{"id":875409,"date":"2026-10-08T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875409\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:16:10","slug":"nfl-week-5-picks-upset-and-score-predictions-matchup-breakdowns-for-every-game-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875409\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 5 picks: Upset and score predictions, matchup breakdowns for every game | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why Bobby picked the Cowboys: Defensive issues continue to plague Dallas, but the Buccaneers don\u2019t have enough firepower to keep up with <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/dak-prescott\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Dak Prescott<\/a> and Co. regardless. Tampa Bay is the only team this season that has amassed fewer than 200 net passing yards and 150 net rushing yards in every game heading into Week 5, per NFL Research. Just take a look at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ceedee-lamb\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">CeeDee Lamb<\/a>\u00a0versus the entire Bucs\u2019 WR corps: Lamb, who collected 17 receptions for 189 yards and a touchdown in the Cowboys\u2019 <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/cowboys-at-texans-2026-reg-4?tab=recap\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">34-30 win<\/a> over the Texans, now has 37 receptions, 498 receiving yards, 28 receiving first downs and four TD catches. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/chris-godwin\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Chris Godwin<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/emeka-egbuka\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Emeka Egbuka<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ted-hurst\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Ted Hurst<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/tez-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Tez Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kameron-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Kameron Johnson<\/a>\u00a0have combined for 44 receptions, 501 receiving yards, 22 receiving first downs and two TD catches. Sure, Tampa Bay could presumably home in on limiting Lamb, but that still leaves threats like <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/george-pickens\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">George Pickens<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jake-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Jake Ferguson<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/javonte-williams\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Javonte Williams<\/a> to deal with. Home-field advantage and history is also on Dallas\u2019 side as <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jalon-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Jalon Daniels<\/a>\u00a0prepares for his second career start. Only one undrafted rookie QB in NFL history has ever started and recorded a win over the Cowboys &#8212; Washington\u2019s Ed Rubbert, during the 1987 strike. That Washington squad of replacement players provided inspiration for The Replacements, which won Best Picture at the 2001 Oscars. (Just kidding, that was\u00a0Gladiator.) Unfortunately,\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mnT1wLqWPmw\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Shane Falco isn\u2019t walking through the door<\/a> for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Bobby picked the Cowboys: Defensive issues continue to plague Dallas, but the Buccaneers don\u2019t have enough firepower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4687,100096,349,99],"class_list":["post-875409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-analysis","tag-game-picks","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875409","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=875409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}