Packers @ Lions tonight.
Should be a good one. Packers are built to handle the Lions. Lions won the first game in Green bay.

No TV tonight, so tune in on the radio 670AM. Or watch the replay on NFL Network!

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Lotta big spreads this week. makes u wonder if there will be any huge-ass upsets.

Some dude bet $3 million moneyline that the Eagles would beat Carolina. I hope he wins.

Pickens takes shot at Newsome again.

Remeber their skirmish 2 weeks ago when Al Michaels had no idea what was goin' on

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PITTSBURGH -- Greg Newsome? George Pickens doesn't know him -- or at least that's what the Steelers receiver said days away from a rematch with the Cleveland Browns.

The Steelers' Week 12 loss to the Browns was punctuated by a scuffle between Pickens and the Browns defensive back during a game-ending Hail Mary attempt.

Asked if he would talk to Newsome before Sunday's game in Pittsburgh, Pickens was dismissive.

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"I don't even know who that is," the Steelers' third-year receiver said Friday.

Pickens also doubled-down on his postgame assertion that he didn't think the Browns "are a good team at all."

"I just go by the record," he said.

Pickens and Newsome were engaged with each other as they ran downfield toward the snowy end zone during that Thursday night game, and Pickens appeared to drag Newsome out of the end zone. Pickens continued the altercation with Newsome against the retaining wall separating stadium seats from the field until security and stadium personnel pulled the wide receiver from Newsome.

After the game, Newsome called Pickens a "fake tough guy," and Friday he responded to Pickens' latest comments and addressed how he's going to handle a trash-talk filled rematch.

"I'm all about the team," Newsome said. "Obviously he's a guy that cares more so about himself, and you can see that in the penalties he causes. For me, my job is to try and do whatever I can to help the team win. There's never going to be no one-on-one battle for me. My battle is to try and help my team get the win."


Steelers receiver George Pickens said Friday that he doesn't "know who" Browns cornerback Greg Newsome II is, despite their end of game fracas in Week 12. AP Photo/Jeff Dean
"He does that type of stuff all the time. There will never be a man that could fuel me in any type of way."

Neither Pickens nor Newsome were fined by the league for the Hail Mary altercation, though Newsome did say that Pickens' behavior was "unnecessary" and he was surprised the NFL didn't issue a fine.

"Things like that, I think, is definitely unnecessary," he said. "And the league has done a great job in fining unnecessary behavior. But if they didn't see it as a fine, that's cool with me. I'm just going to go out and try to, like I said, help my team get a win."

A week later, Pickens drew two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties against the Bengals for throwing down the ball at Bengals defenders after a catch and for making what officials believed to be a violent gesture after another. Pickens also punted the ball into the stands after scoring a touchdown.

After the Bengals win, coach Mike Tomlin said Pickens needed to grow up.

"He's just got to grow up man," Tomlin said. "This emotional game, man, these divisional games are big. He got a target on his back because he's George, he understands that, but he's got to grow up. He's got to grow up in a hurry."

In his Tuesday news conference, Tomlin declined to peel back the curtain on how he handles and counsels Pickens.

"I'm not going to give you any detail about what goes on behind the scenes in terms of his growth and development," Tomlin said. "That's my style, and I'm going to be really consistent in it. Being transparent with you guys doesn't necessarily help or accelerate the growth process and that's my agenda, not necessarily feeding the beast."

Pickens, who popped up on the Steelers' injury report Friday and is listed as questionable with a hamstring injury, said he wasn't sure how to limit his in-game penalties.

"I'm out here making plays and doing the same celebrations that every other receiver's doing, so I'm not sure," he said. "... When you're playing hard and the league has a target on your back, then you possibly, I'm not saying 100 percent, but you possibly could get flags."

Asked if he thought he had a target on his back, Pickens said he didn't know and he hoped not.

"I'm just out here playing like every other receiver," he said.

Unfortunately, it will be a mute point, as Pickens is inactive for today's rematch.

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PITTSBURGH -- Steelers leading receiver George Pickens will not suit up against the Browns on Sunday.

The third-year player, who has 850 receiving yards and three touchdown catches this season, is inactive after popping up on the Steelers' practice report with a hamstring injury Friday. He had been listed as questionable for the rematch with the Browns.

Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Saturday night that there was optimism Pickens would be able to play.

Before Sunday, Pickens hadn't missed a game since being selected by the Steelers in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft. While Pickens will be out, wide receiver Calvin Austin III is active after exiting the concussion protocol earlier this week.

Pickens made headlines in the Steelers' Week 12 loss to the Browns when he got in a scuffle with cornerback Greg Newsome II during a game-ending Hail Mary attempt. This week, Pickens said he didn't know who Newsome was when asked whether he would talk to the defensive back Sunday.

The volatile wide receiver was also fined more than $20,000 for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties called against him in the Steelers' win against the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 1. The flags against Pickens prompted coach Mike Tomlin to call on his wide receiver "to grow up."

Listening to VSIN this morning, that $3 million bet was taken by Circa.
Circa also recently took a $250,000 ML bet on the Panthers at +755

Horrendous clock management by the Bills at the end. Panicked after getting stuffed on the 1 and used a timeout with a minute to go, which basically ended the game as it left them with only two timeouts.

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Mac Jones somehow pulled out a road win today.

I'm the only guy that's been covering mac jones this year.

If I were an NFL defense I’d simply cover guys so they couldn’t catch the ball

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the "toy story" funday football thing was barely cute, but somewhat passable.

using "the simpsons" was downright godawful. and the trivia questions were 011 easy. i think i got to the first trip to moe's "juice bar" before i had to bail.

this really shouldn't be brought back.

nickelodeon's coverage at least still shows an actual game. not some N64 video game droppings.

If they just used the actual crowd noise this simpsons broadcast would be much better. It's like a madden 98 crowd noise that never stops.

Also asking Mina kines to deliver simpsons references while being funny was never going to happen

2 teams that cant catch a break and bungle games away. Today things broke the Bengals way.

Still, the Cowboys are more competitive with Rush then Dak.

Joe Burrow's house got robbed while he was playin' in this game.

Good thing nobody told him anythin' durin' the game, otherwise he mighta got distracted and maybe not win.

Luckily, he had an employee at the house who was able to call police. The employee happened to also be a SI swimsuit model. No word on if she was there as a security guard or not.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Goddammit, why wasn't she up in a box making a spectacle of herself?