{"id":234567,"date":"2025-10-23T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:12:10","slug":"nfl-week-8-preview-a-revenge-game-ravens-season-on-the-line-and-a-big-bye-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234567\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 8 preview: A revenge game, Ravens\u2019 season on the line and a big bye week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The NFL<\/a> season\u2019s getting real in Week 8.\n <\/p>\n

\n A legend faces his former team, bye weeks are piling up and teams are one loss away from trading playbooks for tickets to Cancun.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here are five things to know about Week 8.\n <\/p>\n

\n Week 8 is the biggest bye week of the season \u2013 six teams are taking the week off, and fantasy football managers everywhere are feeling the pain.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars are all off, leaving just 13 games on the slate. That\u2019s three of the four NFC West teams resting, with only the San Francisco 49ers still in action.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s officially \u201cscramble to the waiver wire\u201d season. If you\u2019re starting multiple tight ends owned in only 20% of leagues this week, don\u2019t worry \u2013 you are not alone.\n <\/p>\n

\"Texans<\/p>\n

\n Houston\u2019s defense has been lights out \u2013 their offense, eh, not so much. The Texans have allowed the fewest points in the league yet sit at 2-4.\n <\/p>\n

\n They\u2019re the first team in NFL<\/a> history to lead the league in fewest points allowed and still have a losing record through seven weeks.\n <\/p>\n

\n The good news? They face a 49ers defense that\u2019s really banged up and can\u2019t seem to catch the ball. San Francisco hasn\u2019t intercepted a pass in 14 straight games \u2013 the longest drought since 1950. The only other team without a pick this season: the winless New York Jets.\n <\/p>\n

\n So maybe, just maybe, this is the week the Texans\u2019 offense finally wakes up.\n <\/p>\n

\n For the first time in his career, Aaron Rodgers will face his old team \u2013 the Green Bay Packers. And this time, he\u2019s doing it as the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.\n <\/p>\n

\"Steelers<\/p>\n

\n Rodgers spent 18 seasons in Green Bay, winning a Super Bowl, four regular season MVPs and becoming a franchise legend. Now, at 41, he\u2019ll look across the field at the team that defined his career.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rodgers insists it\u2019s not a revenge game, saying he still has \u201ca lot of love\u201d for the organization \u2013 but don\u2019t be surprised if he saves a little extra magic for Sunday night.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rodgers is currently fourth in the league with 14 touchdown passes, proving the man still has plenty left in the tank.\n <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

\n The Denver Broncos pulled off one of the wildest comebacks in NFL history last Sunday. Down 18 points to the New York Giants<\/a> with less than six minutes left, Denver erupted for 33 fourth-quarter points to somehow win.\n <\/p>\n

\n Before that, teams trailing by 18 or more with under six minutes remaining had lost 1,602 straight games. That streak \u2013 gone. Giants fans may never emotionally recover.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now, Denver gets the Dallas Cowboys at home, as they look to keep the magic going and stay atop the AFC West.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s not officially a playoff game, but it might as well be.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Ravens host the Chicago Bears in what feels like a must-win for a 1-5 Baltimore squad that\u2019s been wrecked by injuries. Only four teams in NFL history have started 1-5 and still made the playoffs \u2013 the last being the 2020 Washington Football Team.\n <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

\n The silver lining: Lamar Jackson is expected to return from his hamstring injury, just in time to face a red-hot Bears team that\u2019s won four straight for the first time in seven years.\n <\/p>\n

\n Chicago\u2019s offense under head coach Ben Johnson has been rolling \u2013 they\u2019re the only team in the NFL to score 21 or more in every game this season.\n <\/p>\n

\n For Baltimore, the margin for error is gone. It\u2019s win now\u2026 or start thinking about next year.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL season\u2019s getting real in Week 8. A legend faces his former team, bye weeks are piling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-234567","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\/234567","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=234567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}