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Welcome to the Friday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!I'd like to start things off here with a moment of silence for the Raiders. I thought their season hit rock bottom Michael Wacha Jersey back in Week 10 when they lost to a guy (Jeff Saturday) who got hired six days before coaching against them, but then they totally outdid themselves on Thursday night by losing to a guy (Baker Mayfield) who got signed le s than 48 hours before facing them.Mayfield flew to Los Angeles on Tuesday, practiced with the team on Wednesday and then played against the Raiders on Thursday. If he had been playing against any other team, the Rams probably lose, but the Raiders have perfected the art of losing to people off the street.We'll be recapping last night's game in today's newsletter, plus, we'll be making some picks and bold predictions for Week 14.As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the Pick Six newsletter. To get your friends to sign up, all you have to do iswith them. Alright, let's get to the rundown. The Rams looked to be left for dead on Thursday night, but then Baker Mayfield brought them back to life by leading Los Angeles to two touchdowns in the final three and a half minutes to lead Los Angeles to a wild 17-16 win over the Raiders. The only thing wilder than the game was the podcast that Will Brinson, Ryan Wilson and I recorded afterward. And in news that probably won't surprise you, we spent most of the podcast talking about Mayfield.Here are three key things from the game that we covered during the pod:Baker Mayfield leads Rams to a shocking win.The Rams pulled off what might go down as the most surprising victory of the NFL season on Thursday night and that's mostly because they won the game with a QB who wasn't even on their roster 48 hours before kickoff. In a game he didn't even start -- he didn't enter the game until the Rams' second po se sion -- Mayfield stunned everyone with an improbable comeback. With the Rams trailing 16-3 late in the fourth quarter, Mayfield led a 75-yard TD drive followed by a 98-yard game-winning TD drive. On the two drives combined, Mayfield went 15 of 18 for 141 yards, plus he threw the game-winning TD, which was a 23-yard score to Van Jefferson with just 10 seconds left (You ). Before the final two drives, Mayfield was just 7 of 17 in the game.Raiders experience a total meltdown. As good as Mayfield was, the Rams don't win this game without some serious help from the Raiders, who experienced a total meltdown. The Raiders had this game in hand, but then they shot themselves in the foot with two monstrous penalties late in the fourth quarter. The first one was a defensive offside by Clelin Ferrell on a fourth-and-3 play where the Rams were lined up to punt with 11:03 left to play (You can ). After getting a fresh set of downs from Ferrell's penalty, the Rams eventually scored a touchdown on the drive to cut the lead to 16-10. The Raiders were also hit with another dumb penalty when Jerry Tillery got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after he knocked the ball out of Mayfield's hands following a sack with 90 seconds left in the game. If Tillery doesn't do that, the Rams would have had second-and-19 from their own 13 with the clock running, but instead, the clock stopped due to the penalty and the Rams got a free 15 yards, which helped propel Miles Mikolas Jersey their game-winning drive (You ). Carr crash. The fact that everyone is talking about Mayfield might be a good thing for Derek Carr, because it could end up overshadowing just how bad he was in this game. Carr completed just 11-of-20 pa ses for 137 yards, plus he threw two interceptions. His first pick came in the end zone just before halftime, and it was big because the Raiders would have almost certainly gotten at least a field goal if he doesn't throw it (You ). That interception must have broken Carr, because he was even worse in the second half. During the game's final two quarters, he went 2 of 7 for 11 yards while registering a 0.0 QB RATING.Here are a view notes on the historic comeback:Going into Thursday, NFL teams were 70-2 on the season when leading by 13 points or more in the final five minutes, but that record is now 70-3 after the Raiders' lo s. The Raiders were on top 16-3 with 3:20 left to play, but couldn't hold the lead.The Raiders led 13-3 at the half, which means they've now blown FOUR double-digit halftime leads on the season, which makes them the first team since at least 1930 to do that.At one point in the game, the Raiders led 16-3, which means they blew a 13-point lead. This lo s marks the fourth time this season that the Raiders have blown a 13-point lead, which makes them justto blow that big of a lead in four different games in the same season (The other three teams are the 1982 Rams, the 1996 Jets and the 1998 Colts).To make this victory happen, Mayfield had to drive the Rams 98 yards for the game-winning touchdown, which is notable, because the scoring drive was the LONGEST touchdown drive of Mayfield's career. That's right, Mayfield saved the longest TD drive of his career for the fourth quarter of a comeback win while playing for a team that he just joined two days before the game was played. It was also the longest go-ahead TD drive that began in the final two minutes over the last 45 YEARS, .Of all the ugly lo ses by the Raiders this season, this one was the ugliest.Raiders' playoff chances go down the toilet.If the Raiders had won this game, it felt like they would have had a legitimate shot at sneaking into the postseason, but now Ken Boyer Jersey , it feels like their playoff hopes are dead. At 5-8, the best the Raiders can do is 9-8 and that likely won't be enough to get them into the playoffs. The Jets are currently the seventh seed in the AFC and if they go just 3-2 down the stretch, that would get them to 10 wins, and if it takes 10 wins to reach the playoffs in the AFC, then it will be impo sible for the Raiders to get in. As for the Rams, they're still alive for a playoff berth at 4-9 and if you want to know how they can get in, .We talked about those three things, plus everything else you could po sibly want to know about Thursday's game. If you want to listen to the rest of our recap, . You can .The best part about Friday -- besides the fact that it's Friday -- is that you get two episodes of the podcast in your feed. After recording the Thursday night postgame podcast with Wilson and myself, Brinson kicked us to the curb so that he could record his weekly picks show with Pete Prisco and R.J. White. Those three guys spent nearly 60 minutes going over their best bets for every single game being played in Week 14, and we're going to cover three of those bets from each guy below. You actually might want to listen to them this week because they've combined to go 31-21-2 over the past six weeks (and that includes going an ugly 3-6 in Week 13.)Pete Prisco(1-2 last week in picks covered here, 23-15-1 on the season)Chargers (+3) to cover against the DolphinsGiants (+7) to cover against the EaglesVikings at Lions OVER 51 pointsR.J. White(1-2 last week in picks covered here, 23-14-2 on the season)Dolphins (-3) to cover against the ChargersPanthers (+3.5) to cover against the SeahawksCardinals (+1.5) to cover against the PatriotsWill Brinson(1-2 last week in picks covered here, 18-20-1 on the season)Bengals (-6) to cover against the BrownsBrowns at Bengals OVER 46.5 pointsTexans at Cowboys UNDER 45.5 pointsTo hear what the rest of the best bets are for Week 14 -- and there are quite a few -- you .This is the final newsletter of the week, which means we will be cramming as many picks as humanly po sible into this space. With that in mind, we've got four more Week 14 picks coming your way, and those will be coming from NFL senior writer Pete Prisco, along with Jordan Dajani, Tyler Sullivan and myself.Here's how things are going to work: I'm going to give you one pick from each guy and then direct you to the rest of their picks. That way, if you like their pick, you'll be able to read the rest of them, but if they pick against your favorite team, you can ignore the rest of their picks and move on. Every pick that was featured here last week ended up being correct, so let's see if we can make it two weeks in row.Pete Prisco -- Eagles 27-24 over Giants (+7)From Prisco:For the .Tyler Sullivan -- Bengals (-5.5) 33-20 over Browns.From Sullivan:For the rest of Sullivan's .Jordan Dajani -- Vikings Mike Shannon Jersey (+2.5) 28-25 over Lions.From Dajani:For the .John Breech -- Buccaneers (+3.5) 23-20 over 49ers.Tom Brady has never lost to a quarterback who's making his first career start, and Brock Purdy is making his first career start. The Buccaneers haven't looked great this season, but Brady is from the Bay Area and I think he's going to come through with a huge performance in what could be his final trip to the bay. For .With the NFL headed into Week 14, we still haven't seen a SINGLE TEAM clinch a playoff berth this year, but that could finally change in a big way on Sunday. For Week 14, we have three teams that could clinch a playoff berth, with two of those coming in the NFC and one coming in the AFC.Here are the three teams that could clinch and what they need to do to clinch:EAGLESCan clinch playoff berth with:Eagles win against Giants. If the Eagles lose to the Giants, they can still clinch a playoff spot if the 49ers lose to Buccaneers AND the Seahawks lose to Panthers.VIKINGSCan clinch division title/playoff berth with:Vikings win OR tie against Lions.CHIEFSCan clinch playoff berth with:Chiefs win against Broncos PLUS Chargers lo s to Dolphins.To check out the full explanation for every playoff scenario,.There's nothing we love here more than making bold predictions, so we asked Jared Dubin to come up with some for Week 14. With that in mind, let's take a look at his Kolten Wong Jersey predictions:Bills get revenge on Jets.Cowboys hit double-digit sacks against Texans.49ers beat Buccaneers in Brock Purdy's first start.For a full look at Dubin's .It's been a busy 24 hours in the NFL, and since it's nearly impo sible to keep track of everything that happened, I went ahead and put together a roundup for you.House committee report rips Commanders.The House Committee released its long-awaited report on the Commanders and here's what it found: The team most likely released the Jon Gruden emails, Dan Snyder led a toxic culture while covering up decades of sexual misconduct and he likely obstructed witne ses who wanted to testify in these cases. Nothing about this report reflects well on the Commanders. For .Rams offensive coordinator leaving after one season. Liam Coen, who was hired in March to serve as the Rams offensive coordinator, will be leaving at the end of the year to return to his old job. According , Coen is headed back to the University of Kentucky to serve as OC, which is what he was doing before taking the Rams job.Zach Ertz out for the year.The Cardinals tight end that he suffered a torn ACL and MCL when he was injured in Week 10. Ertz has already undergone surgery and he's now hoping that he'll be ready to play by Week 1 of the 2023 season.Pro Bowl voting surprise: Tua leads all players in votes. The Dolphins QB is the top vote-getter for the Pro Bowl so far, which is mildly surprising, because the last time the NFL released a vote count, Tua wasn't even in the top five. The top-five vote-getters right now so far are Tua, Justin Jefferson, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill. Voting for the Pro Bowl ends on Dec. 15. To .Jets lose another tackle. Max Mitchell, who started five games at tackle for the Jets this year, is done for the season after being placed on the non-football injury list. Mitchell's father was placed on the NFI list due to having blood clots in his right calf and lung. The tackle position has been a revolving door for the Jets with the team starting a total of six different players at the tackle position this year.