{"id":165926,"date":"2025-09-18T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165926\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:14:07","slug":"bills-roll-dolphins-on-thursday-night-rams-to-exact-revenge-on-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165926\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills roll Dolphins on Thursday night; Rams to exact revenge on Eagles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Ali picked the Commanders: The Raiders enter this cross-country affair on short rest, needing to rebound after a brutal offensive outing<\/a> on Monday night. So far, Vegas has been unable to unlock rookie Ashton Jeanty<\/a>, who ranks bottom-five among backs in several rushing efficiency metrics. The lack of a functioning ground game has unsurprisingly put undue pressure on Geno Smith<\/a> and his bevy of No. 2 receivers, as well as the team’s defense (which has played admirably thus far). If Jeanty stalls again this weekend, I’m worried the same could be true for Geno — particularly against a Commanders defense that ranks second overall in pressure percentage through Week 2 (48.1%, per NGS). Washington, meanwhile, is bouncing back from a lopsided prime-time loss<\/a> of its own, and potentially without reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year Jayden Daniels<\/a> (knee<\/a>). Marcus Mariota<\/a> would get the start in Daniels’ absence, which, while a step down, perhaps isn’t as steep of one as it might seem. In three appearances for the Commanders last year, Mariota went 34-of-44 passing, with a 4:0 TD-to-INT ratio, 92 rushing yards and one rushing score. So, even if Washington is forced to roll with its QB2, I think I ultimately like the home team on nine days’ rest more than the visiting squad with a suspect ground game. But I certainly wouldn’t write off Geno & Co. from securing their second East Coast upset<\/a> of this young season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Ali picked the Commanders: The Raiders enter this cross-country affair on short rest, needing to rebound after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4687,1829,1327,8849,1807,3687,8850,1822,1799,1816,7820,1810,100096,1804,4058,3686,1811,1236,1812,6337,1820,1322,8851,1815,1814,977,5702,6257,1239,1321,560,8852,99,1824,8853,3851],"class_list":["post-165926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-analysis","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-game-picks","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}