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The season should be pushing toward a crescendo. Unfortunately, more than half of the league has already crashed.
Seventeen teams are below .500. Unless a few of them get hot late, there will be little drama in the final weeks of the season.
The top of the league remains clustered, with plenty of seeds still TBD — including the all-important No. 1 spot, in both conferences.
Those two races would have been a lot more interesting this weekend, if the Bears and the Raiders hadn’t botched basic game-management decisions that any kid who plays Madden can properly execute.
7-4 Chargers (-2.5) at 6-5 Falcons, Sunday 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS (Kevin Harlan and Trent Green)
L.A. makes the short-week trip to Georgia to face a Falcons team that didn’t play in Week 12. Advantage, Atlanta.
The Chargers’ running game has taken a hit with the knee injury to J.K. Dobbins, who’s week to week with an MCL sprain.
The Chargers’ four losses have come against teams with winning records; six of their seven wins have happened against teams more losses than victories.
Falcons coach Raheem Morris said his team needs more play-action on offense. The team also needs more wins; the Buccaneers are creeping up on the division leaders.
8-3 Steelers at 4-7 Bengals (-3), Sunday 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS (Ian Eagle and Charles Davis)
The Steelers have a 12-4 record against the Bengals since 2016.
Cincinnati emerges from the bye week with a 1-3 record over their past four games. Six of the Bengals’ seven losses have come against teams in playoff position.
Still, quarterback Joe Burrow is tied with Lamar Jackson for the most touchdown passes in the league this season, at 27. The last quarterback to lead the NFL in passing touchdowns but not make the playoffs was Russell Wilson with the Seahawks in 2017.
Pittsburgh has its five-game winning streak end in the snow against the Browns. Pittsburgh finishes with at Bengals, Browns, at Eagles, at Ravens, Chiefs, and Bengals.
7-5 Texans (-5) at 2-9 Jaguars, Sunday 1:00 p.m. ET, Fox…
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Publish date : 2024-11-30 13:56:00
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