The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - NFL Week 16 Predictions: Packers-Bears, Jaguars-Broncos, Chiefs-Titans, Patriots-Ravens & more!

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet.  Nick Wright shares his predictions for Week 16 of the NFL season. The show starts with Nick's "stay away" games including Jalen Hurts' Philadelphia Eagles he...ading to Washington to take on the Commanders, Caleb Williams' Chicago Bears hosting Jordan Love and the Micah Parsons-less Green Bay Packers with the NFC North lead on the line, and Aaron Rodgers leading the Pittsburgh Steelers into Detroit against Jared Goff's Lions. Next is Nick's Picks as Nick breaks down his five best bets of the week including Cam Ward's Tennessee Titans beating (???) Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs in their first game without Patrick Mahomes, Baker Mayfield's Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Bryce Young's Carolina Panthers for first place in the NFC South, Dak Prescott's Dallas Cowboys matchup with Justin Herbert's Los Angeles Chargers, Trevor Lawrence leading the red-hot Jacksonville Jaguars against Bo Nix's red-hot Denver Broncos, and Lamar Jackson's Baltimore Ravens' pivotal Sunday Night Football game against Drake Maye's New England Patriots. The show ends with Damonza's Teaser and The Offer from the producers as the NFL playoffs quickly approach! #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:03:14 I'm not sure each of the next two weeks. So two shows a week for the next two weeks. But right now we're going to get into week 16. And first, DeMonze, we have to look back on week 15, which wasn't great. but was not disastrous and honestly, only one pick that I hate the process on, even though two of my picks got annihilated on. So we went two and three,
Starting point is 00:03:40 which puts us on the year, 37, 36, and two, above 500, but not profitable. But again, I don't know if you guys have been following some of the other major podcasts out there that are, you know, they have been publishing. the whole network is doing a picks contest. Everybody, every shows like five games, six games, eight games under 500. We're just muddling along at 500, not feeling great about it.
Starting point is 00:04:10 We'd be crushing over there. Here were the picks. Buffalo minus one at New England, winner. Seattle minus 13 and a half against Indy. I don't care. I like the process. Seattle kicks six field goals. Punch it in a few times, guys.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Vegas plus 11.5 at Billy. again, Philly had blown out one team all year long. I didn't think they could do it. The Raiders is just awful. So it was a bad pick by me. San Francisco minus 12 and a half against Tennessee, win by 13. Some of those, you can say good, bad picks, whatever.
Starting point is 00:04:41 The only one where the process was bad was sensing. Because I did a whole rant about Joe Burrow having an existential crisis about his future in the NFL and with the Bengals. and then I took them plus two and a half against Baltimore. Like that was just dumb. And so bad job by me on the Bengals pick. I was trying to remember whether or not, because if you guys remember, I said there were some other picks I liked
Starting point is 00:05:12 that I didn't put in. One of them was Cowboys minus six. They lost outright so that one wouldn't have worked. Another one was the Rams minus six. that one would have worked, but whatever, two and three, and still a really good chance to finish the year profitable. We just need to have, you know, a four and one week here and there, some three and two weeks, and we'll be fine. A game over 500 as we enter the stretch run. And as always, all our spreads are brought to you by our friends at Hard Rock Bet, which is why it's a great time to tell you where I bet on sports during the holiday season.
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Starting point is 00:07:38 So here's why I'm staying away from this one, Damase. Because a divisional home dog getting almost a touchdown against a shaky offense. feels like a spot that I should jump on, Washington plus six and a half. However, as skeptical as I am about Philly, I have to be open to the possibility that last week was not just about them playing the Raiders, that it also was they figured some stuff out
Starting point is 00:08:18 and they are about to start rolling as they get ready to defend their championship. That combined with the potential emotional letdown for Washington of shutting Jaden down for the year, season from hell official. I'd just rather stay away. My lean in this game is Washington getting the points, but I'll stay away from it. Next one. Green Bay at Chicago, Chicago is one point dogs. I don't love, I want to see Green Bay without Micah and see how big of an impact it has on the defense because it felt like it impacted the defense within that game last week.
Starting point is 00:09:03 Like that that game flipped in part when he went out. I also could see Caleb because he is in the part of his career and he is, he's not like a steady player yet. The highs are high, but the lows are lows. he just had a great game. I could see him regressing a bit. And the first game against Green Bay two weeks ago, it was just a tale of two halves. He was so bad in the first half,
Starting point is 00:09:33 but then so good in the second half. So in other words, I don't have a good feel for this game. I think my pick is Chicago, but it feels like a coin flip. The line is a coin flip. We'll stay away from it. Next. Jets at New Orleans,
Starting point is 00:09:49 New Orleans four and a half point favorites. Just not watching the game, I imagine. Yeah, I just didn't want to. Listen, this is, if I were a professional sports better, if it's how I made my money, then, you know, I would have an obligation to handicap every game. But at this point, this late in the season, if it's a game this bad between teams this bad,
Starting point is 00:10:14 I don't want to spend a lot of emotional energy on it. I, I know, listen, Tyler, Shuck's played well as of late. I still don't think we're at a point we're laying more than a field goal with Tyler Shuck feels smart. And we haven't been at a point all year. We're betting the Jets getting less than
Starting point is 00:10:32 14 feels good. So I'll just stay away from it. Next one. Cincinnati at Miami, Miami's four point dogs. Cincinnati does not deserve to be road favorites of more than a field goal. against anybody. However,
Starting point is 00:10:53 he's getting its first start. That's the thing. That's that, so that's the, I can't bet on Quinn Ewers, a seventh round pick getting his first start. Yeah. Without seeing him play. And I also can't lay four points with Cincinnati,
Starting point is 00:11:08 so we're staying away. This one, this next one demands I thought long and hard about. Yeah. Buffalo at Cleveland, Cleveland's 10-point dogs, you wanted to take Cleveland? No, I wanted to take Cleveland.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Oh, you want to take Buffalo? Okay. Wanted to take Buffalo. But Buffalo next week has the Eagles. They're coming off that huge comeback against the Patriots. Feels like the little trap game spot. Buffalo has not been a good first half team. Need them to cover 10.
Starting point is 00:11:45 So it's just to me, I like Buffalo. but it just feels like a workman-like win is at least possible rather than a blowout. So, and we know, listen, Shador and Cleveland will go, they down 17, going to go for a backdoor cover. I'll just stay away from it. Stay away from Buffalo. But the lean was Buffalo minus 10. All right. Next is Minnesota at the Giants, Giants three point dogs.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Yeah, we're just, Jackson Dart just lives in the, concussion tent. The Giants just want the season to be over. J.J. McCarthy playing the best ball he's played as of late. Still don't feel like he's earned the right to be road full field goal favorites. We'll stay away. Next. What about nine, though? J.J. McCarthy. Yeah, yeah, and that guy. Keep going.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Okay. Next, we got Atlanta at the Cardinals. Cardinals are three-point dogs. again a lot of bad teams road favorites like we have Cincinnati is a road favorite Minnesota is a road favorite and now Atlanta as a road favorite Arizona has just been such a dead team as of late Kirk is coming off the best game you know one of the best games he's played as a falcon I just still feel like it's so square to take a bad team on the road and lay points. But I don't, I'm not taking Arizona getting a field, just a field goal.
Starting point is 00:13:25 So I'm staying away. Next. Next is Pittsburgh, Detroit, Detroit seven point favorites. Yeah. So I thought long and hard about the lions here. This feels like a lion season on the line at home against a Steeler team that's kind of, you know, maybe flying a little too high. I also thought the single funniest moment of the week was the Rogers castoffs press conference.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Dude, I haven't seen it, but I've heard how it went and, like, he got mad that they were classifying him as an outcast. It's so funny. It's like, dude, you got dropped by the Jets, bro. You're an outcast. He does 45 seconds and names teammates who he loves and about how they're castoffs. Oh, and that fast. He's talking about his teammates about how they're all castoffs. People didn't want them.
Starting point is 00:14:28 And now they're doing it. And then the reporter says, not like meanly, he's like, oh, well, you know, by that, do you consider yourself a cast off? And Rogers, like, can't help himself. He's like, no, I'm not cast off. It was so funny. Oh, Rayrod, man. Right.
Starting point is 00:14:46 But so I like Detroit. but laying a full touchdown against a Mike Tomlin team in December has not been historically a great bet. So I'll just stay away from it. But man, I like Detroit. Next is Vegas at Houston. Houston's 14 point favorites. Honestly, might be able to take that. Houston minus 14.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Houston minus the 14. I almost did. But I mean, best defense in the NFL right now, Raiders. The worst offensive line. The Raiders are such a mess. You certainly can't take the Raiders at this point. But I don't like the zigzag for, like, I've been backing the Raiders, getting burnt. I think the response to that is stay away from them, not all of a sudden back the other side.
Starting point is 00:15:54 and then it's And then it's not a lot of CJ Stroud, he's been good for the last few weeks, but I mean, he hasn't been exactly the most of the lot. And they hadn't been,
Starting point is 00:16:04 Houston hadn't been throughout the year blowing anyone out. That's changed a bit of late. 14's a lot. The Raiders are so bad, though. I mean, they're,
Starting point is 00:16:13 they're so bad. All right, last one. Monday Night Football, San Francisco at Indie, Indie 6-point dogs. I really stared at San Francisco here.
Starting point is 00:16:27 The issue is this. I, because Philip Rivers showed us this past week, he's just going to get the ball out immediately, immediately. And the Niners have 16 sacks as a team this year. They've just been so bad. So like, are the Niners going to be able to exploit
Starting point is 00:16:49 what you should be able to against, you know, a 44-year-old quarterback? I don't know, but I'm certainly, not backing Philip Rivers against Robert Salas' defense, so I'll stay away. All right. Three picks, including a first time ever on this show, I think. Remind your, all the lines are from a hard rock bet. Demandze, what's the first one?
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Starting point is 00:22:14 Listen to Saigon on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, I did just notice. Kansas City, Tennessee wasn't in the stayaways. You have it in here, and it's Tennessee plus three and a half versus Kansas City. You're taking Tennessee. I think the Titans are going to win this game outright, guys. I think that the combination of the drop-off from Mahomes to Minchu and everything Patrick was papering over, plus the Chiefs still dealing with these devastating offensive line injuries,
Starting point is 00:22:54 Plus the emotional letdown for everyone on this team, having played in nothing but huge playoff games, to playing in meaningless regular season games, plus the fact that I don't know if Chris Jones is playing, plus the fact that I think Travis has one moment left in him if he is going to step away. And I don't know that he is, but his podcast this week sure made it seem like he was.
Starting point is 00:23:24 uh that's going to be his final home game next week at arrowhead against denver i just think the titans are going to win and does this pain i their whole read no i honestly i think it i don't think it'll be the i don't think it be a bad thing for the chiefs to get a few games of seeing what they would look like with bad quarterback play as a reminder of especially because they don't know if Patrick's going to be back for the start of next season. You know, what they need to do. So I just think the Titans win. And I'll take the Titans and Cam Ward getting three and a half at home against the Chiefs.
Starting point is 00:24:09 Wow. All right. It's a new regime. Oh, let me tell you something else real quick. Because as you guys know, I'm in, you know, the, obviously I bet through Hard Rock bet, but I also have that group chat where we bet with each other. And very often in that chat, I post a Chiefs money line. Like, hey, I'd like to bet the Chiefs at minus 180 or whatever.
Starting point is 00:24:39 Does anybody want to take the other side of it? And there's one guy in that chat every time who whatever I, so if I say I'm willing to pay minus 180 on the Chiefs, he'll swoop in and say, before anybody can fill my bet, he's willing to pay minus 190 on the chiefs. So I then come over the top and say, all right, I'll pay minus 195 and then he takes that bet. Like he wants to take my chief's bet, but he wants it at a better price.
Starting point is 00:25:13 So he overbids me. So I have a plan this weekend, which is I'm going to post. that I want the chief's money line at a too good of a price and anticipate he is then going to come in and bid on the chief's money line at a reasonable price expecting me to then overbid him and then I'm just going to take his bet you and say okay I say okay no problem so you have the chiefs at that price, buddy. And I'll take the Tennessee side.
Starting point is 00:25:57 Have fun with that. I've been waiting for this. I almost did it on Thanksgiving, except I bet the Chiefs to win. I didn't want to bet the Cowboys. But he, on Thanksgiving, did it to me in that game. And I ended up paying a real bad price.
Starting point is 00:26:13 It's time for some give back. Hopefully he's not watching the pod right now. Good point. All right. So I'll take Tennessee plus the three and a half. Next. Next, we got Tampa. Bay minus three at Carolina.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah, this is just a line in the sand game, flatly. Tampa Bay wins this game and they essentially lock up the division. They lose this game and they're going to have to fight for their lives for the remainder of the year. I know Tampa's playing its worst football of the season. I think that they can rebound from it. I think they're better than they've shown over the last six weeks. And I love this game at two and a half.
Starting point is 00:27:08 I'm okay with it at three. I probably wouldn't bet it at three and a half. But Tampa minus three at Carolina as Tampa. Carolina has been a nice story. I still think Tampa has high-end. upside even though they've just been playing terribly the last few weeks, but they also have to feel like we blew a 14-point lead in the waning moments, a game we had no business blowing whatsoever. And was that? Hold on. You got to feel like the first time you see him considering
Starting point is 00:27:43 you're going to see him again. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Well, no, that's what I thought. They also have the little added benefit of the extra rest because that game again, Atlanta was Thursday night. So all that, I'll lay the three points with Tampa. Next. Next, you got Dallas minus two versus the Chargers. So the Chargers offense has really struggled, and Herbert has struggled this last month.
Starting point is 00:28:11 They have been winning because of their defense, right? The Chargers also just won back-to-back wildly important, down to the final moments, game of the year type of things for them in thrilling fashion in both ways. Back-to-back game-sealing interceptions, Monday-I football against the Eagles
Starting point is 00:28:37 and then Sunday against the Chiefs. They also, because of what's happened to the Chiefs and because of what's happening to the Colts, they now, they lose out and they're 80% to make the playoffs. Like they don't need it. Because for them to miss the playoffs, they would have to lose out and the Colts would have to go on something of a run. I shouldn't say the Colts have to go on a run,
Starting point is 00:29:14 but the Colts would have to win two of their final three. I mean, that's basically going on a run. And so I think Dallas, this is an elimination game for the Cowboys. I think Dallas has been, you know, a week-to-week team in that some weeks they look like as good as any team in the league. And then weeks like last week, they just look awful against the Vikings. I also do like that this game is at, that obviously. I like the fact that this game is in Dallas. I don't love, I will admit,
Starting point is 00:29:58 the fact that Philly plays the night before. Because if Philly wins, Dallas is eliminated from the playoffs. So I don't love that piece of it. But I also feel like Dallas is probably feels like we're, you know, we're close to eliminated either way. and I just think, you know, Pickens needs a bounce back performance at some point. DAC is going to perform.
Starting point is 00:30:26 I think that Cowboys, Quinn and Williams and that improved D-Lyting against the Chargers O line, I just think Dallas is a good spot here. I'll lay just two points at home against the Chargers in a game the Chargers don't really have to have next. Take it. Jacks Plus 3 at Denver. Yeah, this is a
Starting point is 00:30:46 bit of a I don't want to call a letdown spot for Denver because this is a big game for them but Denver had been playing up until recently nothing but close games even last week they're down nine in the second
Starting point is 00:31:06 you know in the second half of that game and then play their best football of the year but the Broncos and the you know they played Washington to overtime. The Chiefs game was a three-point game. The Raiders game was a three-point game.
Starting point is 00:31:23 The Texans game was a three-point game. So getting the three points matters. The fact that Denver, I think, recognizes that all of a sudden, that Chief's game becomes so such a soft spot for them that they don't have to have this game. and the Jags are red hot and the Jags are turning people over.
Starting point is 00:31:53 And teams on insane winning streaks historically have been terrible covering teams. There have been 50 teams to have 11 plus game winning streaks or 50 instances of 11 plus game winning streak since 1990. Those teams are 14 and 36 against the spread. So I'll take the Jags getting three points. and then last one to Mazze. New England plus three at Baltimore. I think New England's better, and I'm getting the points. I don't believe in the Ravens.
Starting point is 00:32:28 And I didn't know that Lamar's never lost a game in weeks 15 through 18 until right now. Now, he has two seasons. He was out all of weeks 15 through 18, but that is noteworthy. But I just think the Patriots coming off a terrible loss in a game they have. had to have Lamar missing practice again, a little under the weather. I'm getting the better team. And what I think right now is the better coach and the quarterback who's playing better. And I'm getting a full three points.
Starting point is 00:33:00 So I'll take the Patriots. So my three picks this week are the Chiefs getting, I'm sorry, the Titans, getting three and a half against the Chiefs. Of course I have it. The Bucks laying three at Carolina, Dallas, laying two at the charge. Chargers, Jacksonville, getting three at Denver, and New England, getting three at Baltimore. Before we get to Demonsie's teaser, quick note from our friends at Boost Mobile. You ever notice how everything keeps going up, rents going up, streaming services are going up,
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Starting point is 00:34:30 So I should have just taken Baltimore. I should have just teased through Baltimore, to be honest. Oh, I mean, I guess. But, yeah, so solid. So that's a loser. With that said, let me just say one thing real quick. Huh? You were getting 10 and a half.
Starting point is 00:34:44 it's 17 nothing late and the Bengals are driving in the red zone to make it 177 and you cover and Van Ney gets the pick lateral ends up being a pick six like yep that was great for team nothing doesn't right good for 10 team chemistry it was closer to a 10 and a half point cover than it seems yeah and then the other two ones were stone locks the whole game yep uh Chargers 13 and a half and then Chicago plus half point both win. So what are we doing this week? Another three team eight point teaser at plus 100 and I am going to be teasing Tennessee up to 11 and a half.
Starting point is 00:35:27 I'm teasing Buffalo to minus two and then we got Pittsburgh to plus 15 in that game. Yeah, I feel very strongly about this one. Like this is probably a second or third teaser that I've just felt. like this is a lot um but yeah i if if it were me just if it were me okay i would have taken out pittsburgh and i would have put in houston because i do see a scenario where the lions just roll and i think there is no scenario where houston doesn't win by at least a touchdown but you're You're getting all the key numbers. You're passing all the teaser fundamentals here.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Buffalo is a great leg. The Titans are an excellent leg. I'm going to give you an A. A. Thank you, sir. It's been a while. It's been a while. And I guess we lost on the B minus process, so it's fair to.
Starting point is 00:36:30 Yeah, exactly. We are not doing a touchdown genie this week. The juju's bad on it right now. We're letting it sit for a week. What offer do you have for me? So last week we asked for the Chiefs Money Line plus SGA went in the NBA Cup final. They didn't make it to the NBA Cup.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Yeah, I mean, the Stones and losers are on both sides. Yeah, so this week, this is really funny because I was thinking about this. Trevor, Trevor, two plus past touchdowns and over 223 and a half yards at plus 186. Did you take that? No. No?
Starting point is 00:37:08 I am not going to take that. Broncos past defense too scary. I'm not tying stuff into, listen, I like the Jags plus the points that Broncos past defense too scary. You just win the game. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not doing it. But I do love the picks this week. It feels like a four in one week. I don't know which one's the last.
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