FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS WEEK 6 PODCAST COMING SATURDAY SF @ WASH WHEN SF HAS THE BALL Washington Run D at home has proved to be lethal. Coming off of a Bye Week, we can expect the same problem. 49ers O Line cannot protect nor push forward against Washington, Hoyer will have tough times making throws. Breeland is a top talent corner, running the ball will not be easy. Bad week for 49ers offense. WHEN WASH HAS THE BALL Cousins should be able to get lethal in the air. Terrelle Pryor/Jamison Crowder/Jordan Reed, welcome to 2017 this could be the breakout game where Cousins finally starts to throw deep. Chris Thompson should get his good share of touches, catching and running but Kelley is the guy who will get the carries. Redskins will be able to move the ball. 49ers 13 REDSKINS 27 -- MIA @ ATL WHEN MIAMI HAS THE BALL Jay Ajayi will be the heart and soul of the Dolphins, the O-Line will have a tough time with the physical and angry Falcons Defense that is coming off of a loss. The Bye Week gives them an extra week to prepare and BEAST. Jay Cutler will be facing heat, which means likely INTs all day. WHEN FALCONS HAVE THE BALL Miami D is playing tough and hard, it will be tough for Ryan to hand the ball off against that front 7, but it will be mixed in. The way the Falcons have to win this game is by giving Ryan time to throw to Julio Jones all day. You can guarantee the Falcons are ready to throw it to Julio to make big plays. MIA 10 FALCONS 24 -- CLE @ HOU WHEN BROWNS HAVE THE BALL Move the chains is the name of the game. 3 Yards at a time, 4 yards at a time. It will be effective, but it will lead to a lot of points. Browns can win this game with ball control, but Houston will not let the Browns win that aspect of the game easily. WHEN TEXANS HAVE THE BALL Deshaun Watson is a video game and the Browns are playing at Rookie Level. DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller should bust loose often causing the Browns to really have no idea what they are doing. Texans can control this game on offense. BROWNS 13 TEXANS 30 -- DET @ NO WHEN LIONS HAVE THE BALL Stafford has to beat the Saints, not the running game. Running the ball last week lost the game for the Lions, they are a little too comitted to it, it could work but it could also just not result in a huge fantasy day. WHEN SAINTS HAVE THE BALL Throwing quickly to Kamara, to Snead, to Thomas. Saints should be able to expose the middle of the field, Ingram will get his work cut out for him but the potential is nice and he could be running happy now that AP is gone. Saints offense will figure out how to move the ball. Lions will need to score a lot of points to keep up. LIONS 24 SAINTS 31 -- GB @ MIN WHEN PACKERS HAVE THE BALL Aaron Rodgers will have to pick apart the Vikings offense. Nothing will come automatic but he has the weapons to move the ball down the field at a good pace. Running the ball is not going to be the bread and butter, Packers will move the ball well, but not as automatic as they usually do. WHEN VIKINGS HAVE THE BALL No Stefon Diggs makes this matchup very tough. Little chance they are able to pull this out as running the ball will not be easy. Case Keenum will throw to Adam T and Rudolph more this week than usual, making them good deep sleepers. PACKERS 24 VIKINGS 13 -- CHI @ BAL WHEN BEARS HAVE THE BALL Jordan Howard will be running into a brick wall most of the day. Bears will try to run, try to quick pass. Not a lot will work this Ravens Defense is playing hungry. Lots of punting. WHEN RAVENS HAVE THE BALL While Flacco will like to throw early, hitting Maclin + Wallace. Ravens want to run the ball and get the win. Expect Buck Allen and Alex Collins to get a ton of work. Flacco will convert 3rd downs when he needs to, but the Ravens want to run. Downfall is the Bears Corners are better than Ravens WRs. BEARS 10 RAVENS 17 -- NE @ NYJ WHEN PATRIOTS HAVE THE BALL Brady will look to get things going finding all the weaknesses the Jets present. Their Run D has been strong in the past, so it is safe to assume Brady will air it out which is always a great thing. Coming off of injury the Patriots might not try to run up score, but they will score enough to win comfortably. WHEN JETS HAVE THE BALL Patriots D is playing well, so this is a bad sign for the Jets who do have some momentum. McGuire unlikely to find success against Pats. ASJ will be asked to make a lot of plays. PATRIOTS 30 JETS 17 -- LAR @ JAX WHEN RAMS HAVE THE BALL Todd Gurley will get all the carries he can get, until the Rams realize they are not moving the ball at all agains this great Jags D. Rams are a good team, but they are also a team that is not as strong as everyone makes them out to be. Seahawks were tough last week, going to Jacksonville will be impossible. WHEN JAGS HAVE THE BALL Leonard Fournette will get carry after carry. The Rams will bend and eventually break. Playaction will be there all day. Hurns/Lee looking good Jags will win this game. Blake Bortles is making good throws, he will have open WRS. RAMS 10 JAGUARS 24 -- TB @ ARI WHEN BUCS HAVE THE BALL AZ run D is tough. Patrick Peterson is tough. Desean Jackson and Cameron Brate can both have good games, Winston will figure out ways to make things happen but finding the mismatches in the passing game down the field is the way it can happen. Eagles exploited it well. WHEN CARDS HAVE THE BALL AP all DAY. Bucs LB core is beat up, give the ball to your new toy and see what he can do. AZ also has a lot of advantages in the passing game, especially with Fitzgerald size against Tampa's small Corners. Palmer will have options. BUCS 17 AZ 24 -- LAC @ OAK WHEN CHARGERS HAVE THE BALL Rivers looked clutch on the road, he is making good throws and the Raiders Defense is making bad plays. He has a lot of weapons and Melvin Gordon should have a lot of running room against a Raiders Run D that has not shown up consistently. This is not a good matchup. WHEN RAIDERS HAVE THE BALL Derek Carr will face a vulnerable secondary that allows big plays. Look for Cooper and Crabtree to get involved, when those two start making plays, Marshawn Lynch will get a lot of work to eat up clock and pound it in the endzone. Should be a solid game for the Raiders offense. CHARGERS 30 RAIDERS 27 -- PIT @ KC WHEN STEELERS HAVE THE BALL Le'Veon won this game for the Steelers last year in the playoffs, and you can guarantee he will take a full load of carries against the Chiefs. His receptions, his broken tackles, it will not be easy but the touches will be there. Big Ben can rebound, but this is a tough secondary to do it against. Steelers should be able to move the ball. WHEN CHIEFS HAVE THE BALL Kareem Hunt will try to wear down the Steelers offense like Fournette did. Not going to be easy. Travis Kelce coming off of a concussion is not great, Tyreke Hill will be shut down. Same with Albert Wilson. This is not going to be an easy day for the Chiefs offense. STEELERS 20 CHIEFS 13 -- NYG @ DEN WHEN GIANTS HAVE THE BALL Watch out Eli. Denver Pressure will get there quickly. Evan Engram might have a good matchup but if he is lined up at WR like he has been, then it could be bad. Giants have no advantage throwing the football, nor do they have any advantage running it against the #1 Defense in the AFC. Giants are not looking at a pretty game. WHEN BRONCOS HAVE THE BALL Siemian will not have great matchups with his WRs. The Defense can get a lead for the Broncos and the Broncos can pound the ball all game. CJA/Booker/Charles can all do very well and sooner than later tear down the Giants wall. Broncos can pound all day. GIANTS 10 BRONCOS 27 -- IND @ TEN WHEN COLTS HAVE THE BALL Life will be moving quick for Jacoby. His O-Line will break down quickly, Jacoby likes to run that is his mindset and with it being his last game, those legs will be churning. The Titans DL and LB core can hit, not going to be a pretty game for Jacoby. TY Hilton + all WRs will be guarded closely. Running the ball will not be easy. WHEN TITANS HAVE THE BALL Whether it is Mariota or Cassel, the Titans should come in with a gameplan to pound the rock until the Colts LB core just breaks down. Henry + Murray can control this game as a duo leaving the Colts Defense tired and banged up. When that happens, the big runs from the Titans happen which breaks down the entire Colts Defense. Cassel and Mariota can make the throws. COLTS 13 TITANS 27
