What made last week's loss by Kansas City even more painful? In my Yahoo picks pool (where we don't pick against the spread but assign each game confidence points), I picked 11/14 games correctly last week. Denver over Oakland, Chicago over Philly, Arizona over St. Louis, the Giants over New England? Got all of those right. But my suicide pool pick shat the bed.

(Before the game, Daytrader told me it was a bad pick because it was a trap game. But was it any more of a trap game than, say, Dallas against Seattle or San Fransisco against Washington , both of whom won last week? Of course not. Trap games, as Aaron Schatz has shown, don't actually exist. At least, that is what I tell myself to get to sleep now.)

Anyway, just because I've been eliminated doesn't mean I can't continue to vicariously enjoy participation in the pool by making suggestions to you, the reader.

Teams used: Arizona, Detroit, Tennessee, Tampa Bay, NY Giants, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Baltimore, Kansas City

Philadelphia over Arizona: Well, if I didn't get eliminated last week, it just might happen this week. There are only two match ups against a winning team vs. a losing team this week: Packers vs. Vikings, and Ravens at Seahawks. I've already used the Ravens, and Vikings vs. Packers is a divisional matchup. So that leaves us to pick against a winning team, or for a losing team. Philadelphia is the most attractive of the losing teams. There really isn't that much else to say this week, unless you want to take Jacksonville on the road at Indy or Cleveland hosting St. Louis.

The pick: Philadelphia