This week, six NFL teams are on bye — the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints, and New York Jets — so the Week 12 slate features 13 games.
Looking at the NFL coverage map, let’s see which games will be broadcast in different areas of the country in Week 12 while also previewing each contest.
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Red: Kansas City Chiefs at Carolina Panthers
This is the first of three straight games in which the Kansas City Chiefs are a favorite on the look-ahead line of more than six points, followed by Week 13 vs. the Las Vegas Raiders (early 7.5-point favorite) and Week 14 vs. the Los Angeles Chargers (early 6.5-point favorite).
Patrick Mahomes has completed just 31.8% of his pressured pass attempts over the past two weeks (first nine weeks: 53.7%). On Sunday, Kansas City managed just 259 yards of offense in Buffalo, their lowest total since Week 9, 2021 (237 yards in a 13-7 win over the Packers). In Weeks 8-11, the Chiefs have allowed a touchdown on 29.7% of drives (Weeks 1-7: 18.3%).
Exactly 1,158 days ago, the Carolina Panthers, led by Sam Darnold and DJ Moore, beat Davis Mills’ Houston Texans, earning their third straight victory. They are attempting to win a third straight game for the first time since.
Through 21 career starts, Bryce Young has a 72 passer rating with 15 touchdowns, 16 interceptions, and 5.4 yards/attempt. Looking at their stats through their first 21 starts, this is similar to Zach Wilson (71.8 passer rating, 15 TDs, 17 INTs, 6.5 yards/attempt), Ja’Marcus Russell (70.9 passer rating, 15 TDs, 13 INTs, 6.3 yards/attempt), and Brandon Weeden (70.7 passer rating, 22 TDs, 27 INTs, 6.4 yards/attempt).
Carolina averages a league-low 5.06 plays per offensive drive this season, 12% below the league average. The Panthers are creating pressure on 24.2% of opponent dropbacks, the lowest rate since the 2023 Falcons (24.1%).
Green: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New York Giants
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have lost four straight games. They haven’t lost five in a row in a single season since 2017, a year in which they had a pair of five-game skids.
Only Tua Tagovailoa has a higher quick pass rate than Baker Mayfield this season (73% of his attempts are thrown faster than the league average). The Buccaneers are averaging 36.2% more points per drive this season than last.
Defensively, Tampa Bay has allowed a touchdown on 27.4% of drives this season (27th, they finished last season ranked 12th at 18.5%).
The New York Giants have faced 332 dropbacks and 275 passes — they have one interception. Daniel Jones is the only quarterback with five games in a single season with 35+ pass attempts and zero touchdowns, and we aren’t even at Thanksgiving yet.
New York owns the worst red-zone offense in the NFL, turning just 39.3% of its trips inside the 20-yard line into six points. For reference, Tampa Bay is getting home 68.4% of the time. From Weeks 7-10, no team blitzed more often than the Giants (37%, a significant bump from their 26.8% rate through six weeks that ranked 14th).
Yellow: New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins
The New England Patriots lost to the Jaguars by 16 in London in Week 7. Since then, they’ve gone 2-2, with three of those games decided by a single possession.
Protect the franchise centerpiece, and we might be onto something. Drake Maye has completed 34 of 40 passes (85%) over the past two weeks when not pressured.
Over the past two weeks, the Patriots have settled for seven field goals on their 10 red-zone drives. New England has allowed opponents to convert just 3 of 22 (13.6%) third-down conversions over the past two weeks.
After this week, half of their remaining games come with weather concerns: Week 13 at the Green Bay Packers, Week 17 at the Cleveland Browns, and Week 18 at the New York Jets.
In 2022, Tagovailoa’s average depth of throw was 9.6 yards. Last season, it dipped to 7.6, and thus far, in 2024, it sits at 5.6 (Week 11 vs. Raiders: 4.9).
For the second time in as many weeks, the Miami Dolphins offense didn’t have a single play run while trailing. Over their past three games, the Dolphins have allowed just three touchdowns on 11 red-zone trips.
Orange: Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans
The 2-8 Tennessee Titans are getting close to a third straight double-digit loss season, something this franchise hasn’t done since they were the Houston Oilers (1983-86). Will Levis averaged a career-high 9.5 yards per pass last Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings (topping his 9.3 YPA in Week 11 last season — consider this your reminder to bet on Levis in Week 11s!).
The Titans’ yards per pass have increased in five straight games (Sunday vs. Vikings: 9.5). Tennessee has allowed a touchdown on 12 of 14 opponent red-zone trips.
Three of Houston’s remaining six games come against either Tennessee or Jacksonville, a pair of divisional opponents with whom they’ve won nine of 13 games since the start of 2021 (+60 point differential in those contests).
The return of Nico Collins was felt, but it didn’t result in a singular focus of C.J. Stroud. In the first half of Monday Night Football, he had 19 targeted throws, and six different players saw multiple opportunities.
Joe Mixon has a rush TD in six straight games, matching the franchise record. Defensively, Houston has not allowed a first-quarter point in three straight (and five of their past six) games.
Blue: Denver Broncos at Las Vegas Raiders (Late)
The Denver Broncos are 6-3 after an 0-2 start, with their three losses coming against the Chargers, Ravens, and Chiefs (the latter two on the road). Against the Falcons in Week 11, Bo Nix completed seven of eight passes for 175 yards and a touchdown when throwing 10+ yards downfield (first 10 weeks: 38% completion percentage on such passes).
Denver is 5-1 this season when they score a touchdown on over 50% of its red-zone trips and 1-4 otherwise. The Broncos have allowed under 60 rushing yards twice this season — Week 10 at the Chiefs (57 yards) and Sunday against the Falcons (50).
After this week, the Las Vegas Raiders embark on a weird stretch in which it plays three games in three different cities on three different days of the week:
- Week 13 at Chiefs (Friday)
- Week 14 at Buccaneers (Sunday)
- Week 15 vs. Falcons (Monday)
Gardner Minshew II has thrown 17 passes over his past two games when pressured, netting 38 yards in the process.
The Raiders ran play-action on 19.4% of their plays last week against Miami, the first time they reached even 17% in a game this season. Defensively, Las Vegas has allowed opponents to pick up 28 third downs over their past three games (first seven games: 24).
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Red: Dallas Cowboys at Washington Commanders
Following this week, three of the Dallas Cowboys’ next four games are home prime-time contests:
- Week 13 vs. Giants (Thursday Night Football)
- Week 14 vs. Bengals (Monday Night Football)
- Week 16 vs. Buccaneers (Sunday Night Football)
Cooper Rush threw for over 300 yards against the Texans, the first undrafted QB to reach that mark this season. Last season, Nick Mullens and Jake Browning each accomplished that feat three times.
KaVontae Turpin reached a max speed of 22.36 miles per hour on his first-half touchdown against Houston, the fastest-measured ball carrier this season. The Cowboys allowed multiple first-quarter touchdowns on Monday night, the third time they’ve done that this season. Dallas has won the first 15 minutes just twice this year (Weeks 1 and 4).
The Washington Commanders have two home games up next against teams not positioned to compete for the playoffs (Dallas and Tennessee). They are 4-0 this season in such spots with a +60 point differential. In Weeks 9-11, Jayden Daniels’ average distance of throw is just 5.3 yards, down from 8.1 through Week 8.
During their current two-game losing streak, the Commanders have reached the red zone on just 21.7% of their drives (Weeks 1-9: 48.8%). Since Week 7, Washington is forcing a three-and-out on 37.7% of opponent drives (Weeks 1-6: 22.2%).
Blue: Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears
This is the final of a three-game road trip for Minnesota before playing three straight in front of its home fans (Cardinals, Falcons, and Bears). In Weeks 7-9, Darnold completed 82.3% of passes when not pressured. Over the past two weeks, that rate is down to 64.2%.
Against the Titans on Sunday, the Vikings punted on a season-high 41.7% of their drives (two weeks prior: 19%). Minnesota’s defense has taken full advantage of three subpar offenses (Colts, Jaguars, and Titans) over the past three weeks, allowing only three red-zone trips.
Starting this week, the Chicago Bears will play only three different teams over the next five weeks (Vikings, Lions, 49ers, Vikings, Lions). Caleb Williams has weaknesses, but he has completed 15 of 19 passes (78.9%) when blitzed over the past two weeks.
The Bears picked up a season-high 56.3% of their third downs against the Packers last Sunday (three games prior: 6 of 40, 15%). Defensively, Chicago was only able to pressure Jordan Love on 28.6% of his dropbacks, the worst rate this defense has posted since September.
Green: Detroit Lions at Indianapolis Colts
A road dome game this week before three straight home games (Bears, Packers, and Bills). Jared Goff now has five games this season with multiple passing scores and no more than five incompletions — the first player to do that in the 2000s. In fact, the only other quarterback with five such regular-season games since the start of 2021 is Lamar Jackson.
David Montgomery’s TD plunge on the first drive extended Detroit’s streak to 24 straight games with a rushing score. Defensively, the Lions have held opposing QBs to a sub-70 passer rating in four straight games (Jaguars, Texans, Packers, and Titans).
The Indianapolis Colts have been competitive at home (they beat the Bears, Steelers, and Dolphins, and two losses to the Texans and Bills were by a total of 12 points). However, they don’t host another game until Week 16.
Anthony Richardson completed 5 of 7 passes (71.4%) against the Jets when blitzed, a big step forward from his 28.1% completion percentage in such spots prior.
Indianapolis has improved its third-down conversion rate in three straight games. Defensively, the Colts didn’t allow the Jets to have a goal-to-go drive, the first time they had such an effort this season.
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Red: San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Packers
Since 2021, the San Francisco 49ers have had the best point differential in games played in Week 12 or later (+219 in 21 games). In the two games with Christian McCaffrey back, Brock Purdy’s average depth of throw is down to 6.3 yards (Weeks 1-9: 9.5).
San Francisco is scoring on a higher percentage of its drives this season (48%) than last (45.1%), but the way it’s scoring is different. In 2024, they have a 22.5% TD rate and 25.5% FG rate; in 2023, they had a 32.4% TD rate and 12.7% FG rate.
Since 2000, the Packers have won 80% of their games played Week 12 or later (second best, Bills: 88%). Love has a first-half passer rating of 77.6, an underwhelming number given his 106.5 mark after intermission this season.
The Packers averaged 8.5 yards per play against the Bears (they only had seven drives for the entire game), their highest rate since Week 11, 2021. Opponents are 6 of 6 on fourth down against Green Bay over the past three games (first seven games: 4 of 9, 44.4%).
Blue: Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks
The Arizona Cardinals have won four straight games, their longest streak since opening the 2021 season with seven consecutive victories. Kyler Murray’s passer rating on deep throws this season is 110.6, up from 44.7 a year ago.
In Weeks 1-6, the Cardinals averaged 8.1 air yards per throw, but that rate has dipped to 6.2 since (23.5% decline). Arizona has the second-worst third-down defense in the NFL (48% conversion rate; only the Panthers have been worse).
The Seattle Seahawks are in a dogfight in the NFC West where finishing fourth and first are both still very much in the realistic range of outcomes. They finished third a season ago – they haven’t had consecutive finishes of third or worse since 2008-09.
Geno Smith will make his errors, but in Week 11, he excelled at taking what was given by completing all 19 of his passes thrown less than 10 yards downfield.
In Week 7, the Seahawks used play-action on 17.9% of their offensive snaps. In Week 8, that rate dropped to 12.8%. It fell again in Week 9 (12.2), and coming out of the Week 10 bye, they went that direction just 8.5% of the time.
Seattle has allowed three of its past four opponents to pick up the majority of third downs (Sunday at SF: 63.6%).
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Sunday Night: Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Rams
The Philadelphia Eagles are allowing pressure on a league-high 41.2% of non-pressured dropbacks this season. Jalen Hurts now has at least 11 rushing touchdowns in three straight seasons. Some players without three such seasons on their NFL résumés include Christian McCaffrey, Jerome Bettis, Tiki Barber, and Arian Foster.
While its TD rate is nearly identical to where it stood through 10 games a season ago (28.4% of drives this season, 28.6% last), Philadelphia’s goal-to-go efficiency is up from 68% to 88.2%.
The defense is why this team can avoid a collapse like last season. Through 10 games this season, the Eagles own a 34.7% third-down rate and 46.4% red-zone conversion percentage (2023: 43.2% third down and 62.5% red zone).
This will be the Los Angeles Rams’ 21st prime-time regular-season game since the start of 2020. In the previous 20, they’ve scored 406 points and allowed 406.
Matthew Stafford has 10 touchdown passes in the four games since his star receivers returned (6.6% of his attempts, Weeks 1-7: 1.5%).
Over the past two weeks, the Rams have had an 86.7% red-zone pass rate, spiking from 48.3% through Week 9. Defensively, Los Angeles is willing to adjust based on the matchup. After consecutive weeks with a single-digit blitz rate, they brought an extra defender 37% of the time on Sunday against the Patriots, their third-highest rate of the season.
Monday Night: Baltimore Ravens at Los Angeles Chargers
Over the past decade, the Baltimore Ravens (25-10, 71.4%) have the highest winning percentage in NFL prime-time games.
Lamar Jackson completed just 48.5% of his passes in Sunday’s loss to the Steelers, the second-lowest mark of his career in a game with at least 30 passes thrown.
Derrick Henry is the fourth player since the 1970 merger with an 11-game TD streak to open a season, joining O.J. Simpson (14 straight in 1975), Jerry Rice (12 straight in 1987), and John Riggins (12 straight in 1983).
Baltimore’s defense wasn’t to blame for the Week 11 loss in Pittsburgh. They allowed just nine points on four red-zone trips.
Los Angeles’ average point differential this season is +7.5, tracking for their best year since 2009 (that team went 13-3 with a +8.4 average point differential). When this game kicks off, it will have been 400 days since the last time Justin Herbert threw a second-half interception (Week 7, 2023).
Since Week 7 this season, the Chargers have averaged 6.1 yards per play, up from the 4.8 they averaged through six weeks. Defensively, since then, the Chargers’ pressure rate has increased from 35.2% to 35.9% despite dropping their blitz rate from 26.3% to 19.8%.