The long national nightmare is over! Ok, so it wasn't national. It was mainly centered in Michigan. Either way, Matt Millen has been fired! Now, the question is who will be the replacement? And how long will it take to undo what Millen did? Anyway, on to last week's results.

• Kansas City 14, Atlanta 38 (-5.5) (36.5 O/U)
• Oakland 23, Buffalo 24 (-9.5) (36.5 O/U)
• Tampa Bay 27, Chicago 24 (-3) (35.5 O/U)
• Carolina 10, Minnesota 20 (-3.5) (37.5 O/U)
• Miami* 38, New England 13 (-12.5) (36 O/U): Whoops! Maybe Belichick found the one position that he can't just plug anyone in.
• Cincinnati* 23, New York Giants 26 (-13) (41.5 O/U)
• Houston 12, Tennessee 31 (-5) (39 O/U):
• Arizona 17, Washington 24 (-3) (42.5 O/U)
• New Orleans 32, Denver 34 (-5.5) (51 O/U)
• Detroit 13, San Francisco 31 (-4) (46.5 O/U): So Detroit's improving. They were only down 21-3 at half time, rather than the 21-0 of the last week. Of course, they didn't quite mount the comeback they did the week before either. Oh yeah - I heard that while everyone else went home for the bye week (yay! No loss this week!), Drew Stanton stuck around. Could Kitna be the first Millen aftershock victim?
• St. Louis* 13, Seattle 37 (-9.5) (43.5 O/U)
• Cleveland 10, Baltimore 28 (-2) (38.5 O/U)
• Jacksonville 23, Indianapolis 21 (-5) (41.5 O/U)
• Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 15 (-3.5) (44.5 O/U)
• Dallas 27 (-3), Green Bay 16 (51.5 O/U)
• New York Jets* 29, San Diego 48 (-9) (44 O/U): This was a good game. It's just too bad neither team brought their defensive squads with them. 77 combined points? San Diego hit the over/under by themselves!

Results Summary

• Picks (this week / season): 11 - 5 / 29 - 18
• Spread (this week / season ): 8 - 8 / 23 - 23
• Over/Under (this week / season): 11 - 5 / 24 - 22

Overall, I'm not doing too bad with my picks. However, with the way payouts work, I'd still be down overall. You have to do seriously well with picks to make any money - something in the neighborhood of 70% correct with picks. I'm not quite there! Anyway, here's next weeks picks.

• Atlanta vs. Carolina (-7) (39.5 O/U)
• Cleveland vs. Cincinnati (-3.5) (44.5 O/U): Is it too early to call this game meaningless? I mean, to the people of Ohio, I'm sure it's a vital game, but will a win (or loss) have any playoff implications down the line? Label me skeptical.
• Houston vs. Jacksonville (-7.5) (42 O/U)
• Denver (-9.5) vs. Kansas City* (46.5 O/U): Denver could be a dominant team - if they had a defense anywhere as good as their offense.
• San Francisco vs. New Orleans (-5.5) (48 O/U)
• Arizona vs. New York Jets (-1.5) (45 O/U)
• Green Bay vs. Tampa Bay (-1) (42.5 O/U)
• Minnesota vs. Tennessee (-3) (36 O/U): Picking Tennessee worked out well last week. We'll try it again (plus it keeps James off my back!).
• San Diego (-7.5) vs. Oakland (45.5 O/U)
• Buffalo (-8) vs. St. Louis (42 O/U)
• Washington* vs. Dallas (-11) (46 O/U)
• Philadelphia (-3) vs. Chicago (41 O/U)
• Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh (-6.5) (34.5 O/U)

Check back next week for results, and a new set of picks.

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