Zac's Backs, Halloween Edition: Week 9 NFL Picks

Best Bet Picks for Week 9 of the NFL

Welcome back to the scariest NFL picks on Associated Content. This is the week 9 edition of Zac's Backs. Week 8 of the NFL proved to be a very "meh" week for yours truly, as I went 8-4. More importantly, though, is the fact that both my Giants and my Browns are above .500. Thanks to those two teams I may be able to forget about the 2007 Major League Baseball season soon enough!

I'm all out of candy, kids, so instead I'll be passing out NFL picks today. Wow, it's way too early for me to try to be clever. Let's just get to the games.

San Francisco at Atlanta

Talk about scary. Maybe for Halloween this year one of these teams will actually dress up as a real live NFL team. Even after the injury bug hit San Fran I believed that the 49ers had a shot to be competitive. Boy was I wrong. Meanwhile, Atlanta is just about where everybody believed them to be. Could this be Zac's Backs Ugliest Game of the Week? Let's put it this way. No game will be worse.

Winner: San Francisco

Cincinnati at Buffalo

Fact or fiction: When Chad Johnson jumped into the Dawg Pound he unknowingly entered into some parallel universe where he has since switched places with Braylon Edwards. Your call, readers. Go with Buffalo in this one due to the disgustingly bad defense Cincinnati has. It also doesn't hurt that they've already thrown in the towel on this NFL season. Any questions about that were answered by the "conservative" play calling that dominated last week's game against the Steelers.

Winner: Buffalo

Denver at Detroit

I was on the phone with my buddy during the final minutes of the Monday night game and we both had the same question. What the hell was Cutler doing trying to sneak the ball on third down and Denver out of timeouts? Take a freakin' shot at the end zone, kid. At the very least you could throw the ball away and stop the clock. Maybe the worst play call of the year right there, folks.

I made the mistake of picking against the Lions last week. Look, the Lions aren't pretty by any stretch of the imagination. We as football fans, though, need them to keep winning. When's the last time that you actually cared about the Detroit Thanksgiving Day game?

Winner: Detroit