I am unsure should you guys have checked out a calendar but at present, but it surely’s Friday the thirteenth, and let me simply say that the very last thing 2020 wants is a Friday the thirteenth. I am not leaving my home at present.
I imply it is positively not a coincidence that an alligator the dimensions of a dinosaur confirmed up in Florida this week. It is clearly right here to eat us all (Click here to see the alligator). That is truly the second Friday the thirteenth we have had in 2020 and I am hoping this one goes barely higher than the opposite one, as a result of the opposite one got here on March 13 and that was the day the coronavirus was declared a national emergency.
Talking of nationwide emergencies, the Titans would possibly need to declare their particular groups one or no less than a federal catastrophe space after the efficiency the unit pulled off on Thursday evening. The Titans bought smoked 34-17 by the Colts and a giant cause for that was as a result of their particular groups completely fell aside.
That shall be one of many many issues we discuss in at present’s e-newsletter, so let’s get this factor began. As at all times, if you wish to share this article with everybody you realize, I cannot be offended. Simply click here to grab the link and then send that link to everyone on your email list.
1. Right this moment’s Present: Colts manhandle Titans in blowout win
It isn’t usually that the podcast ends with the three of us in a great temper, however that is precisely what occurred after we recapped the Colts’ 34-17 win over the Titans. Will Brinson was joyful as a result of the North Carolina State homer bought to see a bunch of N.C. State alums carry out effectively on Thursday. I used to be joyful as a result of particular groups have been a serious storyline within the recreation and Ryan Wilson was joyful as a result of we saved this episode below half-hour. We by no means go below half-hour.
In case you missed the sport, listed below are three the reason why the Packers received.
- Philip Rivers was unstoppable. Rivers will need to have been consuming from the fountain of youth over the previous 4 days, as a result of he appeared a lot better in Week 10 than he did in Week 9. With the Titans getting no go rush on him, Rivers was capable of cube up their protection to the tune of 308 yards and one landing.
- Nyheim Hines may be the Colts’ finest operating again. The Colts at present have a operating again rotation, however possibly that rotation ought to solely encompass Hines, particularly after what he did to the Titans. Not solely did he have a giant recreation on the bottom (12 carries, 70 yards, 1 TD), however he additionally put up some spectacular numbers by way of the air with 5 catches for 45 yards and a landing.
- The Titans particular groups weren’t so particular. The Titans particular groups have been the other of particular on this recreation. Throughout a seven-minute span within the second half, the Titans shanked a 17-yard punt (that led to a Colts landing), had a punt blocked and returned for a landing, and as if that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, Stephen Gostkowski missed a 44-yard subject objective that will have reduce Indy’s result in 27-20 within the fourth quarter. After the miss, the Colts instantly drove down the sector and iced the sport with one other landing. Yikes.
Because the recreation was such a blowout, we spent loads of time speaking about whether or not Ryan Tannehill is a top-10 quarterback proper now after struggling for a lot of the previous 4 weeks. We additionally spent a while speaking about who we predict will ultimately win the AFC South and someway, one among us continues to be satisfied it may be the Titans, regardless of their ugly loss Thursday.
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2. Right this moment’s present Half II: Selecting Week 10 video games
The perfect half about Friday — apart from the truth that it is Friday — is that you simply get two episodes of the podcast in your feed. After the recap of the Thursday recreation, Brinson muted my microphone and advised Wilson to go take a nap in order that he may herald Pete Prisco, R.J. White and Kenny White for a dialogue about their finest bets and picks for Week 10.
I nonetheless do not understand how Brinson has the ability to mute my microphone, however I’ll determine that out sometime. Anyway, the fellows spent practically 60 minutes going over the perfect bets for each single recreation being performed in Week 10 and we’ll cowl three from every man under.
Will Brinson
Browns (-3) to cowl in opposition to the Texans
Eagles (-3) to cowl in opposition to the Giants
Ravens (-7) to cowl in opposition to the Patriots
Pete Prisco
Packers (-13.5) to cowl in opposition to the Panthers
Rams (-1.5) to cowl in opposition to the Seahawks
Bears (+2.5) to cowl in opposition to the Vikings
Kenny White
Cardinals (-2) to cowl in opposition to the Bills
Rams (-1.5) to cowl in opposition to the Seahawks
Texans at Browns UNDER 49
R.J. White
Browns (-3) to cowl in opposition to the Texans
Eagles (-3) to cowl in opposition to the Giants
Cardinals (-2) to cowl in opposition to the Payments
The group additionally has a three-team parlay that includes betting the OVER (51) within the Broncos-Raiders recreation mixed with the Eagles (-3) and Browns (-3) to each cowl. The parlay has hit in 4 out of 9 weeks thus far, which is definitely a reasonably loopy hit fee for a three-team parlay. This parlay has odds of +595, which implies you’d win $595 on a $100 guess. To listen to what the remainder of the perfect bets are for Week 10 — and there are fairly a number of — you’ll want to click on right here so that you can listen to the entire episode of the podcast.
3. Midseason predictions from our CBS community group
Final week, we gave you some midseason predictions from our group right here at CBSSports.com and since everybody liked them a lot, you are getting a bonus this week: Extra midseason predictions! Nevertheless, the twist right here is that these predictions shall be coming from the TV aspect, a.okay.a. these are the analysts you see overlaying the NFL on each CBS and CBS Sports activities Community.
Mainly, we despatched out a midseason predictions poll to greater than a dozen of our CBS NFL stalwarts — individuals like Invoice Cowher, Boomer Esiason, Phil Simms, Nate Burleson, Trent Inexperienced, Wealthy Gannon, James Lofton, Jay Feely, Kyle Long, Adam Archuleta, Charles Davis and Amy Trask — and we requested them to present us their predictions for 2 of the most important awards together with their Super Bowl champion.
With that in thoughts, let’s get to their predictions. (A complete of 23 individuals turned in a poll and and the highest vote-getter for every award is listed under. And sure, I performed a number of recounts earlier than I used to be happy that the voting wasn’t rigged in Kansas Metropolis’s favor, as a result of that is positively what it appears to be like like.)
- Tremendous Bowl champion: Chiefs (13 votes)
- 2020 NFL MVP: Patrick Mahomes (16 votes)
- Coach of the 12 months: Mike Tomlin (18 votes)
There have been truly 5 coaches who bought no less than one vote for coach of the yr and 4 groups that bought no less than one vote to be Tremendous Bowl champion and if you wish to see who else bought a vote, be sure to click here.
4. NFL Week 10 picks
That is the ultimate e-newsletter of the week, which implies I really feel morally obligated to cram as many picks as potential into this area. I as soon as crammed 19 pancakes into my abdomen at an all-you-can-eat buffet, so I do know I am good at cramming.
With that in thoughts, we have three extra Week 9 picks coming your means and people shall be coming from Will Brinson, Jonathan Jones and CBS Sports activities NFL Insider Jason La Canfora. Here is how issues are going to work: I’ll offer you one choose from every man after which direct you to the remainder of their picks. That means, should you like their choose, you’ll learn the remainder of them, but when they choose in opposition to your favourite group, you may ignore the remainder of their picks and transfer on.
5. NFL has uncommon Sunday afternoon schedule for Week 10
The NFL schedule goes to have a barely totally different look this week and that is as a result of the league has determined to vary issues up with a view to accommodate the Masters, which was postponed from April to this weekend as a result of pandemic.
So what shall be totally different? Let’s take a fast look.
- Tony Romo and Jim Nantz will not be at an NFL recreation this week. Nantz shall be in Augusta because the lead CBS announcer on the Masters and since he cannot be two locations directly, he’ll be spending his NFL Sunday calling the ultimate spherical of the Masters on CBS. As for Romo, though he’ll have the week off from soccer, you may virtually assure that the avid golfer may have CBS on your complete weekend so he can watch each golf and soccer.
- No early NFL video games on CBS. With the Masters airing on CBS till 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, which means there will not be any 1 p.m. NFL video games on our community. All 5 video games within the early afternoon window shall be aired on Fox.
- Extra 4 p.m. video games than 1 p.m. video games. Apart from Week 17, the NFL virtually by no means has extra 4 p.m. video games on a Sunday than 1 p.m. video games, however that shall be occurring this week. All three of the CBS video games will kick off at 4:05 p.m. ET whereas the three late video games on Fox will kick off at 4:25 p.m. ET. Which means there shall be six video games within the 4 p.m. window in comparison with simply 5 within the 1 p.m window.
What all this implies is that you simply’re positively going to need to preserve your tv tuned to CBS this weekend. Not solely do we’ve got the Masters on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, however we even have a robust NFL slate on Sunday afternoon that features the 7-2 Payments taking part in in opposition to the 5-3 Cardinals. If you wish to watch some golf this weekend, you may click here to check out the TV schedule for the Masters.
6. Gambler drops loopy sum on Packers to beat Jaguars
I am fairly assured the Packers are going to beat the Jaguars on Sunday, however I am unsure if I am $99,000 assured, which is what one gambler has guess on the sport. In some unspecified time in the future this week, a bettor walked into a William Hill sports book in Nevada and dropped $99,000 on the Packers cash line of -1000.
If the Packers beat the Jaguars, which means our bettor will stroll away with a pleasant revenue of $9,000. However, if the Jaguars someway pull off the upset, our bettor shall be out $99,000. This guess may appear loopy, however I truly prefer it and if I had $99,000 and knew that my spouse would not divorce me for betting all of it on a soccer recreation, I might in all probability do the identical factor. It looks like a simple technique to make a fast 9.1% revenue in your cash.
As I discussed Tuesday, Packers (-13.5) over Jaguars is my lock of the week and loads of that has to do with the truth that the Jaguars are 0-10 straight-up and 0-9-1 in opposition to the unfold of their previous 10 video games the place the kickoff temperature was 55 levels or under, and it may be waaay under that on Sunday. The present forecast at Lambeau Subject is looking for 38 levels and rain when the sport kicks off.
I am not dropping $99,000 on Inexperienced Bay, however I’m going to make the Packers part of my very own private finest guess for the week. As I famous Tuesday, my betting plan for Week 10 is to parlay the Ravens (-7) level unfold (-110) with the Packers cash line (-1000) which can give me odds of +110 (Wager $100 to win $110). The excellent news for me is that if the Jaguars someway handle to win, no less than I will go down figuring out that I did not lose $99,000.
7. The Kicker!
I am not saying the Titans had probably the most disastrous particular groups efficiency of all-time on Thursday, however the Titans may need had probably the most disastrous particular groups efficiency of all-time on Thursday, which I predicted would possibly occur in Thursday’s e-newsletter.
The weirdest half about your complete factor is the man who punted for the Titans in Week 9 (Ryan Allen) someway bought benched for Thursday’s recreation regardless that he was the perfect punter within the NFL final week. With Allen inactive for the Colts recreation, the Titans determined to roll with a punter (Trevor Daniel) who hadn’t performed in a single recreation all yr, and I am guessing you already understand how that went: His 2020 debut was a complete catastrophe.
If you wish to see his shanked 17-yard punt, which was the shortest punt within the NFL this yr, please click here. If you wish to see the Colts block one among his punts and return it for a landing, please click here.
On a happier be aware, Colts kicker Rodrigo Blankenship got here by way of with greater than 6.5 factors within the recreation, similar to I promised he would to hit his prop. Primarily based on what I wrote Thursday, I believe this implies I’ve to spend my winnings from that prop on rec specs. I suppose this implies I do know what I will be doing with my weekend. See you guys Monday and keep in mind to not depart your own home at present!
