NFL Week 9 Picks: Predicting the Week's Biggest Winners

A "big win" can be characterized as a game in which one team is victorious by a large margin. 

It can also be a win in a game that has major playoff implications. 

We have a handful of divisional games this weekend and a few that could get ugly. 

Week 9's biggest winners...

Kansas City Chiefs

They play the winless Dolphins at home, and the Arrowhead Stadium crowd should still be buzzing after the Chiefs' improbable Monday Night Football win. 

Miami has shown signs of life in their last two games, but have demonstrated why they're winless in the fourth quarters of each game. 

Blowing fourth-quarter leads are simply what bad teams do. 

Riding the momentum of their four-game winning streak, KC should be able to impose their will defensively on a struggling Dolphins offense and do enough with their balanced offensive attack to win big at home and move to 5-3. 

Must applaud the Chiefs' turnaround. 

Houston Texans

Colt McCoy needs help on offense. His receivers represent little threat down the field, Peyton Hillis is still nursing a hamstring injury and Montario Hardesty is out with a calf injury.

The Texans defense did well against an equally putrid offense last week against the Jaguars and Houston should be getting All-Pro wide receiver Andre Johnson back. 

The Texans should win this game, and they will, by a lot. 

Pittsburgh Steelers

There is so much ebb and flow in the NFL. Think back to Baltimore's 35-7 beatdown of Pittsburgh in Week 1. 

Now, ask yourself: Who's the favorite going into this one?

After you factor in home-field advantage, you realize the Steelers have been the much more complete team since then. 

Their defense has returned to its usual ways (they're the best pass defense in football) and the offense is more aerially potent than I can remember. 

I just can't see Joe Flacco doing enough to keep pace with the Steelers' high-powered offense. 

Buffalo Bills

Buffalo's defense is coming off easily its best effort of the season, although I'm not sold on their secondary and they've shown lapses in focus in attempting to stop the run. 

The Jets secondary is second to none and it'll be interesting to see how Chan Gailey attacks it. 

This game against the Jets could go down to the wire, but there will be too much Fred Jackson for the Jets to handle in the late stages.

The Bills secondary is very opportunistic and should bait Mark Sanchez into at least one crucial turnover that could be the deciding factor in this one.