0000661231 DETROIT FREE PRESS 081219 Friday, December 19, 2008 METRO FINAL

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6C MITCH ALBOM, NICHOLAS J. COTSONIKA and DREW SHARP Free Press sports columnists 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 New Orleans 7 over DETROIT 1:00 Sunday Blacked out locally Detroit New Orleans Detroit Indianapolis 6 over JACKSONVILLE Thursday night NFL Network Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis DALLAS 4 over Baltimore 8:15 Saturday NFL Network Baltimore Dallas Baltimore CLEVELAND 2 1/2 over Cincinnati 1:00 Sunday - Cleveland Cleveland Cincinnati Miami 4 over KANSAS CITY 1:00 Sunday - Miami Miami Miami MINNESOTA 3 1/2 over Atlanta 1:00 Sunday Fox (Channel 2) Atlanta Minnesota Minnesota NEW ENGLAND 7 1/2 over Arizona 1:00 Sunday - New England New England Arizona Philadelphia 5 over WASHINGTON 1:00 Sunday - Philadelphia Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh 2 over TENNESSEE 1:00 Sunday CBS (Channel 62) Tennessee Pittsburgh Pittsburgh San Francisco 5 1/2 over ST. LOUIS 1:00 Sunday - San Francisco St. Louis San Francisco TAMPA BAY 3 1/2 over San Diego 1:00 Sunday - Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Tampa Bay DENVER 6 1/2 over Buffalo 4:05 Sunday - Denver Buffalo Denver Houston 7 over OAKLAND 4:05 Sunday - Houston Houston Houston N.Y. Jets 4 1/2 over SEATTLE 4:05 Sunday - N.Y. Jets N.Y. Jets N.Y. Jets N.Y. GIANTS 3 over Carolina 8:15 Sunday NBC (Channel 4) Carolina N.Y. Giants Carolina CHICAGO 4 over Green Bay 8:30 Monday ESPN Chicago Chicago Chicago Last week - - 4-8-2 6-6-2 5-7-2 Season total (without Thu. game) - - 108-102-6 114-96-6 110-100-6 THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED ARTICLE football