*Ok now... breathe... Jets... Sanchez... too much laughter... Ah that's it. Ahem. Time for this week's Tuesday awards after a great week of games. Seriously, the first lot of games on Sunday were as good a slate as we've had all year, with key games in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta and Cleveland that all warranted our time. Good to know then, that my fianceé insisted that I miss the last hour of the first slot while I watched The Chronicles of Narnia on TV. *

The awards are below this, so skip to the bottom of the page if you don't like laughing at the misfortune of others.

Anyway, the Jets are the gift that keeps on giving to NFL fans and last night just confirmed exactly what they have been for so long now: A thoroughly amusing franchise that somehow manages to combine brashness and hubris with consistent failure at crucial times. You know when the Cardinals made the Super Bowl and we all kind of acknowledged that it was nice to see a franchise that had struggled for as long as anyone can remember actually achieve something? Now imagine that was the Jets, would you root for them? Yeah, I know, me neither.

On NFL AM this morning Eric Davis called for Rex Ryan to be given full control of the roster, with Mike Tannenbaum leaving his post as G.M. Sorry Eric, but Rex is huge part - even with a gastric band - of the decision making process already, so what makes him particularly less responsible than Tannenbaum? The Jets have mismanaged that roster from top to bottom, both through poor personnel management and through baffling coaching decisions. Rex is a good coach but he is perhaps too proud to know when a gig is up and so - long after we all saw the writing on the wall - the Jets will finally demote Sanchez to backup in week 16.

Perhaps most damning of all - and I wrote about this at the time - is the Tim Tebow 'Farce-arama' that has lingered like a bad smell all season. From day one it was a needless distraction that immediately rendered any new contract for Mark Sanchez completely useless, since it showed just how little confidence the organisation really had in him. One of those decisions may have been forgiveable, but both?

Now the Jets are left with three QB's they clearly don't want, but part of that comes down to how Ryan has handled the wildcat, how he has failed to improve Sanchez year-on-year, and let's face it, how he worked with Tannenbaum to give Sanchez a contract that left the Jets on the hook for $8.5m next season. Anyone seriously believe that was done without Ryan's blessing?

Rex is a football guy and people gravitate towards him - admittedly less so since the operation - but to paint the Jets as somehow crippled only by the front office is letting Ryan off the hook for a disastrous situation that he was complicit in creating.

OK, enough of this madness! **
**Time for Tuesday's awards and such like.

Average weekly Score: 9-7
Bad week for the analysts as on average they failed to crack double figures. That mainly came from two big upsets in Arizona and New England that had most people down 2 to start with, but the experts also didn't get a few big ones.

The Falcons were only picked by 39% of experts, the Panthers 35% and the Vikings 34%. Even the Cowboys only got 30% support from the panel despite being at home, but thats not surprising as I have a rule that goes 'never back the Cowboys at their new stadium because it's a massive monument to somebody's ego rather than a place that you'd feel comfortable playing football'. Seriously, imagine walking through a bar to get to the locker room? I didn't realise Kerry Collins was the lead architect.

Top Picker of the Week: **Warren Sapp, NFL.com 13-3**
Warren Sapp? GOOD ANSWER, GOOD ANSWER. I like Sapp a lot more these days - particularly his little 'give what back?' routine regarding his Super Bowl ring - and as I mentioned last night, he's been picking well since mid-season. This week is his second 13-ball of the season and he edges out Il Douche and Admiral Akbar - plus assorted others - to take this week's honours in a week of big change in the Pickwatch standings.

Worst Picker of the Week: John Halpin, Fox, 5-11

So... John... are you sure you used the right profile this week? John only got 5 games right, which deserves a big hand just for managing that while actually guessing one of our weekly underdogs - the Falcons - correctly. The effect is mitigated somewhat by the addition of those 4 extra games to his slate which prevents him slumping to the bottom of the table, a decision I did not take lightly (I did) and that has TRULY SHOCKING consequences as we head to the last 2 weeks of the season. Yes, that's right, we have a new worst picker. I'll tell you who in the updated overall standings tomorrow.

I'm not going to give John too hard a ride though, party because he took the time to find my reference to him last week, and partly because I'm just a lovely lovely person.

Coin-Flip of the week award

I believe in life after love. I can feel
something inside me saying I really
don't think I'm strong enough nooo!*

This one goes to Les Carpenter. Les is great for nickname purposes, and I could have gone with so many different ones, but then I thought 'What do people really think of Les?' and I believe they'd say 'Les is quite good', and therefore the only option is to give him the name 'Les the Good'. In true Pickwatch fashion, I decided to go with the French pronunciation: 'Les Bien'
Our saucy friend Les decided to plump for Indy this week, and while I can hardly talk after backing them to beat the spread, Les was the only analyst - out of a panel that also includes Sterling Sharpe and Mark Kriegel - to back the Colts in Houston. Les has consistently been outperformed by his Yahoo! counterparts this year, but really, Les, come on, you can do it. You can DEFINITELY get out of the bottom 10.**

* I thought it would be funny to write the lyrics to Cher's 'Believe' under the Harvey Dent badge to the right of this section, and all I can say is don't blame me if you end up singing it all day and blasting it out of your headphones in public.

** __You've got to say that.

Rain Man of the week award:
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Holy CRAP. There have been some odd picks this year, but most of them have come up pretty short of the mark. This week saw probably one of the best picks I've ever seen as Josh Katzowitz of CBSSports.com managed to pick the Cardinals* to beat the Lions just one week after being shut out and giving up a fifty-ball to the the Seahawks.

"Lower"

I mentioned this to The Polish Picker yesterday and he said You can only keep Whisenhunt's strong squad down for so long. They would NOT lose 10 straight. That's all very well, but perhaps Ken and the rest of the Cardinals should have perhaps aimed to not lose say... oh I don't know... nine games in a row? Basically, what I'm saying is that telling your fan base that you absolutely, 100% REFUSE to lose 10 games in a row is probably not going to inspire much faith in anyone. Well, except Josh.

With Rihanna busy canoodling with TV stars (that's the only link you'll ever get to Perez Hilton on this site, I swear) I'm forced to get her backup involved so that Josh can have a reward worthy of this insane pick. Don't worry Josh, I know you're a happily married young man who wouldn't want anything too... 'Baldy' as a prize, so I've decided to get a lady who reflects all of those qualities in order to make you feel comfortable.

Thank me later, when you've regained feeling in your extremities.

* In summer, insects compose up to one-third of a cardinal’s diet. In winter, vegetative matter is 90 percent of their food supply. Absolutely true that.

Top Network: Yahoo Sports - 11 Average games picked correctly
Well done to the Yahoo panel, especially Mike Silver, with his 12-4 score that was so close to the best result this week. I always wondered why Mike wears sunglasses all the time, and now I know: It's an endorsement deal. You kept that quiet Mike! - No seriously, you kept it too quiet, that's not how this stuff works.

This was a particularly noteworthy performance as Yahoo finished bottom last week, but in a week where even Les Carpenter managed double figures, the Yahoo boys were always going to be there or thereabouts.

*Bottom Network: Fox.com - *8.5 average games picked correctly
Not much you can say about this. Halpin's score drags down the Fox boys, the second time in 3 weeks one of them has racked up a fiver. Bad times. Still, Joel Beall is still in with an outside shot at the overall top crown. Not that there's an ACTUAL crown to be won of course. It's just a figure of speech, like when they call Bill O'Reilly 'News'. Boom. I went there.

That's the weekly round up. I'll put the overall standings up later today as I have a great deal of work to do tomorrow in the old day job (Anyone know anything about John Dillinger?) that will require my attention. Till next time... stay out of trouble.