Week 10 Picks - What Happens Now?

Week 9 proved a few things.

- New Orleans will win the NFC South. With the Panthers having to possibly turn to Matt Moore at QB this week, and the Bucs looking uneven, even in their victories, New Orleans, on a 4-game win streak, is taking no prisoners on their way back to the top. The Saints may be as equipped to win the NFC as anybody if they continue playing that well, and they were almost unanimously picked to win the conference for a reason.

- Pittsburgh might be more of a threat than we thought. Not to say the Steelers would beat either the Colts or Patriots if the teams played - far from it - but boy, did they look impressive in beating down the Ravens on MNF last week. Ben Roethlisberger is playing as well as anyone in the league right now, and a Steelers vs Colts/Patriots divisional playoff could be mildly entertaining.

- The Patriots are much, much better than the rest of the league - including the Colts. Yes, you read that correctly. Yes, it was a 4-point game. But, consider: the Colts may have been missing Harrison, but he's been the Colts' second-best wideout for some time, and his absence only had so much affect. Consider that the referees were so abysmally bad in favor of the Colts that new world records for Tim Donaghy jokes were set during the game. And consider that the almighty, heavenly, God-fearing, Christian Colts probably cheated by piping in crowd noise. (Oh, CBS took the fall for them, but don't believe for a second that the network was actually responsible.) Read this article to read more about it - I missed some of the game so I couldn't tell you as well as Bill.

Now, here are my week 10 picks - I went 9-5 against the spread last week.

Cleveland (+9.5) over PITTSBURGH (Steelers win, but Cleveland covers)
GREEN BAY (-6) over Minnesota
WASHINGTON (-3) over Philadelphia
TENNESSEE (-4) over Jacksonville
CAROLINA (-4) over Atlanta (even with Matt Moore)
KANSAS CITY (-3) over Denver
Buffalo (-3) over MIAMI
NEW ORLEANS (-11.5) over St. Louis
Cincinnati (+4) over BALTIMORE
Chicago (-3.5) over OAKLAND
NY GIANTS (+1.5) over Dallas (hunch)
Detroit (+1) over ARIZONA (most ridiculous line I've ever seen. Ever.)
Indianapolis (-3.5) over SAN DIEGO
SEATTLE (-10) over San Francisco