{"id":217024,"date":"2025-10-16T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:09:15","slug":"nfl-week-7-picks-from-the-mmqb-staff-surging-buccaneers-visit-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217024\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 7 Picks From the MMQB Staff: Surging Buccaneers Visit Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Week 7! Last week forced another shakeup in Conor Orr\u2019s power rankings<\/a>, with top teams such as the Eagles, Bills and Lions all going down. We also saw the first coach firing of the season, with the Titans dismissing Brian Callahan<\/a> six games into his second season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have to wait until Monday night for the biggest game of Week 7, as that\u2019s when MVP candidate Baker Mayfield<\/a> and the surging Buccaneers visit the Lions in a game that could have a massive impact on the NFC playoff picture. Our editor John Pluym is the only member of our staff picking the Bucs on the road. The Titans are hoping for the famed interim coach bump in Mike Vrabel\u2019s homecoming game when the Patriots come to Tennessee, but Conor Orr is the only one picking an upset. Our crew\u2019s most popular upset pick will be played at SoFi Stadium, where the 5\u20131 Colts are underdogs against the banged-up Chargers. And the game our staff is most split on will be at the Meadowlands, where three of our writers picked the Jets over the Panthers, despite a dismal showing from Aaron Glenn\u2019s squad<\/a> in London last week.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s who we have making picks this season:<\/p>\n

Albert Breer<\/a>, senior NFL reporter
Conor Orr<\/a>, senior writer
Gilberto Manzano<\/a>, staff writer
Matt Verderame<\/a>, staff writer
John Pluym<\/a>, managing editor
Mitch Goldich<\/a>, senior editor
Clare Brennan<\/a>, associate editor<\/p>\n

All picks are straight up. Visit SI Betting<\/a> for picks against the spread and much more gambling content.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MMQB<\/p>\n

SI graphic<\/p>\n

Green squares denote upsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Week 7! Last week forced another shakeup in Conor Orr\u2019s power rankings, with top teams such as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-217024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}