NFL Week 12 Picks: Chris Simms’ Game-by-Game Picks

November 24, 2016   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

Josh McDaniels was worried the Broncos would show up in a turkey-fueled food coma.
So before our Thanksgiving night back in 2009, my head coach held a team meeting and asked (well, pleaded) for his offensive and defensive lines to avoid feasting until after the game. I laughed so hard that night with my teammates I cried.
Want another Thanksgiving story? In 2009, I backed Kerry Collins up on a Titans team that could run the ball on anyone. So I’m only about 75 percent sure Jeff Fisher installed a Chris Johnson-heavy game plan so our team could be back in Nashville for the holiday sooner. And it worked! I was on my couch gnawing on drumsticks by 6:30 local time.
This year, head coaches will be noticeably absent from my holiday plans. And you know what? I’ll miss them. By and large, players secretly loved Thanksgiving games—it gave us all a chance to play, eat and bond with our locker-room family.
I’m thankful I’ve found another one at Bl...

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