The drama of the NFL’s divisional playoffs — punctuated by three knockout goals and an extra time goal — will be impossible to live through this weekend simply because there are fewer games to play. But fans needn’t worry: the rich stories in both conference championships must divide the audience and present stylistic clashes on …
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The drama of the NFL’s divisional playoffs — punctuated by three knockout goals and an extra time goal — will be impossible to live through this weekend simply because there are fewer games to play. But fans needn’t worry: the rich stories in both conference championships must divide the audience and present stylistic clashes on …
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The Texans (4-12) shocked the Chargers last week, but it’s unlikely that Houston will have a win against the Titans (11-5), who with the AFC’s #1 seed will want to bury this early – and bye week — on the line. To collect: Titans -10.5 Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, 13:00, CBS Line: Bengals -2 | …
Quarterback Jalen Hurts delivered one of his best plays of the season last week – completing 77 percent of his 296-yard passes with a touchdown and an interception. The offense, led by the Hurts and runners Miles Sanders and Boston Scott, has rushed over 200 yards in five of the last seven games. Giants season …
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Quarterback Jalen Hurts delivered one of his best plays of the season last week – completing 77 percent of his 296-yard passes with a touchdown and an interception. The offense, led by the Hurts and runners Miles Sanders and Boston Scott, has rushed over 200 yards in five of the last seven games. Giants season …
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New Orleans Saints in Jets, 13:00, CBS Line: Saints -6 | Total: 43.5 Taysom Hill is expected to start as quarterback for the Saints (5-7) again and play with a finger injury. New Orleans hopes Alvin Kamara, who missed four games with a knee injury, will run back as well. If Hill can cut their …
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Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers, 16:25 CBS Line: Ravens -4 | Total: 46 After making four interventions last week and missing the Week 11 start with an illness, Lamar Jackson stated that he was “back to the lab.” This has to do with the Steelers (5-5-1), whose defense is exploitable in the continued absence of …
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Thanksgiving Games Chicago Bears in Detroit Lions, 12:30, Fox Line: Bears -3.5 | Total: 41.5 Football can wait. The Bears (3-7) and Lions (0-9-1) are bad, and the game is only important for the draft position and as a backdrop for putting the finishing touches on the Thanksgiving dinner before the guests arrive. Chicago’s rookie …
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The midpoint of this extended regular season is upon us, and the two conferences are taking different paths. Only five teams in the NFC – the Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys – are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. There’s more par in the AFC, where the 7-2 …
Other Games of Sunday Houston Texans at Miami Dolphins, 1 pm, Fox Line: Dolphins -7 | Total: 45.5 Trading time has passed and Tua Tagovailoa is still the Miami Dolphins’ first quarterback (1-7). At least until March. This is the earliest official swap with Texans (1-7) for Deshaun Watson, if by then Watson has settled …
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Detroit Lions at Los Angeles Rams, 16:05, Fox Line: Aries -15 | Total: 50.5 Lions quarterback Jared Goff played for the Rams (5-1) for five seasons and helped lay the groundwork for the opening of SoFi Stadium, which he did in 2020, and will play as a visitor there this weekend. But Detroit coach Dan …
Kansas City at Tennessee Titans, 13:00, CBS Line: Kansas City -4.5 | Total: 56.5 Kansas City security Tyrann Mathieu has had enough. Television cameras captured his emotional dialogues with his teammates on the bench and with his hands above his head, in confusion after poor defensive performances and breakdowns on the pitch. The team faces …