That escalated quickly.

Not the game we expected, and a tough one to evaluate much from, but it certainly had to be a nice change of pace for the season ticket holders who sat through last week’s 3-0 affair.

Like I said, I don’t have a ton of takeaways. Aidan O’Connell seemed to play well, but the low effort we started to see from the Chargers’ defense coupled with the five turnovers will tilt things for sure. Yeah, they had the two defensive scores and some really short fields, but he seemed to manage the offense decently enough on the first scoring drive: a 12-play, 68-yard drive that put them up 7-0.

He was put in a terrible game state with the turnovers and how his defense was looking, but I think it’s safe to say that Easton Stick isn’t starter material. I have an even lower opinion of Max Duggan, but I’ve been wrong before and I don’t hate the idea of getting him some playing time to at least see if the rookie is worth keeping on the roster longer-term.

In a game that saw 12 touchdowns, the coolest one, without a doubt was the pick-six.

The Chargers are not eliminated, but of the teams who still have life in the AFC, they have the worst record. The season is over (a week ago). I don’t know that Staley is fired today, but I feel like we can say he won’t be back next year at a minimum. It’ll be interesting to see how this affects OC Kellen Moore, who could be moving for the second straight offseason.

The Raiders improved to 6-8 and still have a mathematically feasible path to the playoffs, but with a road game against KC next week, it feels more like a moral victory than anything.

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Weather🌪

If you haven’t learned yet, this stuff changes on a dime and all you can do is monitor it and try not to overreact. There are a few games worth keeping an eye on though. I’ll include some updates on gameday for sure.

• Saturday looks fine: Cincinnati appears to be staying dry and the other two are in domes.

• Chicago @ Cleveland: Decent chance of rain and winds bordering on significant.

• Atlanta @ Carolina: It looks like it’ll almost certainly be raining and have 15+ mph winds

• NY Jets @ Miami: Heavy winds, 35+ mph plus gusts with 20 mph sustained. This stadium does a good job protecting from winds, but these are still high enough speeds to watch.

• Dallas @ Buffalo: More than likely will see rain during this game and winds 15+

• SNF: Baltimore @ Jacksonville: Like Charlotte, it looks like rain and some 15 mph winds

• MNF: Philadelphia @ Seattle: probably going to rain

Another week of the listed and ranked teaser legs running hot and me still somehow picking the only loser to include in the official Sunday teaser. Guess I should have just doubled down on the Buccos. Good job by the Ravens to eek it out and the San Francisco alternative/secondary teaser zone plays will continue until someone can stay within a TD of this team.

From last week:

Week 15 Teaser Rankings (Best to Worst)

Light card again with a TON of games sitting on 3 and possibly sliding into a nice teaser spot by Sunday. For now, I still love the teams with good offenses, hell one of them is getting points this week. I put a gap in there just to show my disgust for even thinking about a game with Mitch Trubisky on the road as a leg and of course, as I mentioned on the podcast this week, the KC leg terrifies me.

I’ll check back in on Sunday morning with the bets for the week

Due to scheduling multiple damn games on a Saturday (my day off), there will be a BONUS newsletter tomorrow. I’m huddling with the smart kids I know now to find some good props for the triple-header. I’ll try to keep it brief because no one wants to read on a Saturday, but I’ll have some thoughts on all three games and do a full-ass injury run-down for the Sunday slate ahead of time.