For those of you who do NFL confidence pick ’em pools, I’m going to list these weekly here. I prefer the confidence pool over the straight pick ’em. I would love to get into an ATS pool, but don’t have any of those available locally.

Here are the safe pick rankings. Safe wins smaller pools.

Pick	Confidence
at Philadelphia	16
at Seattle	15
at Dallas	14
at New Orleans	13
Baltimore	12
at LA Chargers	11
at Cleveland	10
at New England	9
at Minnesota	8
Kansas City	7
at Chicago	6
at NY Jets	5
Detroit	4
LA Rams	3
Denver	2
at Tampa Bay	1

If you need to differentiate (think larger pool of players), the spot I like the most in this format is Buffalo over the New York Jets. The Jets have a ton of turnover this year on their staff. The bottom two games are basically pick ’ems and picks will be split.

I’m also probably fading Chicago a fair amount this year, and Green Bay is tempting, but I’m just shy of pulling that trigger.