Week 16 of the NFL season features a slew of games with playoff implications. There will be 15 games on the docket on Sunday, and the last game of week 16 being a rather historic one. It will be the last game ever at Candlestick Park on Monday night football.

Local CBS Games (Early & Late Games) Week 16 NFL Football
All (Early & Late Games) CBS Games Week 16 Local TV Schedule for Sunday, 12/22/2013

On Sunday at 1:00 pm on the CBS dockett, there are five games that will be shown. Most of the nation will see the 11–3 Denver Broncos take on the 2-12 Miami Dolphins from Reliant Stadium. Fans in parts of the South Atlantic, Midwest and parts of the West Coast will see the 9-5 Indianapolis Colts take on the 11-3 Kansas City Chiefs. Fans parts of the Northeast and greater Ohio will see the 4-10 Cleveland Browns take on the 6-8 New York Jets. The 8-6 Miami Dolphins head to upstate New York to take on the 5-9 Buffalo Bills; this will be shown in most of Florida and parts of upstate New York. Fans in Tennessee and northern Florida will see the 4-10 Jacksonville Jaguars host the 5-9 Tennessee Titans.

Early FOX Local TV NFL Football Schedule For NFL Week 16
Fox Early (1pm ET / 10am PT) NFL Games – Week 16 TV Schedule for Sunday, 12/22/2013

On Fox at 1:00 PM, there will be four games shown throughout the country. The key NFC South showdown between the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers will be shown in most of the South and South Atlantic regions, as well as parts of the Northeast. Fans in the parts of the Midwest and will see the 9-5 Cincinnati Bengals take on the 4-9-1 Minnesota Vikings/ Fans in the parts of the Northeast, greater Virginia, and in Texas and parts of the South will see the 7-7 Dallas Cowboys take on the 3-11 Washington Redskins.  Fans in Missouri and greater Florida will see the 6-8 St. Louis Rams take on the 4-10 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  

Late FOX Local NFL Football TV Schedule For Week 16 Games
FOX Late (4pm ET & 1pm PT) Local NFL TV Schedule for Week 16, Sunday, 12/22/13

There will be three late games shown on CBS. At 4:25 pm, fans in greater California will see the 4-10 Oakland Raiders take on the 7-7 San Diego Chargers. Fans in the Midwest and greater Pennsylvania will see the 7-6-1 Green Bay Packers host the 6-8 Pittsburgh Steelers from Lambeau Field. The rest of the country will see the 10-4 New England Patriots take on the 8-6 Baltimore Ravens from M&T Bank Stadium.

On Fox at 4:05 pm, there will be two late games shown. Fans on the northern West Coast, Mountain region, greater Arizona and small parts of the South will see the 12-2 Seattle Seahawks take on the 9-5 Arizona Cardinals from CenturyLink Field. Fans in the Midwest and most of the Northeast will see the 5-9 Giants take on the 7-7 Detroit Lions.

On NBC at 8:25, the 8-6 Chicago Bears take on the 8-6 Philadelphia Eagles from Lincoln Financial Field and a NFC matchup with major playoff implications. Finally, to finish up week 16, the 4-10 Atlanta Falcons head to Candlestick Park to take on the 10-4 San Francisco 49ers on ESPN’s Monday night football. It will likely be the last game in Candlestick Park, as the 49ers will move into their new stadium next season.

There is no game on the weekly NFL schedule like Monday Night Football, and here at Bankroll Sports, we are keeping close tabs on all of the MNF games this year and taking our weekly look at the Monday Night Football game this week!

Note: All Monday Night Football games can be seen on ESPN, and all MNF kickoffs are slated for 8:30 p.m. (ET), except where noted.

This Week’s Monday Night Football Game Preview
Minnesota Vikings +3.5
New York Giants -3.5
Over/Under 46.5

With just one win between the two teams, the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants definitely aren’t providing the sexiest matchup on the docket, especially not for a Monday Night Football game. However, this is the game that we are tasked with this week, and we don’t expect it to be pretty.

Three of the main players in this game that will be racking up stats were free agents earlier this year. QB Josh Freeman for Minnesota is obviously the big one, as he is going to be making the start on Monday for the first time in his career outside of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. However, some forget about RB Brandon Jacobs and the newly acquired RB Peyton Hillis. These are really the only two guys in the backfield for the Giants that can carry the football, and as long as they keep two arms around the rock and don’t put it on the ground, Head Coach Tom Coughlin isn’t going to care.

The recipe for both these teams is very simple. Minnesota has to run the ball and force turnovers, real weaknesses of the Giants. The G-Men absolutely cannot stop turning the ball over, and the end result is game after game of disappointment. The ground attack ranks 26th in the league on the defensive side, and we don’t see things getting any better against RB Adrian Peterson. On the other side of the ball, the Giants have to put pressure on Freeman and make him use some of the playbook to beat them. There can’t possibly be that much chemistry between Freeman and his receivers. Playaction bombs seem to be the most effective play in the arsenal, and the only way to take that away is by taking away All Day. If AP goes off for 30 carries and 220 yards, this game won’t even be remotely close, and it will be the third in a row in which the boo birds are gawking at the Giants the whole night at home.

Minnesota has won four of the last five games in this series, including taking two straight here in the Meadowlands. However, the Giants won the most recent meeting 21-3, and they held the Vikes down to just 161 yards in the game in 2010. If that’s what happens again, New York will surely get its first victory of the campaign.

As always, the games on the Sunday Night Football schedule are the best of the bunch to end a full weekend of football, and here at Bankroll Sports, we are taking care of our Sunday Night Football preview each and every week, as well as providing you with an up to date schedule of all of the Sunday Night Football games on the docket for the 2013 season.

Note: All Sunday Night Football games can be seen on NBC, and all SNF kickoffs are slated for 8:30 p.m. (ET). The ability to flex games starts in Week 10.

This Week’s Sunday Night Football Game Preview
Denver Broncos -6.5
Indianapolis Colts +6.5
Over/Under 56

We have seen every single Sunday Night Football game this year feature at least 29 points scored by the winner, and we can just about darn near guarantee that that is going to be what happens in this one once again in Week 7. The Denver Broncos are scoring points at a ridiculous clip this year, and they’ll take on the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Field.

Of course, the headline here is going to be about QB Peyton Manning coming back to Indy, the city that he essentially built from a football perspective. Manning now is leading the best offense he has arguably ever had, and that’s saying a lot, knowing that he had a season where he threw for the most touchdowns in NFL history at the time. However, what is really getting to us is the fact that this defense isn’t all that great. Some of it is the circumstance of always playing from ahead, and that means lots of soft zones and such, but we have seen this unit look horrid against QB Tony Romo and the Cowboys and now at times against QB Chad Henne and the Jaguars. One of those is excusable. The other isn’t. There are definitely flaws in this undefeated side.

Indy is far from perfect as well, and the argument could be made that this team was fortunate to beat both Seattle and Oakland at home this year. However, the Colts are the worthy AFC South leaders in our eyes, and we have to imagine that they are going to want to stretch out this lead even more. Indy is already a game up on the Titans and two up on the Texans, and both teams are big underdogs this week. QB Andrew Luck is taking over for the departed Manning, and he is going to try to be the next great Colts quarterback to lead this team for a decade. Luck is another one of these once-in-a-generation types of talent, and he’ll go far, but is he ready to really take down a man that has already carved out a Hall of Fame career?

Watching the NFL betting trends here is sickening. Do you care that Manning has five straight wins and covers in this series or the fact that the Colts have five straight wins and covers in this series? The truth of the matter is that Luck was still a frosh at Stanford the last time that these two teams played, and that really probably prompts you to throw out the record books.

The 2013 NFL season and schedule are here, and that means that there are going to be some big time games over the course of the whole campaign. Join us for the 2013 Thursday Night Football schedule and check out all of the NFL games on the NFL Network this year!

Note: All Thursday Night Football games can be seen on the NFL Network except where noted, and all kickoffs are slated for 8:20 p.m. (ET).

This Week’s Thursday Night Football Game Preview
Seattle Seahawks -6
Arizona Cardinals +6
Over/Under 41

The Seattle Seahawks are starting to pull away from the rest of the pack in the NFC West, and there is no reason not to think that they won’t win the division title from here. They have the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday Night Football this week, and this battle is going to be stingier than you are probably thinking.

Head Coach Bruce Arians has the Cardinals really believing that they belong to be playing in games like these. They really had a chance against the San Francisco 49ers last week, and if not for four turnovers, they probably would have won the game. Instead, they are just 3-3, and though they are on the outside of the playoffs looking in, there is a real chance to make some noise over the course of these next three games. The team doesn’t leave home now for a month, and it has to capitalize even though it might be an underdog in all three of these clashes ahead with Seattle, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Houston Texans. QB Carson Palmer has turned the ball over a ton this year, as he is responsible for 11 picks and a good chunk of the team’s 15 turnovers.

That has to really have this Seattle defense smiling. The Seahawks have forced nine interceptions this year, many of which have come in the fourth quarter of games. DB Richard Sherman has a knack for the big play at the big moment, and you can bet that Palmer is going to want to stay away from him. Seattle hasn’t played nearly as well on the road as it has at home, but the truth of the matter is that the team really has only played one tremendously impressive game this season, that being the 29-3 win over the 49ers in Week 2. A win over the Jacksonville Jaguars was no great shakes, and a victory over the Carolina Panthers in Week 1 wasn’t phenomenal either. Since then, there are three games against AFC South teams, and all three of those games could have been lost, yet all three really should have been won.

The Seahawks have had no luck whatsoever going on the road to the desert. The Cardinals have won and covered six of the last seven meetings between these two. Most remember the fact that Seattle won 58-0 when these two teams met last December, but they don’t remember the fact that a significantly worse Arizona team than this one came away with a win when these two hooked up here at University of Phoenix Stadium in September.