NFL Week 11 Picks: Predicting the Week's Biggest Losers

With 14 games on the schedule for Week 11 of the NFL season, it is guaranteed there will be 14 losers when the dust has settled. However, three teams are in for losses of near-epic proportion, with opponents far too superior for there to be any chance of victory.

On Thursday night, the Denver Broncos play host to the New York Jets, and it won't be an easy or uplifting outing for Tim Tebow's squad, hot on the heels of two consecutive wins that defied all sense of pro football logic.

In their Week 10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, the Broncos ran 55 times while attempting only eight passes, two of which connected. One of those was a 56-yard touchdown pass to receiver Eric Decker, an anomalous play but also a calculated risk for a team that did nothing but run, making the Chiefs defense predictable, at least for one play.

The New York Jets, while most recently decimated by the New England Patriots, are a much stronger team in every aspect than the Chiefs, and it's not likely that they will fall for Tebow's tricks on Thursday night.

All they have to do is stop the Broncos' read-option offense. Indeed, that's a bigger feat than it appears, but considering that head coach John Fox has made it clear that it's how the team will continue to play from here on out, it's something the Jets can adequately prepare for.

Fox recently said of Tebow, "If we were trying to run a regular offense, he'd be screwed," when detailing his college-style offense to NFL.com's Jeff Darlington. The Jets need to stop the read-option and force Tebow to play as though he were part of a regular offense.

If they can do that, and manage to score points of their own, it's going to be a crushing defeat and a reality check for the Broncos and their latest Tebow experiment.

The Washington Redskins have so many issues on offense it's surprising they haven't tried something as unconventional as what the Broncos have done.

No matter the quarterback—Rex Grossman, John Beck and back again—the team hasn't had any success in the air as of late, nor on the ground, where the running game has struggled to right itself after losing Tim Hightower to a knee injury earlier in the season.

This week, they host the Dallas Cowboys, who are coming off of a major victory in Week 10 over the Buffalo Bills, stomping the powerful offense with strong defense, forcing turnovers and converting them into points.

Quarterback Tony Romo, inconsistent in his own right, managed three touchdown passes and no interceptions against a Bills defense apparently unable to stop even the most rudimentary of plays.

Expect this pattern to reemerge this week against the Redskins. They've struggled week after week to contain even the least intimidating offenses, and now that a legitimate contender is coming to town, I don't imagine they will score more than the nine points they managed in Week 10 this Sunday against the Cowboys.

Three losses marked the start of the Chiefs' season, followed by a remarkable four-game string of wins. Now, they're back in the losing column, dropping two straight and falling below .500 yet again.

This week, they have little chance at redemption, as they see the New England Patriots on Monday night.

Considering that Kansas City fell, 31-3, to a then-winless Miami Dolphins squad and followed that up by dropping 17-10 to the aforementioned Broncos, who completed two passes, does not bode well for their chances against the rightfully-intimidating Patriots.

Already serious underdogs, the Chiefs will now be without starting quarterback Matt Cassel (who has a hand injury), backup Tyler Palko starting in his stead. That's terrible news for a team already struggling to consistently produce on offense as it was.

If the Chiefs can score in the double-digits on Monday night, I will be surprised. No matter what they manage, however, the Patriots are likely to score 40 or more points against Kansas City's 30th-ranked pass defense.