Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
The game between the Steelers and Colts last night marked the final NFL game of November, and I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I feel like this season is going by really fast. However, that might also have to do with the fact that I drink seven cups of coffee per day. That’s healthy for you, right?
There were only four NFL teams that went undefeated in the month of November — Kansas City, Cincinnati, Miami, San Francisco — and in a fun twist, those teams will be opening up December by facing each other with Chiefs at Bengals and Dolphins at 49ers both happening this week.
If you’re wondering who’s going to win those games, you won’t have to wonder much longer because we’re going to be handing out some NFL picks today, plus we’ll be taking a look at Prisco’s Power Rankings and dissecting the Steelers’ win over the Colts.
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1. Today’s show: Recapping the Steelers’ win over the Colts
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With two struggling teams going at it on Monday night, I wasn’t really expecting an exciting game, but that’s exactly what we got with the Steelers beating the Colts 24-17 in a game that went down to the wire.
Following the Steelers’ win, Will Brinson, Ryan Wilson and I spent 35 minutes talking about the game and a good chunk of that was spent dissecting the Colts’ clock mismanagement at the end of the game. Here are three key things from the game that we covered during the pod:
Colts’ clock management gets an ‘F.’ Jeff Saturday’s total lack of coaching experience finally cost the Colts and it happened because he botched the team’s clock management down the stretch. Although the Colts were trailing 24-17 late in the game, they seemed to be in a good spot after driving down to Pittsburgh’s 33 with 95 seconds left and all three timeouts. Here’s what happened next:
- First down at PIT 33: Matt Ryan got sacked for a 7-yard loss and it would have made sense to call a timeout to allow the offense to regroup AND to save some time, but no timeout was…
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