Week 16 Picks: Un-Sexy Rexy

It was starting to feel like it had been a while since those New York Jets had made some of the league's biggest headlines off the field, but the team—the head coach, no less—sure made up for lost time this week. Never mind that Rex Ryan's team is still fighting for a playoff spot and comes into Chicago this weekend to play our local NFC North Division Champion Bears, who are also still playing for something—namely a first round bye in the playoffs.

And fortunately for us, in addition to, you know, the actual game of football, we're likely going to have some hilarious signs to be keeping an eye out for in the crowd. Assuming, of course, CBS is willing to show them.

Oh, and there's the 15 other games this week, one of which has already occurred as of this writing and was the total mismatch many of us expected. The question, as always, is which game will come back to bite me everyone else in the ass and help determine this week's pool winner.

Seeing as it's Christmas and all, I'm not expecting the usual pair of Yahoo and Wunderdog to really change their picks too significantly before tomorrow, so here's how the five hypotheticals looked as of 2:15 CST (also, if the spacing is fucked up on these pre-game helmets, it's just going to have to wait until after the games to be fixed ... I've got other things to do today, you know):

PFW Spread	Yahoo Users	Wunderdog	Brian Burke	My Numbers
16 (14)	16 (99%)	16 (26-11)	16 (.93)	16 (191)
15 (13 ½)	15 (97%)	15 (29-17)	15 (.86)	15 (154)
14 (10)	14 (96%)	14 (27-17)	14 (.81)	14 (119)
13 (7 ½)	11.5 (94%)	13 (28-19)	13 (.78)	13 (94)
11.5 (6 ½)	11.5 (94%)	12 (26-20)	12 (.76)	12 (92)
11.5 (6 ½)	11.5 (94%)	11 (26-20)	11 (.71)	11 (66)
10 (6)	11.5 (94%)	10 (25-19)	10 (.65)	10 (64)
9 (5)	9 (91%)	9 (22-18)	9 (.62)	9 (47)
8 (3 ½)	8 (84%)	8 (26-23)	8 (.60)	8 (44)
5.5 (3)	7 (83%)	7 (22-18)	7 (.58)	7 (40)
5.5 (3)	6 (77%)	6 (23-20)	5.5 (.57)	6 (8)
5.5 (3)	5 (74%)	5 (22-20)	5.5 (.57)	5 (8)
5.5 (3)	4 (70%)	4 (19-18)	4 (.56)	4 (6)
2 (2 ½)	3 (63%)	3 (24-24)	3 (.55)	3 (5)
2 (2 ½)	2 (57%)	2 (19-19)	1.5 (.54)	2 (0)
2 (2 ½)	1 (55%)	1 (24-24)	1.5 (.54)	1 (0)
68 points (8-8)	75 points (8-8)	63 points (8-8)	67 points (8-8)	71 points (7-9)

And here's how my picks will look for Week 16:

16 points

Pittsburgh Steelers (10-4) over Carolina Panthers (2-12)

+42/-12 : +172/191/-19 : -7/+130

15 points

Philadelphia Eagles (10-4) over Minnesota Vikings (5-9)

+37/+4 : +91/66/+25 : +21/+54

14 points

San Diego Chargers (8-6) over Cincinnati Bengals (3-11)

+19/+1 : +113/119/-6 : -7/+94

13 points

New England Patriots (12-2) over Buffalo Bills (4-10)

+60/-13 : +141/154/-13 : 0/+81

12 points

Miami Dolphins (7-7) over Detroit Lions (4-10)

-11/-26 : +69/94/-25 : +1/+80



11 points
Baltimore Ravens (10-4) over Cleveland Browns (5-9)

+77/-6 : +92/92/0 : +6/+15



10 points
Dallas Cowboys (5-9) over Arizona Cardinals (4-10)

-24/+6 : +16/6/+22 : +16/+40



9 points
Houston Texans (5-9) over Denver Broncos (3-11)
+1/+31 : +60/64/+4 : -27/+59

8 points
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-6) over Seattle Seahawks (6-8)
+8/+16 : +26/8/+34 : +18/+18



7 points
Jacksonville Jaguars (8-6) over Washington Redskins (5-9)
+7/+30 : +6/0/+6 : -24/-1



6 points
Kansas City Chiefs (9-5) over Tennessee Titans (6-8)
+57/+7 : +53/47/+6 : -1/-4

5 points

Indianapolis Colts (8-6) over Oakland Raiders (7-7)

+40/+5 : +74/44/+30 : +25/+34

4 points

Green Bay Packers (8-6) over New York Giants (9-5)

+37/0 : +41/0/+41 : +41/+4

3 points

Atlanta Falcons (12-2) over New Orleans Saints (10-4)

+84/-7 : +76/5/+71 : +78/-8

2 points
St. Louis Rams (6-8) over San Francisco 49ers (5-9)

+13/+22 : +64/40/+24 : +2/+51

1 point

Chicago Bears (10-4) over New York Jets (10-4)

+33/-21 : +18/8/+26 : +47/-15