Your Very Next Sunday NFL Football Open Thread

To The Games!

Eagles/Raiders:

Can Carr get to 340 yards and at least 2 TDs? That’s been the benchmark for him in Raiders wins. Seems unsustainable for a player of his ability. As advertised, Hurts has no problem running (4 TDs last two games) but that passing thingy continues to elude him-he has but one thrown 6 pointer to his name.

Lions/Rams:

From Detroit’s perspective this game has, “Damn, the ex is doing way better with the new partner!” energy. Perhaps that will prevent this tilt from being the gawd awful blowout that everyone in the universe expects it to be.

Texans/Cards:

That 18.5 spread says it all. One thing that the Ertz trade told me? The Cards are all in this year. They obviously thought Maxx Williams was an important piece so when he went down to injury there was no fooling around, hoping things would work out with a backup. No wait and see happening here. Surprisingly, their D only trails Buffalo in allowing scoring drives only 22% of the time.

Bears/Bucs:

Now that Patricia is out of the league as a head coach there’s no one better at diminishing skill position talent than Nagy. I mean, how else does one explain the fact that Fields has only the one rushing TD to date? You’d think with his running ability he’d have at least fallen over into the end zone one other time, right?

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