I almost forgot to do my NFL picks early this week because of the holiday games. I was a less-than-stellar 6-10 last week to move to 102-75. Lucas seemed to go 6-10 also, but that Houston game seems a little suspicious. His writeup seemed to imply that he would be picking the Giants, and I seem to remember him picking the Giants. I'll let it slide though, since Lucas won't be making his picks for tomorrow on time so I'll most likely pick up 2 games right there. Lucas is at 114-63 overall.

NE at DET: DET. I'm very worried about this game. I'm making this pick so that if the Pats lose it will assuage my depression at the fact they lost to the Lions, but if they win I won't be as disappointed about missing the pick.

WAS at DAL: DAL. They always beat Washington, they usually play well on Thanksgiving, they're playing at home, Danny Wuerffel is starting for the 'Skins.

PIT at JAX: PIT. Fred Taylor is still healthy! But the Jag-wires aren't very good anyway.

MIA at BUF: BUF. The official date of this game is December 1st, and as the newspapers down here like to point out, the Dolphins don't win cold weather games, nor do they win in December.

BAL at CIN: BAL. And as everyone knows, the Bengals don't win period.

CAR at CLE: CLE. Carolina may not win any more games this year. Oh well.

CHI at GB: GB. They may be struggling and injured, but it's the Bears.

AZ at KC: KC. Neither team has what could be reasonably construed as defense, so this one might be a shootout.

ATL at MIN: ATL. Randy Moss sure looks like an idiot about that whole "Randy Ratio" thing doesn't he? Maybe if he got the ball less the team would do better.

TEN at NYG: NYG. At home, coming off a loss to an expansion team, against an overrated team. It's just a hunch.

HOU at IND: IND. Back to being an expansion team for the Texans.

DEN at SD: DEN. Both of these teams have looked like crap lately, but I still don't think the Bolts are the real deal.

SEA at SF: SF. I must say, though, Matt Hasselbeck looked good last week. Let's see how he does against a real defense.

STL at PHI: STL. Have I gone insane? I think so!

TB at NO: TB. Although I'm tempted to pick the Saints, I really am.

NYJ at OAK: OAK. Normally the Raiders' late-season swoon begins about now, but after that 4 game losing streak earlier I just don't know what to make of them this year.