The hot streak came to an end last week with my NFL picks. Time to regroup for the stretch run. It wasn't an awful week -- we've had those before -- but it just wasn't close to being good enough.  I went 6-8 against the spread last week and 7-7 straight up.

Games are always going to have big stakes when you get to something like Week 15, be those for the NFL Playoffs or looking further ahead to the NFL Draft. But t