0000648769 DETROIT FREE PRESS 081114 Friday, November 14, 2008 METRO FINAL

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8C MITCH ALBOM, NICHOLAS J. COTSONIKA and DREW SHARP Free Press staff 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 CAROLINA 14 over Detroit 1:00 Sunday Fox (Channel 2) Carolina Carolina Detroit NEW ENGLAND 3 over N.Y. Jets Thursday night - New England N.Y. Jets New England ATLANTA 6 1/2 over Denver 1:00 Sunday - Atlanta Denver Denver GREEN BAY 3 1/2 over Chicago 1:00 Sunday - Chicago Green Bay Green Bay INDIANAPOLIS 8 over Houston 1:00 Sunday - Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis MIAMI 10 1/2 over Oakland 1:00 Sunday - Miami Miami Oakland N.Y. GIANTS 7 over Baltimore 1:00 Sunday CBS (Channel 62) N.Y. Giants N.Y. Giants N.Y. Giants New Orleans 5 1/2 over KANSAS CITY 1:00 Sunday - New Orleans New Orleans Kansas City Philadelphia 9 over CINCINNATI 1:00 Sunday - Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia TAMPA BAY 4 over Minnesota 1:00 Sunday - Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Minnesota Arizona 3 over SEATTLE 4:05 Sunday - Arizona Arizona Arizona SAN FRANCISCO 6 1/2 over St. Louis 4:05 Sunday - San Francisco San Francisco St. Louis PITTSBURGH 5 over San Diego 4:15 Sunday CBS (Channel 62) Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Tennessee 3 over JACKSONVILLE 4:15 Sunday - Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Dallas 1 1/2 over WASHINGTON 8:15 Sunday NBC (Channel 4) Dallas Washington Washington BUFFALO 5 over Cleveland 8:30 Monday ESPN Cleveland Buffalo Buffalo Last week - - 9-4 7-6 12-1 Season total (without Thu. game) - - 73-63-4 74-62-4 79-57-4 THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED ARTICLE football; Lions