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JACKSONVILLE -- Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!I'm writing today from a hotel in Jacksonville where I've been hanging out for the past 24 hours. I've seen more Jaguars fans in this span than I had previously seen in my entire life. I'll be at the game tonight between the Jaguars and Bengals, but before I start talking about that, we need to cover everything that happened on Sunday, so let's get to it.In today's newsletter, we've got grades for every team that played on Sunday, plus, we've got winners and losers (You're all winners in my book), so let's get to the rundown.As always, here's your daily reminder to tell all your friends to sign Rene Robert Women Jersey up for the newsletter. To get them signed up, all you have to do is.If I fall asleep while writing the newsletter today, it's because I stayed up until 2:01 a.m. last night recording a podcast with Will Brinson and Ryan Wilson. After that, I hung out with the good people of Jacksonville until 4 a.m., so it's a miracle that I'm functioning. Anyway, the three of us touched on our 10 biggest takeaways from Week 13. Here are a few of the biggest questions that we tried to answer:Will the Rams make the playoffs?We mentioned the Rams as a po sible dark horse playoff contender after they beat the Seahawks back in Week 11. Two weeks later, I think we can officially just dump the dark horse label. The Rams feel like a legit playoff contender and with three of their next four games against the Commanders, Giants and Saints, Brinson and I feel like this team is going to end up in the playoffs.Are the 49ers the best team in the NFC? When the 49ers are healthy, I feel like they're the best team in the NFL and they're currently healthy. It's easy to beat up on bad teams, but that's not what the 49ers did on Sunday. Nope, they handed a beatdown to the team that currently has the best record in the NFL. The rest of the NFC should be scared.Can Gardner Minshew actually lead the Colts to the playoffs?As the president of the Gardner Minshew fan club, I am absolutely convinced that he's going to lead the Colts to the playoffs. The Colts got a steal when they signed him back in March and following a 300-yard game against the Titans, he's looking more and more like the real deal. Also, the Colts' next four games are against the Bengals, Steelers, Falcons and Raiders, which seems somewhat favorable.To check out the rest of our takeaways from Week 13, be to the entire episode of the podcast. You , which you'll want to do if you want to see my sad Bruno costume.Every week I team up with four of my colleagues Peter Forsberg Women Jersey here at CBSSports.com to hand out grades, and this week, the Rams were one of the few teams to earn an 'A.' Here's a look at the grades from two notable games that were played Sunday:Rams 36-19 over Browns ()Browns takeaway e s than two weeks after signing Joe Flacco, the Browns were forced to start him on Sunday and he actually held his own. Flacco wasn't perfect, but he certainly played far better than anyone could have expected considering he spent the first 11 weeks of the season at home on his couch. Not only did Flacco throw for 254 yards, but he threw 2 TD pa ses, including a fourth-quarter scoring throw to Harrison Bryant that cut the lead to 20-19 with just 8:49 to play. The biggest surprise of the game for the Browns is that their defense got run over by the Rams offense. With the Browns playing musical chairs at quarterback, the defense is going to have to play better if this team is going to make the playoff.Grade: CRams takeaway:The Rams suddenly look like one of the hottest teams in the NFC and a big reason for that is Matthew Stafford. The Rams QB diced the Browns' vaunted defense for 279 yards and three touchdowns. Puka Nacua once again played like the rookie sensation that he is, catching four pa ses for 139 total yards and a TD. Kyren Williams also had a big game for a Rams offense that seems to be getting more dangerous every week. Although the defense did struggle at times against Joe Flacco, the unit shut down the Browns with an interception, a fourth-down stop and a safety over the final eight minutes of the game to preserve the victory. With this win, the 6-6 Rams are suddenly in the thick of the NFC playoff race after looking to be left for dead at 3-6 coming out of their Week 10 bye.Grade: APackers 27-19 over Chiefs ()Chiefs takeaway:-- Jared Dubin.Grade: DPackers takeaway:- Andre Burakovsky Jersey - Jared Dubin.Grade: AAs for all the other grades that we handed out on Sunday, .Every Sunday night, I get an email from our research department here at CBS Sports, and every Sunday, that email always includes some amazingly wild facts about the games that were just played.With that in mind, here are 14 crazy facts about Week 13 atriots hit rock bottom. With their 6-0 lo s to the Chargers, the Patriots are now the first team since 1938 to lose in three straight games where they held their opponent to 10 points or le s. NFL teams are 54-3 this year when holding their opponent to 10 points or le s and that breaks down like this: The Patriots are 1-3 while the the 31 other teams are 53-0.Chargers win with no offense.The Chargers' 6-0 win over New England set the franchise record for fewest points in a victory. The previous record was seven points.No one can stop Tyreek Hill. The Dolphins receiver finished with 157 yards and two touchdowns, which makes him the FIRST player in NFL history to go for at least 150 yards and a TD in five different games during the same season. With both touchdowns going for more than 60 yards, Hill now has 21 career scores from that distance, Matt Nieto Kids Jersey which is the third-most in NFL history by any player. Hill now has 1,481 yards on the season, which is highest number through 12 games in the Super Bowl era. Brock Purdy for MVP? With 314 yards and four touchdowns against the Eagles, Purdy now has FOUR games this year where he's thrown at least three touchdowns and recorded a QB rating of at least 140. Only two other quarterbacks have ever pulled that off -- Tom Brady (2007) and Aaron Rodgers (2011) -- and they both won MVP in the season where they hit those benchmarks.McCaffrey is in Hall of Fame company. With one rushing TD against the Eagles, Christian McCaffrey now has 50 rushing touchdowns and 27 receiving touchdowns for his career, making him just the third player in NFL history to hit 50 rushing scores and 25 receiving ones. McCaffrey joins Marshall Faulk and Lenny Moore.49ers finally have a 1,000 yard rusher. Going into the 2023 season, the 49ers had the longest active drought without having a 1,000-yard rusher, but that ended on Sunday when Christian McCaffrey hit 1,000 yards on the season (He's at 1,032 through 12 games). McCaffrey is the first 49ers player to hit that number since Frank Gore in 2014.Mike Evans makes history. With 167 yards against the Panthers, Evans now has 1,012 yards for the season, making him the FIRST player in NFL history to hit the 1,000 yard mark in his first 10 seasons. It's also the second-longest 1,000 yard streak in NFL history, trailing only Jerry Rice, who once hit that number in 11 straight seasons (1986-96).De'Von Achane, meet Gale Sayers.The Dolphins rookie running back scored two touchdowns against the Commanders, giving him nine for the season. Achane now joins Hall of Famer Gale Sayers as the only players in NFL history to score nine touchdowns during the first six games of their NFL career.Lions found their tight end of the future.With nine catches for 140 yards and a TD, Sam LaPorta had one of the biggest games ever by a rookie tight end. LaPorta joins Mike Ditka (1961), Jackie Smith (1963) and Pete Mitchell (1995) as Nazem Kadri Jersey the only tight ends to hit those numbers in a single-game during their rookie season.DeAndre Hopkins still has it. With 75 yards against the Colts, Hopkins now has 12,072 for his career. At 31 years and 180 days old, Hopkins is the fourth-youngest player to hit the 12,000-yard mark, trailing only Randy Mo s, Julio Jones and Larry Fitzgerald.C.J. Stroud is in rare air.The Texans rookie QB threw for 274 yards against the Broncos and now has 3,540 for the season. Stroud will likely be the NFL pa sing yards leader when Week 13 has concluded and if that happens, it will mark the first time since at least 1950 that a rookie has led the NFL in pa sing yards during ANY week of the season. No rookie has led the NFL in pa sing yards for an entire season since 1939. Jets are in an offensive drought.The Jets did not get in the end zone on Sunday, which means they still only have 10 touchdowns for the season. That's the lowest number by any NFL team through 12 games since 1993 (Bengals). Commanders get blown out.The Commanders gave up 45 points to the Dolphins, marking the second straight week that they surrendered at least 45 points. Washington has only given up 45 points in consecutive games one other time in franchise history and that came all the way back in 1954.LaFleur loves December. The Packers win over the Chiefs means that Packers coach Matt LaFleur is now 16-0 in his coaching career in the month of December. The 16 straight wins means that Green Bay now has the second-longest December winning streak in NFL history, trailing only the Chargers, who won 18 in a row between 2006 and 2009.If you see any other fun facts,.You can't have a week of NFL action without having winners and losers, so we have s |
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