This game presents the biggest coaching challenge for Jon Gruden since he left the broadcasting booth. His team is young, and its confidence was badly shaken last weekend.
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Game-changing athletic quarterbacks have come and gone in the NFL. Will Lamar Jackson be any different? He could be, because we’ve never quite seen anything like this for a sustained period.
Chalk has been the perfect side on turkey day the last three years, as favorites have gone 9-0 straight up and 8-1 ATS. The under is 5-0 in the prime-time game on the holiday.
The showdown with the No. 3 49ers could be Ravens’ final big test before the end of the season.
As the days grow colder and weather becomes more of a factor, Jon Gruden needs to play to the team’s strength as a power running team.
The gutless call by the Cowboys coach to kick a field goal with 6:04 left essentially cost Dallas the game in a 13-9 loss and cost countless New England bettors a cover.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones basically said coach Jason Garrett and his staff cost his team a victory against the Patriots.
How an NFL team with so much on the line as a season progresses can offer such a dreadful performance is one of sport’s great mysteries, but the Raiders ineptly obliged in a 34-3 loss at New York on Sunday.
New York has won two straight and welcomes the Raiders to MetLife Stadium on Sunday, a Jets team that after eight weeks looked like one of the worst in the NFL.
The Jets have been a mess for most of the year, but you cannot overstate how much quarterback Sam Darnold’s battle with mono earlier this season set the franchise back.
Before the hip injury, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa was at least one of the top three quarterbacks available in the NFL draft, along with LSU’s Joe Burrow and Oregon’s Justin Herbert.
Rich Velez went 81-36-2 ATS to win the Golden Nugget’s inaugural Ultimate Football Challenge, and he’s in 10th place in the contest this year with a 46-28-3 record.
Winners of six straight games, the Ravens are the best team in football right now.
The first draft class for Raiders general manager Mike Mayock is no group of wallflowers as the NFL’s big dance gets closer. No, they are just now rounding into form as a unit and are playing crucial roles as the Raiders make their playoff push. Sunday’s 17-10 was the latest and best example.
D.J. Reed returned a fumble of a botched lateral for a TD with no time remaining to give the 49ers a 36-26 win over Arizona, a 9½-point underdog at multiple sportsbooks.