Six games on the slate and we’re siding with the home team in five of them. Let’s see if home field advantage matters more when we reach the postseason!

Who wants to win? Who needs to win? And who kind of wants to win but not badly enough to risk any injuries against a team who might want to lose anyway? All this and more in Week 18’s picks!

Look, I want to pick the Vikings and Chargers to pick up big wins and affirm their places in the playoff hierarchy. I really do. But history suggests nice things don’t happen to those teams, and who am I to question the workings of the world?

“It’s Christmas Theo, it’s the time of miracles!” Hopefully everyone can enjoy the time away from work and a weekend-long slate of NFL action - happy holidays!

With a lot of ground to make up in just four weeks, we’re going back to an old standby: riding the road teams to victory.