It"s October, when this column traditionally limits the weekly NFL preview to two sentences per game blurb because it"s been paying attention to the baseball playoffs and ignoring football.
The question is which team is ready to break out. The answer: Let me talk about my energy policy.
I always say this method leads to a better record in October than in other months, but I think really it just happened once in about 2003 and I"ve been joking about it ever since. I hate to have a beautiful schtick ruined by ugly facts, so I don"t want to check.
But it"s time for change. I"ve been able to stay current on the NFL by regularly reading newspapers and magazines. I"ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. I have a vast variety of sources where I get my news.
So here are the Week 5 picks, with full freedom of speech, and the picks of Buster, the game-pickinest 5-year-old in the Lower 48, and Daisy, the coin-flippinest 3-year-old who ever bagged a moose, included. They take all favorites of six points or more.
| Week Five | |||||||
| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Cincinnati | Baltimore |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Cleveland | Buffalo |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Washington | Carolina |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Pittsburgh | Detroit |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Dallas | Kansas City |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Oakland | NY Giants |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Tampa Bay | Philadelphia |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 1:00 p.m. |
Minnesota | St. Louis |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 4:05 p.m. |
Atlanta | San Francisco |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 4:15 p.m. |
Houston | Arizona |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 4:15 p.m. |
New England | Denver |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 4:15 p.m. |
Jacksonville | Seattle |
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| Sunday | October 11 | 8:20 p.m. |
Indianapolis | Tennessee |
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| Monday | October 12 | 8:30 p.m. |
NY Jets | Miami |
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