I honestly do have things other than football going on in my life right now. I just haven't felt like writing about anything else lately. But just for the sake of keeping a little variety - I recently became a GameSpot moderator, which is pretty cool. There's a lot of information to process, and it's not really as cut & dry as I thought it would be, but I'll get the hang of it. I also decided to change the scenery around here a bit and put up a new banner. That's SHODAN from the System Shock series, if you didn't know. Really amazing games, by the way. But if you don't really enjoy playing older games, you might want to keep your eyes on BioShock. It's multi-platform and it's being developed by the same visionaries behind System Shock 2. Anyway, here are my picks:

Carolina @ Tampa Bay Chicago @ Minnesota Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh Green Bay @ Detroit Jacksonville @ Indianapolis - best game this week NY Jets @ Buffalo Tennessee @ Miami Washington @ Houston Baltimore @ Cleveland NY Giants @ Seattle Philadelphia @ San Francisco St. Louis @ Arizona Denver @ New England Atlanta @ New Orleans

The Falcons/Saints game should be a good one as well. It'll definitely be the biggest challenge Atlanta has faced so far this season, but I don't know if there's a defense in the league that will be able to hold out for four quarters against that running game. Granted, as the season goes on people will devise containment options. But I think the Falcons' biggest problem is getting points up on the board... They can put together incredible drives, but far too many end without a score. Mort Andersen coming back should be a big help.