Aaron Rodgers, Packers live home underdogs to Rams

Aaron Rodgers enactment his bare ft successful beforehand of the camera Wednesday to amusement that helium has a fractured pinkie toed and not “COVID toe,” which helium joked astir Tuesday during his play quality connected “The Pat McAfee Show.”

Rodgers said that helium suffered the wounded during workouts astatine location during his 10-day quarantine earlier this month.

The toed didn’t halt the reigning NFL MVP from throwing for 385 yards and 4 touchdowns successful past week’s 34-31 nonaccomplishment astatine Minnesota.

The Packers are 2-point location underdogs to the Rams connected Sunday astatine Lambeau Field, wherever Green Bay bushed Los Angeles 32-18 successful a wild-card playoff crippled successful January.

The upwind forecast calls for snowfall successful Green Bay connected Saturday and a precocious of 34 degrees connected Sunday. The warm-weather Rams played similar a antithetic squad successful the acold upwind of Wisconsin successful the playoffs and participate connected a two-game losing streak aft falling 28-16 to the Titans and 31-10 to the 49ers earlier their bye.

The Packers had covered 9 consecutive games this play earlier losing to the Vikings. Green Bay has won six of the past 7 meetings with LA portion going 7-0 ATS. It has won and covered each 4 location games this season, allowing an mean of 11 points down the NFL’s No. 5 scoring defense, which allows lone 19.5 ppg.

I’ll instrumentality the points with Rodgers and backmost the Pack.

Here are 4 much plays (home squad successful CAPS):

■ PATRIOTS (-7) implicit Titans: This enactment has soared from -5 earlier this week aft injury-ravaged Tennessee mislaid 22-13 to the lowly Texans and wide receiver A.J. Brown was ruled retired of the game, joining chap wideout Julio Jones and prima moving backmost Derrick Henry connected the sidelines. New England is locked in, having won and covered 5 straight. Coach Bill Belichick has had other clip to hole for this revenge crippled against Tennessee manager Mike Vrabel aft a 25-0 shutout of Atlanta connected “Thursday Night Football.” Vrabel, a erstwhile Patriots linebacker, followed Belichick’s pb successful utilizing a loophole successful the rules to tally important clip disconnected the timepiece successful the Titans’ 2019 wild-card playoff triumph successful New England successful Tom Brady’s last crippled for the Patriots. New England has the NFL’s No. 1 scoring defence (16.1 ppg).

■ Eagles (-3½) implicit GIANTS: New York is 25th successful the league successful scoring (18.9 ppg) and fired violative coordinator Jason Garrett this week aft an embarrassing 30-10 nonaccomplishment astatine Tampa Bay, wherever it finished with play lows successful points, yards and clip of possession. The Eagles person won and covered 3 of their past 4 games and person the NFL’s No. 8 scoring discourtesy (27 ppg) down QB Jalen Hurts.

■ Buccaneers (-3) implicit COLTS: Tampa Bay got backmost connected way aft 2 consecutive losses with a ascendant triumph implicit the Giants connected Monday night. Tom Brady has a 15-4 vocation grounds against the Colts, who are coming disconnected a beatdown of the Bills successful which moving backmost Jonathan Taylor had 5 TDs. The Bucs get antiaircraft tackle Vita Vea backmost connected their NFL-best rushing defense, which allows lone 78.4 yards per game. The Colts (6-5) are 0-5 erstwhile they unreserved for less than 125 yards.

■ 49ERS (-3) implicit Vikings: The Niners person deed their stride with back-to-back 20-point wins implicit the Rams and Jaguars down a beardown moving crippled and defense, and coagulated play from QB Jimmy Garoppolo. Defensive extremity Nick Bosa has a career-high 10 sacks, including 5 successful the past 4 games, for the league’s No. 9 scoring defence (22.2 ppga).

Last week: 2-3

Season: 28-27

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