Dave Dameshek

How true is it that in December that these teams that are playing for nothing but personal pride and everything else are scary to go up against?

You have to have it.

You have the extra weight of, if we lose this one, our season could be over.

When you're the Bengals, like, well, our season's already over.

Does that, in fact, lead to playing free and easy and more dangerous for your opponents?

Next, let's talk about, I mean, so often the truth teller with pro football is what the book has to say.

Everybody else has their agenda, not the book necessarily as much.

Rams at home laying six points.

You figure it's going to be a Detroit-friendly crowd in SoFi Stadium.

42.5 is the total here.

Another team that really has got to have it in the Lions here.

How say you, Jared Goff?

against Matthew Stafford flipping sides from five years ago, but when Phil Rivers was still playing pro football for the Colts the first time around.

I don't love picking the Rams here, but they say, or at least I say, if you like the team to win the game straight up, like them up to seven, six is less than seven.

So I'm going to take the home team here, Stafford.

They do know that they're chasing the number one seed and have a real good shot at getting that.

I think that's enough incentive for them.

Now, speaking of the Packers, Super Bowl 32 rematch.

One of the great Super Bowls ever played, even if people don't talk about it that way.

Maybe a possible Super Bowl 60 rematch upcoming.