The NFL season has started but how do you know which games to watch and which to skip? Ask our favorite police duo with their good cop, bad cop precaps of all the Week 10 matchups in the National Football League this weekend. To see which games will be televised in your area, check out 506sports.com’s essential NFL maps. If you’re worried about watching too much football or if you’re negotiating for a little break during the weekend, read our weekly feature, Do Not Watch This Game.
Week 11
Sunday, November 16, at 1:00 p.m. ET
Houston Texans at Cleveland Browns
Good cop: The first place Cleveland Browns take on the second place Houston Texans!
Bad cop: The Texans are only second in their division because the Titans and Jaguars are a combined 3-16. The Texans are so bad, they just benched their starting quarterback in favor of Ryan Mallett, a guy whose only experience so far has been carrying Tom Brady’s pads.
Atlanta Falcons at Carolina Panthers
Good cop: This game is these two teams’ best chance to get themselves back in the thick of the playoff hunt!
Bad cop: I’m glad you don’t say they’re good teams, because they’re not. It’s just that they’re in a division with no winning teams at all in it.
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears
Good cop: After being humiliated last weekend on national television, how will the Bears respond against the Vikings?!! I want to know!
Bad cop: I would have responded by firing the coach.
Cincinnati Bengals at New Orleans Saints
Good cop: The Bengals are falling apart, the Saints are stumbling along, and somehow, I just think this game will be high scoring and exciting!
Bad cop: Falling apart. Stumbling along. Status quo on Bourbon Street.
Denver Broncos at St. Louis Rams
Good cop: The Rams are one of those teams that plays to the level of their competition! That means they will play extremely well in this game because that’s how good the Broncos are!
Bad cop: At 3-6, I think even you have to admit that the Rams play at least a little bit below the level of their competition.
Seattle Seahawks at Kansas City Chiefs
Good cop: This could easily be the best game of the day! Two 6-3 teams, fighting it out with two of the best running backs in the league, Marshawn Lynch and Jamaal Charles!
Bad cop: Okay, this game might be tolerable to watch.
San Francisco 49ers at New York Giants
Good cop: The 49ers this year are down but not out! They keep clawing and scratching and fighting! They’re keeping themselves in the playoff hunt through sheer moxie!
Bad cop: Moxie in New Jersey. Sounds like a terrible children’s book.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Washington Redskins
Good cop: I fully expect this game to be a close, high scoring shoot-out!
Bad cop: Right. Because the ineptitude of these two teams’ offenses is only surpassed by the total incompetence of their defenses.
SUNDAY, November 16, AT 4:05 and 4:25 P.M. ET
Oakland Raiders at San Diego Chargers
Good cop: Could this be the week the Raiders get their first victory of the year?!
Bad cop: No.
Detroit Lions at Arizona Cardinals
Good cop: Come on Bad Cop, even you can’t find something bad to say about a game between a 7-2 team and an 8-1 team!
Bad cop: The 8-1 team’s quarterback tore his ACL last week and now they’re starting Drew Stanton whose career quarterback rating is under 70.
Philadelphia Eagles at Green Bay Packers
Good cop: It’s cheesesteaks against cheese-heads! The Packers are coming off a 55-14 win over the Bears and the Eagles off a 45-21 win over the Panthers! These teams are red hot!
Bad cop: I’d rather just eat cheese, but if I had to watch football too, this game wouldn’t be all bad.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, AT 8:30 P.M. ET
New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts
Good cop: It’s Tom Brady against Andrew Luck!
Bad cop: For the last time — there are literally 104 other players in this game. Maybe the quarterbacks are three or four times more important than anyone else, that still means they only control 6-8% of the game.
MONDAY, November 17, AT 8:30 P.M. ET
Pittsburgh Steelers at Tennessee Titans
Good cop:
Bad cop: Hahahahahaha. Do not watch this game.