Sunday 9:30am
Tennessee Titans at Los Angeles Chargers (-6) in London
Sunday early
New England Patriots (-3) at Chicago Bears
Buffalo Bills at Indianapolis Colts (-6.5)
Detroit Lions at Miami Dolphins (NL)
Minnesota Vikings (-3) at New York Jets
Carolina Panthers at Philadelphia Eagles (-3.5)
Cleveland Browns at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-2.5)
Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars (-4.5)
Sunday late
New Orleans Saints at Baltimore Ravens (-2.5)
Los Angeles Rams (-11) at San Francisco 49ers
Dallas Cowboys at Washington Redskins (-2.5)
SNF
Cincinnati Bengals at Kansas City Chiefs (-6)
MNF
New York Giants at Atlanta Falcons (-3)
Byes: Green Bay, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Seattle
Are there any NFL highlight/film breakdown shows that consist largely of highlights and film breakdown, and not just a bunch of ex players yelling cliches at each other? For the last 10 years, they seem desperate to speed through 30 seconds of actual game footage so they can move onto 5 minutes of talking head segments. I don’t get it - who watches football highlight shows to watch a bunch of jocks talk about it and not actual football highlights?
ESPN’s “NFL Matchup” used to be such a show, especially when Ron Jaworski hosted it. He and co-host Merril Hoge were laid off by ESPN last year, and while the show is still on, I haven’t watched it of late, so I can’t comment on whether it still has that style to it.
Also, the show now apparently is run in the middle of the night on ESPN2, which suggests to me that the network doesn’t feel it has much appeal.
I know you posted the schedule, but I’ll reemphasize for fantasy and pick ‘em type leagues: This week has the first early Sunday London game so don’t get caught.
I picked a good pair of WRs to start on my fantasy team this week: both Fitzgerald and Sanders have touchdown catches, and Sanders has thrown one, too.
But that win was against the 49ers. They have them again on the 28th, and I’m curious how that matchup goes a second time. Rosen vs Beathard, Clash of the Whatevers.
Ooof, I was thinking that was a weird line with the Broncos only giving 2. I should’ve put some money down. Also, I should’ve learned how one puts money down haha.
ESPN radio guys were talking about Burfict this morning and all agree he’s too dangerous. His goal is not to win games, but to hurt people. Mahomes is the a QB golden boy, so if Burfict injures him I’m sure the league will take serious action. But receivers over the middle? Pfft, not so important to the league.
Weird, indeed. And they only get a 5th round pick. You’d think Jacksonville would be pretty desperate, although Yeldon has been serviceable while Fournette has been out. This is a strange trade to make at this point in the season.
