Kirk Cousins picked a nasty time to have his worst sport of the season.
Recent off that four-interception catastrophe towards the Los Angeles Chargers, he now has to attempt to choose himself up in Minnesota, taking part in towards the identical Vikings workforce he quarterbacked for the final six seasons. A Vikings workforce that’s all of a sudden higher now than it was when he was there.
Minnesota’s rise little question has extra to do with an improved protection than it does Sam Darnold being any type of improve over Cousins. However that’s precisely the issue Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons are up towards Sunday. Other than the feelings of the sport, Cousins leads the league in interceptions thrown. The Vikings lead the league in passes intercepted. This may not be the homecoming he’s anticipating.
Losers of three straight, the Falcons might even have a tough time getting stops towards the Vikings. All these elements play into why the Vikings are favored by 5.5 factors. Right here’s a take a look at the road for that sport and each different in Week 14, with odds from BetMGM.
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The Dallas Cowboys are taking part in a lot better soccer of late, driving a two-game profitable streak into Monday night time’s assembly with the Cincinnati Bengals. Nice. Cooper Rush was in a position to beat Tommy DeVito and the last-place Giants. Now, any individual clarify to me what precisely Dallas is meant to do with the Bengals?
Cincinnati is perhaps losers of three straight, however these losses got here towards a lot better competitors than the Cowboys — and the Bengals averaged 33 factors in these video games. Dallas has scored 30 factors simply twice all season. Rush received’t be capable of sustain with Joe Burrow.
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Let me simply go on the report by saying my early lean on this matchup is for the Cardinals to win. Nonetheless, even with the smallest unfold of the week, I’d nonetheless take the two.5 factors with the underdog Seahawks. That’s how shut I feel these groups are. To not point out, Seattle received their first assembly.
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That is the second-smallest complete of the week and I assume the thought is that irrespective of who’s below heart for the Giants, they aren’t going to attain an entire lot. Whereas that’s most likely true, I don’t assume they’ll want many factors for this sport to go over 40.5, as a result of the Saints will do all of the heavy lifting. New York’s protection is terrible, particularly towards the run, and that’s solely going to worsen with Dexter Lawrence out for the season. This might be a giant sport for Alvin Kamara.
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The Bears simply fired their coach, however I don’t assume that essentially makes them simpler to select towards. We’ve seen prior to now groups rally round an interim man for a number of video games, and there isn’t a extra good sport for Chicago to try this than towards the Niners. Particularly with the Bears having been off since Thursday. The 49ers are nonetheless my choose to win, however after the way in which the Payments simply dismantled them — and the accidents that got here from that sport — I wouldn’t be stunned to see their skid proceed.
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