Here we go again. Last week I was 6–8 in my picks for the Week 14 foot­ball games. I don’t know if I’ve learned any­thing from that expe­ri­ence. I guess we will find out this week. Here are my picks for Week 15:

1. Tampa Bay wins at Atlanta: the Fal­cons are playing at home and they are doing well this year, but Tampa is playing to keep up with Car­olina and try to get that wild­card playoff spot.
2. Wash­ington wins at Cincin­nati: if the Ben­gals win another game this season I’ll be surprised.
3. Seattle wins at St. Louis: I am not inten­tion­ally picking all the road teams. Seattle is better than St. Louis. Almost every team is.
4. San Fran­cisco loses at Miami: the 49ers have to travel, and Miami is the sur­prise this year.
5. Buf­falo wins at New York Jets: I want to see Buf­falo play spoiler to Farve’s season.
6. Detroit loses at Indi­anapolis: Man­ning will not let it happen any other way.
7. San Diego wins at Kansas City: this week’s “who cares” game.
8. Green Bay wins at Jack­sonville: in the battle of two under­achieving teams, I think the Packers will gen­erate more offense. But it is hard to say. Either one of these teams could decide to fold up the tents and surrender.
9. Ten­nessee wins at Houston: I’ve learned my lesson. I’m not going to bet against Ten­nessee. Maybe they had their one “wake up” game for this season.
10. Min­nesota loses at Ari­zona: the door remains open for Chicago. I think Ari­zona has the better offense.
11. Denver loses at Car­olina: with Denver trav­eling and Car­olina rolling, all signs point to a Pan­ther Party.
12. Pitts­burg wins at Bal­ti­more: Bal­ti­more looked really good last week for one half that then didn’t do much else. I think Pitts­burg squeaks by this week.
13. New Eng­land wins at Oak­land: please, this one is too easy.
14. New York Giants win at Dallas: I think I may be wrong about this one, but I believe in the Giants and think they have the better defense.