Week 14 is here and we’ve got quite a few massive matchups from a playoff perspective. As the Counting Crows once said, it’s a long December and it’s about to be a long one for the NFL: there are 11 teams in each conference within one game of a playoff spot and 13 teams on both sides of the standings within two games of a playoff spot.
We’re going to start getting some serious weather too — the Lions-Bears game was trending toward insane weather this weekend but things shifted around a bit. Cleveland weather is going to be a touch gnarly over the weekend perhaps. We’re seeing a bunch of low totals as a result.
Well … that and the fact we’re dealing with a ton of backup quarterbacks. By my count, a whopping 19 of 32 NFL teams have used a backup quarterback for serious action at some point this season. That’s absurd and it’s not slowing down at all with the level of injuries some of these starting quarterbacks have taken so far this season.
It’s going to be dicey, so let’s get hot down the stretch.
The Browns aren’t in a great spot when it comes to the offense, but in this game they might have enough. We’re expecting bad Cleveland weather to linger around — some wind, plenty of cold, light precip, etc. The Jaguars are likely without Trevor Lawrence and C.J. Beathard is on the injury report as well. This is a banged-up offense for Jacksonville — Travis Etienne has looked like he’s battling through some stuff and Walker Little suffered an injury Monday as well — going against the league’s best defense. Cleveland is also getting Denzel Ward back and his addition to this defense shouldn’t be undersold. Jacksonville’s defense struggled against Joe Mixon on Monday and with a short week moving from Florida to Cleveland it’s not hard to imagine them ceding some runs to Jerome Ford and Kareem Hunt. Anytime you can back Joe Flacco as a three-point home favorite in the year 2023 you have to do…
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Author : Will Brinson
Publish date : 2023-12-07 17:11:40
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