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By Tim Byrnes<\/p>\n
Riding a three-game winning streak, including victories over the defending NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Cowboys traveled to Michigan to take on the Lions, who have alternated wins\/losses for the last two months.<\/p>\n
Week 14 began in Detroit:<\/p>\n
Thursday Night:<\/b><\/p>\n
Dallas (6-5-1) @ Detroit (7-5): Detroit 44-30<\/b><\/p>\n
Playing at home for the second consecutive Thursday, the Lions made sure that they didn\u2019t have a repeat of the 31-24 loss to Green Bay, on Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n
Detroit running backs duo Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery accounted for over 100 yards on the ground and four touchdowns, and added 90 yards receiving to pace the Lions on offense.<\/p>\n
Jared Goff added 309 yards through the air. and with Amon-Ra St. Brown fighting injury, Jameson Williams is becoming a steady target for Goff, catching 7 receptions for 96 yards.<\/p>\n
Dallas running back Javonte Williams (67 yds-TD) surpassed 1,000-yards rushing for the first time in his career and kicker Brandon Aubrey kicked five field goals (including his NFL-record 6th over 60 yards) to keep the score respectable.<\/p>\n
In the end the difference came down to Detroit scoring touchdowns, while Dallas kicked field goals.<\/p>\n
Sunday:<\/b><\/p>\n
Pittsburgh (6-6) @ Baltimore (6-6): Pittsburgh 27-22<\/b><\/p>\n
Looking to right the ship, the Steelers benefited from Aaron Rodgers (284 yards-2 total TDs) returning to old form, and together with new toy DK Metcalf (7 Rec-148 yds) halted the 2-5 skid that helped bring the Ravens back to near division-leader.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh had some help from the refs, when they decided \u201ctwo feet-down\u201d\u00a0 just wasn\u2019t enough for a touchdown, when the same play on the sidelines would be ruled a catch. The league needs to clarify its ruling.<\/p>\n
Lamar Jackson passed for 218 yards and a score, had 43 more on the ground, and matched Rodgers rushing touchdown. However, it is becoming obvious that Jackson has lost a step, missing elusiveness present in his MVP-seasons.<\/p>\n
Derrick Henry added 94 rushing yards, and Zay Flowers contributed 8 receptions-124 yards in the loss.<\/p>\n
Chicago (9-3) @ Green Bay (8-3-1): Green Bay 28-21<\/b><\/p>\n
Flashbacks of the hard-fought divisional games of old, between the Bears and Packers, shined through for these teams.<\/p>\n
After a horrible start with 2 yards passing halfway through the 2nd quarter for Caleb Williams, his two touchdown passes brought the Bears back to tie the game at 21-21.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t enough as the Packers Jordan Love (234yards-3 TDs) marched Green Bay down for Josh Jacobs (86 yards-TD) to score from the 2-yard line.<\/p>\n
The loss drops Chicago out of the Conference lead, giving it back to the LA Rams, and the Division is now the Packers to lose.<\/p>\n
Other Sunday Games:<\/b><\/p>\n
Mia 34 – NYJ 10<\/p>\n
NO 24 – TB 20<\/p>\n
Jax 36 – Ind 19<\/p>\n
Ten 31 – Cle 29<\/p>\n
Min 31 – Was 0<\/p>\n
Sea 37 – Atl 9<\/p>\n
Buf 39 – Cin 34<\/p>\n
Den 24 – LV 17<\/p>\n
LAR 45 – Ari 17<\/p>\n
Hou 20 – KC 10<\/p>\n
Monday Night:<\/b><\/p>\n
Philadelphia (8-4) @ LA Chargers (8-4): LA Chargers 22-19 OT<\/b><\/p>\n
It’s odd that a quarterback can win a Super Bowl, have his team first in division, and get booed three straight games. However, it’s Philly and they booed Santa Claus so it’s no surprise they are calling for heads to roll.<\/p>\n
Jalen Hurts gave \u201cPhilly Fan\u201d reasons to boo all game, throwing four interceptions, and fumbling once to negate a fine defensive effort by the Eagles.<\/p>\n
Seven sacks and three forced turnovers weren\u2019t enough to overcome the turnovers by Hurts.<\/p>\n
Chargers’ kicker Cameron Dicker kicked five field goals, including a game-tying kick with :08 left in regulation, and the 54-yard game-winner in overtime.<\/p>\n
Key Injuries:<\/strong><\/p>\n Det (S) Brian Branch (ankle)<\/p>\n Dal (WR) CeeDee Lamb (concussion)<\/p>\n Ind (QB) Daniel Jones (achilles)<\/p>\n NYJ (QB) Tyrod Taylor (groin)<\/p>\n LV (QB) Geno Smith (hand)<\/p>\n Byrnes Picks:<\/b><\/p>\n Week 14 Results:<\/b><\/p>\n (7-7) (134-73-1)<\/p>\n Week 15 Picks:<\/b><\/p>\n Tampa Bay over Atlanta<\/p>\n New England over Buffalo<\/p>\n Baltimore over Cincinnati<\/p>\n Jacksonville over NY Jets<\/p>\n Kansas City over LA Chargers<\/p>\n Houston over Arizona<\/p>\n Chicago over Cleveland<\/p>\n NY Giants over Washington<\/p>\n Philadelphia over Las Vegas<\/p>\n Seattle over Indianapolis<\/p>\n Denver over Green Bay<\/p>\n San Francisco over Tennessee<\/p>\n Carolina over New Orleans<\/p>\n LA Rams over Detroit<\/p>\n Dallas over Minnesota<\/p>\n Pittsburgh over Miami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Tim Byrnes Riding a three-game winning streak, including victories over the defending NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Cowboys traveled to Michigan to take on the Lions, who have alternated wins\/losses for the last two months.<\/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-93676","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\/93676","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=93676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93682,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93676\/revisions\/93682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}