{"id":736,"date":"2006-11-18T23:01:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2006-11-18T23:01:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T04:01:58","slug":"jetnation-week-11-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2006\/11\/18\/jetnation-week-11-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"JetNation Week 11 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jetnation.com\/graphics\/header\/jnlogo.gif\" align=\"left\" \/>By Nick Ferraro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0 Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; <strong>Year to Date<\/strong>: The season starts Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking a Mulligan on this season.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to change tactics, reorganize, and refocus.\u00c2\u00a0 No more will I attempt to handicap the unhandicappable.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I just created a new word in the English language \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unhandicappable.\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to use that one; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not copywriting it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying is: I am tired of trying to decode which unpredictable team will play <!--more-->well in a meaningless game. Who knows if teams like the Bills will cover against a team like the Cardinals, or if the enigmatic Texans will cover against a schizophrenic team like the Lions, and more importantly, who cares?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 From this point forward you only get the best \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a shorter list of picks focused only on the games and teams that can actually be figured out.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are Week Eleven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bengals at Saints (-3)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bengals have dropped their last three while allowing an average of 35 points per game.\u00c2\u00a0 They are now 1-5 after opening the season 3-0.\u00c2\u00a0 Their confidence, especially on defense, has to be at rock bottom, and their monumental collapse last week at home against San Diego has to affect them this week in New Orleans.\u00c2\u00a0 There is nothing worse than taking your act on the road after a loss like that.\u00c2\u00a0 The Saints will find the many holes in the Bengal defense, and the Saint\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 7th-rated defense against the pass will play well enough to hold down Palmer and company.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Saints 36 Bengals 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chargers at Broncos (-2.5)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Chargers made a historic comeback in Cincinnati last week and have to come into this game on a high.\u00c2\u00a0 The comeback, however, hides and important question: where has the Charger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defense gone?\u00c2\u00a0 The Bolts have allowed 30 points per game over their last four contests.\u00c2\u00a0 The anemic Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even notched 25 on them at San Diego.\u00c2\u00a0 Injuries and suspensions have stripped the Bolts down up front.\u00c2\u00a0 Denver has struggled offensively, but they will find running room against the depleted Charger front.\u00c2\u00a0 The Broncos have beaten San Diego in six of their last seven matchups.\u00c2\u00a0 They have been able to contain Tomlinson, and put the focus on a weak receiving core for the Bolts.\u00c2\u00a0 That formula will produce another win in surprisingly easy fashion for the Broncos on Sunday night.<br \/>\n<strong>Broncos 28 Chargers 13<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Ferraro Last Week:\u00c2\u00a0 Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; Year to Date: The season starts Sunday! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking a Mulligan on this season.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to change tactics, reorganize, and refocus.\u00c2\u00a0 No more will I attempt to handicap the unhandicappable.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I just created a new word in the English language \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unhandicappable.\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free [&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-736","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-bS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}