NFL Week 11 Picks: Green Bay Packers and More Teams on Track for Big Blowouts

Making any sort of predictions about the wild-and-wacky NFL this year has become an exercise in futility, though those of us foolhardy enough to do so aren't about to stop now.

Especially not with so many mismatches in Week 11 bound to yield blowouts that will leave everyone, even the winners, at least a bit embarrassed.

Green Bay Packers

This just in—Green Bay is really, really good and Tampa Bay stinks.

Wait, you've heard that already? Well, no better time to put those two facts together than the present, since the Buccaneers will be at Lambeau Field on Sunday, presumably to play the Packers, though they don't figure to make much of a game of it.

Not after getting blown out by Houston to extend their current losing streak to three, and certainly not with a defense that ranks 31st in the NFL in total yards per game allowed.

That is, unless you or anyone else thinks Aaron Rodgers need live in fear of Albert Haynesworth or that much of anything will deter him from breaking every single-season passing record known to man.

And while the pursuit of perfection, both personal and team-wide, may seem vain, the Packers certainly have plenty of reasons for keeping their record clean...

San Francisco 49ers

The 49ers stand but a game behind the Midwest's best for the top seed in the NFC playoffs, and you can bet Jim Harbaugh won't let his team let down (or up) without a fight...with another coach.

Their latest tilt, with the Arizona Cardinals, could be closer than most would expect. San Fran has only one bona fide blowout to its credit this season—a 48-3 thrashing of the aforementioned Buccaneers—while the Cards have won each of their last two games, and may well have a three-game streak if not for those meddling kids in Baltimore.

Realistically, though, John Skelton and Beanie Wells don't stand a chance against a stout Niners D, while their Bay Area counterparts, Alex Smith and Frank Gore, will find life against Arizona's 27th-ranked defense too comfortable for this game to be close.

New England Patriots

Predicting whether the Patriots will win from week to week has been a maddening task, to say the least, though no team has been as enigmatic this season as New England's Monday night opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Chiefs started an abysmal 0-3, then won their next four games to claim a share of the AFC West before dropping their last two to the Dolphins and the Broncos.

And if KC couldn't handle the likes of Miami and Denver, how can the team even hope to slow down Tom Brady and the Pats offense which, contrary to apocalyptic predictions, can still tear up the turf with the best of them?

Look for the Pats, then, to turn this battle of head-scratchers into another ESPN-televised laugher.