
After my minimal effort last week, I promised I would make it up to you. Now I will come through with that promise.

You'll have to forgive me this week.

I have a confession to make. I am not that big a fan of turkey. White meat, dark meat, I could take or leave them both. I don't care for cranberry sauce or sweet potatoes. I like some stuffing and string beans are okay, but the feast is not for me.

I had my first losing round of picks last week. This is not acceptable. Since this is that time of season where every year the games are screwy and good team lose to bad, and bad to good, I'm just going to throw my whole book right out the window.

ATLANTA over Cleveland (+8)
Atlanta will shred Cleveland's defense, but with John Abraham still out, Charlie Frye may actually make a play or two to keep it close
PHILADELPHIA (-7½) over Washington
Lock of the Week
Philadelphia is 7-0 after the bye week during the Andy Rei …

NEW YORK GIANTS (-13½) over Houston
Lock of the Week
Consider this a warm for the Giants match-up against the Bear next week.
New Orleans (-2) over TAMPA BAY
This New Orleans team is really putting something together despite a hiccup here and there.
Green Bay (+3½) …

Week eight in the National Football League contains some good match-ups and what should become some exciting games.

Hold the presses, I did it. Here it is. My picks of the week, straight to you, on time and and of course perfectly accurate. You could bet on these, you know if I condoned gambling (I don't ;-), and well, if the government would let you.
Away teams rule this week.

It has come to my attention that if I continue this pattern of publishing these picks later and later, by Week 8 I will be posting them after kickoff.
New gimmick, sum up my pick in one phrase.
Like I could ever condense all my thoughts into just one! By the way, this week's ga …

Now this is what we call a last minute edition. Blame it on the Yankees. Better yet, blame it on A-Rod, everything else is his fault.
This week is just downright freaky. Home teams are favored to win 12 of 14 games this week, and my picks include the home team winning 11 of 14.

Okay, I'm back to my regular schedule. No late edition picks this week. There were a few surprises last week, though overall I was rather bored. Of course this week made up for the lack of action in game.
First we had Terrell Owens admitted to the ER for a drug overdose.

Yada Yada Yada, really late post. Been Busy, gonna keep this short and sweet. Not even going to provide links this week.

The opening week sure was fun. There were a few blowouts and three shutouts, including my Lo pick of the weak, Oakland. Home field was not very advantageous as the visiting teams went 11 of 16.

The NFL season kicks off tonight at 8:30 PM for those of you on the East Coast. The defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers face off against the up-and-coming Miami Dolphins sans everyone's favorite punch line, Ricky Williams.

Continuing the growing tradition of fantasy games on Newsvine, we proudly announce today the release of the Newsvine Hi-Lo Football Challenge. Yes we know you're already in 15 fantasy football leagues, but this isn't an ordinary league.