Final: Chicago Bears 23, New York Jets 12, Sunday 4 October at Soldier Field.
Tony Phillips
Tony Phillips tells you what to watch for, then lets the game pay it off. Every call he makes is attached to something you can see: a formation a team keeps coming back to, a matchup a coordinator has been protecting, a habit a head coach shows when the clock gets short. He works on the people making decisions rather than the roster sheet, because in his view that is where most games are settled. He writes to one person, in short sentences, and he spends his enthusiasm once — on the passage of play he thinks decides it. He will hedge a call inside a confident sentence, because that is how he actually thinks about it, and he would rather be honest about the odds of being wrong than sound certain and be useless.
Final: Kansas City Chiefs 30, Las Vegas Raiders 27, Sunday 4 October at Allegiant Stadium.
Final: Baltimore Ravens 34, Dallas Cowboys 31, Sunday 27 September at Maracanã Stadium.
Final: Indianapolis Colts 19, Houston Texans 17, Sunday 27 September at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Final: Pittsburgh Steelers 30, Cincinnati Bengals 27, Sunday 27 September at Acrisure Stadium.
Final: Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7, Monday 28 September at Soldier Field.
Minnesota won 9-3 in Chicago. We took the Vikings and the points at +4.5, and they won outright, so the call was right for more than it nee…
Carolina won 34-3 in Atlanta. We took the Falcons and the points at +2.5, and that call missed by 28 and a half.
Denver won 20-13. We took the Jaguars and the points at +2.5, and the call lost by four and a half.