Week 12 was a fun slate of games.
3 overtimes.
Jameis Winston was out there doing stuff.
The Eagles lost, always fun for me.
Let’s give out some awards for Week 12.
Disaster Class: Minnesota Vikings
Sam Darnold is 8-3.
Daniel Jones is 8-3.
Both quarterbacks were on the Vikings roster last season.
They elected to go with the rookie JJ McCarthy.
This dude JJ McCarthy is fun to play against 🤣😭🤣
Evan Williams with the gift wrapped interception. GIMME THAT
pic.twitter.com/XLQSJpL4gW— Hogg (@HoggNFL) November 23, 2025
Beautiful throw right into the waiting arms of a Packers safety.
The Vikings are now 4-7 after losing 6-23 to the Green Bay Packers—in a game where Minnesota’s offense played on their phones all shift, getting no work done.
Only 145 total yards, 2-for-9 on 3rd down attempts—the Vikings offense is currently being led by, statistically, one of the worst quarterbacks of all time.
J.J. McCarthy now ranks 851 out of 852 in EPA per Dropback among qualified passers since 2000, per Tru Media. The only player below McCarthy is JaMarcus Russell.
h/t @Danny_Heifetz on that other website
— Anthony Amico (@amicsta) November 24, 2025
Minnesota is getting JaMarcus Russell-level play from JJ McCarthy.
Disaster.
The “Division I Am Completely Locked in on For The Rest of the Season” Award: AFC South
Buffalo flew into Houston Thursday night to snatch an easy dub over a CJ Stroud-less Texans team.
Davis Mills None Shall Pass-ed them—Houston winning 23-19 over the Bills.
The Jaguars ran out of Week 12 with a 27-24 overtime victory over the Arizona Cardinals—even after Trevor Lawrence chucked 3 nasty interceptions.
Trevor Lawrence’s 3rd interception and 4th turnover. Really rough outing pic.twitter.com/cpcJFtwWmc
— NFL Interceptions (@interceptnfl) November 23, 2025
The Indianapolis Colts pocketed the division with an all-time offense and a midwestern micromanaging control freak checking Gatorade temperatures in cowboy boots.
Now they’ve lost 2 of their last 3 games, Kansas City taking a 23-20 win off them yesterday.
Houston is 6-5. Jacksonville is 7-4. Indianapolis is 8-3.
Houston has CJ Stroud coming back and a defense that just stuffed Josh Allen in a locker.
Jacksonville has Trevor Lawrence, a player proven capable of dramatic comeback wins. Since 2021, Trevor Lawrence leads the NFL in turnovers so he’s most likely responsible for the mountains he’s trying to climb.
Indianapolis has Daniel Jones.
Any team can win this division. (Not Tennessee)
The “Hey, man, you good?” Award: Geno Smith
Every non-football clip I see of Geno Smith, he’s barking at a civilian, always pissed that someone dare be upset about his underwhelming performances.
This week, he gave fans the middle finger after another loss.
Yikes: Raiders struggling QB Geno Smith gave the middle finger to Las Vegas fans after today’s loss to the Browns.
The Raiders are 2-9. This is a terrible look 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/vMAoM65VdH
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 24, 2025
Chip Kelly, the offensive coordinator, fired.
The Las Vegas Raiders are playing a different style of football than everyone else and perhaps we’re simply not understanding all the nuances in Geno Smith getting sacked 10 times, leading the NFL in interceptions, getting his coach fired and playing like the game has 9 innings instead of 4 quarters.
The 90’s Sitcom Dad of the Year Award: Deion Sanders
After securing his first NFL win, Shedeur Sanders explained how he developed that dog in him.
POWERFUL: #Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders on his perspective.
“When we were growing up, my dad had us in a 30,000-square-foot home. He took us to play ball in the inner city, transferred us across town to put that dog in us, that mentality: ‘it’ factor”pic.twitter.com/H92bID8m0S
— MLFootball (@MLFootball) November 24, 2025
Deion Sanders dragged his son—screaming and crying, out of their air-conditioned mansion, right off the Xbox—and drove him across town to play in the hood.
He could have literally made that sitcom in 1997 and it would’ve had 90 episodes on UPN.
The Play of the Year Award: Gunner Olszewski to Jameis Winston
The NFL needs to create a new type of Hall of Fame for Jameis Winston pic.twitter.com/r2JOf5NENV
— Dreadlef Schrempf (@TheLesterLee) November 23, 2025
Gunner Olszewski, a kick returner, catches a backfield jet sweep from Jameis Winston.
Jameis takes off to run a route.
Gunner is immediately swarmed by pass rushers, steps in the pocket, overhand launches a grenade down the field to a covered Jameis Winston.
The ball is underthrown, to where only Jameis could catch it.
Winston spins off the tackle like he’s ripping off a heavy, wet jacket after walking through a rainstorm.
Jameis casually walks into the endzone.
Giants blow another double-digit 4th quarter lead, lose 34-27 in overtime to the Detroit Lions.
The “You Probably Shouldn’t Say The N-Word on National TV” Award: Tom Brady
Whenever I want to take an extended break from social media, I open one of these devil apps up and see this:
What did Tom Brady just say??? pic.twitter.com/IkRl6IFfA9
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 24, 2025
Tom Brady mispronouncing a player’s name, stumbling through almost accidentally saying the n-word to millions of viewers, nervously laughing about it—strange 4 seconds yesterday.
One of the worst broadcasters in the game adding an interesting new wrinkle to his game: slurs.
Biggest Winner: D’Marco Jackson
Sunday afternoon could’ve been the most embarrassing moment of D’Marco Jackson’s life.
With the Chicago Bears linebacking corps all injured, D’Marco Jackson led a group of backups to a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
D’Marco Jackson added a wrinkle to his routine upon learning that he was starting at middle linebacker and calling defensive plays for the Chicago Bears against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. He set his alarm earlier each morning so he could stand in the mirror and bark out the calls as he committed them to memory. (ESPN)
In his first career start, D’Marco Jackson led the Bears with 15 tackles.
All of his Nathan Fielder-style preparation worked.
Me? I would’ve crumbled under the weight of my own self-doubt, anxieties forcing me to no-call no-show the game on Sunday, driving around to every Taco Bell drive-thru I pass for a fresh Baja Blast.
Built different, I guess.
Biggest Loser: CeeDee Lamb
CeeDee Lamb had 3 drops in Dallas’s 24-21 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
He had more drops yesterday than touchdowns on the season (2).
The Cowboys should’ve lost that game.
Went into halftime down 21-0 and CeeDee Lamb no-showed.
Thankfully, George Pickens was there to save the day.
GEORGE PICKENS 43 YARD CATCH
THE COWBOYS WR1 IS UNREALpic.twitter.com/JQA3oiyjGT
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 24, 2025
George Pickens: 9 receptions on 9 targets, 146 yards, 1 touchdown
CeeDee Lamb: 4 catches on 11 targets, 75 yards, 3 drops, 0 touchdowns
CeeDee Lamb agreed to allow Dak Prescott to “open up the marriage,” and now Dak’s fallen for his new hot gf while CeeDee Lamb fumbles around in the kitchen like Lucy and Ethel.
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