It’s divisional weekend, the greatest weekend of the NFL football season.

The pretenders, well, most of them anyway, are out. The serious contenders meet up this weekend. It’s usually four of the better games you’ll have the opportunity to watch.

And, for once, Andy has the lead. Terrible at picking games all season, he nailed all four on Wild Card weekend. Will he keep it up? Probably not. So he might as well enjoy the bragging rights while he can.

Here are the standings:

  Wild Card week
Andy 4-0
Vomhof 3-1
Tony 3-1
Maggio 2-2

 

And here are our picks for the Best Week of the Season:

Maggio Vomhof Andy Tony
January 14, 2017
Seattle at Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta
Houston at New England New England New England New England New England
January 15, 2017
Pittsburgh at Kansas City Kansas City Kansas City Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
Green Bay at Dallas Dallas Dallas Green Bay Dallas

Locks of the Week:

Vomhof: I’m not really going out on a limb here. It’s the best team left against the weakest team left. Houston won’t be able to shut down Brady and the Pats, and I’d expect Belichick & Co. to make Osweiler’s wild card performance seem like a distant memory.

Maggio: Sorry, there’s no way Houston even stays close in this game. A back-door cover is their best-case scenario here, as the Patriots are rested, at home, and primed for Act II of the Angry Tom Revenge Tour.

Tony: If anyone picks someone other than New England in this slot, they need to have their head examined … or they’re trying to throw a whammy in the general direction of some team. Hopefully the Packers, whose “Run the table” mantra already has me dreading every week they continue to stay alive in the playoffs. Back the Patriots … this week’s game is the kind of game that would bring back the argument for having the teams with the best records in the playoffs, instead of simply handing it to division winners — except for the fact that there wasn’t a 10-6 team that was left home in favor of the Houston Texans this year. New England was a 16-point favorite on Monday morning. The spread has gone between 15 and 17 and I’m not sure that number doesn’t go higher.

Andy: I think Pittsburgh is going to beat Kansas City because I think Ben Roethlisberger is better than Alex Smith. I think Green Bay is going to beat Dallas because Aaron Rodgers is a veteran and the Packers are hot while Dak Prescott is going to get a rookie learning experience. But … I can’t argue with anyone else here. The Texans are the one team that doesn’t really belong in this weekend’s discussion. A 16-point spread is big, but I think the Patriots cover – and then some.