{"id":659,"date":"2006-09-29T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2006-09-29T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T17:35:07","slug":"week-four-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2006\/09\/29\/week-four-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Four Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Nick Ferraro<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week<br \/>\n<\/strong>Straight: 7-7-1<br \/>\nSpread: 3-11-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year to Date<br \/>\n<\/strong>Straight: 24-20-1<br \/>\nSpread: 16-28-1<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that was miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 Just when you think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hit rock bottom, somebody moves the rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been able to pick my nose thus far, but the good news is you can just go against me and win easy.<\/p>\n<p>I am hopeful that week four will be the beginning of a long climb back to the Mendoza line.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not giving up on 2006 just yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colts (-9) at Jets<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, the Colts are better, but this is too many points.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jags beat up the Colts physically despite losing last week.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking that helps the Jets stay close.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nColts 30 Jets 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chargers (-2.5) at Ravens<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Who is for Real Bowl is in Baltimore on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 I think San Diego is the real deal.<br \/>\nChargers 26 Ravens 10<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Vikings at Bills (-1)<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like either of these teams very much, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going with the home team.<br \/>\nBills 17 Vikings 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cowboys (-9.5) at Titans<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Titans seem to have just enough desire and talent to prevent the blowout.\u00c2\u00a0 They keep this one close as well. Cowboys 24 Titans 17<\/p>\n<p><strong>49ers at Chiefs (-7)<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Chiefs played well in losing at Denver.\u00c2\u00a0 They got an extra week to get Damon Huard more prepared to play.\u00c2\u00a0 The Niners lost two important offensive weapons to injury last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Chiefs 30 49ers 14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saints at Panthers (-7)<\/strong><br \/>\nI haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen anything from the Panthers yet to make me think they can beat anyone by more than seven points. Panthers 21 Saints 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardinals at Falcons (-7)<br \/>\n<\/strong>It will take the Cards an extra week to get over that brutal loss to the Rams.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nFalcons 31 Cardinals 14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolphins (-3.5) at Texans<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Fins escape act against the Titans at home didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t impress me enough to lay points on the road.\u00c2\u00a0 Texans 24 Dolphins 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lions at Rams (-5.5)<br \/>\n<\/strong>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to take the Lions on the road after losing at home to the Packers.<br \/>\nRams 20 Lions 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patriots at Bengals (-6)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bengals will be flying high for this one after the win in Pittsburgh.\u00c2\u00a0 The Pats have serious issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Bengals 34 Patriots 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaguars (-3) at Redskins<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Jaguars are just better.\u00c2\u00a0 Jaguars 21 Redskins 7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Browns (-2.5) at Raiders<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Raiders stink, but do you really want to lay points with the Browns on the road?<br \/>\nRaiders 16 Browns 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seahawks at Bears (-3.5)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bears will dominate at home against the Seahawks without Alexander.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nBears 33 Seahawks 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Packers at Eagles (-11) (Mon.)<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Packer offensive line will have a tough time against the league\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deepest defensive line.\u00c2\u00a0 Eagles 35 Packers 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nick Ferraro\u00c2\u00a0 Last Week Straight: 7-7-1 Spread: 3-11-1 Year to Date Straight: 24-20-1 Spread: 16-28-1 Okay, that was miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 Just when you think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hit rock bottom, somebody moves the rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been able to pick my nose thus far, but the good news is you can just go against me and win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nick-ferraro","7":"category-predictions"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-aD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}