NFL Picks, Week 7: Predictions For Every Game

Peter King at SI.com predicts a Titans’ win.

ESPN’s panel is split evenly at four picks for each team. CBS’ panel is split on picking a winner too.

Atlanta has yet to score more than 15 points against opponents with a .500 or better record. Needless to say, that isn’t how they envisioned the season starting. A win in Detroit would put them back on track.

Peter King goes with the Lions to get back to winning this week. Only two from ESPN’s panel pick the Falcons to win this game.

And just how will this game of rebuilding franchises shake out? Mike Tanier at the New York Times predicts a Browns’ win and also notes:

ESPN’s panel of experts is mostly going with the Browns as well, with a few people picking the Seahawks. Andrew Sharp at SB Nation takes the Browns, so does Peter King.

It’s not just that the Cowboys lose. I’m a Wizards fan, too. I’m used to losing. But it’s how they lose that drives me completely insane every single week. They’re clearly a pretty good team, too. But Jason Garrett just keeps finding new ways to overthink everything and stab fans in the heart.

Remember that shovel pass in the red zone last week? Because that’s when I knew that they were going to lose the game. This is what the 2011 Cowboys season has come to.Convincing!

All eight experts on the ESPN.com mega-panel are going with the Cowboys as their prediction. CBSSports.com is also unanimously choosing Dallas.

SB Nation Denver editor Russ Oates explained why he thinks the Broncos will win.

Simple enough. Sports Illustrated’s Peter King agrees that the Broncos are the pick, adding “I’m happy Denver’s finally giving Tim Tebow a chance to play -- and the smart thing here would be for John Fox to give Tebow five or six more starts. Denver needs to know what Tebow is, and whether he should play any part of the long-term Bronco future.” But he still thinks the Broncos will try to #SuckForLuck.

We’re back, and it’s juuuuuust starting to get cold outside and half the league has a bye this week, so we must be in Week 7. Or maybe Week 8. Or 9 or 10. Whatever. The middle of the season blends together.

But before we get to this week’s games, let’s revisit last week. I was at the Eagles-Redskins game this past Sunday, and all things considered it was pretty fantastic.

For the second time in two years, Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan is causing a stir with his quarterbacks. In his first season with the team in 2010, Shanahan sent shock waves throughout the D.C. area by opting to bench Donovan McNabb in favor of Rex Grossman during a two-minute drill in a loss at Detroit.

Shanahan flip-flopped back to McNabb until Grossman took over the job for the final three weeks of that season and held it over the early stages of 2011.