Its that time of the week: Lets pick some games, people.Week 15 is the last stanza in the relatively calm section of the regular season. In other words, head coaches, front offices and fan bases wont take off on into full-scale panic mode until next week, when teams start getting eliminated for realz. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh and its stud running back are alive and kicking ... is right that Leveon bell is the best back in the game right now. Demarco Murray just has 80 more attempts. Austin (@Austin_D1) The thing that impre ses me most is the 313 touches without a single fumble.Too often gets short shrift in great QB debate. Right, ? RT : A Football Life: Roger Staubach. Chris We seling (@ChrisWe seling) Yes, Wes, Staubach is an all-timer. Easily a top-10 QB -- -- and I agree with you that he has gotten the short end of the stick in this discu sion. Perhaps most impre sive is that he posted the NFLs highest pa ser rating in each of his last two seasons, then hung em up while still considered the best in the bidne s. Not bad.As for the only team Staubach ever played for ... The have themselves a huge game against the . Thats one of several solid matchups this week, with and not far behind. All predictions are below. And, as always, feel free to share your take on any game, team, player or football-related matter: is the place.Now, lets get to it!Elliot Harrison went 12-4 on , giving him a record of 138-69-1 so far this season. How will he fare in Week 15? His picks are below. And listen to the latest edition of the for additional analysis on this weeks picks. decides this game in the end. As indicated by my predicted score above, this is one of the most even-steven bouts on the Week 15 slate. Pittsburgh is still the only AFC North team to lose to an NFC South club in 2014, and the have done so twice. That said, my forecast is about who I can hang my hat on, or, more critically, who I cant hang my hat on -- Atlanta defenders. The are allowing the most yards per play (6.22) in the NFL, as well as the most total (410.8) and pa sing (287.8) yards per game. Pittsburgh ranks second in each of those categories on offense. These are known as matchup problems. Received a lot of good feedback via Twitter from fans in D.C. regarding the front office and its impact on the future. For now, it seems the once-rising tide of has receded, as . Thats saying something. If management were banging the drum for Griffin, like many a sumed it would, then McCoys injury would have been a built-in excuse to go back to . Looks like that is not the case. Small victory. Hopefully, McCoy isnt running for his life like he was . OK, enough of Drama Central. Lets go over to New York. Yes, the are in the midst of a painful season of their own. And, like in D.C., the quarterback and head coach have come under fire. But heres the difference: Whatever consternation/frustration there has been behind closed doors, we arent seeing it play out in public. That was a unified team . This week, with these two teams way out of contention, well place a vote for solidarity. Big Blue wins. Sure, could have himself a day. And yes, on opening weekend. That said, do you really trust s group? Do you trust Tannehill? And can you trust the receivers to make plays on this secondary, which has allowed opposing QBs to post a pa ser rating of just 83.9 this season? Miamis pa s rush darn near won this seasons Week 1 matchup by itself, hara sing all day. Considering Brady is 25-2 in December home games, with one of those home lo ses coming back in 2002, I feel strangely comfortable with this pick. One of my favorite uni matchups: road whites at home reds. On that note, were going with the home team here. The are desperate at this point, needing to win out, and theyll have that home crowd behind them on Sunday. Not to mention (but well mention), the havent won back-to-back games against teams with winning records since 2010. (When was old enough to go to Andrew Bogut Jersey teeny-bopper clubs.) The two teams Oakland defeated back in 2010, by the way, were Seattle and ... you gue sed it: Kansas City. Heres your tacos-and-bananas stat from this game: K.C. has allowed two rushing touchdowns all year, the fewest in the NFL. Both of them , who have scored four rushing TDs this season, the fewest in the NFL. While doing some research for this matchup, I noticed that receivers have dropped the highest percentage of catchable balls in the league: 9.2 percent (per STATS LLC). While clearly has been effective enough to mitigate those errors, he can ill afford more three-turnover games like . Luck had two TOs , with the flat-out dropping at least one more pick. So, yes, itd certainly help if Indys receivers could just catch the damn ball. Luck is asked to do more than almost any other quarterback in the league -- give the man some help. Houston provides that for . The sport the , and thats only because the wont let their quarterback throw the ball. Calling a safety. Its been a while. Now that weve gotten that out of the way, it should be noted that analysts and broadcasters are constantly -- and, often, annoyingly -- asked to bring it with hard takes. Get pa sionate! Bang the table!! While that has never been my style, I will further say that this Hoyer-Manziel debate just doesnt move the needle for me. This is one situation where I can truly see the benefit of going in either direction. Sure, could provide a spark. Problem is, how long does that spark last? Does he know the offense well enough to change protections, plays, anything at the line? After all, Cleveland is . On the other hand, hasnt thrown a touchdown pa s in a month (though he has logged seven picks). If it were up to me, I gue s Id go with Manziel, for the escapability factor. The havent faced a quarterback like this since in Week 6 -- and . That said, the must win to maintain their AFC North edge. I dont see Jacksonville winning this game. OK, on to the next blurb. Kidding. Gue s Im paid to show my work. Alright, well, considering how abysmal the run defense has been in Jacksonville this season (allowing 132.5 rushing yards per game, ), I like to pull a LeVeon this week. That said, the Jags could do themselves a huge favor by actually corralling some throws from . Its bad enough the guy is running for his life back there -- hes been sacked -- CATCH THE BALL! How many drops were there last week, Jags fans? Call me crazy, but I think the will give the all they can handle in Buffalo this weekend. will close the gap to three, the will get a stop, and then it will be up to to win the game. While Orton has been an improvement over , Buffalo is still having difficulty getting the ball vertical, which is often critical in late-game situations. In fact, Orton has completed just nine pa ses traveling over 20 yards in the air. And its not like this is because the running game has been tearing it up. You realize the have never thrown for more than 280 yards vs. the Bucs in Carolina? Crazy. Regardle s, Im not ready to just hand this game to Tampa Bay because following s car accident. Yes, Andersons career has produced mixed results. But s hasnt? And after seeing the way the defense performed , I trust Carolina more than s group. Of course, part of that reasoning comes from the faint-yet-still-there recollection of a Panther D that . The team that wants to run the ball at least 60 percent of the time vs. the team that cant stop the run ... like, ever. New York has certainly struggled this season, but one thing can do is wear sleevele s sweater vests and get his guys to pound the rock. OK, so thats actually two things ... which is approximately how many miscues we see from Tenne see after each snap. The are getting beaten up front and mi sing tackles. Maybe theyre taking bad angles, too, which all adds up to an unfriendly matchup on Sunday. must make plays in this contest, because Tenne see simply isn Eric Paschall Jersey t getting production from rookie back . By the way, do you realize both of these teams have lost 11 of 12? Oy. The offense had its way with coordinator John Paganos defense , but overall, the have corralled Denvers offense in the era. In their six meetings -- including -- the failed to compile 400 yards of offense five times. The key question for San Diego is the same one I was asking prior to : Can get and that running game going? When the won in Denver , the ground attack was the star (44 rushes for 177 yards). Think Detroits defense will just be too much for a rookie quarterback who is leaning on , and maybe Leroy Hoard to provide balance. The have been solid all year on that side of the ball, currently ranking first in rushing yards allowed, yards per play in the red zone and total points allowed, to name a few categories of note. That said, thought from was solid: Yeah, GW TD pa s might not be clutch. The fact he audibled it seeing the coverage, THAT makes it clutch. #GUMP *does* deserve some credit for . Should have gone with #dranktoomuchDr.Pepper, though. </content:weekly-predictions> The questions circling around the have to do with s future and s play. As for the former, the idea of Harbaugh leaving seemed asinine a few weeks ago, considering what hes accomplished for the organization. Yet, considering the obvious distraction his relationship with management has become and the recent product on the field ... Meanwhile, Kaepernicks apparent regre sion has caused many to question if hes lost his football mojo. To quote Sammy Baugh in his elder years, When youre on the field, youve got to feel like youre the best son-of-a-(beep) out there. Baugh had a way of phrasing things, and, like Kap, was a really good athlete with an unusual throwing motion. He also had a way of handling the media, with -- another area where the QB has struggled. All that said, my feeling is that the will show up in Seattle and fight their butts off. Ultimately, though, I like the way the secondary is competing, and with that overall defense performing with such continuity -- felt more like a decimation -- Im taking the defending champs at home. ! Dallas wins the day, but not nece sarily the NFC East. The still and finish the season (which is never an easy game). Meanwhile, the play and then finish . While I would give Philadelphia the schedule advantage ( > ), you just never know with these NFC East games. Philly and Big Blue have split the past two seasons, while at Jerry World earlier this year. I like the on Sunday because theyll have had nine days to rest, and when these teams faced off last time, the Boys had played a Sunday night game on the East Coast a few days prior. Also, teams typically dont do so hot the week after they face the . Call it being beasted. This contest kind of sucks. fans are depre sed. fans are thinking, Welcome to our world since Week 4. But due to the fact that random absurdity seems to reign in this crazy league, maybe and s clubs will actually deliver the enticing bout we thought wed get when the schedule originally came out ... ... Wait, has totaled three catches for 25 yards over the past two weeks? And the , with , have rushed for a grand total of 48 yards in that same time span? OK, enticing seems like a long shot. At least the are in a division race! ALREADY COMPLETED While this pick is certainly low-hanging-ish fruit, we are not going to disappoint. Forget that the won their last two games by a combined score of 76-0. Consider instead that the pa s rush has generated 34 sacks in the past eight games -- a ginormous figure. With back, I dont see that trend changing. Can Arizona mitigate that pre sure with the run game? The kid hit the century mark , working at an impre sive clip of 5.3 yards a pop. Follow Elliot Harrison on Twitter .