NFL Week 18 Picks

No Thursday Night Football this week -- the final weekend of the NFL's 2025 regular season begins Saturday with the Panthers playing the Buccaneers. My picks:

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Carolina Panthers
• San Francisco 49ers beat Seattle Seahawks
• Atlanta Falcons beat New Orleans Saints
• Cincinnati Bengals beat Cleveland Browns
• Minnesota Vikings beat Green Bay Packers*
• Dallas Cowboys beat New York Giants
• Jacksonville Jaguars beat Tennessee Titans
• Houston Texans beat Indianapolis Colts
• Buffalo Bills beat New York Jets
• Chicago Bears beat Detroit Lions
• Los Angeles Chargers beat Denver Broncos*
• Kansas City Chiefs beat Las Vegas Raiders
• Los Angeles Rams beat Arizona Cardinals
• New England Patriots beat Miami Dolphins
• Philadelphia Eagles beat Washington Commanders
• Pittsburgh Steelers beat Baltimore Ravens*

"Upset" picks --  predicted outcomes that go against the majority picks among those playing ESPN's Pigskin Pick'em game as of the time I make my picks -- are marked with asterisks. If I change any picks, I will do so before the games in question kick off and clearly mark changes as changes in updates to this post.

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When I set the new office rig up, I ran two HDMI cables to HDMI port #1 of my two TV/monitors from my work PC, and a third HDMI cable from the Raspberry Pi I plan to use for podcasting to HDMI port #2 of one of them.

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I figured some of you might also have a use for something like it. You're welcome.

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