NFL Week 14 Previews
With A Handful Of Teams Taking Up The Few Remaining Bye Weeks Left This Season The Week 14 Slate Of Games Features Some Of The More Lackluster Clusters Of Games You Could Expect From Games So LAte In The Year. With The Bucs Expected To Run Roughshod Over The Raiders A Falcons Offense Spiraling Will Face The Vikings Top Flight Defense With Their Division Lead Escaping Through Their Grasp Like Smoke. The Seahawks And Cardinals Also Face Off For Their Division. The Cardinals Have Lost Two In A Row And Haven’t Looked Robust Offensively Along The Way. The Niners Have the Slimmest Of Hope Of Over Taking Either The Seahawks And Cardinals With A Team Broken Both Metaphysically and In Terms Of Injuries The Niners Will Have To Overcome A Bears Team Looking To Snap A Six GAme Slide.
Bears Vs. 49ers
The Bears Have Come Ever So Close To Putting An End To Their Six Game Losing Streak And This Week They’ll Face A Niners Team Also Reeling Hemorrhaging Any Hope Of Playoff and Division Turn Around. The Niners Got Healthier in Week 13 Against The Bills With The Return Of Brock Purdy And George Little But Had Little Success In The Snow. Back In The Sunny Weather Of California The Niners Will Look To Get Their Offense Back On Track. The Niners Injuries woes pile up As Both Running backs Christian McCaffrey And Jordan Mason Will Miss This game due to injury Along With Offensive Tackle Trent Williams. The Defense Will Also Feature Key Losses Nick Bosa Listed As Doubtful But Remains A Game Time Decision. Chicago’s Defense That Started The Year Top Five Has Dropped To The 23rd In EPA Per Play Only Slightly Better Than The Niners At 26th In EPA Allowed. Caleb Williams Has Turned His Play Around In Recent Weeks But He’s Still Just Above League Average Overall. The Bears Have One Of The Best Red Zone Offenses In Football But Struggle To Get In The End With One Of The Lowest Third Efficiencies In Football and The Second Lowest Red Zone Drives In Football Equaling The Bears Having One Of The Lowest Points And Yards Per Drive. Can Williams Help The Bears Sustain For Long Drives? Brock Purdy Enters Week 14 Still Ranked Top 10 In QBr and Top 10 EPA Amongst Quarterbacks. The Niners Have George Kittle, Some Form Of The Skillset Of Deebo Samuel, and Wide Receiver Juan Jennings. They’ll need to help Purdy maintain drives against A Bears, which is still amongst the best teams in producing pressures and top 10 Turnovers.
Browns Vs Steelers
The Last Time The Browns And The Steelers Faced Off I Think All Head About Happened, In The Snow Jameis Winston The World’s Most Lovable Quarterback Out dueled Russell Wilson and The AFC North Leading Steelers In A Game That Pittsburgh Needed If They Wanted To Dock Kansas City At The Top Of The AFC Hill. The Elements Should Factor In As Snow Should Fall In The Steel City. Jameis Winston Comes Into Pittsburgh Off A Near 500 Yard and In Just Five Starts He’s The Browns Leading Passer For The Season. The Steelers Defense Took Over Late In Week 13 To Shut Down The Bengals In The Fourth Quarter And Pittsburgh Remains One Of The Strongest Passing Defenses In Football Second In Passer Rating Allowed(80.3) As Well As One Of The Lowest Air Yards Per Attempt And The Third Lowest Scoring Rate. Jameis Likes To Target Downfield With 9.5 Intended Air Yards Per Play Which Makes Those Numbers Paramount To The Browns’s Offensive Attack. The Steelers Defense Will Also Have To Face Their Old Nemesis Jerry Jeudy The Man Who Took Down The Heights of The Steelers From Their Four Game Run. He’s Unlikely To Repeat His 200 Yard Performance But He’s Caught He’s 15 Balls For 320 Yards These Past Two Games And I Expect Him To At Least Past 100 Yards Working Against The Steelers Vulnerable secondary As He’ll See A lot Of Joey Porter And Donte Jackson Spotty Corners. The Browns Secondary Has Look Spotty and Gave Up Some Big Plays Themselves To Bo Nix But The Pass Rush Remains A Dominating Force Second In The League In Pass Rush. The Steelers Will Try To Replicate The Scoring Success They Found Against The Bengals With a Similar Weakness In The Secondary Despite Big Names Like Denzel Ward In Brown’s Secondary. The Steelers Resolved Some Of Their Touchdown Woes Last Sunday But They’ll NeedTo Exercise Their Will Against The Browns If They Hope To Redeem Their Last Lost.
Jaguars Vs. Titans
The Jaguars Announced This Week That Quarterback Trevor Lawrence Will Miss The Rest Of The Season With A Concussion He Suffered In Week 13 Against The Texans. The Controversial Hit Will End an inconsistent But Promising Year For Lawrence Who Just Signed One Of The Most Lucrative Deals In Football This Past Offseason. The Final Days Of Doug Pederson’s Career In Jacksonville Will End On The Arm And Mind Of Mac Jones. Jones Nearly Help The Jags Pull Off A Massive Upset Over The Texans Before Houston Finally Pulled Away Late. So Far Jones Has Played Like The Epitome Of “Mediocrity” with Just a 56.3 Passing Grade This Season. Despite Getting lit Up A Few Times This Season Including Recently Against The Commanders The Stats Still Show A Respectable Defense For The Season's Top Five In Net Yards Per Pass, Total Passing Yards, Yards Per Play, and PASSING yards Per Game. The Trouble The Titans Usually Give Up Touchdowns More Times Than Not When They Do Give Up Completions and Big Completions They Usually Go For Touchdowns. Can Mac Jones Tied Together Enough Completions To Take Advantage Of The Titans In Scoring Situations? The Jags On the Opposite End Have Had One Of The Worse Defenses In Football and Will Face One Of The Worse Offenses In Football In Will Levis and The Titans. Levi Has Played Slightly Less Mediocre Than Jones But He’s Always Capable Of a Big Game Out of Nowhere The Jags' Defense Despite Some Success Always Has an Open Hand For A Big Passing Game.
Seahawks Vs Cardinals
One Of The Few Games With Considerable Playoff Value The Cardinals Face Off Against The Divisional Lead With The Division on The Line. If The Cardinals win The Two Teams Would Have A Virtual Lock But The Cards Have The Better Division Record So They’ll Take Over The Lead. The Last These Two Team Met Both Offenses Dried Up And A Coby Bryant Pick For a Touchdown And the Seahawks Escaped With The Division. Kyler Murray Has Had The Hot Hand For Interceptions, Three In His Last Two Games Compared To One Touchdown. Murray Took Five Sacks That Game And He’d He Could Perform Better Escaping Seattle’s Rush. Neither Team Has an Excited Analyst In The Pass Rush Game Seattle’s Defensive Line Score A Touchdown For Them Last Week And The Cardinals Just Racked Up A 21 Pressure Game Against The Vikings. Geno Smith Has Shown He is Vulnerable Under Pressure Throwing 10 Picks When The Pockets are Messy But He fought tight Against the Jets 5/9 attempts for 87 yards. The Seahawks Dropback To Pass At One Of The Highest Rates In Football Which Will Open Up A lot of Opportunities To attack Geno And Also Give Seattle Chances To Attack down Field with Their Array Of Outside Weapons. Right Now Smith Has One Of The Best Deep Passing Games In Football And The Cardinals Give Up The Second Most Yards Per Drive But One of The Lowest rates of Touchdowns Per Pass and the Lowest Red Zone Rate. The Cardinals Play A Bend Do n’t-break And Seattle Plays A Style A Football That Feeds Into This Aspect Of Arizona’s Defensive Skill Set. Geno Smith Sports A 2.7% Interception Rate, But He’s Also Amongst The League’s Best In Time Throw Rate A Real Feast Or Famine Type Year For Mr. Smith. the Cardinals Ground Game May have To Carry The Birds if Murray Continues To Struggle Through The Air The Seahawks Run Defense Can Play Hit Or Miss Some Times But Right Now Mike McDonald’s Unit Hovers Right Over The Bottom Third Of The T League In Terms Of Success Rate At 22nd Overall.
Falcons Vs Vikings
For The Second Week In a Row, The Vikings Face An Inconsistent Offense And A Team Looking To Hold On To Their last Gasp In Playoff Position As The Falcons Visit The Vikings In The Kirk Cousins Bowl. Cousins The Falcons Offseason Pick Up Spent The Past Six Years In Minnesota Before Departing Finding Success In The Regular Season But Never IN The Playoff. The Vikings Defense Held The Cardinals To 1-6 In The Red Zone And Pick Two Fourth Quarter InterceptionS To Beat The Cardinals On A Late Score. The Falcons' Offense Just Threw Away Their Latest Contest Thanks To Four Interceptions In One Game Lifting Kirk Cousins’s Total For The Season To 13 And He’s Now Facing The Number One Team In Terms Of Takeaways Including Interceptions With 18 Total and Second In EPA Added Off Turn Overs. The Vikings Also Lead The League In Scoring Percentage So Cousins Has To Play More Sure Handed if The Falcons Hope To Avoid A collapse.
