The Detroit Lions host the Minnesota Vikings in the final week of the regular season on Sunday. The Vikes still have a 3% chance of making the playoffs but will need to win and get a lot of help in the NFL odds.
While the Lions have already locked up the No. 3 seed, they could still snag the No. 2 spot with a victory and losses from both the Eagles and Cowboys.
Week 18 odds opened with the Lions as 5.5-point home favorites but money has poured in on the visitors driving the spread down to -3.5. Here are my best free NFL picks and predictions for Vikings vs. Lions on Sunday, January 7.
Vikings vs Lions odds
Vikings vs Lions predictions
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A short week is about as welcome as conventional medicine for Aaron Rodgers.
His aging bones (and tender Achilles) will be put to the test when his New York Jets host the New England Patriots on Thursday Night Football in Week 3.
New England has shown some fight in its first two outings, and my early Patriots vs. Jets predictions expect that fight to continue. Find out why in the NFL picks ahead.
Patriots vs Jets predictions
Early spread leanPatriots +6.5 (-115 at FanDuel)
My analysisThe look-ahead line for this Thursday nighter was Jets -7.5 in the summer. After two weeks of results, the New England Patriots have looked better than expected… and the New York Jets are still very much a work in progress.
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Instead they have had to maintain strictly regimented intake which, until a couple of months ago, was pretty much put on a plate for them. When lockdown came into effect, the remit of a Premier League nutritionist suddenly became a lot harder. To keep a squad of two dozen elite sportsmen on a fine-tuned high-performance d…
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Jenni Hermoso has been called up by Spain for the first time since she was kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales after the World Cup final.
Hermoso was included in Montse Tomé’s squad for the Nations League games against Italy and Switzerland this month. She had been omitted from the first squad after the World Cup amid the controversy ignited by Rubiales’s kiss.
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Tomé said then that Hermoso had not been included because it was “the best way to protect” the player, who responded by saying: “Protect me from what? And from whom?”
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