one of those commercials where they don't actually buy the rights to use the actual players' names on the jerseys.
Pick: Bucs

Also, I'll take the Broncos over the Pats, Skins over Browns, Titans over Chiefs, and the Bears over the Vikings. Feel free to chastise, encourage, or leave your own upset pick of the week in the comments section.

Last Week: 7-7 (50%), 53-35 (60%) overall.

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