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NFL Picks Week 6: Patriots, Bills and Bengals Will Breeze into Bye

October 16, 2011   ·     ·   Jump to comments

The bye week can be a tricky thing for NFL teams on a roll.
Just ask the Patriots, the Bills and the Bengals...once they're done playing on Sunday, that is.
 
New England Patriots
New England will welcome a well-rested Dallas team to Gillette Stadium before taking off for its own week of "rest." The Pats' pass defense is terrible (32nd in the NFL) and will have its hands full with the Cowboys' talented attack, which ranks third in the league in yards per game through the air.
Tony Romo, Dez Bryant and Miles Austin have all made the most of the time off to rest their wounds and should be ready to put up some serious points on the Pats.
But if there's one team you don't want to face in a shootout, it's New England. Not with Tom Brady playing as well as he has this season, not with Wes Welker and Rob Gronkowski piling up yardage like it's their job (which it is), and certainly not with Aaron Hernandez likely to be back in the lineup.
Dallas' defensi...

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