Bye weeks are finally over for the 2024 NFL season, meaning that every week the rest of the way will feature 16 games. In Week 16, that includes two Saturday games featuring playoff teams and quite a few contests that will impact the NFL playoff picture.
Looking at the NFL coverage map, let’s see which games will be broadcast in different areas of the country in Week 16 while also previewing each contest.
NFL Coverage Map for Week 16
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RED: Los Angeles Rams at New York Jets
Los Angeles has won all four of their road games since the loss in Chicago back in Week 4, winning each of those games by a single possession. QB: Matthew Stafford has 17 touchdown passes against just two interceptions this season when not pressured (two touchdowns and two picks when feeling the heat).
Los Angeles has converted eight-of-nine fourth down attempts over their past eight games after opening the season six-of-12. Defensively, the Rams forced a punt on 63.6% of the 49ers’ drives last week, the first time Los Angeles has posted a rate over 50% this season.
The Jets have scored 106 points over their past four games (previous six games: 101). Aaron Rodgers has thrown for at least 187 yards in consecutive second halves – this coming on the heels of three straight games in which he failed to reach that total.
Instances over the past 10 years in which a player had 190 receiving yards and multiple receiving touchdowns in a single half:
- Davante Adams Sunday vs. the Jaguars
- Ja’Marr Chase Week 10 vs. the Ravens
- Tyreek Hill 2020 vs. the Bucs
- Odell Beckham Jr. 2016 vs. the Ravens
The Jets allowed the Jaguars to pick up eight third downs on Sunday, the most New York has allowed in a game this season (15 attempts).
BLUE: Cleveland Browns at Cincinnati Bengals
This season, the Browns have seven losses by multiple possessions — their third-most such results prior to Week 16 since 2010. Through six weeks, 51 players had more pass attempts than Jameis Winston – through 15 weeks, he is the only player with three games of three interceptions.
The Winston experience is moving in the wrong direction. It’s been a tough run of matchups, but the trends are unkind:
- Week 12 vs. Steelers: 2.4 points per drive
- Week 13 at Broncos: 2.1 points per drive
- Week 14 at Steelers: 1.2 points per drive
- Week 15 vs. Chiefs: 0.5 points per drive
The Browns are forcing a turnover on just 5.8% of drives this season, essentially half of their mark from a season ago (11.7%). As a result, they are allowing 33.8% more points per drive this season than last.
In Week 7, the Bengals played the Browns, fresh off of a 10-point win and two weeks removed from a divisional loss in which they scored 38 points. They get the Browns this week after bearing the Titans by 10 points and three weeks removed from losing 44-38 to the Steelers. Joe Burrow ties the NFL record for consecutive games with 250+ passing yards and 3+ passing TDs (six, matching Drew Brees and Tom Brady).
Sunday was the sixth time that the Bengals scored on at least half of their drives (they improved to 3-3 in such games). For the second time in three weeks, the Bengals had an opponent average depth of throw under 5.5 yards. Through 12 weeks, they had an opponent aDOT under 6.4 yards just once.
GREEN: Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts
For the third time in 15 weeks, the Titans have lost three straight games (Weeks 1-3, Weeks 6-8, and now Weeks 13-15). Will Levis threw a pressured touchdown pass in the second quarter of Week 1’s loss to the Bears – he hasn’t thrown such a score since.
On Sunday against Cincinnati, 10 of Tennessee’s 11 drives either resulted in a touchdown (four) or a turnover (six). That 90.9% rate is the highest single-game mark of the 2000s (topping a five-way tie at 87.5%, most recently done by the Bills in their Wild Card win over the Patriots in the 2021 season). The Titans allowed the Bengals to score 3.33 points per drive on Sunday, the fifth time this year they’ve allowed a team to reach the 3.0 points per drive threshold.
For the Colts, Jonathan Taylor dropped the ball before finishing what would have been a 41-yard touchdown and put the Colts up 20-6 through 32 minutes and 17 seconds. They were outscored 24-0 in the remaining 27 minutes and 43 seconds. Four times this season has a QB thrown at least 13 passes in the first half and failed to complete more than one-third of them:
- Anthony Richardson (Week 7)
- Anthony Richardson (Week 8)
- Drew Lock (Week 14)
- Anthony Richardson (Week 15)
In Richardson’s 10 starts, the Colts have scored on 20% or fewer of their offensive drives three times (20% on Sunday in Denver) while scoring on over 44% of their possessions four times (as recently as Week 13 in New England). The Colts weren’t given a chance on Sunday. The Broncos’ average starting field position was the 43-yard line (Indianapolis’ average opponent starting field position through the first 14 weeks of this season: 31.1).
GRAY: No Game
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RED: San Francisco 49ers at Miami Dolphins
San Francisco has lost four of five games – they averaged 4.5 losses per regular season over the two years prior. Brock Purdy completed just nine-of-19 non-pressured passes on Thursday night, the worst rate of his career (47.4%). Purdy’s completion percentage this season drops from 70.8% when Christian McCaffrey is on the field to 63.8% without the star tailback.
The 49ers’ touchdown rate has fallen from 33.5% last season to 20.8% this season (their points per drive are down 22.7%). On Thursday night, San Francisco allowed Los Angeles to pick up just 26.7% of their third downs (four-of-15), their best defensive showing of the season.
Miami needs to be perfect the rest of the way to extend their streak of winning seasons to five straight years. Tua Tagovailoa is now just 6-13 during the Mike McDaniel era against teams with a winning record for the season.
The Dolphins have scored 52 points in their past three road games and 100 during their past three played at home. Miami allowed 16.2 yards per drive to Houston last week, their best defensive showing of the season.
BLUE: New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills
The Patriots now have 11 losses — the same number they finished the 2000 season with. They beat the Bengals that season and then went on to win three Super Bowls in four seasons. They opened this season with a win over Cincinnati… Drake Maye had 2.73 seconds, on average, to throw in Arizona on Sunday, his second-lowest mark this season (third lowest by a Patriot QB).
The Patriots’ top-3 yards per drive games have all come over the past month. New England has dropped four straight, and in all four of those games, they’ve allowed three touchdowns on four red zone trips. On Sunday, they also allowed the Cardinals to pick up 66.7% of their third downs, tying their worst showing this season in that regard (also: Week 3 at Jets).
Josh Allen, on Sunday in Detroit, became the first player in NFL history with multiple pass TDs and multiple rush TDs in consecutive games. Buffalo is the first team to score 90 points over a two-game span on the road since the 2019 Ravens.
Tyler Bass missed a 24-yard field goal on Sunday, the first miss on 78 such attempts (24 yards or shorter) this season. Over the past two weeks, the Bills have scored 90 points and allowed 86, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that opponents are four-of-four on fourth downs (season prior: 10-of-24) and 10-of-11 in the red zone (season prior: 21-of-42).
GREEN: Jacksonville Jaguars at Las Vegas Raiders
It’s easy to remember the 52-6 loss in Detroit (Week 11), but that’s the only Jaguar game since Week 8 that has been decided by multiple possessions (five of those six games have been decided by fewer than six points). Mac Jones is 0-for-17 with five interceptions when throwing the ball more than 20 yards downfield this season.
Brian Thomas Jr. has four games of 5-85-1 as a rookie … the only other rookies to do that since 2016 are Amon-Ra St. Brown and Ja’Marr Chase. For the second time this season, the Jaguars have gone four straight games without forcing a turnover (also: Weeks 1-4).
This is the Raiders’ first double-digit losing streak since they bridged the 2013 and 2014 seasons with 16 straight L’s. Desmond Ridder threw 11 passes in the first half — exactly none of them were in the direction of a receiver.
The Raiders failed to score in the third quarter on Monday night, the eighth time this season they’ve done that. Maxx Crosby’s season came to an end before this game started, yet the Raiders held the Falcons to 30.8% on third downs, the first time Vegas has posted a sub-40% rate since Week 7.
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RED: Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Commanders
The Eagles opened last season with a 10-1 run in which they averaged 2.53 points per drive and scored a touchdown on 29.4% of drives. During their current 10-game win streak, they are putting 2.60 points on the board per drive (31.2% TD rate). Jalen Hurts completed 22-of-26 passes from within the pocket on Sunday (84.6%, his best mark since going 18-of-20 against the Falcons in Week 2).
In Weeks 1-10, Philadelphia didn’t have a single game in which they converted 55% of their third downs – they’ve now done so in four of five (10-of-17, 58.8%, on Sunday against Pittsburgh). Sunday was the ninth time this season in which Philadelphia didn’t allow their opponent to pick up more than 30% of their third downs.
Washington games have seen 51 points scored in the final minute of regulation this season (3.64 per game). That puts them on pace to top the 2012 Lions for the most such points in a season during the 2000s (the Commanders have seen 51 such points scored, those Lions saw 57 in 16 games, 3.56). Over his past four games, Jayden Daniels is 11-of-13 with seven touchdowns when throwing inside of the red zone.
Terry McLaurin became the first Washington receiver with a double-digit touchdown season since Gary Clark (1991). His 10th TD catch came on his 84th target of the season (previous two seasons: nine touchdown grabs on 252 targets). The Commanders have allowed multiple offensive touchdowns and multiple FGM in four straight games (prior to this run: three such games).
BLUE: Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears
The Lions haven’t lost consecutive games since snapping a five-game skid in Week 9, 2022. Jared Goff completed a season-high six deep passes in the loss to the Bills for 167 yards (three games prior: seven deep completions for 150 yards).
Sunday was Detroit’s first game without a field goal made since September and the third time this season in which they’ve scored a touchdown on the majority of their drives. In Weeks 1-14, the Lions allowed one red zone touchdown for every 2.65 third-down conversions — on Sunday against the Bills, they allowed five of each.
Up until the final play of Week 8, the Bears were in line to win four straight games with a +54 point differential over those games. Starting with the Jayden Daniels Hail Mary, the Bears have been outscored by 92 points over their past seven games and one play. Caleb Williams didn’t have a completion of 5+ air yards in the first half of Monday night’s game in Minnesota.
The Bears were held scoreless in the first half on Monday night, their third straight game going into the locker room without any points (53 points allowed in those first halves). The Bears have allowed the opposition to pick up 50% of their third downs in consecutive games, something they didn’t do once in the first 13 weeks of this season.
YELLOW: New York Giants at Atlanta Falcons
The Giants have scored 25 points in their past two games, but they have allowed 26.5 points per game since their Week 11 bye. As a collective, the Giants are averaging 5.7 yards per pass. That puts them on track to post the fourth worst rate over the past decade – but only the third worst since the beginning of last season (2023 Panthers: 5.5, 2023 Jets: 5.6).
New York’s average starting field position on Sunday was their own 20-yard line – their worst of the season and the third-lowest mark in the NFL this year. New York allowed Baltimore to pick up nine-of-11 third downs last week, the highest rate the Giants have allowed in a game during the 2000s. They’ve allowed a rate over 70% in four games over that stretch, all coming in the final month of the season and two coming against the Ravens (also: Week 16, 2020).
Atlanta needed the win, but they failed to score 21 points in their fourth straight road game (and it hasn’t been a weather issue — three of those games have been indoors). Kirk Cousins has been benched after matching his career-high for consecutive games with an interception (five). Now, the Falcons will turn to No. 8 overall pick Michael Penix Jr.
The Falcons have scored in seven of their past eight quarters — they may not be putting up huge numbers, but they are getting on the board consistently. Atlanta has held its opponent to under one point per possession twice this season, both times in December (Weeks 13 and 15).
ORANGE: Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers
Since Week 3, the Cardinals are 3-0 against the AFC East (29.7 PPG) and 3-6 against the rest of the NFL (17.3 PPG). The Cardinals improved to 6-1 this season when Kyler Murray completes a pass that gains more than 30 yards (1-6 otherwise).
Arizona converted 10-of-15 third downs against New England on Sunday, following a two-game stretch in which they converted just nine-of-25 opportunities. The Lions scored a touchdown on both red zone trips against the Cardinals in Week 3 – that was the last time a team converted all of their red zone drives into TDs against this defense (past six games: seven-of-18).
The Panthers missed a chance on Sunday to end one of the more odd trends in recent memory – we are now over 1,180 days (that’s the number as of Monday) since the last time Carolina won a game as an outright favorite. The 83-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Coker under duress was good to see, but on 14 other pressured dropbacks against Dallas, Bryce Young produced one (1) passing yard.
After showing some signs of growth over the month prior, the Panthers picked up just 27.3% of their third downs (three-of-11) on Sunday against the Cowboys, their worst rate since Week 5. Carolina has allowed a touchdown on seven-of-eight red zone trips over their past two games (previous three: five-of-13).
GREEN: Minnesota Vikings at Seattle Seahawks
Minnesota has won their past two games by a total of 39 points — their first five wins during this streak came by a total of 27 points. For the first time this season, Sam Darnold failed to throw multiple touchdown passes in a true home game (and it came in his highest attempt effort of the season).
The Vikings picked up third-and-10 (or more) three times in the first half on Monday night against the Bears, the first time they’ve done that since Week 3, 2012 (vs. 49ers). One week after allowing the Falcons to pick up 53.8% of third downs (their worst defensive showing of the season), the Vikings posted their best mark of 2024 against the Bears on Monday night (one-of-12, 8.3%).
Seattle has a pair of NFC North games over the next two weeks. This season, they are 0-2 against the North (-30 point differential) and 8-4 against the rest of the NFL (+32 point differential). Geno Smith and Jameis Winston are tied for the most end zone interceptions thrown this season with four – Smith had three in his career prior to this year.
The Seahawks scored a touchdown on just one-of-12 drives during their loss to the Packers last week – their 8.3% TD rate being their loss of the season (they are 6-1 this season when finding paydirt on over 20% of their drives this season). Sunday night against Green Bay was the third time this season that Seattle had a higher blitz rate (32.1% of dropbacks) than pressure rate (28.6%) and its third game without a sack.
BROWN: TBD
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Dallas Cowboys (SNF)
The Bucs have now won four straight (+64 point differential) after losing four straight (-24 point differential). Baker Mayfield has thrown 10 second-quarter interceptions this season, the most in the second stanza since Elvis Grbac chucked 11 in 2001.
In Weeks 1-11, the Bucs didn’t have a game in which they averaged 9.8+ yards per pass — they’ve done it in consecutive weeks and three times during their current four-game winning streak. During Tampa Bay’s four-game winning streak, their third down defense has been trending in the right direction over that stretch:
- Week 12 at Giants: 45.5% of third downs converted
- Week 13 at Panthers: 37.5%
- Week 14 vs. Raiders: 30.8%
- Week 15 at Chargers: 0% (0-of-6)
After winning three of 10 games to open the season, the Cowboys have won three of four (27+ points scored in each of those victories). On Sunday, Cooper Rush turned nine passes thrown 10+ yards downfield into three touchdowns – just two of his first 61 such attempts this season resulted in six points.
Rico Dowdle joins C.J. Anderson as the only undrafted player to run for 110 yards in three straight games since 2012. Opponents have failed to pick up more than one-third of their third down attempts against Dallas in four of their past five games.
New Orleans Saints at Green Bay Packers (MNF)
The Saints, the same team that opened the season by scoring 47 points against the Panthers, have scored 47 points since their Week 12 bye. New Orleans had the hot start – since Week 3, they rank 24th in yards per pass, 26th in pass touchdown rate, and 30th in completion percentage.
On Sunday, Alvin Kamara joined Lenny Moore, Marshall Faulk, and Christian McCaffrey as the only players with 25 receiving touchdowns and 50 rush touchdowns. Despite posting their fourth-lowest blitz rate of the season on Sunday (13.3%), the Saints recorded their highest sack rate of 2024 (20.5%).
As of Tuesday, we are more than 365 days removed from Green Bay’s last regular-season loss in the United States against a non-NFC North team. Jordan Love was intercepted three times when blitzed in his first three games this season – he’s been picked off on such a pass just twice since.
On Sunday night, the Packers had four first-half possessions — 15 first downs, 235 yards, and four scoring drives (20 points). Matchup-based defense. Over the past three weeks, Green Bay has two sub-10% games (Week 13 vs. Miami and Sunday in Seattle) and a plus-30% game (32.6% in Detroit, easily their highest mark of the season).