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By Tim Byrnes<\/p>\n
Week 9 began in Miami:<\/p>\n
Baltimore got some much-needed help as the Ravens traveled to Florida, hoping to turn their injury-filled season around.<\/p>\n
Thursday Night:<\/b><\/p>\n
*Baltimore (2-5) @ Miami (2-6): Baltimore 28-6<\/b><\/p>\n
Two-time MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson returned from injury and reminded everyone why the Ravens were the AFC favorite to reach the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Jackson (18\/23-204 yds-4 TDs) shook off rust by targeting his tight ends with great success.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Likely (3-60), Mark Andrews (2-22-2 TDs), and Charlie Kolar (2-23-TD) were easy to find and key to the win.<\/p>\n
Derrick Henry rushed for an efficient 119 yards on 19 carries, keeping defenses honest.<\/p>\n
All Miami managed to accomplish was a series of miscues, fumbles, ill-timed penalties, and getting GM Chris Grier fired.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s Games:<\/b><\/p>\n
*New Orleans (1-7) @ LA Rams (5-2): LAR 34-10<\/b><\/p>\n
The Rams controlled the ball the entire game (43:53 to 16:07), taking over an entire quarter off the clock on two touchdowns drives to begin the second half, and turned a 20-10 halftime lead into a blowout.<\/p>\n
Matthew Stafford (281yards-4 TDs), who has to be an MVP-frontrunner, hasn’t thrown an interception since week 3, while tossing 16 touchdown passes.<\/p>\n
Davante Adams (5-60) scored twice while returning star, Puka Nacua (7-95), added another score to pace the wide receivers.<\/p>\n
Four tight ends combined for ten receptions, over 100 yards receiving, and a score while Kyren Williams (114-TD) had his first 100-yard rushing game of the season.<\/p>\n
*Denver (6-2) @ Houston (3-4): Denver 18-15<\/b><\/p>\n
Houston entered Sunday, the NFL’s top-rated defense, but it was a stingy Denver “D” that kept the Texans out of the endzone.<\/p>\n
Houston’s defense played well early, and special teams recovered a muffed punt, and blocked a field goal to give themselves good field position, only for Denver to force five field goals by Ka’imi Fairbairn (23, 41, 38, 40, 41).<\/p>\n
Denver’s quarterback Bo Nix (171 yds-2 TDs) ran for 34 yards on the final drive to help position the Broncos to hit the game winning field goal.<\/p>\n
With Houston quarterback CJ Stroud exiting in the second quarter with a concussion, the Texans had five 3-and-out drives to limit further scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n
*Kansas City (5-3) @ Buffalo (5-2): Buffalo 28-21<\/b><\/p>\n
Is something up with Patrick Mahomes?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After his poor first half last week versus Washington, Mahomes followed it up with uncharacteristic issues hitting his receivers and finished with his worst regular-season completion percentage (44.1%) of his career.<\/p>\n Getting hit 15 times along with three sacks didn’t help the situation.<\/p>\n Reigning MVP quarterback Josh Allen threw for a team record 23\/26 (88.5%), 273 yards, and had three total touchdowns.<\/p>\n Running back James Cook III (114 yards) ran for his fifth 100-yard game of the year and remains the NFL’s second leading rusher.<\/p>\n Other Games:<\/b><\/p>\n NE 24 – Atl 23<\/p>\n LAC 27 – Ten 20<\/p>\n Chi 47 – Cin 42<\/p>\n SF 34 – NYG 24<\/p>\n Min 27 – Det 24<\/p>\n Car 16 – GB 13<\/p>\n Jax 30 – LV 29\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n *Jax K Cam Little set NFL record with 68-yd field goal!<\/p>\n Sea 38 – Was 14<\/p>\n Pit 27 – Ind 20<\/p>\n * Monday Night<\/b><\/p>\n Ari 27 – Dal 17\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Key Injuries:<\/b><\/p>\n -Jax 2-way Travis Hunter (knee) *practice*<\/p>\n -Atl DE Leonard Floyd (hamstring)<\/p>\n -NE WR Kayshon Boutte (hamstring)<\/p>\n -LAC LT Joe Alt (ankle)<\/p>\n -Hou QB CJ Stroud (concussion)<\/p>\n -Was QB Jayden Daniels (elbow)<\/p>\n -Buf DE Michael Hoecht (ACL)<\/p>\n Byrnes Picks:<\/b><\/p>\n *Week 9 results:<\/b><\/p>\n (10-4) (89-45-1)<\/p>\n *Week 10 Picks:<\/b><\/p>\n Den over LV<\/p>\n LAR over SF<\/p>\n Ind over Atl<\/p>\n NYJ over Cle<\/p>\n Hou over Jax<\/p>\n Buf over Mia<\/p>\n TB over NE<\/p>\n Chi over NYG<\/p>\n Bal over Min<\/p>\n Car over NO<\/p>\n Sea over Ari<\/p>\n Det over Was<\/p>\n LAC over Pit<\/p>\n Phi over GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Tim Byrnes Week 9 began in Miami: Baltimore got some much-needed help as the Ravens traveled to Florida, hoping to turn their injury-filled season around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93034,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029\/revisions\/93034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}