Four NFL upsets that will happen in Week 13 plus bold predictions for Sunday and Bills back on track

Four NFL upsets that will happen in Week 13 plus bold predictions for Sunday and Bills back on track

Welcome to the Friday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!Today is ' birthday, which I'm only mentioning because apparently his birthday wish was for Drew Brees to be struck by lightning. Just kidding. Brees did not get struck by lightning, and if you read that he did, you were lied to. It was all a publicity stunt, and .One thing that is not a publicity stunt is the ' domination of the . Buffalo rolled through New England last night, and we'll be going over the key points of that game in today's newsletter. We'll also be taking a look at FOUR different upset picks we're making for Sunday.As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the Pick Six newsletter. To get your friends to sign up, all you have to do iswith them.For nearly 20 years, the Patriots bullied the Bills, but now, Buffalo seems to have the upper hand in this series. With Thursday's 24-10 win, the Bills have now won four of their past five against the Patriots. They've also won three straight in New England for the first time since 1992-94. Also, they're the first team to win three straight in Foxboro since the did it from 2000-02. With the win, the Bills also became the first team to beat the Patriots by double digits in three straight games during the Bill Belichick era. Ryan Wilson, Will Brinson and I got together after the game to record a 45-minute podcast about the Bills' win. Here are a few key points from the game that we went Trey Coleman Jersey over: finally looks like Josh Allen.For the first time since injuring his elbow on Nov. 6, Josh Allen finally looked like Josh Allen. Not only did Allen look accurate -- he completed 66.7% of his pa ses -- but he totaled 243 yards in the game (223 pa sing, 20 rushing). Allen also threw two touchdowns, including a wild one to where the QB was being pushed out of bounds (you ). The big winner of Allen's return to normalcy was , who caught seven pa ses for 92 yards and a TD. Also, the Bills rushing attack continues to look strong, as the team finished with 132 yards on the ground. Their six highest rushing totals of the season have now come over the past six weeks.Patriots offense was embarra singly bad. When is getting frustrated, you know something is wrong -- and Jones was irate Thursday night. The Patriots QB ripped into someone on the sideline in the second half (you ). After the game, he because he didn't feel like the team was taking enough shots downfield. Jones threw for 195 yards, but 69 of those came in garbage time late in the fourth quarter with the Bills leading 24-7. The Patriots did have some succe s moving the ball on the ground -- they averaged 4.3 yards per carry on 14 rushes -- but after the Bills went up 24-7 early in the third quarter, New England basically gave up on its ground game.Patriots' playoff hopes on life support.The lo s to Buffalo drops the Patriots to 6-6 and, more importantly, to the ninth-overall seed in the AFC. Based on how things have played out so far, it seems like it's going to take at least 10 wins to make the playoffs. To hit that number, the Patriots would have to go 4-1 down the stretch, which won't be easy with three of their five remaining games coming against the , and Bills.Bills put pre sure on Dolphins and with win. With three wins in a row, the Bills are almost right where Dalvin Cook Jersey they want to be. At 9-3, the Bills are currently leading the AFC East by a half game while sitting just a half-game behind the Chiefs for the No. 1 overall seed in the AFC. If the Dolphins lose to the on Sunday, that will put the Bills in the driver's seat for the division title. Also, if the Chiefs lose to the Bengals, then the Bills will move up into the top spot in the AFC. The Bills were the Super Bowl frontrunner to start the season, and after a short lull in early November, they're now playing like that again.If you want to hear our entire recap of the game, be . You .The best part about Friday -- besides the fact that it's Friday -- is that you get two episodes of the podcast in your feed. After recording the Thursday night postgame podcast with Wilson and myself, Brinson kicked us to the curb so that he could record his weekly picks show with Pete Prisco and R.J. White. Those three guys spent nearly 60 minutes going over their best bets for Texas A&M Aggies Jersey Sale every single game being played in Week 13, and we're going to cover three of those bets from each guy below. You actually might want to listen to them this week because they've combined to go an absurdly impre sive 28-15-2 over the past five weeks.Pete Prisco(1-2 last week in picks covered here, 22-13-1 on the season) (+5) to cover against the (+1.5) to cover against the (-2) to cover against the R.J. White(2-0-1 last week in picks covered here, 22-12-2 on the season)Jets (+3) to cover against the (+1) to cover against the (-11) to cover against the Will Brinson(2-1 last week in picks covered here, 17-18-1 on the season) (-3.5) to cover against the Chiefs at Bengals OVER 53 points at OVER 51.5 pointsTo hear what the rest of the best bets are for Week 13 -- and there are quite a few -- you.This is the final newsletter of the week, which means we will be cramming as many picks as humanly po sible into this space. With that in mind, we've got four more Week 13 picks coming your way, and those will be coming from NFL senior writer Pete Prisco, along with Jordan Dajani, Tyler Sullivan and myself.Here's how things are going to work: I'm going to give you one pick from each guy and then direct you to the rest of their picks. That way, if you like their pick, you'll be able to read the rest of them, but if they pick against your favorite team, you can ignore the rest of their picks and move on. Every pick that was featured here last week ended up being correct, so let's see if we can make it two weeks in row.Pete Prisco -- Falcons (+1) 23-20 over SteelersFrom Prisco:For the .Tyler Sullivan -- Jets (+3) 24-21 over Vikings.From Sullivan:For the rest of Sullivan's .Jordan Dajani -- Bengals (+2) 31-28 over Chiefs.From Dajani:For the .John Breech -- Lions (+1) 27-24 over Jaguars.All seven of Detroit's lo ses have come against teams that currently have a winning record. On the flip side, they're undefeated against teams that currently have a losing record. The Jaguars have a losing record, so obviously, the Lions are going to win. For the .Through 12 weeks of the NFL season, we still haven't seen a single team clinch a playoff berth AND we haven't seen a single team get eliminated, but both of those things could change Sunday. For Week 13, we have two teams that could clinch a playoff berth and two teams that could officially be eliminated from the playoff race.Here are the two teams that could clinch and what they need to do to clinch:EAGLESCan clinch playoff berth with:Eagles win over Titans PLUS Giants win over Commanders PLUS Dolphins win over 49ers PLUS win over . (Yes, four things have to happen for Philly to get in.)VIKINGSCan clinch division title/playoff berth with:Vikings win over Jets PLUS Lions lo s to Jaguars.Here are the two teams that could be eliminated:Would be eliminated with: Bears lo s to PLUS Seahawks win over Rams.Would be eliminated with:Texans lo s to .Remember, this just represents the easiest clinching/elimination scenario for each of these teams. For a look at every po sible playoff-clinching scenario, .There's nothing we love here more than making bold predictions, so we asked Jared Dubin to come up with them for Week 13. With that in Tyler Carmona Jersey mind, let's take a look at his predictions:Aaron Rodgers beats the Bears one more time.Chiefs finally solve the Bengals.Cowboys come close to NFL single-game sack record.Dolphins or 49ers set NFL record for yards after catch. For a full look at Dubin's .It's been a busy 24 hours in the NFL, and since it's nearly impo sible to keep track of everything that happened, I went ahead and put together a roundup for you.NFL reveals a few more details about the Pro Bowl.There won't be an actual game this year, but there will be three flag football games on Sunday, Feb. 5, the . There will also be a strength and speed competition between offensive and defensive linemen, plus a best catch competition and a gauntlet that will double as a six-person relay. You can read more .Bills place on injured reserve.The pa s-rusher is after being placed on IR due to a knee injury he suffered on Thanksgiving. A player on IR has to mi s at least four games, but last night's game against New England counts as one of those games, which means Miller will be eligible to return for Buffalo's Week 17 showdown with the Bengals. finally meets with reporters. The Browns QB held his first pre s conference of the regular season on Thursday, and well, he didn't have much to day. Watson refused to answer any non-football questions, which kept the pre s conference pretty short. If you want to know about what he had to say about returning to Houston this week, . still on the lam. We told you Thursday that an arrest warrant had been i sued for Brown, and although police stopped at his house to execute that warrant, Brown wasn't home, so he wasn't taken into custody. You can Carl Davis Jersey read more .Dolphins made a run at . The 49ers QB revealed a pretty interesting piece of information this week. Garoppolo revealed that the Dolphins when it came to trying to make a trade for him back in March. On one hand, it makes sense, because it would have reunited Garoppolo with Mike McDaniel, who spent five seasons in San Francisco. But if the Dolphins were trying to trade for Jimmy, it means that McDaniel might not have been completely sold on nine months ago, although he seems plenty sold on him now.

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