Nets at Raptors: The Raptors are favored by 8 points on the Yardstick.

Grizzlies at Mavericks: The Yardstick for this game favors the Mavericks by 10 points. I always like to see the Grizz lose, ever since the NBA snuck them out of their home city of Vancouver. In fact, I would not mind seeing them lose every game, all year, every year.

Jazz at Spurs: The Yardstick predicts the home team will lose by six points. While I have nothing against the Spurs, they bore me. I’d like to watch a playoffs without them.

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The Bengals receiving corps took another hit when Chad Johnson/Ocho Cinco allegedly overslept for an 8:30 pm team meeting this week - a gaffe that has resulted in Johnson being deactivated for this game and in predictions for the game being swung ever more so in favor of Pittsburgh. Earlier this week, Cincy lost Antonio Chatman for the rest of the season with a back injury, which must also affect the picks on the game.

These losses will likely result in dumb thug wide receiver Chris Henry taking COC’s spot in tonight’s starting lineup. Never a good thing, unless your prediction is that Pittsburgh will win.

Not helping matters even if the team had a plethora of great receivers other than T.J. Houshmanzada suiting up for this game is that fact that Carson Palmer is still out and Ryan Fitzpatrick is still starting at quarterback for the perennialy struggling Bengals franchise.

While not awful, Fitzpatrick has not turned out to be a Matt Cassell for the team - both are in their fourth season in the NFL. He has 5 TD passes and 6 picks and a 71.3 rating in his seven starts. Palmer had six touchdowns in one game against the Browns last season, and Cassell threw for almost 40% of Fitzpatrick’s 1,050 yards in only one game last week.

What has remained the same for the Bengals is their head coach. Marv Lewis probably should have lost his job before this season started, but his lack of ability to motivate this team, combined with him having little power over personnel (see how the owner brought Chris Henry back for proof) and, thus, little respect from his players, means his pink slip is already stamped if not yet actually in the mail.

Marvin Lewis' ability to manage the Bengals has made television headlines.

In his sixth (and likely final) season with the team, the Bengals site head coach page quotes Lewis as saying before the start of this 2008 season, “I don’t know that you could add more urgency to me. You’d be hard-pressed.” Unfortunately for Lewis, injuries and personality conflicts have rendered his ability to transfer his own sense of urgency to his players quite impossible at this point.

What has remained the same for the Steelers is their resolve to play hard every down - something that keeps them in every game and something the Bengals organization might want to take a stab at if they ever want to stop being doormats. Pittsburgh is tied with the New York Jets for the AFC’s second seed right now and while some teams with poor coaching might be caught looking ahead of the schedule (see Philadelphia Eagles) when playing the Bengals, that will not be the case with Mike Tomlin’s team.

Also rendered quite impossible is me being able to pick the Bengals to win this game tonight. My pick at FanYard for the Bengals at Steelers game is for Pittsburgh to win by 18 points. FanYard’s unique fan-generated point spread, the Yardstick, predicts an 11-point Steelers road win.

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The Yardstick is the only fan-generated point spread, and as might be expected, the top team in each conference is predicted to win their games today.

The fourth-place Eastern team Detroit Pistons (8-3) head to number one Boston (10-2) to take on the Celtics, who are on a two-game win streak. The Yardstick for this game says the Celtics should win at home by five points. Make a pick on the Pistons at Celtics here and add your voice to the Yardstick for the game, which starts at 8 pm EST.

Shaq is the big man for the Suns.

In today’s second game, the Western Conference leading Los Angeles Lakers (8-1) travel to the desert to take on Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns (8-4). The Yardstick says the Lakers will win by six points in this road game. Make a pick on the Lakers at Suns game, which tips off at 10:30 pm EST tonight.

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Crennel has a HUGE head, but very small shoes...should anyone try to fill them.

Just like the Browns gave up that big lead last Thursday, the Bills have stumbled in losing all three divisional games they have played this season, and now both teams have what amounts to very little hope to make the postseason this year. In fact, Browns players Jamal Lewis and Josh Cribbs literally said some of their teammates gave up late in that Broncos loss, something head coach Romeo Crennel denies.

Anyone with a head on their shoulders, however, and any knowledge of football, must know that Crennel is merely staving off the inevitable pink slip he must be handed sometime before next year’s draft if the Browns are to have any chance at becoming a better team by next season.

Crennel has been nothing like the head coach the Cleveland franchise thought they were getting when they hired the former Patriots assistant coach away from New England. His 23-34 record in that time shines brighter than it should due to a 10-6 mirage that came with an over-achieving Derek Anderson quarterback year combined with an easy schedule last season.

The benching of Anderson during this more realistic schedule in 2008 only underlines the bad decision-making that has marked Crennel’s tenure in Cleveland. Crennel was instrumental in getting Anderson and the Browns to agree to a fat, multi-year contract in the offseason that many pundits questioned based on the tangible evidence that pointed to the likelihood of last season being an anomaly for the oft-erratic QB, which it was.

"Don't worry, D.A., I've got you covered," Quinn says, as he stretches for the ladies.

With Crennel saying there is no locker room friction and that he and his team has no quitters, I must believe the opposite. After all, that’s the way things go with most things that have come out of the coach’s mouth over the past three seasons. Sometimes good assistant coaches don’t make good head coaches, call it Norv Turnerism, and Crennel fits that mold.

I’m taking the Bills by ten at home against a non-AFC East foe. At FanYard, the Yardstick calls for a seven-point Bills victory. And that’s with about 15 minutes until kickoff.

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First, we must take into account the revival of Tony Romo’s season. Will the play of the star quarterback be enough to turn around what has recently been a disappointing (to their fans) recent spate of games played by the Cowboys, or do the problems run much deeper? Of course the problems run deeper, and the entire team will have to pick up its socks if they want to be taken seriously at any time the rest of this season.

Wade Philips - Lame Duck Walking (Waddling, Actually)

What about on the Redskins side of the ball? Defensive stars Jason Taylor and Shawn Springs will suit up for the Redskins, but the biggest question remains the status of the NFL’s leading rusher, Clinton Portis, who has been listed as questionable.

The most recent reports have Portis doing drills on the field while being watched by the coaching staff. We won’t know, however, if he will actually play until about an hour from now. If Portis is out, I’ll be changing my pick of the Redskins to win by ten, to taking the Cowboys by three. Yes, I believe he is worth that much to the home team.

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We are 7-1-1 on the morning games today, and the Yardstick, were it a person picking, would have 300 points so far.

Here is the Yardstick for the Cowboys at Redskins.

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What do we do with all these picks? We aggregate all the picks from all fans on every game and we publish what we call the Yardstick for each game, and the Yardstick shows who the fans think will win the game and by how many points. It is the only fan-generated point spread, and we want you to be a part of it.

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