NFL Week 4 Picks: Teams Guaranteed to Get Easy Wins

The NFL may be a rather balanced league with plenty of teams that can pull off big wins, but there are several teams with matchups against weak opponents in Week 4 that are bound to pull off easy wins.

Teams like the New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks all got easy wins against teams that are struggling in Week 3.  Other teams had what appeared to be favorable matchups, but they were unable to pull off wins, like the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers.

Here are my full predictions for the rest of Week 4 after Thursday Night Football, along with my picks for teams that are bound to get the easy wins.

Cincinnati Bengals (2-1) at Cleveland Browns (1-2)

Date: Sunday, Sept. 29

Time: 1 p.m. ET

TV: CBS

Prediction: 30-14, Bengals

The Cleveland Browns may have been able to take down the Minnesota Vikings last week, but they won't be taking another win this week against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Brian Hoyer stepped up big in the 31-27 win for the Browns, throwing for 321 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions.  However, the running game for the Browns is still almost nonexistent, and teams are going to be comfortable with backing off the run game and focusing on giving Hoyer trouble.  

We know that the Bengals can shut down opposing quarterbacks.  We saw that last week as the Bengals beat the Green Bay Packers 34-30, thanks to a bad game from Aaron Rodgers.  The Bengals held Rodgers to 244 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions and sacked him four times.  They did a great job containing Randall Cobb as well, who had just five catches for 54 yards on 11 targets.

Andy Dalton hasn't looked bad so far this year, and with weapons like A.J. Green and Giovani Bernard surrounding him, they should be able to put up some points against the Browns and shut Cleveland down thanks to their impressive defensive front seven.

Indianapolis Colts (2-1) and Jacksonville Jaguars (0-3)

Date: Sunday, Sept. 29

Time: 1 p.m. ET

TV: CBS

Prediction: 30-10, Colts

Whenever you're playing the Jacksonville Jaguars, you should win by a comfortable amount.

The Colts are coming off a big win against the San Francisco 49ers, where their run game proved to be the big factor in the game.  Surprisingly, the Colts rank fourth in the NFL in rushing, averaging 148 yards on the ground per game.  With Trent Richardson now in the backfield, that number could get even better.

Meanwhile, the Jaguars have just looked plain awful.  They rank last in opposing rushing yards, allowing 167.7 per game.  Their offense is somehow even worse, putting up a league-low 280.3 yards and 9.3 points per game.  Regardless of who is playing quarterback right now between Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne, things are not pretty in Jacksonville.

Andrew Luck is going to look to get revenge for the Colts' loss to the Jaguars at the beginning of the 2012 season.  They may have already beaten them at the end of last year, but Luck is going to want to make sure that they can sweep the Jaguars in the 2013 season, and with how badly Jacksonville has been playing, it shouldn't be very hard.

New York Giants (0-3) at Kansas City Chiefs (3-0)

Date: Sunday, Sept. 29

Time: 1 p.m. ET

TV: FOX

Prediction: 21-3, Chiefs

I'm not sure what happened in just a couple of months, but the New York Giants look plain awful to start the 2013 season.

Despite throwing for 931 yards and five touchdowns, Eli Manning has been a turnover machine, throwing eight interceptions in just three games.  The Giants lead the NFL with 13 turnovers on the year, and they're coming off a terrible 38-0 loss to the Carolina Panthers just last week.

To make matters worse, the Giants will be without veteran offensive linemen Chris Snee and David Baas, according to Adam Schefter.  This means even less protection for Manning, who was sacked seven times last week.

Meanwhile, the additions of Andy Reid and Alex Smith seemed to have done the Chiefs a whole lot of good already.  After going just 2-14 in 2012, they've already eclipsed their win total from last season, going 3-0 to start the year.  Smith has been incredibly efficient, throwing for 669 yards and four touchdowns while the offense has yet to give up a turnover.

The defense has been rock solid as well.  It has allowed just over 11 points per game, and Reid and company made the Philadelphia Eagles' fancy new offense look lost and unable to make plays for the majority of the game last week.

While the Chiefs likely aren't going to score a whole lot of points, they should coast to a really easy win as that defense gives Eli nightmares in the pocket.