Welcome to Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football is back this week for a game with the massive playoff seeding implications between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. All Sunday Night Football games kick off at 8:20 ET on NBC.
As always in our brave new world of expansive sports gambling, it is now easier to bet on games than to watch them. You can catch current odds on all NFL games for Week 14 here on FanDuel.
The 8-5 Seahawks are currently leading the NFC West, just ahead of the 8-6 Los Angeles Rams. A loss tonight for them thrusts them into the wild card fight, at a disadvantage to the Packers.
Green Bay, meanwhile, is playing well in the toughest division in football this year and is hanging all of their hopes for the 2024 season on a wild card bid. Their 9-4 record is more impressive than it seems, as they have lost to the 12-1 Detroit Lions twice, the 11-2 Philadelphia Eagles, and the 11-2 Minnesota Vikings. None of those losses were exactly blow outs, with the widest margin of victory in a 24-14 loss to the Lions. Green Bay is a good team that hasn’t yet figured out how to beat great teams.
Seattle, meanwhile, lost to the New York Giants in Week 5. They aren’t a bad team, but they aren’t a similar cusp of greatness that Green Bay has been flirting with this year. That’s why I’m picking the Green Bay Packers to win on the road tonight.
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