Some pretty impressive QBs have failed their first playoff tests, too: Andrew Luck, Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson all lost their playoff debuts while combining for five touchdown passes and three interceptions, and even Wilson didn't make it out of the Divisional Round after falling to the Atlanta Falcons Patriots fans could argue that if T.
Yates can win a playoff game, so can Jones. Jones also benefits from a strong running game, rock-solid offensive line and talented defense, so the Patriots may not need him to be the star of the show in his first postseason. Just look at how they beat Buffalo in Week If New England makes a deep playoff run with a rookie QB, however, it will buck an overwhelming trend. We should also note Yates won that game going up against fellow rookie Andy Dalton.
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Wilson, Sanchez, Flacco and Roethlisberger came close, so it's possible the time has arrived for a first-year signal-caller to break through. It has often felt this year that the stars are aligned for Prescott and the Cowboys.
If that's the case, history will be made in more ways than one this month. McCarron Bengals Yates Texans Join Newsletter. I'd show you pictures of me at the game, but my parents didn't take any because I was an ugly kid.
Also, my dad couldn't take any, because he was playing in the game. Between the streak starting on my birthday and my dad scoring the last point, I think what I'm trying to say here is that the Bengals playoff drought is a touchy subject in my family. OK, now that I've gotten all of that off of my chest, I'm going to give you my pick in the game. The game was actually close in the fourth quarter, but the Bengals blew it open when Derek Carr committed two ugly turnovers.
If the Raiders are going to win, Carr is going to have to play a nearly perfect game and I'm not sure that's going to be possible because this game is going to feature Carr's personal kryptonite: Cold weather.
The forecast for Saturday is currently calling for a possibility of snow with a kickoff temperature under 30 degrees. Since entering the NFL in , Carr has made five starts when the temperature is under 38 at kickoff and he's gone in those games, although four of the five losses were by one score. In those five losses, Carr is averaging He's also thrown a total of four touchdowns and five interceptions in those cold-weather games. For once, the Bengals actually have a few things working in their favor heading into a playoff game.
Not only will the weather be cold, but they're getting a Raiders team that has to fly across the country on a short week after playing an overtime game on Sunday night. If the Bengals can't win this week, this drought might not ever end. The Bengals' year playoff losing streak started against the Raiders in January and I'm going to say it comes full circle on Saturday with a win for Cincinnati. Record picking Raiders games this season: straight-up, against the spread Record picking Bengals games this season: straight-up, against the spread.
This game marks the third time since December 6 that these two teams have played each other and after picking the Bills to win in each of the first two games, I have to say, I haven't seen anything that's going to change my mind this time around. Mother Nature did her best to shut the Bills down by hitting the city of Buffalo with mph winds and those winds shut down the Bills' passing game. I just Googled the weather for Saturday night and although the temperature is expected to be just 15 DEGREES, the greater Buffalo area is not expecting to see any abnormally strong wind speeds.
Advantage: Bills. When the wind conditions are normal, like they were in the second meeting between these two teams, you can tell which team has more talent and that's Buffalo. The Patriots simply had no answers for the Bills offense and although Belichick is a defensive genius, I'm not sure he has the manpower to do what he wants to do to slow down the Bills.
Also, let's not forget that the Bills had one of the best defenses in football this year: They've surrendered the fewest yards and fewest points per game, so I won't be surprised if they hold the Patriots under 20 points. The Patriots will be starting a rookie at quarterback and let me just tell you, a rookie is the last person you want to be starting at QB in a playoff game.
Since , rookie quarterbacks are in playoff games and the only two wins came in games where a rookie was starting for both teams so a rookie had to win. Basically, I expect Mac Jones to struggle and the only way I think Patriots can win is if the game plays out exactly like their first meeting with the Bills and I don't think that's going to happen. The Patriots are in the wild-card round over the past 15 years and I think the winless streak is going to continue.
Record picking Patriots games this season: straight-up, against the spread Record picking Bills games this season: straight-up, against the spread. Since , Brady has faced a total of four NFC East teams in the playoffs and although his team was favored to win each time, Brady is just straight-up in those games and against the spread. Sure, three of those games were Super Bowls, but let's not forget about last season when Taylor Heinicke and Washington gave the Buccaneers all they could handle in the wild-card round.
That being said, I don't think I can take the Eagles here. Going into this game, I have two big issues that are keeping me from picking Philadelphia. For one, they lost every big game they played in this year. The Eagles had six regular season games against teams that finished with double-digit wins and they went in those games and lost by an average of Of course, one of those losses came in a game where the Eagles were resting their starters In Week 18 against the Cowboys , so if we take out that game, then they went and lost those five games by an average of 11 points per game.
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