The title of last week’s picks column was “talking ourselves off the Jaguars and fading primetime Kirk Cousins.” Whoops!
Cousins wasn’t great, but did enough to beat the Patriots even on a day where his defense allowed Mac by-god Jones to throw for nearly 400 yards. Jacksonville, on the other hand, got out-gained by nearly 100 yards against the Baltimore Ravens, wisely opted to go for two late in a one-point game and was rewarded by the football gods with a win.
That dampered our hit rate, though Robert Zeglinski was able to rise above the muck and deliver an 11-5 week that tied him for the lead among our three-man panel. In response, I … am fading Kirk Cousins again.
In what is likely an overreaction to Mike White carving up a bad Chicago Bears team, I’ve got the New York Jets winning in Minneapolis this week. Otherwise, it’s a long slate of home underdogs in 50/50 games (or 60/40, in the case of Chiefs-Bengals). That means I’m probably looking down another .500-ish week — but at least it gives me something to talk about.
Here are our expert (“expert”) straight-up picks for Week 13:
| Game | Christian | Robert | Charles |
| Bills at Patriots | Bills | Bills | Bills |
| Broncos at Ravens | Ravens | Ravens | Ravens |
| Packers at Bears | Packers | Packers | Packers |
| Commanders at Giants | Giants | Commanders | Commanders |
| Jaguars at Lions | Lions | Jaguars | Lions |
| Jets at Vikings | Jets | Vikings | Vikings |
| Browns at Texans | Browns | Browns | Browns |
| Steelers at Falcons | Falcons | Falcons | Falcons |
| Titans at Eagles | Eagles | Eagles | Eagles |
| Dolphins at 49ers | 49ers | Dolphins | 49ers |
| Seahawks at Rams | Seahawks | Seahawks | Seahawks |
| Chiefs at Bengals | Bengals | Chiefs | Chiefs |
| Chargers at Raiders | Raiders | Raiders | Chargers |
| Colts at Cowboys | Cowboys | Cowboys | Cowboys |
| Saints at Buccaneers | Bucs | Bucs | Bucs |
| Last week: | 9-7 | 11-5 | 8-8 |
| Year to date: | 110-69-1 | 110-69-1 | 97-82-1 |
And here are those selections in a better-formatted screenshot of our actual picks sheet, which unfortunately struggles to translate to our editing software.
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