It's Week 9 of the NFL season and our team of seven football forecasters are on a hot streak.

In last week's NFL slate, everyone went at least 10-6, led by The Desert Sun's Matt Solinsky, who handled the toss-up plays perfectly for a record of 13-3.

Solinsky and The Desert Sun's Shad Powers and KESQ TV's Blake Arthur got all their surprise picks right, as both Solinsky and Arthur predicted the Eagles would roll past the Bengals and Powers with a Rams win over the Vikings on Thursday night were successful.

There are 15 games to choose from this week, with the Steelers and 49ers taking the week off.

Last week's standings looked like this: Solinsky (13-3), Tim O'Brien of NBA Palm Springs (12-4), Larry Bohannan of Arthur and The Desert Sun (11-5) and Powers, ex-NFL Players James Dockery and Andrew John of The Desert Sun each scored 10-6.

The overall standings look like this and it's incredibly close to the top.

Arthur (84-39), Solinsky-Dockery-Bohannan (83-40), O'Brien (79-41), Powers (76-47) and John (70-53).

Here's this week's picks list: Lots of variety in this week's picks, especially our favorite upsets. The Patriots and Packers are the two most popular surprise players.

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