Morning all, getting this in early before I go to work so that I can eat some serious work (watch baltimore)

Byes - Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers

TV
6PM, SKY SPORTS
BALTIMORE RAVENS (5-1) @ HOUSTON TEXANS (5-1)
So here we have the top two teams of the AFC, but given last week's games you'd hardly know it. Baltimore have largely lucked their way through the past couple weeks against poorer and ill-disciplined teams, whereas Houston's perfect season dropped at home to the very team who were still perfect this time last year, Green Bay. To make matters worse for Baltimore, two of our top defensive play-makers, Ray Lewis and Ledarius Webb are injured for possibly the whole season (though could see a reutrn around playoffs time) BUT in his place comes Terrell Suggs back from injury. As much as everyone loves and fears Ray, he hasn't actually had much more effect than as a spiritual and motivational leader of the D. But this is also one of the worse D's in the league this year, highly uncharacteristic for the Ravens, but a big part of that will be due to the absence of Suggs, who was quite rightly the defensive MVP last year. Houston's D however as been dominant and then some, or they were, until last week they somehow turned up whimpering at their own stadium, just as Rodgers&co remembered they could play ball. This should be an interesting one, and will very much come down to who can stop the run game. So far we have always had Houston and Arian Foster's number but this is probably the strongest team they've had in their short history. Praying that Ray Rice can get running, and Suggs has an instant effect, but this will certainly be our toughest test yet. (Houston by 3)

9:25, SKY SPORTS
NEW YORK JETS (3-3) @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (3-3)
Oh AFC East, you strange, strange place. The Patriots have underperformed and every time you think the Jets are going into free-fall, they come up with a fairly impressive win (albeit usually against weaker teams). Honestly though, I can't possibly see the rot in Boston-Foxborough go on much longer, particularly against their long standing rivals. (Pats by 7)

SUNDAY/MONDAY
1:20AM, CHANNEL 4
PITTSBURGH STEELERS (2-3) @ CINCINNATI BENGALS (3-3)
This is an interesting one. Pittsburgh are coming off a bye week from a highly disappointing start to the season, whereas the Bengals have lost two on the bounce, including to previously winless division rivals Cleveland last week. Both these teams will have playoff aspirations still, but they need to start winning, particularly division games, so this is quite an important one (and a strange situation for me as I guess I'm rooting for Pittsburgh?) Cincy have looked very dangerous as their peaks this year, but its pretty much impossible to ever write-off Pittsburgh, particularly after a week off to prepare. (Pitt by 4-5)

MONDAY/TUESDAY
1:30AM BBC RED BUTTON
DETROIT LIONS (2-3) @ CHICAGO BEARS (4-1)
Are Chicago a 4 and 1 team? Is it more that no one else has really threatened them yet? Only time will really tell, but given their week off they will be fresh and ready to take on their division rivals at home. Detroit have been building and looked great coming from behind against Philly last week, but Da Bears defence may well be too strong for them. (Chi by 4-5)

THE REST:
TENNESSEE (2-4) @ BUFFALO (3-3) - Despite being terrible for a while, Buffalo are still alive. Tennessee's win against Pittsburgh however has justified their season. (Bills by 3)
DALLAS (2-3) @ CAROLINA (1-4) - Well here's a sad one. Two hugely under-performing teams go at it. I like SuperCam to return this week though (by 4-5)
CLEVELAND (1-5) @ INDIANAPOLIS (2-3) - Cleveland have been steadily improving as the weeks go on whereas Indy go hot and cold. I certainly prefer Andrew Luck in this game, but his options are limited and Cleveland's D have been fairly strong, so who knows. (Indy by 7)
ARIZONA (4-2) @ MINNESOTA (4-2) - This should an intriguing one, two surprise packages going at it, though Zona have now lost two in a row and Minnie are unbeaten at home. (by 3)
WASHINGTON (3-3) @ NEW YORK (4-2) - The Giants look real again, they looked like the champions they are for the first time this year at San Fran. So today is exactly the sort of game that they inexplicably throw away to a division rival. RGIII was fantastic last week and will look to continue his strong form, but if the Giants' D turns up like it did last week, there could be no stopping them (NY by 3)
GREEN BAY (3-3) @ ST. LOUIS (3-3) - Well, I don't think anyone would have predicted these two teams to be on the same middling record when the fixture list first came out, but here we are. The pack are coming off an impressive away win at Houston, which will help them greatly going into this game, but St. Louis are no easy task, though big injuries are slowly chipping away at any sort of points they may score, so it could be tough. (GB by 7)
NEW ORLEANS (1-4) @ TAMPA BAY (2-3) - Tampa only have two wins because they have played two even worse teams than them. We all know New Orleans' problems but before the bye they looked back to their greatest moments, as Drew Brees past THAT record, so I can't see why it won't happen again. (NO by 7)
9PM:
JACKSONVILLE (1-4) @ OAKLAND (1-4) - there's only 2 late games today, and both of which are AFC and therefore on CBS, what on earth are FOX going to be doing between 4-7 until Game 6 of the National League championship happens in San Francisco? (OAK by 3)