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4E Mitch Albom; Nicholas J. Cotsonika; Drew Sharp Free Press sports writers THE DEN Copyright (c) 2008, Detroit Free Press THE PICKS Sports writers Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL's winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.) THE GAMES TIME/DAY TV ALBOM COTSONIKA SHARP Detroit 3 over ATLANTA 1:00 Sunday Fox (Channel 2) Detroit Detroit Detroit N.Y. GIANTS 4 over Washington Thursday night - Washington Washington N.Y. Giants PITTSBURGH 6 1/2 over Houston 1:00 Sunday - Houston Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PHILADELPHIA 7 1/2 over St. Louis 1:00 Sunday - Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia N.Y. Jets 3 over MIAMI 1:00 Sunday CBS (Channel 62) N.Y. Jets N.Y. Jets N.Y. Jets NEW ORLEANS 3 over Tampa Bay 1:00 Sunday - New Orleans Tampa Bay New Orleans NEW ENGLAND/Kansas City, no line 1:00 Sunday - - - - Jacksonville 3 over TENNESSEE 1:00 Sunday - Jacksonville Jacksonville Jacksonville Cincinnati 1 over BALTIMORE 1:00 Sunday - Cincinnati Baltimore Cincinnati BUFFALO 1 over Seattle 1:00 Sunday - Seattle Buffalo Buffalo Arizona 2 1/2 over SAN FRANCISCO 4:15 Sunday - San Francisco Arizona Arizona SAN DIEGO 9 over Carolina 4:15 Sunday - Carolina Carolina Carolina Dallas 5 1/2 over CLEVELAND 4:15 Sunday Fox (Channel 2) Dallas Dallas Cleveland INDIANAPOLIS 9 1/2 over Chicago 8:15 Sunday NBC (Channel 4) Chicago Indianapolis Chicago GREEN BAY 2 1/2 over Minnesota 7:00 Monday ESPN Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Denver 3 over OAKLAND 10:15 Monday ESPN Oakland Denver Oakland 2007 regular season total - - 122-120-12 118-124-12 113-129-12 - THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED ARTICLE football; forecast