I was really only on the fence with 3 picks, the 3 closest match-ups, naturally. I'm going against Belly Button Chick and picking the Vikes (Sorry Lions), agreeing with her and picking the Chargers (Sorry Cowboys) and going with the Saints in the best matchup of the week.
Looks like we have the same picks, Enterprise. Good luck to us. ;-d
Enjoy your Thanksgiving, FRiends.
Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 12
Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov 23, 2017
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==== L.A. Chargers at Dallas=======
= N.Y. Giants at Washington==========
Sunday, Nov 26, 2017 1pm E.T Games
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========== Carolina at N.Y. Jets=
Chicago at Philadelphia===========
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Miami at New England===========
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Late Afternoon Games
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= Denver at Oakland==========
=========== Jacksonville at Arizona
======= New Orleans at L.A. Rams====
NBC Night Game
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Monday, Nov 27, 2017
==== Houston at Baltimore=======
Ongoing
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= Democratic People's Republic of Korea at United States of America= = = = = = = = = = = Looking at Minnesota, I thought that Keenum has the dominant offense with Diggs and Thielen. An analyst made the point that he expects Diggs to be well covered. Rudolph is a good TE, and McKinnon is a pretty good RB.
I think Stafford is an elite QB and he also has good WRs with Tate and Jones. I am not as impressed with TE Ebron, or RB Abdullah. It just appears that Minnesota has the better offense. Like all my deep thinking, game day has a way of giving me a punch to the solar plexus and everything goes out the window.
Rivers is good enough with the Chargers, and he has Keenan Allen as WR, and good RBs with Gordon and now possibly Ekeler. I give TE Hunter Henry an ok. On paper, it's a great lineup.
Prescott has been a consistent performer, but the loss of Elliott for 6 games has hurt the team so much. (I know, Captain obvious). Witten is a pretty good TE, but without Elliott, the WRs are not as effective, as good as Dez Bryant is. I give the edge to the Chargers.
Goff is competent enough, but with Woods out, I'm not sure Kupp and Watkins can equal his production. I don't see a TE who is a real threat. But they DO have Gurley, so who knows, he might have THAT kind of game.
Brees on the road has been risky, and probably still is. The surprise is the emergence of Ingram and Kamara as an unstoppable force. Because of that, the passing game has not been as critical and WRs Thomas and Ginn have not received a lot of work, nor has TE Fleener. One of my sons said that in a recent game, the Saints ran about 25 straight running plays. (I didn't watch that game.) I give the Saints the edge.
Again though, I'm not nearly as understanding of the defensive capabilities of the teams, and I can only go mostly by who I think has the most effective QB with WR, RB and TE.
And I'm like the others here in that I look at teams with QB replacements as teams more than likely to lose. Nothing particularly insightful about that though.