Christmas Football Preview
Christmas football is coming. It’s, honestly, not great. While it’ll be nice to have something beyond the Belk Bowl to watch in the dead spot between guests arriving and serving dinner, Week 16’s games aren’t entirely compelling. There’s a dearth of high level matchups between playoff hopefuls.
A Cincinnati Bengals-Pittsburgh Steelers rivalry game looked great a month ago but now hinges on Jake Browning and Mason Rudolph at quarterback. The game that follows it on Saturday features the surging Buffalo Bills and a Los Angeles Chargers team without the head coach or franchise quarterback with whom it began 2023.
Sunday Night Football on Christmas Eve features the New England Patriots, which is football’s equivalent of watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas without the redemption arc.
Two games serve as our balm in Gilead. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers will duke it out in a primetime battle between two conference leaders with top-of-class MVP candidates. And the Dallas Cowboys will visit the Miami Dolphins to pit Mike McCarthy’s inability to win on the road vs. Mike McDaniel’s inability to beat good teams.
Miami and Dallas are both 10-4 and occasionally awesome to watch. Each is in massive need of the kind of affirming win that can build their playoff confidence. There’s no guarantee either will get it. Sunday’s game could either be a clash between two high octane teams we all buy as Super Bowl contenders or a sloppy disaster that proves our doubts right. Honestly, our panel of experts isn’t sure which way this one’s gonna lean.
In the end, we all just sort of shrugged and rolled with homefield advantage.
| Game | Christian | Robert | Charles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saints at Rams | Rams | Rams | Rams |
| Bengals at Steelers | Steelers? | Bengals | Bengals |
| Bills at Chargers | Bills | Bills | Bills |
Last week:
Christian 12-4, Robert 11-5, Charles 12-4
Year to date:
Christian 156-68, Robert 134-90, Charles 159-75
And:
| Game | Prince | Mary | Meghan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saints at Rams | Rams | Rams | Rams |
Last week:
Prince 11-5, Mary 12-4, Meghan 12-4
Year to date:
Prince 142-82, Mary 135-73, Meghan 129-63
Here are those picks in an easier to digest chart:
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