The Rams, meanwhile, just found out last Thursday. Advantage Giants. Buffalo (-5.5) at Oakland This will be an excellent test for Derek Carr. The Bills defence held Peyton Manning to 173 passing yards and Aaron Rodgers to 180. If Carr can have four quarters of success he really has arrived. Pass protection is so important; Carr has only been sacked 20 times but has been hit or hurried more than 100 times. The Bills could have a 10-win season by beating the Raiders and Patriots next week! I’m taking the Bills. Indianapolis at Dallas (-3) Of all positions in football an NFL running back has the shortest life span because they get hit so often and in so many different ways. DeMarco Murray will be a gameday decision. That will be a critical decision as no running back in football gains more yards before contact, and no running back in football gains more yards after contact. Key match-up in this game: Colts cornerback Vontae Davis, who has a league high 20 passes defended, four interceptions, and has not allowed a touchdown pass this season, against Cowboys WR Dez Bryant, who had 114 receiving yards against Philadelphia and three touchdowns. TY Hilton could be out a hamstring issue. Will the edge be taken off for the Colts after winning the AFC South? No way. Colts. Seattle (-8) at Arizona I dont know how they are going to do it but I think they can do it and that is keep this game within eight points. No doubt that Ryan Lindley is painfully inexperienced, having thrown only 10 NFL passes this year, and now faces an NFL defence in Seattle that is playing its best. Still, Arizona on defence is their equal. Seven times Arizona corralled, contained and caught Russell Wilson behind the line of scrimmage in their previous meeting four weeks ago. This rarely works, but I would not be surprised to see Logan Thomas at quarterback too for Arizona. The team that wins this game has the inside lane in the race for NFC home field advantage. Bruce Arians will be at his imaginative best come Sunday night. Cardinals cover. Denver (-3) at Cincinnati The Bengals go from Johnny Manziel to Peyton Manning in one week. And it’s a different Peyton Manning. Only 20 passes thrown in each of the last two games at San Diego and Buffalo but Manning is in total control of the offence. Lost in the success of Jeremy Hill and the power running of Cincinnati was a very below average deep ball throwing day for Andy Dalton. If Denver limits Hill and forces Dalton to beat them, I am not confident he can do it. Denver has to win this one. They are tied with New England at 11-3 with two to go, but New England beat Denver already this season in New England. Broncos. Giancarlo Stanton Jersey . Mika Zibanejad and Jason Spezza scored in the shootout to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 2-1 victory over Nashville on Saturday night. Babe Ruth Jersey . Orlov, who scored two goals in the game, was assessed a major penalty for boarding on the play. The Flyers scored once on the power play and again with the extra attacker with 65 seconds remaining to send the game to overtime. http://www.yankeesrookiestore.com/Yankees-Andy-Pettitte-Kids-Jersey/ . The Earthquakes (6-9-7) were coming off a 5-0 loss at home last Saturday to FC Dallas. Even with the draw, the Sounders (13-7-3) climbed back into a tie for both the Western Conference and overall top spot in MLS. Seattle, West co-leader Real Salt Lake and East leader Sporting Kansas City all have 42 points.(SportsNetwork.com) - The Calgary Flames are 15 points out of a playoff spot in the West, but they showed they arent a team to be taken lightly when they slammed the visiting Anaheim Ducks by a 7-2 score on Wednesday. Although Anaheim has been struggling lately, the Ducks still entered Wednesdays game as the top team in the Pacific Division only to get routed by the Flames. Mikael Backlund scored twice and added an assist to lead Calgary in the surprising blowout victory. Mark Giordano notched a goal and an assist, while Mike Cammalleri, T.J. Galiardi and Ladislav Smid each scored once to help the Flames halt a brief two-game slide. Corban Knight capped the scoring with his first NHL goal and Joni Ortio backstopped the victory with 20 saves. "I thought that we just matched their intensity right from the start," Calgary head coach Bob Hartley said. "We caught a couple of breaks that we deserved because we created them. Two shorthanded goals, a power play goal, it was pretty fun to watch our guys go." The Dallas Stars, one point ahead of the Phoenix Coyotes for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference, also toppled the NHL-leading Ducks this week. When the Stars and Flames collide Friday night at the American Airlines Center, Calgary aims to avoid a season series sweep while the Stars look for a fourth straight victory. The Stars hope to win another one for Rich&nnbsp;Peverley, who collapsed shortly after completing a shift in the first period of Mondays scheduled home game against Columbus. Austin Romine Jersey. That contest was ultimately postponed after Peverley was successfully treated for a "cardiac event" and sent to a local hospital. The 31-year-old forward was released from the hospital on Wednesday when it was also announced Peverley will miss the rest of the season. Peverley had a procedure performed during the preseason to correct an irregular heartbeat and will undergo another operation to deal with the issue in the near future. Peverley, who was acquired from Boston last summer in the trade that brought Tyler Seguin to Dallas, is fourth on the Stars this season with 30 points on seven goals and 23 assists. With No. 1 netminder Kari Lehtonen sidelined with a head injury, Tim Thomas expects to start again on Friday. Thomas was acquired in a trade with Florida before the trade deadline and the 39-year-old veteran is 2-1-1 with a 1.72 goals against average in four career games against Calgary. Dallas has won three straight and five of its last six home games and is 18-10-6 as the host this season. Dallas has claimed three straight and six of the last nine meetings in this matchup overall and Calgary has dropped two in a row and four of five in Big D. The Flames will try to halt a two-game road losing streak tonight in Dallas. Calgary is just 11-17-4 as the guest this season. ' ' '