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N.F.L. Picks Week 14: N.F.C. Offers a Playoff Preview
By BENJAMIN HOFFMANDEC. 7, 2017

It should be a wild week in the N.F.L.’s National Football Conference: Six of the conference’s top seven teams will be facing one another in three games. Few playoff clinchings are on the table, but with a glut at the top of the standings, the week will serve as a preview of what the N.F.C. playoffs may look like. Here are our picks against the spread.

Last week’s record against the spread: 9-7

Overall record: 96-90-6

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/sports/nfl-picks-predictions-week-14.html?

Cowboys at Giants, 1 p.m., Fox

Line: Cowboys by 4

The Cowboys (6-6, 6 percent) have two more games before Ezekiel Elliott is eligible to return from a suspension, and if they continue to play the way they did last week against Washington, then the star running back could be coming back to a team with an 8-6 record.

Standing in the way of that is a hypermotivated Giants team (2-10, 0 percent) that fired its unpopular head coach, reinstalled Eli Manning at quarterback and will do everything possible to come away with a win at home. Dallas has a huge advantage in talent, and is rightfully the favorite, even on the road, but the Giants might want this one a little more. Pick: Giants