Key NFL Games Impact Top Seeds: Eagles, Steelers, Lions

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00:00Let's move on to what could be the two games of the entire weekend and we'll start on this

00:09side of the break.

00:10We have a break coming up in a few minutes and I'll carry this over to the next segment.

00:14Steelers, Eagles, Bills, Lions, huge games for multiple reasons.

00:18And I love the fact that they are inter conference games because they impact so much.

00:25Eagles five and a half point home favorites, 42 and a half over under going up against

00:30the Steelers.

00:31As I mentioned this on Monday night, I like the Steelers a plus five and a half, which

00:33is where I took them earlier in the week.

00:37The Eagles are sitting on, you know, cruising into this, uh, this matchup on a nine game

00:43winning streak.

00:44They are 11 and two.

00:45The Lions are 12 and one.

00:47And as I mentioned, the Bills, Lions matchups up next, I want to put these games together

00:52in terms of talking about them.

00:56This is a losable matchup for the Lions.

00:57It is.

00:58The Bills are a great team.

00:59The Bills are coming off of a loss.

01:00The Lions are a great team.

01:02I think there's a Superbowl preview, but if the Lions were to lose, which I don't think

01:07any, it would shock anyone if the Lions were to lose to the Bills.

01:10This is a coin flip game, essentially the two and a half point spread.

01:14The Lions would then fall to 12 and two.

01:17And if the Eagles were able to win, they would improve to 12 and two.

01:21Now we have a top, we have a tie atop the NFC for the number one seed.

01:25This is why these two games that are happening simultaneously at 425 window on Sunday are

01:30so, so important because the Eagles obviously were fighting for the number one seed.

01:35The Lions want to secure that number one seed.

01:38And now we flip to the Steelers side of things.

01:40The Steelers have a very tough road over the next few weeks, a very tough road while they

01:45are holding down the division right now in terms of the AFC North.

01:51The Ravens have a winnable game against the Giants.

01:53We all know that.

01:54And then the Ravens play the Steelers the following week.

01:57Now the Steelers did win that first match, which they have the head to head victory,

02:00but the Ravens, if they start get going on offense, I think we'd all agree that the Ravens

02:05would be the better team compared to the Steelers.

02:09So then the Ravens pick up another win and now we are tied back atop the AFC North.

02:15Meanwhile, the Steelers have to end the season with the Chiefs and the Bengals.

02:21So I don't want to say that the Steelers season is on the line in this week considering what

02:25they have, you know, coming at the end of the tunnel in the next few weeks, but man,

02:30the Steelers have to keep this game under control.

02:33And that means I will take the points with the Steelers.

02:35I will take the under on this game and stopping Saquon on the ground has to be the number

02:41one priority for the Steelers.

02:43So while this game is an in-state matchup, there's a lot of, you know, just hype around

02:50that wherever it might be the keystone matchup between these teams, it impacts so much.

02:55So if you are a Ravens backer and you have the Ravens to win the division, which are

03:00currently the Ravens are plus 175 to win the division.

03:04And frankly, this is the first time I'm looking at the division odds, at least for the AFC

03:07North.

03:08I kind of love the Ravens.

03:10If they win Steelers lose this week, I think that's, that is very reasonable.

03:14The Steelers lose or any team losing on the road to the Eagles, wouldn't it be a surprise

03:17a team being the Giants also would not be a surprise.

03:20The Ravens will not be plus 175 come Sunday at 1140.

03:25When we are doing the Sunday night recap, which I will be on, we will be going through

03:28this exact scenario.

03:30And I guarantee this, the Ravens, if they win and the Steelers lose, obviously both

03:33things have to happen.

03:34The Ravens will not be plus 175.

03:37And then when they play the following weekend, if the Ravens were to win, the Ravens would

03:41immediately jump towards being the favorite to win the AFC North.

03:45Absolutely.

03:46Considering again, the road that the Steelers have to close out the season, they play the

03:49Eagles this week, the Ravens the following week, then the Chiefs and then the Bengals.

03:53And at that point, the Bengals, they very may well be eliminated from the playoffs at

03:56that point.

03:57There's absolutely no doubt about that could happen, but it's a divisional matchup and

04:01we could still see a spot where Burrow and Chase are hunting to be the league leaders

04:07in passing yards and receiving yards respectively, which is something that they may want to reach

04:12for.

04:13And of course, why not play spoiler a little bit against your division opponent?

04:17So Ravens at plus 175 might be one of the best futures moving forward for the rest of

04:23the season.

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