Week 15 Matchups, Buffalo Weather, Quick Picks, Mayfield Magic? and Write This Down

what is happening. I feel like you're you're overthinking things in my My suggestion is you need to get back to base. Okay, settled down and think about what you got here. Saturday Football returns to the NFL tomorrow, and NFL Network is your home for an exclusive triple header. That's right, the Cold Stake on the Vikings at one pm Eastern, followed by Ravens Browns at four pm. And then we've been talking about it all week. A huge divisional showdown in prime time is the Dolphins battle the

Bills at eight p m. Eastern. It is a Saturday Showdown triple header all day tomorrow only on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus. Okay, the first game of that triple header. We got Colts, we got Vikings. Greggy, the Vikings disrespect has to stop only a three and a half point favorite at home against the four wind Colts. What is going on here? And that line moved towards the Colts. I think it's crazy. I'm taking the Vikings in this game. There was respect starts stops here and

it's partly because of Kirk Cousins. People think they know Kirk Cousins like he's just the same boring guy each and every week. No, I he's one of the most streaky quarterbacks that's ever played in this league. I wrote this column called QB Index for years and what I knew about Kirk Cousins is when he gets on a heater, he gets on a heater. And he was incredible last week. He was one of the best quarterbacks in the league dime after dime against Detroit, and I think that was

the start of something special. Is going to be playing with the same amount of confidence as Patrick claibn in a suit two sides of two. He's breaking out the grills this week, folks. What do you like here? I have about the same margin here, twenty seven to two in favor again of the Vikings. I like the Vikings last week. I'm going to run it back here. I think this is an interesting one to see if Dalvin Cook can be kind of the guy that we saw

in Spurts. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes it doesn't look so good when I'm looking at Dalvin Cook. If this is going to be a team that goes deep into the playoffs, they're gonna need Dalvin Cook to be far more effective and efficient, because when I'm looking at Dalvin Cook and I'm looking at those outside runs, it is a much different situation when you have Dalvin Cook and he's effective than when you don't. Yes, let's get Dalvin to have a good game. Let's get the Vikings to

have a good game. A big win. Not again, not as big as the jackets that I was wearing. We're gonna be talking about, but one thing, because we talked about respect. These are the two quarterbacks with the most fourth quarter comebacks in the entire league. And I don't think Kirk is gonna need a fourth quarter comeback in this one to seventeen Vikings win. Because we talked about justin Jefferson a lot and in a lot of receiving

statistics justin Jefferson is number one. The Colts play a lot of single high uh second in the league, and again, as he does in most receiving categories, press name all, Yeah, he leaves the league in receiving yards against single high coverage. The Cults are gonna sputter in the red zone like they have all season their touchdown percentage in the league. Kirk does it again, and he's gonna do something cringe e and we're all gonna laugh at it. I'm sure.

I know. The Vikings haven't been like a stylish team to like this year. They're not in you know, like Patrick's jacket was way back when. But I'm picking them, picking them this week over the Colts. The jeff Saturday experiment has just kind of gone off the rails here before the by look at what they have had to sit and feel and really think about. The Cowboys beat them fifty four to nineteen before the file. Okay, they've just been stewing in that and unfortunately it's going to continue.

The Vikings seventeen. They can clinch a playoffs about their first division title since seventeen, and doing it at home with a win. They're gonna do it. Patrick, you had to know this was coming. We tried to get you not to do it last week. You've picked the Ravens all year, but the quarterback situation had you shook it and you went down with the rest of us. Look at that. That's the face that I made the Ravens a road underdogs on Saturday. Come back to the Ravens flock, Patrick,

it is okay. They forgive you. What are you going with? Yes, I hope that they do. I will take the Baltimore Ravens here sixteen to fourteen because last week I made a mistake. I didn't consider the backup quarterback. And in this game, the backup quarterback for the opposition is better than the guy that's going to be starting for them. And I'm looking back at Jacoby percent and what he did against the Ravens back in Week seven seven. He had a hundred and six rating problem as he got

sacked five times. It might have been the difference the dude that was in the offense and practicing all off season had issues with the So how's it going this time? With Amari Cooper trying to play through a cord muscle injury. I'm just not picking the Browns at this point. Give me Baltimore. Yeah, it feels good to pick against the Browns, and it feels good to pick Tyler Huntley. It feels good to pick this Ravens defense too. Since they've added

Roquan Smith, they are a different defense. I have the Ravens winning this game nineteen to fourteen, and it's because of the linebackers. Like, get you a linebacker that can do it all. Roquan Smith stops the run. Nick Chubb in this running game has not been the same since DeShawn Watson took over because they have Watson and shotgun a lot and it doesn't work. So Roquan and Patrick Queen will get you stop in the run. They're gonna

get you blitzing, They're gonna get you in coverage. I think roke On Smith is really unlocked what Patrick Queen can do. And Deshaun Watson, since he's taken over at quarterback, is just a step slow with all his his decision making. And these linebackers are fast. So I think they're gonna feast and they're underdogs this week. That's disrespect to two upsets so far. What do you like, I'm gonna make it a third here one for the Ravens. I want to talk about j K. Dobbins now, who has returned

from injury. Obviously, what do the Ravens like to do? Run the win, also win, eat crab kikes cakes in football. That's what Maryland look. I'm liking what I see from j K. Dobbins. He adds an extra step. The Browns have been vulnerable to the run. I also think that scheming with Tyler Huntley means a lot of j K. Dobbins volume, means you're gonna play him in fantasy. It means all of the runners on this team are going

to be an opportunity for you to excel. I also think it means ball control because we've seen some very weird offensive play calling on the other side, and the team that controls the ball here is the team that wins none of those heavy sets. That Why are the

Browns not using Nick Chef anymore? I don't know. I can't tell you why, but I can tell you that J K. Dobbins will eat up the clock and the Ravens man A year ago, I used to look at this game on the calendar and me like some I'm buckling up for this one, and now I look at it, with the injuries and just the mess that's going on, I feel like there's gonna be one of the uglier games this weekend. I'm going Ravens as well. Six year

meme alert. Thank you Gregg's children. I thought i'd be all cute, like picking it up, set here and maybe get a dust greg in here. No, and I don't like to talk about this too much, but you can obviously the disconnect with DeShawn Watson. He looks like a quarterback that hasn't played football in a very long time, and I thought it was really interesting. He came out this week and said, obviously I want to be better,

but this team needs to be better as well. Don't say that, Maybe don't say that, Maybe just don't say anything, because the team has been through hell trying to back you up and now they're in this mess this season. So I am going Baltimore Ravens. I'm steering clear of the Browns for the rest of the season. Okay, we're talking Dolphins. Bills said, hey, hey, don't start anything about the weather of this game. I don't know what it's

supposed to be network. Everybody talks about it's going to be normal much football weather, Rachel football weather weather as Weather. Time for the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Benz. Oh my god, I cannot wait for this game, Cynthia. It was three hundred degrees in Miami in Week three, Okay, we all saw them sweating on the sideline. It will be significantly colder in Buffalo on Saturday night. The Bills are seven point favorites. Hey, would you go to this game?

Would you brave the cold and be? Who? Do wout? Ago? That is like the most fun place. You just have to like, buy snowpants, get the hands, just got to accept that you're gonna be friends and you won't be able to speak right. But that's a fun place to go. And those Bills fans, they come out and droves like this is a big game and I think they see a nice big win here. I have twenty eight to nineteen in this matchup in favor of the Bills in the hold a hundred and twenty degree swing. Blah blah blah.

We've all heard it. But I really want to talk about Josh Allen, specifically how his tackles line up really really wide. Why did they do that? Because then Josh

Allen can run. So when you're talking about Josh Allen's advantage and everyone's saying, well, if there's one thing about this team that needs to blah blah blah blah blah, like you need to run the football with someone other than Josh, Well, if they're gonna keep their tackles out wide, he's gonna keep doing this esp they're not going to

be bringing a ton of pressure. And I also think that it's an interesting note there because when they line up how a Spencer Brown on the right and you've got Dion Dawkins on the left, it makes a big B gap, big B gap between the guard and the tackle. So if they are going to run, perhaps inside runs are the ones to do. And maybe that's not the best place to run on the Dolphins. So I like this. And I also think, you know, Josh Allen, little running,

maybe little tease for later. But I'm not writing that down, but I would write down when one touchdown for him, a rushing touchdown for him? Yeah, like you could run it with other people, but you also have a cyborg on your team. Why? Yeah, I like a good cyber. But plus, if you run it, he's not gonna like less of a chance of throwing you an interception. You know, he does have a few interceptions this season. And I

agree with Josh Allen. One thing, the most important thing that Josh Allen said this week that I appreciated was the cold weather is cold. Josh Allen is a scholar. You don't get magical cold powers by being in a place like the temperature is the temperature. I'm overall of that. But as Cynthia mentioned uh and Gregg pointed out, the Bills have a giant mechanic is robot playing quarterback who can run the ball and sneaking out of The Bills

have a top ten rushing offense. The Buffalo Bills in a rushing offense that we've maligned coming into the season. They're in the top ten. The Bills can run the ball against the Dolphins team that's gonna be playing a cold weather. Yes, the cold and the temperature and precipitation perhaps does impact the passing. Well. The thing is they were playing in Los Angeles against the team that cannot stop anybody on the ground, and they refused to run the ball. So basically I am picking them to cover,

but but I do have all the Bills win. I'm similar. I think seven points is too much, so I have the Dolphins covering this spread. But I have the Bills win in this game. And it's because they have Matt Milano and Tremade Edmonds. It's linebacker day on game debut. Matt Milano is the man. You know, all the smart football guys were like, you gotta take away the middle of the field against TOA. That's just like the thing right now? You know how you do that with like

incredible linebackers. There's only a few of those around. Fred Warner is one of them. A couple of weeks ago. Matt Milano's another one. Where did he go to school? I knew Cynthia would like this. I remember she shouted that out when I called him a sneaky good player Matt Mulatto four years ago. He's not sneaky good anymore. He's an All Pro and he's really working well with Tremade Edmonds. Their defense has been different when both of them are on the field at the same time, and

they're both healthy enough to play this game. Love him this week. A couple of thoughts here. First off, thoughts and prayers to our good friend Colleen Wolf, who apparently bought herself some some electric heated pants because she's doing the pre show. In the pants will be the wires, they will be heated. Okay, so like a good time because one of the football players will will be having this happen. I want you, I want you to see something. I want you to see Mike me Daniel before the game.

I think this was a practice this week. Look at the shirt that he is wearing. I wish it were colder. Listen, I'm from Canada. Okay. If you're if you're in a group, you're with people, and it's always the person that's like, I'm not cold. I can a T shirt out here. They're the coldest. Okay, I've seen this before. I know this person. And like Cynthia mentioned, when they were at so Fine a week ago, they had heaters on their

bench in Los Angeles. I am going Bills, baby, give me the bills, give me a win for the Buffalo Bill. We've put that shirt back up. I wish it were colder. Can we pull that shirt back up because I'm gonna Why do they not have a nicer screen for like this. Somebody get this man a better shirt than he ironed it on that it was definitely an iron on. It looks like the colder like on the side of a soda thing you did like you were talking on my

podcast this week. I feel like he's going to show up in like a like a short sleeves and flip flops on. I wanted like Michel with a thin we have to like figure out like some of Colleen's pants. Yes, I'm in this game, weather side. It's going to be a very good game of football. Okay, onto the next one Lions Jets on Sunday. And I know it was a week ago and has nothing to do with this game, but can we just continue to appreciate Dan Campbell. I

love you. Ben Johnson is a genius Lions forever. Even if our good friend said Freelan won't love you, Lions, I do love you. I will Patrick. I'm gonna start with you. I'm gonna give Cynthia a chance to change her mind there and just like sit and think about this game. So I'm gonna start with you Lions Jets. Like I appreciate that because we need Cynthia to be back picking we need her on board. I am going

to pick the Lions in this one. I've got twenty two nineteen win over the Jets, and that is because I'm wondering if Quentin Williams is going to play in this game, missing multiple practices this week. He was so dominant in the past few weeks. You look at his performance against the Buffalo Bills that their defense is very good. Even though Greg left C. J. Mosley off of his list of linebackers that can cover up the middle of

I feel like that there's a tease. Okay, so, but potentially um he has the highest pressure percentage of defensive tackles, He's got one of the highest run defensive grades, and Mike White's beat up this all. Cynthia is all telling me Lions. It's just all telling me, telling me Lions too. When I put that crown on my head at the top of the show, it's because of the Lions. I I've restored the roar picking the Lions every week. It's

like the only thing I've done well Right now. I think the Lions win this game because Ben Johnson looks at the middle of the field. Patrick Claban was talking about the linebacker in the safety position for the Jets is I think where you can attack and who's great over the middle of the field. It's aman Ra st Brown and DeAndre Swift, who looks healthy again, and C. J. Mosley is great. But you were giving me a lot of stats run defense, rushing the pastor. I don't think

he's as good in coverage. I think the Lions are faster there and we should mention Mike White is not playing in this game. It was to twenty four and my score prediction, and then I found out Zach Wilson is playing. So I like the Lions to score a lot of points no matter who they're playing, no matter what the weather is. I do not like Zach Wilson to score a lot of points in this game. Okay, I saw the Jets two. There's a lot of boys available in this one, Like Rookie of the Year candidates,

there's someone defense lost gardener Ad Hutchinson. But on offense, give me my camera, I'm talking about the Jets Rookie of the Year candidate, Barrett Wrong. Do you not think he's going to play? Well? What are we talking about here? I understand it. Zach Wilson. I understand that this seems a little bit more difficult, but I think both Bamnovan Knight. I don't know if the bam it's hard for me to say that just seems silly night Bam Knight. Okay, it's not even Knight. I think he's going to have

a good game. When you look at this line's defense, guess what they rank against the past. Guess what they rank against yards numbers? Second time, the first month of the season was two months ago. Long time to No, it's not justin Jefferson just scored like all of the yards tree that was a lot, That was a lot of arts. So I think you gotta look a see. I'm not sorry. I love the Lions. It's not a left. This is how you know I do love them because even though they're losers, I still love them. Give me

my camera as an icon. Okay, well, Adam rank too long. I'm going Lions here, come on and Bregg and I have enjoyed riding this team the entire season, and I will continue to do so until the end of the regular season twenty one and I want to talk about this quarterback situation. Mike White's not playing, Okay, Zack Wilson has had a weird couple of weeks. Do you guys remember this, what was this to? Three weeks ago? Everyone showed up wearing Mike White T shirts for his first start.

You know, Zach Wilson's on that very bus behind them, he is seeing them all wear these shirts. That is awkward and weird, and he is young and impressionable, and now he has to come back and play with this locker room who he has lost apparently from what we are seeing, that's gonna be kind of tough to gel and mesh with these guys. Um when they're probably who knows, they might show up wearing my my white shirts again. That would that would be insane, but I wouldn't put

it past them. Go Lions go. Okay, coming up after the break, we got cowboys who were looking like what was that about with the Texans? Last week? They take on the Jags. Do the Jags have a chance? Is this another cheese game? Jags always have a chance? Made us look bad last week? Yeah, they did. Don't go anywhere. We're talking this game after they're very good. Okay, let's talk about this game. Greg, you are up in the pis. You've got some room to roll the dice taking the

jet I thought about it hard. How did you know I am taking the Jaguars to cover the spread? I think they're gonna thread the needle. Trevor Lawrence isn't fighting a fair fight here. He doesn't have the running game or the defense that Dak Prescott does. But he might be the better quarterback, at least right now in this game. Trevor Lawrence is playing so well. I gotta show some incompletions. I mean, that's moving to the left in the pocket. I'm too You got to catch that. That's one of

the throws of the week. Trevor Lawrence has moments in these games quarters at a time where he just gets unconscious. This was a past interference where he has about a two inch window and he puts it on the shoulder of the cornerback. Didn't happen. And then that touchdown to Evan Ingram. I just love the confidence he is playing with. You can hear it in his press converence. You can see it on the field when he disregarded his coach's wishes and ran a two point conversion and by himself.

They didn't know what he was doing. Trevor's just taken over. So I think he threads the needle and wins, gets keeps it close. He's growing up. He is. I have one, and this one in favor of the Cowboys, in part because of their defense. Trevor Lawrence has been playing pretty well. He is on the injury report though, so we do I expect him to play. However, it is something worth monitoring. But I really want to talk about how he's been

spreading it around. So when you talk about Za Jones, he's a good pick for fantasy if you're desperate for your wide receiver. Talk about Evan Ingram. You talk about all of the different ways that he's been effective and efficient. That has a lot of shades of when Carson Wentz was at his best with Peterson, and those shades of spreading it to all of his different pass catchers. That is a huge advantage. So I think a seven point wins, so nothing too crazy that I understand. Four and a

half is what it is. But I think a nice one score win and a nice evolution of you know, Trevor Lawrences evolution is going great, and I think we see that to continue. They're still in it for the NFC South like they're not out of it yet, which is wild. Yeah, they got some teams going in the wrong direction there, of course, and then Houston making a little bit easier for everybody else. Thanks, I have you have a problem. I have a three point three point

when by the Dallas Cowboys. And yes, everything that we have said today about Trevor Lawrence is absolutely true. But the Dallas Cowboys defense, it's hard to stay away from just the amount of pressure. They're still leading the league and pressure percentage, although the Eagles are pushing close to that. But Trevor Lawrence under pressure this season, his passer rating drops thirty eight points. He's got nineteen touchdowns and four

picks without pressure. Under pressure, he's completing exactly of his passes. I think that's enough for Doc and company to get supports. And when it by a field goal original you know, sometimes you just get like a feeling in your gut going into the league. Is she gonna do it? Not crazy? I've actually got a gigantic The Cowboys gane over the Jags. They beat up on the Colts fifty four to nineteen a couple of weeks ago, and then they had a really weird game against the Texas doc through two picks.

That's the kind of game that you go it kind of like scares you straight. Mike McCarthy was saying, this is a cheese game. Don't fall into this trap. We're huge favorites, and that is exactly what they did. And that's the kind of game that's like, oh, whoa, wha, wha, wha what we are too close in the playoffs, were too close to the end of the season to let this slip away and start getting messy and making mistakes. They bounce back big here against the Jags fourteen. I

got the Cowboys, okay, Patrick, Titans Chargers? Is that an overly aggressive dog? I here barking? Could this be a straight on? I think so if you guys didn't pick the Tennessee Titans, because I'm thinking the Tennessee Titans in this one. And yes, it is because of the run game. And we can go back to the best Chargers performance at stopping the run all season. They held Josh Jacobs, the NFL's leading russer, to fifty seven yards on tin carry's. Yes,

that's right. In their best defensive performance against the run, they still allowed five point seven yards per carry. The King and the Titans win here. They will run the ball, unlike the Miami Dolphins, who cost me a pick. I mean, let's get that straight dog at home. He's just angry. Yeah, so angry. I have a shot of brabies medication. Oh god, Greg, Eagles are nine point favorites against the Bears. I have been winning by twenty one. Seems rude. I have the

Eagles winning thirty eight twenty seven. I just think there's gonna be a lot of points on both sides, and it will be a good game for the Eagles to work on the run defense and also a good game to showcase how much Dalen Hurts has improved as a pastor. I think you look at what he did against the Giants and you recognize this is high level quarterbacking. This is throwing it over the line of the defense. This

is throwing with anticipation. He makes that throw under pressure before the receiver makes the route, the cutting his route. Same thing right here, Davante Smith has not made the break in his route. It's third down. Those are the plays that are keeping drives alive right now for the Eagles so that they can set up the running game, whole shots against zone coverage, I mean from the pocket. He is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the league. He is not a guy who throws on the run

that much because he doesn't need to. He's he's not my m v P because Patrick Mahomes is in the league. Why did you do that? Say something Eagles were gonna be ready. I thought you were actually going to say yes, Like I thought I was setting you. I thought I was like teaming up. He could spike it down. No, I just like Patrick Mahomes. There's some times. There's still times. Okay, So the Cardinals Broncos a game. I'm sure we were very excited about when the schedules came out back in May.

I'm less excited about it now. So I'll let you pick it. Go ahead, Okay, great, So um, I have twenty one nineteen Broncos. This is an interesting one. The Brett Rippon Coote McCoy situation is odd, But I do want to say that if you're a James Conner fantasy owner, you should still start him. Why Because he's going to be pretty much their entire rushing attack and the Broncos are vulnerable to the run, We've seen it, and James Conner gets an end zone. He doesn't get enough love.

This has been a weird team. This has been a weird situation. And kind of the other guys are available, meaning DeAndre Hopkins. So they're not going to pull those corners in. They're not gonna keep the safeties in there. They're gonna give him some space in a lighter box to work with or catch those shorter passes. So James Connor is gonna have a good game. Just I think that the Broncos come out with a week We got a positive about of it, all right, sound for quick picks? Uh,

let me check my notes here. Oh, I've got the Chiefs winning by thirty cool story, Texans, you almost beat the Cowboys but you didn't. How out of control does this game get? Well? When I'm looking at this game, I mean, I'll have thirty two to nineteen. It's a little conservative, but since then, so no, Damian Pierce, No, I mean it's almost easier. I don't even know who's playing, right, like the Nico Collins not playing. You know, Brandon Cook's

not playing. There's a lot of people out Derek not playing, but you know who is playing the running backs for the Kansas City Chiefs, which is why I think it's a slower paced game, which is why it becomes a little bit closer than maybe expected, because I think Jerick McKinnon, I think Isaiah Pachecko, They're gonna have huge games against this very confusing defense. All right, next game, we got Falcon Saints gregged. This one's for you. An awesome game

in Week one. Unfortunately the quarterbacks from that game will play in this one, but we will get to see Desmond Ritter, which is somehow enough for you to give them the win. Yeah, I think it's fortunate, a little just Greg action here, come on. Falcons and Saints, best rivalry in the league, and I think Desmond Ritter has got to be an upgrade on Marcus Mariota. I think Mariota's inaccuracy and just inability to get the passing game going I was holding them back in this Saints team.

There's a lot of bad vibes in the NFL, but I think the Saints might have the worst vibes. And there's no worst vibes then losing to your rival Atlanta Falcons at home, that crowd is gonna be unhappy, and I think Desmond Ritter's gonna run all over them like this. Yeah, okay, this next one, Patrick, you're taking a lot of swings today. Giants Commanders Part two. We are all rolling with Washington and you're going Giants. I am, and I haven't picked

the Giants a lot this season. I was. I was literally looking for a reason to pick the Giants, and the Arab voice in my head that's like, hey, that de Lion is playing pretty well. It was actually Greg Rosenthal's worth and he's probably trying to get me to make this pick. But I'm inspired because he's confident enough in Desmond Ritters cite unseen because he thinks Marcus bart was playing so bad. And I've just seen watch Cavon

Thibodeau here. In his last three games, he has seven quarterback hits and over Tom Taylor Honekey and Daniel Jones for that matter, we're both being hidden by the offensive Cordinators. I saw something late from the Giants that makes me believe Patrick has not picked the Commanders once. This entire true. Yeah, that's true. Okay, you're stand with it, all right, you gotta respect it. Okay, Monday Night, It is my turn. We got Rams packers. I think you can guess where

I'm going. Listen. I might be eating my shorts on Monday, but I will not regret it. I'm going Rams. Why do we do that for the Rams? Listen? There's something to be said about getting your mojo back. Stella got her groove back. Well, so did Baker Mayfield. Okay, NFC Offensive Player of the Week. I don't know if you guys just saw you also won the Nickelodeon Player of the Week. He got slimed by his teammates. That's bonding, Greg, that is bonding. That got to poor slime all over

the new quarterbacks head. Do you want to be slimed? No? No, what are you talking about here? They way bonded. We've bonded enough. Okay, we don't need to slime. I love this. I might regret it, but it's just gonna be a fun pick the whole way home. Go Baker Mayfield. Okay. Coming up after the break, McDaniels and Belichick head to head. Who is going to win in this match of the Patriots or the Raiders. Baker Mayfield didn't make the Raiders feel too good quite Here we are Greg you heard

from the people. Are you going to pick with your heart here or you? I don't even know what my heart says anymore. It's just cold and black and broken. I'm picking the Raiders every day. I'm black and silver. Let's do it. Uh, it's more about picking against the Patriots. The Patriots right now, they used to be a team that waits for other teams to make mistakes and they just kind of win that way. Now they are that

team because of Matt Patricia and their offense everything. I just watch the discombobulation, the lack of communication, Like Mac Jones is yelling at Matt Patricia and everyone's like yet Max right. Uh, they are missing a lot of offensive players. Matt Patricia's fake smiling on the sideline, don't be fake smiling when you get the lay of games and penalties and just sloppin us. I think they find a way to lose this game offensively. Raiders win. Wow. That was

like shots fired ning exactly the opposite. Ma Patricia, You're gonna win this one. Two. I do want to give some love to Josh Jacobs though in this situation, but you know this whole Belichick, like I had to take away your best player. Blah blah blah blah blah. You could still play him for fantasy purposes because they're gonna have to devote resources to stopping Davante Adams, so Josh Jacobs will still be good for your fantasy playoffs. I do like the opportunity that Jacobs gives them to keep

the ball from being turned over. However, here's the thing, and this is this is a big deal. They're only running the ball and then the Patriots throw the ball, which I do think will happen more often. Gives we saw it last week. Then that's going to change the possession. So Patriots win this one. And this is your low key flex because you actually like the Patriots. Yeah, but I don't know. I don't like these Patriots. I think you do like the Patriots. And that's why Matt Patricia

just like the most direct shot on the show. You get me, I don't, honestly, Well who does? It's Greg? I've got the Raiders. I'm with Greg here to seventeen. Okay, and let's talk about this Patriots passing game, because the Raiders have been very forgiving to opposing passing games. But just this is Mac Jones operating. This is what it looks. But what do we not see Greg in these passes from mac Jones or in the Patriots passing game at all? Patriots in the end zone, yes, Mac Jones has completed

one pass into the end zone all season. They've only thrown eight last is into the end zone all season. That that was crazy to me. And the Giants and the Patriots stand alone, everybody else has at least sixteen attempts into the end zone. I'm not sure what's going on, but yeah, Matt Patricia be ready for I don't know Patricia apologist here, and I think he actually does watches, So so Bett, we love you girls, well, at least I love you. I don't know. Maybe I don't know

who you're picking. I'm going with Patriots as well. I don't feel confident about either side here, but I have the Patriots winning seventeen. That Raider's loss. I hate to keep on bringing it up, but Bill Belichick is like a shark. He smells when there is blood in the water, and with the Raiders, there is blood in the water and has been all season. Do you guys remember a couple of weeks ago and Derek Cars started crying in

the postgame press. You haven't forgiven him for it since I have not because it stood out so much the entire season. I've been thinking. I think about it about once a week. Okay, that is not a confident quarterback that feels good in his team. In the vibes I'm going Patriots twenty one to say have been seen. There was a lot of trash talk talked about the Raiders this week. Kyle Brandon Good Morning Football said that they

should have walked back to Las Vegas after that loss. Uh, and they've had to just sit and stew in that loss for a couple of a week in the path whatever. I can't do math anymore, Uh, Cynthia. The Bengals are one of the hottest teams in football right now, and the Bucks play in Florida where it can get hot. There's the correlation there? Uh? Probably not this week in December mid six. What it doesn't matter. What do you got in? I have the hot Bengals staying hot in

the hot climate. There you go, there we go. Um, I have twenty five to two in this matchup. There's a lot of banged up pieces on both sides of the ball here. So I'm going to give some love to Chris Godwin because I do think that if Tom Brady is going to connect with any pass catcher, We've seen some really weird stuff here from Mike Evans, so I think Chris Godwin again, I'm really trying to give you fantasy playoff advice today. That's like what my theme

is apparently here. But Chris Godwin has been the sure hand here and if there's areas to exploit with so many of these defensive piece is missing and banged up, that would be the one for fantasy. Only one game we haven't hit on, and that's because the Panthers and the Steelers. A loss gives Mike Tomlin his first losing season ever. I am taking the Steelers. I don't want that to happen. Gregg's taking the Steelers. Are you taking the Steelers four weeks in a row. I'm not taking

the Steelers here. I'm taking the Carolina Panthers. And the reason is with one win from Steve Wilkes, he can equal the season any season of Matt Rule coaching the Carolina Panthers. This is gonna be his fifth win of the season after taking over when the team was one and four and absolutely hopeless. And he's not just doing it with Sam Donald, He's doing it with a defense that over the past three games has held opponents to

around fifteen points per game. And yes, two of those offenses were bad, but they did it against Gino on the road. I've got the Panthers here. Okay. Saturday Football returns to the NFL tomorrow, and NFL Network is your home for an exclusive triple head of The Colts take on the Vikings at one pm Eastern, followed by Ravens Browns at four pm. Then a huge divisional showdown in prime time is the Dolphins battle the Bills at eight pm Eastern, calling Wolf's gonna have her electric warmer pants on.

Tune in for that alone, I will. It's a Saturday Show and triple letter all day tomorrow only on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus. And don't forget to set your lineups. It's fantasy playoffs, baby, Listen. There's a life after fantasy. Okay. If you're in a fantasy football league with your friends, just know that you have to

talk to them after all of this. Okay, and it's time to write this down I am feeling so confident that the Lions win by by so much this week, that Cynthia will pick the Lions the rest of the way every single week, that they're just gonna be so good this weekend against the Jets. She is riding with her Lions the rest of the season into the sunset, and it's gonna be a beautiful thing. Listen, I look great in hollolululu, so I'm not mad if I have to wear a lot of vintage stuffs. Very great. Let

you write this down. I write this down is about Joe Mixon. I had to do a double take looking at this number, getting over fifty point five rushing yards forty five check it up, I e I don't care no Vida Veia for the Cynthia's taught me over the years. When you're missing Vita Veia, load up on the other team. And I thot, Joe Mixon looked really explosive a week ago. I know it wasn't huge numbers, but he's healthy, he's back, and the Bucks aren't very good stopping the run without

Vita via. Well, I'm looking at a guy who has never let me down, never, never with write this down that's cool. Commit. He's gonna catch at least four passes. You know why, because that's all Cold Commit does. He comes down with at least four catches against the Eagles, there's a lot of missing pieces, including Darnell Mooney. Justin Fields will be running for his life. However, you know who's gonna come down with the past cold that's right, Commit, Yeah,

the Bears leading receiver on the season. It's him, and then Equanimius st. Brown. Somehow I've been scoring all these I'm gonna keep it with the Bears and the Eagles as well, because I saw a number that was surprising to me and a half. This is points. The Bears have scored twenty two points a game since the point. I think the Eagles are good for colose to thirty. Let's get fifty. Let's do it. I love that, alright, guys, that is our show. Lots came out of this show.

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