Weekend Blitz: NFL Week 17 picks + best links of the week

Weekend Blitz: NFL Week 17 picks + best links of the week

Published Dec. 26, 2014 9:44 a.m. ET

Welcome to another edition of "Weekend Blitz," a column that will appear on FOXSports.com each Friday during the football season. Consider this one of your must-read features as you wrap up the week and head into a Sunday filled with pigskin. We'll be giving out NFL picks and looking back at the week that was in the world of sports and pop culture.

Please come back every Friday or check FOXSports.com/Buzzer or follow me, @JimmyTraina, on Twitter.

A nice 4-1 Week 16, including a super easy win with Seattle -8 at Arizona, which we called the easiest lock of the season, puts the season record at 36-32-1. It would be great to repeat that effort and finish the season seven over .500. Week 17 is a very tough week to predict, but we do like these five games.

JETS +5.5 AT DOLPHINS: New York's players love Rex Ryan. They will give maximum effort in what is expected to be his last game as Jets coach. Grab the points.

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COWBOYS -5.5 AT REDSKINS: Washington knocked Philly out of the playoffs last week, so we're expecting a letdown against Dallas. The Cowboys are still playing for a first-round bye, so they will play all their starters. That means an easy win.

* Nationals pitcher Doug Fister gave his Twitter followers a free beverage from Starbucks for Christmas.

* This "commercial" for the Baltimore Ravens Christmas album.

* Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban dressing as a security guard to surprise some kids.

* Blazers forward Robin Lopez hilariously denying rumors he was dating Khloe Kardashian.

* The impressive basketball skills of LeBron James Jr.

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