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WEEK 13: THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU

 Ouch.  Last week I took my first real trouncing, finishing 5-10 and losing some money.  Sure, there were some bad breaks like the Lions' amateurish clock management allowing Chicago to kick a FG with :00 on the clock instead of preserving enough time to make them try for a spread-covering TD.  But there were mostly games I just flat out read wrong, like the Steelers, Titans and Vikings losses. There seem to be some teams now that really are settling into a groove and not just alternating good weeks and bad weeks.  There are also some teams that were very good who now seem genuinely off.  And that may mean being willing to turn a bandwagon around hard, recognizing that in a year when parity rules even small tweaks can give a team a new identity. Here's a sense of how I will be (mostly) playing some of the teams going forward. PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS (They are better and I think it's real): WASHINGTON: Yeah, I thought they'd be better.  I faded them at 2...