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ya, that was one of the worst losses ive ever taken.

 

i never saw it at 6. either way best case is a push. Eagles are brutal and that loss was ridiculous. and going for 2 down 8 with 12 seconds left?

 

Coach had a bet on the game needed the points

 

Or famtasy and needed the points

 

Browns’ Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt both on pace to top 1,000 rushing yards



In today’s NFL, where quarterbacks are king, it’s not often that a team relies on its running backs as much as the Browns do.

But Cleveland is relying on its running backs a lot this season, and the top two ball carriers in Cleveland, Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, are both on pace to run for more than 1,000 rushing yards.

Nick Chubb is leading the Browns in rushing with 719 yards, despite missing four games this season. If he continues to run at his pace of 102.7 yards per game, he’ll finish the season with 1,233 rushing yards.

Kareem Hunt is second on the Browns with 706 rushing yards. If Hunt continues at his pace of 64.2 yards a game, he’ll finish the season with 1,027 rushing yards.

Six teams in NFL history have had two 1,000-yard rushers: The 1972 Dolphins with Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris, the 1976 Steelers with Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, the 1985 Browns with Kevin Mack and Earnest Byner, the 2006 Falcons with Warrick Dunn and Michael Vick, the 2008 Giants with Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward, the 2009 Panthers with Jonathan Stweart and DeAngelo Williams, and the 2019 Ravens with Lamar Jackson and Mark Ingram.

The Browns are closing in on being the seventh team in history to do it.

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Was at 5.5 for a good long while.

 

Crazy thing is I almost bet on the Eagles 6.5. It was the lowest I'd take them because they do tend to play teams close and their Defense pretty much kept them in it. Honestly it's better for my blood pressure that I didn't.

 

must have been real early in the week. I first looked and saw it at 6.5 on Saturday.
some guy lost $500k on this game.

 

Ravens have gotten on a plane and traveled to Pittsburgh... game is on at 330pm et.

 

Wednesday afternoon football.

I kinda like it.

 

This is a nightmare for us revered Pick'Em Contest Administrators. You simply have no idea how a delay of schedule can royally mess one's life up and increase the opportunity for cosmic destruction. For example, the most widely accepted theory of planetary formation, known as the nebular hypothesis, maintains that 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud which was light years across. Several stars, including the Sun, formed within the collapsing cloud. The gas that formed the Solar System was slightly more massive than the Sun itself. Most of the mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun; the rest of the mass flattened into a protoplanetary disk, out of which the planets and other bodies in the Solar System formed. When this happens, Pick Contests are universally impacted.

Based on this, I ask you to please have more respect and admiration for Pick Contests.

 

Yeah, what the heck. It's better than Wednesday afternoon without football.

Ravens next 3 games:
12/2 - Wednesday afternoon football
12/8 - Tuesday Night football
12/14- Monday Night football.

.....nothing odd about that.

 

I think the NFL should find a way to schedule football every day of the week.

 

Say that in front of Baby and see how long you last here.

 

Thank you for all you do. I'm sad I only started the pick em this year. I have a tendency to procrastinate.

 

Your going to go blind!

 

There is no argument that would convince me that Tyler Huntley would not have been a better option to start the game for Baltimore over Griffin or McSorley.

 

He said procrastinating not masterbaiting

 

Steelers go to 11-0 with win over Ravens



The first edition of Wednesday Afternoon Football wasn’t pretty, but the result for the Steelers was beautiful.

Pittsburgh shut down Baltimore’s offense in a 19-14 win to remain undefeated and improve to 11-0 on the season, taking another big step toward earning home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger didn’t have his sharpest game, but after an early interception he did what he needed to do, completing 36 of 51 passes for 266 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. The Pittsburgh receivers dropped several catchable passes from Roethlisberger.

The Pittsburgh defense played very well, but late in the game linebacker Bud Dupree went down with an apparent knee injury.

Ravens quarterback Robert Griffin III struggled mightily to throw the ball, but he did show that he still has the running ability that made him such a unique threat when he burst onto the scene with Washington in 2012. Griffin finished with 68 rushing yards but was abysmal throwing the ball, going 7-for-12 for 33 yards, with no touchdowns, one interception, one lost fumble and three sacks. Eventually he was injured and replaced by third-stringer Trace McSorley, who connected with Marquise “Hollywood” Brown on a 70-yard touchdown pass that made the game close in the end.

Griffin was starting for the league’s reigning MVP, Lamar Jackson, who is out after testing positive for COVID-19. The Ravens have had the league’s most serious COVID-19 outbreak, and there were concerns this game wouldn’t be played at all as it was delayed from its originally scheduled Thanksgiving night kickoff, to Sunday and then to Tuesday until finally being played tonight. The game was finally played this afternoon, and the NFL has now made it through 12 weeks without having to cancel a game. Barely.

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I'd never get around to it anyway.