NFL Thanksgiving picks, Week 13 best bets: Lions roll the Bears, Chargers and Cardinals are locks

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Three great games on the slate for Thursday so let’s not dilly dally with a lot of jibber jabber up top. I’ll just say this though: I’m thankful for everyone who loves football and makes this a fun job, even the Eagles and Steelers fans who continue to lash out at me for not correctly predicting their hot starts.

I’m even thankful for the Philly radio guys for thinking my prediction of a 9-8 season for the Eagles was a BAD THING, as if nine wins is bad or calling someone a playoff team is an insult. And for thinking I “ate crow” when I was on this week (I didn’t). 

And I’m thankful for Steelers fans who really get in my mentions because of this miracle season. I egged it, you nailed it, the Steelers are awesome. 

Go football, go Thanksgiving, go America. Enjoy the games everyone! 

Best Bets for Week 13

Lions (-9.5) vs. Bears

This number finally got low enough for me to find the Lions appealing, dipping below 10 on Wednesday night ahead of a Thanksgiving matchup with wildly shifting dynamics. The Lions are a long-time loser and suddenly are the best team in football. It’s really remarkable how fast Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes pulled this off. But even well-constructed rosters have finite windows for truly making a Super Bowl run, so I don’t think the urgency will ever leave this roster. Which means the Bears, who should be able to hang around for a decent portion of this, are going to get the Lions full focus in a holiday home game that should be extremely rowdy. The Lions just have too much firepower on offense and it’s a David Montgomery revenge game for Pete’s sake. The heartbeat of the Lions roster wants holiday vengeance on his old team and a division rival? Better watch out. 

Bet the Lions-Bears game at Caesars Sportsbook

CeeDee Lamb 60+ yards/Malik Nabers 60+ yards (+138)

The matinee matchup on the Turkey Day slate can be picked apart pretty easily because of…

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Author : Will Brinson

Publish date : 2024-11-28 15:17:00

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