Week 10 Matchups, Josh Allen Injury, Packers Problems, Saturday Debut, and Over/Unders

any role to do this? Well, I'm over here in Germany, resume handy to see if the Bucks and Seahawks need any help before they kick things off internationally in week ten, and according to my sources, Greg was in line to become the Lions new defensive backs coach. That is until he switched and picked against the Lions on air last week. I'm not letting you have a prime number. Stop it switching, oh, Greg. Game Debut, presented by Mercedes Benz, starts everybody. Welcome to

Game Dave You Week ten edition. Patrick Laban here with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland. The Lions pick situation didn't work out for Greg, but we got more games. We got more games. We are without our fearless leader and global traveler, Rachel Vanetta, who is in Germany still taking shots at you, Greg, still humbling me from across the ocean. That's just like how the way every week's going to start? Now? Well, um, it gets better. It's your own fault. Actually, I know,

I it's your fault. You didn't pick your lions. You should. I'm giving you a straight to blaming Cynthia for your own freath but changed during the show. Actually it's all my fault. You're right, Rachel, we we miss you. We do have your picks here, We've got them stored digitally, so you're on the show too. Speaking of picks, I'm a humble man normally, but this chair, this chair is my source of power. I want to talk about me and how I have a commanding one game lead over

Cynthia Freeland. I feel like the T one thousand is chasing me. I don't like this. When does it where I fall apart? Every year? It's a it's a tight race. Though. This is a big week, your two games behind two. It's coming, it's coming. I mean, look, it's it's going to be interesting. I'm still, you know, actually wallowing my apology to make sure that I've apologized enough to you for forcing you to switch your PI. Still still waiting on the apology from very mean Cynthia freeing first and

back to Cynthia is a bully. That's right. We've got to address the most influential news story regarding outcomes of this football season, and that's the injury to Josh Allen's throwing elbow. According to Bill's head coach Sean McDermott, Josh Allen is our to hour, so that really elevates the injury designation game. He heard his elbow late in Week nine, and I gotta be honest, this makes picking this game

extremely difficult. Not knowing who the starting quarterback is has an impact, especially when the starting quarterback is that man who's the entire offense. So Cynthia tell about the game, Well, look, until I hear that he's not playing, I'm going to assume that he's playing. And Josh Allen last week showed

us that his legs were really, really valuable. And then I know about case keenom too, and I know about the fact that they also know that they need to keep him from pressure as way, So I'm not adjusting anything. I have to be here at two thirty in the morning. I can adjust it. Then if we hear anything new I'm going to twenty in favor of the Bills. I do actually want to talk about t. J. Hockinson because I want to talk about the fact that there is

no you know, Jordan players already out. Perhaps Matt Mulana is not there. We know there's no Mica Hyde. We saw how they're going to potentially use t. J. Hockenson, and I think that's going to be valuable, as I do believe that Leslie Fraser is gonna let a situation where Justin Jefferson runs all over this defense happened, So if you're looking for a fun fantasy pickup, this could

be the one. I and and look, I still have a pretty big win for the Bills, which means they're going to have to stay throwing late into the fourth quarter, all right. Also, Rachel has a tight one in this one, but the Bills winning four. Cynthia has some confidence in the Bill's defense stopping Justin Jefferson. I don't necessarily feel

the same way. Let's gaze upon the numerals and what Justin Jefferson has done, also what this Bill's defense has done in the past few weeks on passes of ten or more are yards with this banged up Bills secondary. They've given up a passer rating of a hundred and five since Week six. That's the number one past defense in the world. Seeing a significant decline as injuries, especially the one that Jordan Poor piled up on those types

of passes. Justin Jefferson leading the league's in yards over expectation. The Bills have also played more man as the season has gotten later. Justin Jefferson, the number one wilde receiver in the NFL. I gets the man coverage and all his numbers are good. The numbers are good because he's good. I'm saying he's not good. I didn't say he's not good, he's very good. That's not enough for me to pick the Vikings, though I do have them having a few points.

But this is a win by the Buffalo Bills to three. Yeah, I have a similar the margin because you know, we're thinking that that Josh Allen may or may not play. But that number at the bottom of your screen where the Bills are only three point favorites, to me, that indicates that maybe case Keenum is playing, or that number is sort of assuming he's playing. And I think another reason why is because this Vikings offense can do a

lot on the ground, getting the ball to the outside. Yes, I'm picking Buffalo because I think their defense will be good enough. But if you saw what the Jets did a week ago, especially getting the Bills secondary into the running game is a key factor here. You mentioned Matt Milano. He might play, but Tremaine Edmonds is gonna miss this game.

Greg Russou is out for the Bills. They're a little shorthanded, and I thought their safeties and their cornerbacks, when you get them involved and needing to tackle, you can make some big place with Dalvin Cook Alexander Madison. Think they'll be fine. I think it's funny we all like chose to talk about something Viking because we didn't know what

to think about the building. There's so many good things about I mean, we have so many good things say about Buffalo, but we all were like, oh, will be nice. We're concerned about the mechanized thrower of footballs who dominates everything he plays. We feel a lot better on the other side of Kirk Cousins two and seventeen in games where the opponent is four games over five, which feels unfair, but it's always Kirk getting that comparison, because that's a

tough game for anybody. But he's like makeup brand new stats just to make Kirk look bad. At this point, We're with you, Kirk. We put you shirtless on TV a lot this week. That could be a case Kingdom revenge game in Buffalo. It is also a revenge game if you haven't heard. In Green Bag, Mike McCarthy spent thirteen seasons with the Packers, the second most wins in franchise history behind some guy named Lambeau So revenge game in lambeau Field. The Cowboys are favorite by four and

a half points. How do you feel, Mr Rose, I feel like that's not enough that the Cowboys will win by ten points because we know about the defense. But the offense showed me something before that bye week when they started using Dak Prescott a little more in the running. This was just a site for sore eyes, wasn't it. Patrick. It's like, we're confident enough to call some designed runs

for Dak Prescott. We know he can uh get a third and one, we know he can do a zone read, but he's also feeling comfortable enough to scramble and oh, by the way. This Cowboys offensive line, which everyone told me was gonna be a problem this year, is awesome run blocking. And there's a drive every week that the Packers defense just cannot get off the field that lasts about eight or nine minutes. It takes the soul out of all those fans and Lambeau and I think that

drive happens this week for the Cowboys. Just one. Okay, look, I'm with Rachel. Actually in terms of the margin, I have a seven point victory as well. I have twenty six to nineteen in this matchup. I really just want to talk about the front for the defensive situation for the Cowboys. This is the number one pressure percentage. This is a situation where, oh, I don't know if you're just gonna have a problem in any direction. And the Packers old line has really been letting Aaron Rodgers down.

He's under considerably more pressure. Now it's different pressure, like if you look at the exact number, because Aaron Rodger scrambles quite a bit. But if you talk about those the types of pressure that turns into sacks and see Michael Parsons like that's that's what he does. So this is gonna be a tough situation for an old line

that's been dicey and is Aaron Jones gonna play? There's a lot of question marks for the Packers here, So nice touchdown win for the Dallas Cowboys almost other Packers, but it's just picking against them everything, and honestly that that plays a factor and how I'm picking this game as well. But we start off and looking at what this defense is up against, and that is Dak Prescott. And since Dark Prescott returned to the field in Week seven,

he's got one incompletion against the Blitz, literally one. This passer rating is pie in the sky. We don't know a lot about passer rating. It's tough to explain, but it's the best in the NFL against the Blitz. The Packers defense has been blitz happy, maybe to cover up some insufficiencies all season, but they're blitzing at the second highest rate in the NFL. John to these results like this is happening week after week. Uh, the Packers offense

is some sort of torture device. At this moment, despite all those things, I'm still only taking the Cowboys by three points because I can't. I can't quit, Aaron. I just can't do it. He's been through a lot. Maybe twelve will consult his various means of dealing with things, some astrological implements. We also want commentary on Geno Smith, who is an m v P candidate, but he can't get favored in Munich against the Bucks. Were favor about

two and a half. That are we doing great? The Bucks have been favored every week this year and they have a losing record, and they're gonna lose again to this Buccaneers team. And I'm not gonna talk I mean again against the Seas team. I'm not gonna talk about Geno Smith. I'm gonna talk about the Buccaneers defense. And I'm gonna do that by showing you a play from week four. And you might be asking me, why are

we watching a Patrick Mahomes play? Why are we watching Patrick maho That was the last time the Buccaneers forced to turnover? Can we make a play? Can we make a play? Todd Bowls like that. Their whole defensive structure is supposed to be that we stopped the run and then we're gonna blitz and we're gonna make big plays. And they've got great players, and yet they don't make any big plays. And now they're going up against Gino Smith who doesn't let the opponent make any big plays.

Don't don't think about that pick six last week. Just ignore that ever happen. He's been making great decisions under pressure. He's been making great decisions against the Blitz and when he showed disguise coverages because he's a quarterback that wins from the neck up Cynthia, not just Tom Brady. He's kind of like a mini Tom Brady, but he's younger, younger. I don't know how Geno it feels about that one. But you know who does force turnovers? Greg, You know

a team that's in Munich that gets turnovers? That would be Yeah, they do it. In fact, they do it to to a very high extent. They are top ten enforcing turnovers in two the season long Seahawks defensive stats are lying to you. Yes, it's the same team, but this group that's on the four game win streak, they haven't seen an opponent scored twenty four points during that streak. They're playing a team that hasn't scored twenty four points

since Week four. The Seahawks taking a ball the way to a top ten extent against the team that while they haven't scored, they haven't really been turning the ball over. How risky is Tom want to make this situation against Geno Smith in the Seattle Seahawks. I don't know. I don't know. I want interested to see Tarik Woolan and Mike Evans the physicality match up there. I've got the Seahawks winning this one in Munich, three of us on

the underdogs. There we go in meme alert here and this is where I gained that that game back on you, and actually it's it's twenty three to twenty two. Your twenty four, Your notes about twenty four points, they all hold true because it's only twenty three to twenty two in this matchup. I want to talk about Leonard Fournette though, because that's going to be the key in this matchup. We talk about weird tendencies, and I say weird tendencies

meeting things that haven't worked, that they haven't solved. Right, something stops working, you got to change it up otherwise, something about definition of you know, in sanity, etcetera. But I think when you look at Leonard four Nett and how they're using him it's outside runs, and that's an area where there it is where we go. We got it a bit more of an outside run that will

be a source of success in this one. I don't think I want to get into a situation where Tom Brady's throwing deep and those young corners have a chance to do anything nuts. I think I want to try to keep it on the ground, keep it nice and steady, don't turn them, don't put in a situation to turn the ball over. You know, twenty three points. There you go. I know how you like talk to NFL teams and stuff. Yeah, you should call up your friends and bucks tell him.

Just give it to Lenny four Nette as a seahawk. Todd, Now, hold on, I'm fine with that. I got the international rate out here we go, Todd. It's Cynthia use Leonard Fournett and perhaps one of the more concerning things said about Tom Brady all season, Cynthia Freeland saying we'll keep Tom from throwing deep. No, I'm saying no, you know, I'm not saying keep him from doing him saying whatever we get every single segment, it is time for the

rived to excellence. Presented by Mercedes Bins the Los Angeles Rams are favored by three points. That's information that's readily available to you against the Arizona Cardinals. The real information is the man to my left has not been wrong about the Rams since Week one. Yeah, and I'm gonna keep that street going with a surprising pick. I'm gonna take the Rams to win this game. I know the quarterback situation is up in the air for both teams, but even if John Wolford is out there doesn't matter

because the Rams defense will be out there. Jalen Ramsey was fired up after that Buck's loss, and he was still fired up on Friday saying how well they're playing. I'm not a man to doubt him. And if if he wants to think about good times for the Rams, just think back to that playoff game when they only gave up twelve points. Just think back to Week three when they didn't give up a single touchdown against Kyler Murray. This defense for the Rams is still healthy enough, It's

still got Jalen Ramsey, still got Aaron Donald. So you can play Bryce Hopkins at quarterback, you can play Wolford. It doesn't matter. Rams are winning. Okay, Um, well, you're feel that confident. But if I say it confidently, it'll happen. Okay, great, Well, I'm taking the Cardinals two in this matchup. And because even though they have Aaron Donald, who I think is there's no better defensive player, maybe even player at his position at this year. And then I will never take

that away. But they're not getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks. And Kyler Murray when you don't have him under pressure, look out. Not only could he run for all of the yards, but now that he's got all of his more of his weapons back, And of course DeAndre Hopkin makes a big difference, but realistically it has come down to Kyler Murray and when he has just a little smidge more time, it's really difficult for opposing defenses. And as much as I admire Jalen Ramsey and I love

how fired up he is, he can't be everywhere. You know, like they could throw it away from him to the other side, maybe Zach or stay away from Jalen Ramsey. You do worry if if Kyler plays, is he going to run as much? Yeah? Dealing with the hamstring injury is another thing. And Cynthia mentioned the fact that Jalen Ramsey is there and he could travel with New Copkins, and I think that's the biggest part of this game, aside from the fact that we aren't sure if it's

gonna be Kyler or Matthew Stafford. But since New Hopkins arrived, he is playing some of the best football he has in his career. He's been one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. I think number two in terms of yardage since he got back from his suspension. And if it's Kyler, if it's not Kyler, no matter how things go. Throughout his history, DeAndre Hopkins has carried teams with bad quarterbacks. He's one of the shining spots on this Cardinals roster that the only reason is there is

because of a donation from Bill O'Brien. In terms of talent, it's New Hopkins. I think it's a twenty three to eight win, and it's it's just Greg almost you know ls my daughter, don't tell don't tell me. I don't love you. And I picked the Rams this week. They're gonna do it because of my pick. They're gonna just made it worse. I made it worse because no to say you don't say anything for you Greg believes in the Ramps, that believes that this this situation is going

to be true elsewhere in the division. The forty Niners playing host to the Chargers. And here's a fun note about Kyle Shanahan's team. They hit the over three of the past four weeks. It's all points for the San Francisco forty Niners fifty two total sixty seven against the Chiefs. That's all that. All that being said, let's start with

Rachel's pick. She's got a point bonanza thirty Niners and I agreed, lots of points though not that many though to nineteen and I think we have to start with this Chargers team, who some people aren't expecting a lot of points from. Look back at this game against the Atlanta Falcons, and there was a plethora of drops opportunities

that just went arrived for the Chargers. But whether it was Gerald Everett, Austin Ekeler had a bad drop, Josh Palmer had this drop that was an interception, there were more points available for the Charges that they just didn't get. I don't have them winning the game, but twenty to nineteen, well, I have the Niners winning as well. I have twenty

six to eighteen in this matchup. I think that it's an interesting like that we're we're kind of together here that you know, the Chargers not gonna hold up their end of the bargain in terms of scoring enough points because no one's available. So Keenan Allen already out, Mike Williams again, already out. But Austin Neckler has been a bright spot, and it's kind of fun to see these two Markee running backs going up against each other. Austin Neckler has scored all of the touchdowns in the last

five weeks. He has been their entire offense. He's like the heart and the soul of everything that's going on. And unfortunately, you know, when you're facing this type of defense in the Niners, it's just a lot harder. It's a lot harder to have the kind of success that we've seen Eckler have. I do think he's still gonna have a good day. If you're playing him in fantasy. You're definitely not sick, You're not doing anything crazy like that,

but it's just gonna be a lot harder. It would be nice if they had, you know, one of their main wide receivers, even one would be great, Keenan Allen. Injury has has us them. It's crazy. The Charges are that big of an underdog and none of us are taking them. To keep it close. I have the winning to seventeen Kyle Shanahan, and yes we're getting that mean Milert. Don't let us down. Kyle was worried about the running game a few weeks ago, and so what did he do.

He traded for Christian McCaffrey. That'll improve your running game. And what does he get this week? Eli Eli Mitchell coming back, Lisia Mitchell and Eliza Mitchell is a special running back. He is now maybe the best backup running back in the entire league. And you know it also helps your running game look a little better. What's up playing the Chargers? It was like the number one thing they said they were gonna fix. They haven't fixed it.

They're dead last in the league in yards per carry alloud. Yes, Cynthia, I'm just waiting for what you're gonna say next. Why, I don't know. I just I feel like this is a trap. I'm not saying anything. I'm They're gonna run. Well, it's it's another meme alert. So so take those screenshots people, we get really angry. Don't screenshot our alerts. We literally put me alert when we come back on here game debut, Jeff Saturday once famously recovered a fumble, so here he

is to save a fumbled season in Indie? How much do we believe in the Colts? Next? Looking forward to the league's debut in Germany, but looking back over here in the States. In the past three weeks the culture oh and three, they fired their offensive coordinator, their head coach, and play caller. They played a game where they went over fourteen on third down, and they hired a former player who wasn't in the building consistently at any point

in the season. So, Greg, how confident are you in Indianapolis? Um? Not that confident. But I'm not confident in the Raiders either to win a game by much. So I've got this game close. I do have the Raiders winning, but I don't see the Raiders as some big favorite when they're two and six and they're not getting consistent play out of their quarterback. Are we allowed to talk about Derek Carr at some point? The car to me hasn't

played consistent football. In the second half of that game, he couldn't hit throws in the second half of that game. Their defense couldn't get any stops. They are dead last in d v O A like efficiency on the defensive side this season. And car isn't a guy that really makes up for his surroundings. To me, he's a product of his surroundings, and his surroundings aren't great. So I know the Cults are a mess, but their defense has been fine. This should be a close, good game. I'd

watch it. Watch you watch it saying it would be like a fine football endorsement. Okay, I agree with you, but I have a full touchdown win for the Raiders here to seventeen. Why because of Josh Jacobs. We did see in a number of games that he was able to be efficient and effective, which changed the entire ability for them to win. Now, I understand what we saw was a bit of a meltdown in the second half of that Jags game. However, I don't think that happens twice.

I think this is one where Josh M. Daniels knows that this is like going to be a really important game. Remember he was the one who left before Frank Reich was coming. Like, there's a lot of like full circle back here situation stuff. So I think this is one where they get back on the right side of the pirate ship in their past I guess four halfs there's only been one good half of football for the Raiders.

But you have to consider what's going on on the other side, and I think Jeff Saturday may wind up being a great head coach, Parks Fraser maybe one of the best play callers the NFL has ever seen. But here's what they're dealing with. It's a team that is last in touchdown percentage, the last in sacks allowed, in terms of points per game, that the last in the entire NFL. They could be the greatest in history. I

don't think they turn it around in five days. The Raiders winners this one in my pick, So there there is another mem alert, although I don't know how the Colts fans would. I don't feel that good about this one pick up. We've been good on someone. Wait nine, we cry ship eight and one. That's why you guys haven't been sending us pictures. Nine of the fourteen games this week, by the way, or sweeps. So don't don't don't doubt us. Don't doubt let's get some quick picks.

We start with the Giants taking on the Texans. Maybe that's why it's quick, Greg, Well, what are you doing? I am going with the Giants here. I think the Giants are in an interesting situation. Now is a heavy favorite, Brian Dable. He's been great, kind of this last minute wins over teams that are supposed to be better than you. Okay, you're a big favorite. Now let's see how you handle it. You got a bunch of games like this down the

stretch too, against the Commanders, one against the Lions. If you win these types of games you're supposed to do, the Giants will be going to the playoffs. It's just a different sort of nut to crack for Brian Dable for the next step for him. Happy man celebrating elsewhere in the East. The Eagles are favored by ten and a half points against the Commanders, and I'm taking them the winds as I have done every single week thanks to the Eagles. I've been right about that. And here's

how I think it plays out. Because last time the Eagles played the Commanders, Davante Smith went off. He had eight catches a hundred forty three yards all the were the half, and I think he does it again and it's another nice, smooth seventeen win for the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's get to the Dolphins taking on the Cleveland Browns. Cynthia, what are you doing there? So I'm going the Dolphins in this one, but maybe closer than expected, just a

three point win twenty three. I want to talk about Nick Chubb for a second, because he's the difference maker in this matchup, meaning I think that will put a cap on how many points are totally scored in this game. More running on both sides. Obviously we have a great passer on the other side and Tyreek Hill, etcetera, and Jalen Waddle, but I think the fact that the Browns will slow the ball game down a little bit means a closer and potentially lower scoring interest. I've got thirty seven.

We're not on the same page. Yeah, we've all got a point, Bnanzela, Well it's still only three points though. We look ahead to a team that's in first place in the a f C South, the Tennessee Titans playing host to maybe a resurgent Denver Broncos team. Cynthia, what are we doing with this game Resurgent. Why because they had to buy because they beat the Jaguars in Lee. Then they won an International series did They did win

an International series game. But I think that they're not going to win this one because I think Derrick Henry playing. There are a slew of injuries on that Titans defense. I will acknowledge that, but Derrick Henry still playing, which means this is the opportunity for Derrick Henry to keep showing us why these Titans need him. He is incredibly valuable in terms of wind share at the position. No running back is more valuable in fact this season to

his team than Derrick Henry. So as long as Derrick Henry is playing, and by the way, this Broncos defense, they are without their past rusher. He went to Miami, which I know Derrick Henry runs the ball, I get it. But the Achilles heel of the Broncos has been allowing someone to run, and Derrick Henry runs really well even on teams that don't allow people to run. It's an

easy case to make. I am taking the Denver Broncos because one of the biggest pieces of this Tennessee Titans defense, Jeffrey Simmons, who almost single handedly helped the Titans beat the Chiefs, although the offense didn't have enough in that game. But I'm looking at the other side and Jerry Judy and the way that Jerry Judy has in the ball the past three now Denver Broncos games, including a game where Russell Wilson didn't even play as much as I

believe in the King and Derrick Henry. He had a great game against Casey and they still came up short. What do you think. I think it'll be close because every single Broncos game is close, and every single Titans game is closed. And I gotta take the Broncos. I don't feel that great about it. And I saw those We're giving you a prime number, a favorite second one. I don't feel good about this. This is the party where Cynthia pulls away. I don't care. I'm feeling unlimited

this week. Wilson's gotta get This defense for the Broncos is great, and the pass rush is gonna get after. Whoever is playing that quarterback, it looks like it'll be Ryan Tannehill. He did get limited practices in all week, but this Titans offensive line is one of the very worst in the league, just like it was a year ago. And you do have to throw occasionally to win a

football game. In two and I think the Broncos will get after it all right, So we're not exactly putting a whole lot of mileage on the score boy in this one. But let's take a look at some total numbers this week. That is the lowest total over under. But the Saints, Steelers, Cults, Raiders, Cardinal's Rams all at forty and a half points via FanDuel. So let's get to another one of those low scoring games at Pittsburgh where New Orleans visits. They're favored by one and a half.

And for the past three weeks Greg Roseental has been extolling the virtues of one Andy Dalton. Does he still have you? Greg? No, Well, it's not so much Andy Dalton as the uniform that he puts on and the coaching staff that he plays for. Dennis Allen and this group RMSS like come up with the way that you can be sloppy. And now I see, oh, they're having their fund in the back room showing me a bunch of bad Dalton plays. You know it's not on Andy Dalton.

To me, but the offensive line doesn't know where the protection what they're supposed to do. There's so many penalties pre snap penalties on both sides of the ball all season long. There's turnovers, there's fumbles, there's inexplicable injuries. Where is Marshaw Latimore. He hasn't come back at all. They are so banged up that I'm taking the Steelers in this game just as a punishment for out of Saints

have hurt. Interesting if you get our thoughtle, no, this is our and um, look, I'm actually taking the Saints in this matchup. And it kind of for a similar reason because we're typically used to seeing the Steelers and thinking, Wow, this password is gonna like your head's gonna come flying off your body. Whatever one for me. In this matchup, Alvin Kamara has a much better opportunity because Ay Dalton won't be under the type of pressure you think of

when you typically think of Steelers. They haven't been generating that type of pressure. So this old line, you're right, it's not the old line where you used to Obviously pieces are missing, it's very different, but at the end of the day, they don't really need it to be in this matchup, so I think two point win for the Saints. You mentioned injuries, fingers crossed. Maybe t J. Watt h comes back in this game. The Saints lost Pete Warner. Pete Warner in that game on Monday Night Football.

That had a huge impact because for the third time the season, the New Orleans Saints defense that was crushing run games gave up over a hundred and fifty yards on the ound to the Baltimore Ravens. And incomes Naji, who's been dealing with the foot injury, taking a lot of heat one like he got the by Nag Harris is fine. I think Nagy is gonna be fun and boys versus girls Steelers offense confidence for the Pittsburgh Steelers

at home, and it is. It's it's boys versus you know how much on Payton keeps saying it's like I'm gonna go look for a new coach, a new team to go, like there's a team in New Orleans that like loves you, that couldn't use some better coaching, that has a lot of coaches on that staff that you know, well, just saying like the Saints could use a good coach. Maybe consider the Saints in a big contract with him. Numbers still in the phone coach coming back. Justin Fields

put up a lot of yards against Miami. What number does Cynthia Freeland project with her model or what number does her heart have? That's the next up game Theybut you know who's fluent in German? A huge Byron Munich fan and is a playing football Bears this weekend? Rachel believes in the Lions. Here's one thing. Cynthia picked against Detroit last week and has only picked the Bears once this season, so something has to give. I mean the Bears, the Bears, the Bears win this two. I mean, what

are we talking about her? Justin Fields all those designed runs? You know who can run on the Lions. The Lions best defensive player right now? He really has been a safety that they draft in the fifth round. I mean, Kirby Joseph has looked pretty good other than that, you know, but why does the model not look at last week when you said, oh, Aaron Rodgers always breaks our Lions fans heart. He broke my heart last week because he didn't come through when I switched to pick the Packers.

I don't like Greg's still trying to blame Cynthia for that. I can't blame Cynthia for the pick that she's making because I'm making the same pick for almost the exact same that I've got the Bears winning this one twenty nine and I'll take another aspect of this run game, but I'll talk about it on the other side. That's DeAndre Swift and it's in the past game as well. The reason that it's so close in this game to me is in terms of yards per opportunity, DeAndre Swift

is literally the best running back in the NFL. The problem is they don't give him the opportunities. Right now, he's leading the NFL and that it's either a target or a carry. He's one of the best in the game. We love what the Lions offense has done at the start of the season. I don't think they do enough to counteract justin fields and the Bears on the ground. He's been so fun to watch, and yet I'm taking the Lions in this game. You know. One of the reasons, no,

I really am Lions. One of the reasons the Bottle ends up beating me almost every year, probably every year, is that, like I go off the eye test a little bit, and I gotta say the eye test for the Lions defense, even though the numbers are terrible since the Bye, I think they're playing with better energy, better execute a shin. Things have slowed down for Aidan Hutchinson. You mentioned in the secondary a couple of good players.

They played really strong against Dallas for almost that entire game, and then they look great against the Packers a week ago. I think they're playing better on defense. And this Bears defense, on the other hand, has all but given up since they traded away Roquan Smith, and really they've been one of the worst defensive leagues. So the Lions get it done. There are a couple of the best players playing for somebody else. It's time for do the map where we

demand calculations from Cynthia. You said that the Bears are gonna win. Is justin Field's gonna have three hundred yards combined? So I have a hundred and seventy one in the air and fifty two on the ground. So no, it's less than three hundred combined passing in rush yards. This means that there's probably opportunities for other running backs to get involved as well. I really think that this is going to be a slower paced game than that. I understand.

There's a lot to like about this Lions off. I get it. I like the Lions. I love the Lions. At ten on one Pacific, I will be rooting for the Lions. But Justin Fields isn't gonna have three D combine. All right, So instant math from Cynthia Freeland. Let's get to the Jazz and the Chiefs. The Chiefs given up nine and a half, Greg, I don't think that's enough. We got Patrick Mahomes involved here. I am taking the

Chiefs to win this game comfortably. I mean, how many different ways can we say that Patrick Mahomes is great. I think he's reaching a different level of greatness. I know it wasn't his best game against the Titans, but the couple of plays that he made falling down and Kelsey makes the great catch form, it's like time is just moving in slow motion. He stepped out in his second year, Patrick Mahomes, and he was the best quarterback

in the league. He was an m v P. Trevor Lawrence is in his second year now, and it's so unfair to compare anyone to Patrick Mahomes. But those are the two guys that are playing in this game, and I think the two defenses are comparable, and so I think the Chiefs win by ten points because Mahomes can do stuff like this where he just slows down time. He slows down, Tom stops, cuts back and then makes a throw across his body. There's so many parts to

examine in the Chiefs offense. There's Jujuiceth Schuster. They just went and got Gadarius Tony. But it's all just to cover up the fact that one thing is true. Patrick Mahomes is throw the ball to Travis Kelsey. If there's one certainty on this planet, that's it. There's gonna be shifts and motions. Oh h is Jared McKinnon. It all doesn't matter if he sees one on one or man coverage the balls going to seven. I've got thirty five

two Chiefs winning. I have the same margin as you, Greg, so I have thirty one in this matchup in favor of the Chiefs. But I do want to point out there is a little bit oh there's there's a little bit of a feeling of a potential like trap game. So here's where it's like that, because you know last week was a big game. Next week, they flexed to the night game against the Chargers. The only reason I say Travis E t N could have one of those games where he keeps it slightly closer than ten points.

I am not calling for an upset. I'm saying that it could be like thirty one twenty three because e t N has been doing such a good job and it is really worth noting that without Frank Clark there I've gotten serving that suspension. A second game of a suspension, there could be more space for him to run. So it's not that I'm saying it's a trap in terms of not winning, but trap in terms of less than ten Okay, I don't give you that as long as

nobody in Duval County. Let's anybody in Casey. No, don't tell them that Cynthia said, because then they'll try extra hard. Either way, it's time for you to write this down. And I'm telling you it's important to write these down because last week Cynthia told you DeVante Happens would have more than six catches. That's actually how many he ended up with in the first quarter. He had nine of the first half forty six yards and two touchdowns the

second half you only have one. But that's not Cynthia's problem. I texted here when this happened. I was watching this game. Oh, DeVante is already over seven catches and she's She's like, I'm not even home yet. I must even hold yet driving home from work. It's crazy, all right? So how are we? How are we following up? So THEA what's your right to stone? You ready? You got this cold commit? He's going to have at least three catches? You got it. That's all you have to It's an easy one, right.

Cole Commet has been a really sure handed situation there for Justin Field. And listen, you talk about the Alliance defense being better, they're not that much better. They're not gonna stop Cole commit from catching three passes three. Love that ball handling from Justin Fields. Also love Gina Smith. You guys know that. And the Seahawks should not be underdogs this week. They are going to win outright in Germany. They forgot to put the Seahawks in prime time enough.

They didn't know they were gonna be as good as they are. Well, this is what they have for a primetime game. The whole world can watch. Germany is gonna be chanting Gino's name by the end of this victory for Gino, Smith and the Sea. We don't have Rachel channing Gino with herself earlier on the Gino chant is alive and well, I like that, pick I like points in Santa Clara. In fact, we told you earlier. They they've come. They've had the over in three of the

last four weeks. What's the map there? Four in the last five weeks after this one points when the Chargers and on Sunday night. NFL Game Debut is a production of the NFL in partnership with I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.