Time for the Week 14 picks!

Isaacson-Tarbell was 12-4 last week, leading all variants. Beatpaths was 10-6 and ITB was 11-5. I was 1-3 on my personal picks, so I’m now one ahead of ITB for the season. The BeatPicks were 5-1, or 50-19 for the season. There are nine BeatPicks this week, and I will personally pick Cincinnati.

Once again, the beatpicks are: If there is a beatpath, pick the favored team. Otherwise, pick the team with the best win-loss record. If they’re the same, pick who beatpaths favors in the beatpath rankings. An (x) means you might want to consider overruling in favor of the home team.

	Isaacson-Tarbell	Beatpaths	Isaacson-Tarbell-Beatpaths
Record So Far	132-76	139-69	137-71
Last Week	12-4	10-6	11-5
Indianapolis (13-0) at Jacksonville (7-7): Indianapolis is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick over Jacksonville.	IND	IND*	IND
Dallas (8-5) at New Orleans (13-1): New Orleans is a unanimous pick over Dallas, but it’s actually not a BeatPick. If I had managed to put this up before the actual Saturday afternoon game, I would have said I thought Dallas had a real chance against New Orleans and that New Orleans was ready to blink. But given home field advantage I wouldn’t have personally picked Dallas.	NO	NO	NO
Miami (7-6) at Tennessee (6-7): Miami is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick over Tennessee. I think there is a real beatloop opportunity here, but Miami has a more realistic shot at getting in the playoffs as Tennessee, so there shouldn’t be a letup.	MIA	MIA*	MIA
Houston (6-7) at St Louis (1-12): Houston is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick over St. Louis.	HOU	HOU	HOU
Atlanta (6-7) at NY Jets (7-6): Isaacson-Tarbell picks the NY Jets due to the better record, but Beatpaths picks Atlanta. Since it is a BeatPick, Atlanta is the official ITB pick. This is the first game of the season where the NFL’s playoff-seeding procedure unfairly affects things – Atlanta just got mathematically eliminated from the playoffs so they will likely not be playing as hard, while the NY Jets are playing for the playoffs.	NYJ	ATL*	ATL
Cleveland (2-11) at Kansas City (3-10): Flip the records and this is a hell of a game! Cleveland actually has a beatpath to Kansas City, which overrules IT picking KC.	KC	CLE*	CLE
Arizona (8-5) at Detroit (2-11): Arizona is a unanimous pick and BeatPick over Detroit.	ARI	ARI*	ARI
New England (8-5) at Buffalo (5-8): New England is a unanimous pick and a distant, distant BeatPick over Buffalo.	NE	NE*	NE
Cincinnati (9-4) at San Diego (10-3): San Diego is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick over Cincinnati. I will personally pick Cincinnati.	SD	SD*	SD
Oakland (4-9) at Denver (8-5): No BeatPick here because of prior beatloops, but Denver is ranked comfortably ahead of Oakland. A unanimous pick.	DEN	DEN	DEN
Tampa Bay (1-12) at Seattle (5-8): Seattle is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick over Tampa Bay.	SEA	SEA*	SEA
Green Bay (9-4) at Pittsburgh (6-7): No BeatPick here, and the two teams are closely ranked, close enough that home field might be a consideration. It’s a unanimous pick for Green Bay, though.	GB	GB(x)	GB
San Francisco (6-7) at Philadelphia (9-4): This is a unanimous pick and a BeatPick for Philadelphia.	PHI	PHI*	PHI
Chicago (5-8) at Baltimore (7-6): No BeatPick here – Baltimore is a unanimous pick over Chicago, though.	BAL	BAL	BAL
Minnesota (11-2) at Carolina (5-8): Strange that there is no BeatPick here, given the records. But it shows that Minnesota hasn’t played the toughest record. Still, Minnesota is a unanimous pick.	MIN	MIN	MIN
NY Giants (7-6) at Washington (4-9): No BeatPick here either, but the NY Giants are unanimously favored over Washington.	NYG	NYG	NYG