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The streak of weeks over .500 has hit two! The season total Color Rush Nate Solder Jersey , still not so much. We’ll get there, maybe.Remember these picks are strictly for fun and entertainment purposes and please for your sake do not take these picks as gambling advice. Lines used here come from the Westgate Las Vegas via OddsShark. Home team in CAPS.Philadelphia (-3) over GIANTSGo here for an explanation.[Update: this was a win]Arizona (+10.5) over MINNESOTAMinnesota has been surprisingly disappointing on defense and it’s cost them a few games. Arizona is finally coming around on defense — eighth in DVOA — whether the coaching is coming around to the talent on hand or that talent is starting to succeed in spite of the coaching. Josh Rosen has been impressive in his brief stint a starting quarterback and while the Cardinals probably don’t win, maybe they can keep it a little closer than expected.HOUSTON (-9.5) over BuffaloI don’t trust Bill O’Brien and the Texans to be favored by almost double digits against anyone, but I trust whatever is going on in Buffalo even less, even with their two weird wins this season. Flaws of quarterback rating aside, Josh Allen is the league’s second-lowest-rated passer inside the pocket and the lowest-rated-passer outside the pocket. He’s been sacked on 13.5 percent of his drop backs and he’s going up against J.J. Watt, Jadaveon Clowney, and the rest of the Houston defensive line. ATLANTA (-3.5) over Tampa BayThese two teams are basically different versions of the same thing. Atlanta ranks 11th in offensive DVOA and 31st in defensive DVOA. Tampa Bay is eighth on offense and 32nd on defense. What we don’t really know yet, though, is what the Tampa Bay offense looks like now with Jameis Winston at quarterback. It was never going to sustain its Ryan Fitzpatrick levels, so the change had to be made, but if the offense can’t keep up the high scoring efforts, they won’t have a chance against the Falcons.WASHINGTON (-1) over CarolinaWashington’s Monday night performance in New Orleans was鈥?something. Heading into the game, Washington had been an efficient offense and a really good defense. Neither was the case on Monday. But there is a three-game sample of that being the case and a four-game sample of Carolina being just fine. I’ll take the larger sample of good, but who knows.[Sunday morning update: With Washington’s injuries, changing this pick and using the Sunday morning line of Carolina (-1)]. Indianapolis (+2.5) over JETSThe Colts will be without T.Y. Hilton and Jack Doyle against the Jets, but without them, they were still able to put up 24 points against the Patriots last week. The Jets are a much better defense than the Patriots — sixth in DVOA to 19th — but the Colts also have a surprisingly good defense — 13th in DVOA — that can hold a Jets offense that has struggled this season. CINCINNATI (-2.5) over PittsburghPittsburgh finally looked like Pittsburgh against Atlanta, but they haven’t looked like that at any other point in the season. And in a sentence I didn’t think would be written at any point in 2018, the Bengals are a better team than the Falcons. Cincinnati has a legitimately good offense and a defense that’s coming along with pieces to like. With this game in Cincinnati, we can give the advantage to the Bengals.Chargers (-1) over CLEVELANDThe Browns are No. 2 in defensive DVOA. Let that sink in for a second. They’ve been able to get pressure and the coverage has been excellent — especially rookie Denzel Ward. However, they have a league-worst special teams unit and an offense that has promise with Baker Mayfield but is still a work in progress. The Chargers defense is improving and they still have one of the best offenses in the league. Chicago (-3) over MIAMIOver the first few weeks of the season, Miami crept out to a good start but the team has started to show its true level over the pas few weeks. The defense is still top five by DVOA, but it was picked apart by the Patriots and Bengals over the past two weeks. We’ll see if Chicago can keep up the offensive power they showed against the Buccaneers in Week 4. It’s hard to expect the Dolphins offense to do nearly enough against the Bears defense if that is the case.Seattle (-3) over OAKLANDSeahawks-Rams games are always strange. Years ago it was the Rams who would play spoiler when the Seahawks were the clear better team, but last week it was the other way around. Overall Seattle has been fine. The defense has flashes and the offense does too when there’s time. Oakland has been a mess pretty much all season and in no way would I ever feel comfortable taking them, even at home.Rams (-7) over DENVERThe Rams are so very good at football. Even if they’re without Copper Kupp or Brandin Cooks or both, they still have capable receivers to fill in like Josh Reynolds, who would probably see more time on the field for just about any other team in the league.A not 100 percent Rams team is still probably the best team in the league.Baltimore (-3) over TENNESSEEAs confusing as Baltimore’s overtime loss to Cleveland was Youth Evan Engram Jersey , no team has been more confusing this season than the Tennessee Titans. At times they’ve been quite good and others — like a 13-12 loss to Buffalo — they’ve been quite bad. The Ravens have the been unit by far in this game — a great defense — which should give them the advantage in this game.Jacksonville (-3) over DALLASOne team has Blake Bortles as the quarterback and an injured No. 4 overall pick and that’s not the team with players revolting over how poor the offense has played this season. That would be the Cowboys, who have been calling out scheme and play-calling. Not ideal. Jacksonville’s defense hasn’t been as good as it was last season, but it’s plenty good enough to stop the Cowboys from scoring points.Kansas City (+3.5) over NEW ENGLANDAll we should hope for is this game to be super fun. It has that potential. This game kind of has to be a shootout for the Chiefs to win — they’re second in offensive DVOA and 28th on defense — but they should be able to pull that out. New England’s defense has been better than it was last year, though they’ve yet to face something as schematically sound as the Kansas City offense.GREEN BAY (-9.5) over San FranciscoI don’t feel particularly good about this. It’s either a frustratingly underperforming Packers team or a a 49ers team led by C.J. Beathard and without Matt Brieda. This is a bet on Aaron Rodgers against a young San Francisco defense that’s 25th in points allowed per drive.Last week: 8-7Season: 34-40-4 Jim Taylor, the ferocious Hall of Fame fullback who embodied the Green Bay Packers' unstoppable ground game during the Vince Lombardi era and helped the team win four NFL titles and the first Super Bowl, died Saturday. He was 83.He died unexpectedly at a hospital in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the team said.Taylor played on the great Packer teams and was the league's MVP in 1962. He scored the first rushing touchdown in Super Bowl history."He was a gritty, classic player on the Lombardi teams and a key figure of those great championship runs," Packers President Mark Murphy said of the player who left his mark on "multiple generations of Packers fans."Taylor was voted into the Hall in 1976. David Baker, president of the Hall, lauded Taylor for not only personifying Lombardi's "run to daylight" philosophy but for living his life as he played game, with "passion, determination and love for all he did."Taylor spent 10 seasons in the NFL after being drafted in the second round out of LSU in 1958. He joined a backfield that featured Paul Hornung and began to thrive when Lombardi took over in 1959.Lombardi devised the Packers' "Sweep," which featured pulling guards Jerry Kramer and Fuzzy Thurston clearing the path for Taylor or Hornung running around the end. The 6-foot, 216-pound Taylor best fulfilled the play's punishing effectiveness, a workhorse always charging forward, dragging would-be tacklers along."He taught me lots of character, and virtues, and principles," Taylor said of Lombardi, with whom he occasionally feuded, in a 2001 interview with the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "He established a caliber of football that he felt like would be championship."In 1960, Taylor ran for 1,101 yards, topping Tony Canadeo's franchise mark of 1,052 yards in 1949. It was just the beginning. He Taylor ran for five straight 1,000-yard seasons from 1960-64 and led the Packers seven consecutive times in rushing.In 1961 Youth Will Hernandez Jersey , Taylor ran for 1,307 yards and scored an NFL-best 15 touchdowns as the Packers rolled to a 37-0 victory over the Giants in Green Bay for Lombardi's first title.The next year would be Taylor's finest. He ran for 1,474 yards and 19 TDs in 14 games, and scored the only touchdown in the Packers' 16-7 victory over the New York Giants for the second of his four titles.Taylor said that season, when Green Bay finished 13-1 in the regular season, stood out for him."Being voted the MVP of the league in 1962 is something that I look back and cherish," Taylor said. "I felt like I accomplished and achieved my goal."The 1962 title game pitted the Packers and the Giants, this time in New York, and was played in 40 mph winds and 13-degree temperatures at Yankee Stadium.Taylor was at his toughest, picking up 85 yards on 31 carries against the vaunted Giants defense featuring linebacker Sam Huff. Taylor sustained a gash to his elbow that required seven stitches at halftime and cut his tongue during the game."If Taylor went up to get a program, Huff was supposed to hit him. Wherever Taylor went, Huff went with him," Kramer told The Associated Press in 2008. "I remember sitting next to Jimmy on the way home and he had his topcoat on. He never took it off. He had it over his shoulder and the guy was shivering almost all the way home. He just got the hell beat out of him that day."That game was one of several that helped launch pro football into the television era, and Taylor's contributions to the Packers endured.Taylor, also a member of the 1965 title team, finished his Packers career after the 1966 season as the franchise's all-time leading rusher and held single-season marks for yards and TDs. He also scored the Super Bowl's first rushing touchdown when the Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the inaugural championship game between the NFL and AFL.But his yardage tailed off sharply in 1966 and he was openly resentful of the high salaries paid to newcomers Donny Anderson and Jim Grabowski. Taylor played his final season with the expansion New Orleans Saints.His 1,474-yard mark from 1962 stood for 41 years until Ahman Green broke it in 2003. Green went on to break the franchise's all-time rushing mark in 2009.In college, Taylor stayed home to attend LSU, where he lettered in the 1956 and 1957 seasons. He was a first-team All-American during his second season, when he also became teammates with Billy Cannon, who died last May. Taylor led Southeastern Conference in scoring with 59 points in 1956."With the ball under his arm, Jimmy Taylor is the finest player I have ever seen," then-LSU coach Paul Dietzel said.Taylor retired to Baton Rouge and remained close to the LSU football program. He was inducted in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.He was a familiar presence at LSU football and basketball games. Athletic director Joe Alleva called Taylor the "ultimate LSU guy" who "bled purple and gold as well as Green Bay green and gold."Taylor was often compared to his contemporary, Cleveland's Jim Brown, but Lombardi had different views on two of the most punishing running backs in the league at the time."Jim Brown will give you that leg (to tackle) and then take it away from you," Lombardi said. "Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest."AP Sports Writer Brett Martel in Baton Rouge contributed to this report.