Thanksgiving Special The NFL Show

It'll be time for these teams

deserved lead between the white

lines.

Is going to fire towards the

end zone.

The Montana throw.

Dodgers

looking downfield...

The one-man

wrecking crew.

Unbelievable!

How did

he do that?

To the end zone. Court!

Unstoppable.

We here at the NFL UK offices for

this special because as the season

gets to Thanksgiving all eyes turn

to this.

Showtime.

Showtime.

The festival of

the football couldn't be more

American. Thanksgiving and the NFL.

4/80 years the Detroit Lions have

always hosted a game on Thanksgiving

Thursday. The Dallas Cowboys for

over 50 years. In general, it's a

time for family and food and being

kind.

Want to hug it out?

I

appreciate you man.

In football the

bit about being kind is sort of

optional.

If Mr McKay, man.

Touchdown! -- gave me a stomach

ache, man.

What have we got going on

today? We got a Rio Ferdinand

feature.

What a great feature, what

a great guy. I was a little

starstruck I'll be honest, if I

didn't have you I would have lost my

cool. I was a little... You know, I

didn't have it together.

He's a

great dude. We've got an incredible

slate of games for you for the

people out there. We've got the New

York Giants at Washington Redskins,

we've got the Los Angeles Chargers

at the Dallas Cowboys. We've got

your homeboys, your friends...

My

guys.

Minnesota Vikings against...

This is a big week.

Where is Mark

Chapman at?

He is down and out, he's

struggling, man. The winter weather

got to him.

You know what else,

we're not going to be too good at

the job because when Mark gets back

he might not have a job.

Let's keep

it together. Let's downplay our

skill set.

What else? You had a

great things giving two.

A great

bands giving them a shout out to my

friends Andy and Karen, great

Thanksgiving Navidi turkeys. Two

turkeys, three pies, my daughter ate

everything. Great time, great

people, it was everything

Thanksgiving is about.

I can tell

you had a good time, I can see the

stomach coming out.

I got to sit

back here man, keep all the food in.

Man, you know, let's get ready for

this first game, you know. Minnesota

Vikings against the Lions. Let's

check it out.

Hard to stop this friends down here.

-- offense. Second and go, passed to

the back of the end zone, touchdown

for Rudolph. Off of play action,

Rudolph gets to the back of the end

zone, easy touchdown to cap this

drive. Phelan at the top of the

screen. Keenan keeps it looking for

the block. Touchdown Minnesota. Here

we go...

Thanksgiving dinner. Eating

Thanksgiving dinner.

Pressure on... The touchdown for

Rudolph, what a throw under heavy

pressure. Kyle Rudolph has got his

second of the game, how good is

that? He knows he's unblocked and

has to hang in there, he's going to

get hit. Can he deliver a perfect

pass to an open Rudolph? Who is no

match for Whitehead. That's really

good. He's got to be smart right

here at this point before the half.

Good job to avoid the rush, floating

its downfield. The pass 's court.

Somehow at the 34-yard line. 1st &

goal. Stafford. It's court, to the

goal-line, Jones, touchdown!

That's

big. It's huge coming away with

points. Before the end of the half.

Especially for the Lions with the

struggles they had offensively.

Excellent job by Matthew Stafford.

This one is caught from a touchdown,

Darren Fells. The ball was moving a

little bit, we'll take a look.

Verified it is a catch for a

touchdown. Oh my, the ball looks

like it's pinned against the ground

by Darren Fells. Guy the ruling on

the field will be changed to an

incomplete pass. 4th down and 11

yards to gain at the 14 and a half

yard line.

This one down the

sideline. The catch is made.

Touchdown! What a catch. Marvin

Jones Junior. And Stafford is

writhing around in pain on his back

in midfield.

Got his legs taken out

and he immediately grabbed his right

knee.

You worry about that when you

get rolled up like that. He's

clearly on the ground in a lot of

pain. It's good to see Matthew

Stafford up and walking around. But

his right ankle taped up. You can

see it around his shoe. 4th down and

eight. Any hope for the Lions riding

on this point. In the air. Picked

off by eurgh. Xavier Rhodes makes

the play on the outside. Comes away

with the interception.

We've seen

Marvin Jones have an awfully good

day against Xavier Rhodes but when

the game was on the line, Xavier

Rhodes in great position, makes a

play on the ball. That offside.

Being returned. A flag is down on

the play. The crowd going crazy.

Darius Slay came across ahead of the

snap, that is why he was there to

block the kick. Despite all the

hysteria, this is coming back.

Clearly offside but he sure gave

this crowd some excitement.

Offside,

defensive play on the left side was

in the neutral zone that the snap,

5-yard penalty will create 1st down.

It creates a 1st down the middle

creates Neil Downes and it'll end up

a 7-point game. In the books now

seven straight for Mike Zimmer's

team.

seven straight for Mike Zimmer's

team.

Well, Jason, your boys did it

again, they keep winning.

Case

Keenan is showing he's a legitimate

quarterback. -- the fact is able to

pull this off and play like this,

but competitive at the end but

ultimately he dominated the game.

Tell me about your boy Adam Phelan,

what a receiver, who knew he would

be this bad.

The fact is making

every play, he's fast, he's great,

he runs all the routs good. That's

why Keenum is playing so well.

Ultimately they can't double-team

digs any more. Going into the

playoffs they are a dangerous

offense.

That running game, Octavius

Murray... On top of that, that

defense. Your boy Xavier Rhodes was

getting picked on through the game.

In the end, made the game, stealing

interception. What a great player.

We know good corners are guys that

bounce back no matter what's

happening during the game you have

to make the big play when it counts,

that's what the best corners do.

Also coming back, fumbles, doing his

little dance, I like that guy.

Remember he had his shirt up, he had

a baby, he wanted to name the baby.

We all got a shot to name the baby.

He wanted fans to name his baby.

Seppi give me ideas, national Sage,

that's where you do it. -- national

stage.

Look how good this was with

Rio Ferdinand, check this out.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. Tadhg are

you all right? What has been your

experience with NFL outside the

Super Bowl?

I've always loved it.

I've never had one specific team,

I've always just who's been the best

team at the time, a glory hunter

call it over here. But, I let the

players, I've always liked Peyton

Manning, now Brady is the man. Jerry

Rice and people like that before.

Prime time. I love all the big

names, superstars, that's it.

You

are a superstar yourself. You're

supposed to like only superstars.

I

love it, it's crazy, the

explosiveness in the sport, the

velocity, especially now, with

technology, you can see stuff a lot

closer, you can hear it all, it

brings you much closer to the game

so it's even better now.

I saw him

do like the punt pass kick things

during Super Bowl. The man has

skills. What position do you think

you would be?

I want to be

quarterback, I want to be the

dictator, I need to set the tone,

set the play, call everything,

that's what I would like to have

been. It's like my position, I see

everything, when I play center back

on the field, I was at my best and

most comfortable when I could see

everything. That's the way I feel

with the quarterback, it's what it

looks like to me. That's where I

feel I would have been best.

Both of

you have been champions, big games,

does your mentality change?

I think

that's the big battle you have

within yourself, not to realise the

magnitude of it and not let it get

into your body and mindset where you

think this is such a good big game I

have to perform under pressure

mounts within. When you get out

there the game takes its course. We

got into the Champions League

finals. It's big enough as it is but

you play against an English team

where the bragging rights are huge.

Within that team, their friends and

players that in three days' time I

will play with the national team.

Let me ask you about that because I

find that interesting we don't have

that in the NFL. I play against

Philadelphia Eagles and then a week

later we are on the national team

playing a different country. You

guys have that.

We had a generation

nicknamed the golden generation of

players. Expectations were huge for

us as a national team to go out

there and win something. That is

what held us back, not being able to

separate club ties from

international ties. That is where I

think our failures lie.

You're

retired now, a successful pundit,

what do you do to keep the edge? As

ex-athlete we know we need that

competition.

City years I just

chilled, enjoyed life.

Did you get

that?

I've got lucky jeans. I was to

working out but chilling. Someone

came out and said do you want to try

to become a professional boxer. They

didn't even blink I just went, you

know what, that's me.

Right away?

Let's go, I want to do it. I'm not

scared of failure, they always

believe there will be an element of

failure somewhere, within training,

and you get through it or it might

be at the end if you're having a

fight. I'm going into training

learning everyday, every time I go

to that Jim is learnt something new

every time and it's testament to the

coach and the sport.

You're retired,

so are we, we are pundits. Your

pundit yourself, how do you feel

about having to call out players and

talk about certain things that maybe

you did yourself as a player? But

you still have to call them out, how

do you feel?

You acknowledge your

own failures and own faults and

mistakes, so it makes it more

comfortable for me to call up that

guy's mistake. It's not a real dig

at the person individually, it's

about sport, about the game we're

watching. I've had phone calls from

guys, why did you speak to me, you

could have spoken. Listen, this is

my job, you know that, respectively

that I'm going to tell the truth but

I'm always, I'm not coming for you

personally.

Let's talk about playing

over the holidays. I've done it,

you've done it, you've done it.

We

all hate it. I can assure you guys

are the same. My children now are

saying, you haven't got to go to

work, you haven't got to go to

football at 8:30am on Christmas Day.

As a fan I love it. Because I would

be bored over Christmas in terms of

TV if there was no sport. It's that

balance.

Can you believe Rio is

going into boxing? I would not want

to step in the ring with him.

Me

either. I quite want to get in

there, little bit with Rio, see what

he's got. You know what's funny, you

could see the intensity talking to

him. He was still like a very

intense individual.

I like that

character. He still had it.

We're

about to get into the Chargers

against the Cowboys.

Absolutely, the

Cowboys need to bounce back

offensively and figure it out. They

haven't been the same with Elliott

out. Prescott is fine to lead the

way to victory.

He's been struggling

without Elliott. These are two teams

heading in opposite directions.

Everybody wrote the Chargers for

dead to begin with. Now the Dallas

Cowboys who everybody thought would

be the team without Elliott

struggling. Let's see what happens

in this game.

He looks that way. He finds him, for

the touchdown.

Henry. Watch Henry,

another back shoulder. He is

covered, but he throws to the other

side where the defender is not. He

throws Henry open.

All with rhythm.

Well done. Novak comes out for the

point after. He is down.

Anthony Lynn knows he may not be

able to call on him again.

Up the middle.

Oh, what a fake it was!

Prescott!

The flag is out.

Offense, number 77, 10 yard penalty,

replay, third down.

I want to see this one.

That is a huge play in this game.

You're going to see

Smith right there.

Oh!

You do not dispute that.

You cannot do that one.

Here's a first down throw.

It is caught, plucked out

of the air by Tyrell Williams.

What a throw on the sideline.

Watch this, up the sideline, and

the ball is perfectly over his head.

That is exactly where

you want to throw that,

so he can go right over his head

and Anthony Brown tries

to get his hand in there.

Williams getting it in.

This one here, they just

like to run it to the left

and throw a fade up top.

There is the handoff.

Straight ahead, and

across for the touchdown.

Rod Smith.

And they are going for two.

A lot has gone wrong

for Dallas this game.

They're in it.

This two-point conversion gives

them a chance to get

into a one score game.

They like to move it a little.

Yeah, Beasley moving around.

To the sidelines.

Over the head of Williams.

This play is big.

And they're going empty and letting

Rivers call the play.

It is man-to-man coverage.

You have a running back

and a linebacker out here.

Rivers knows it is man.

He's going to walk up,

tell him who to block,

bring the running back back in,

slide over to the left line.

Ekeler has been big in the passing

game the last few weeks.

Looking the other way.

The pass back to Allen and no Cowboy

is able to stand up as Allen weaves

past them all for the touchdown.

What an effort by Keenan Allen.

A 42 yard touchdown.

Allen, wow, great route running.

And the finish.

Look at that!

Inside eight minutes.

He's picked.

Prescott, trying to cut

off the angle for King.

King has got a blocker in front.

Ingram.

He's going to take it the distance.

The final score, the Los

Angeles Chargers 28,

and the Dallas Cowboys 6.

I'm going to assume, Jason,

that nobody on the Dallas

Cowboys is your friend.

Based on the way they are playing.

What is going on?

Man, did you see Philip Rivers

dismantle that secondary?

It was crazy, because even though

he had a couple of incompletes

at the beginning, he came back to it

and said, this is what we're

going to do, we're going to attack

these guys, and you see the results.

He had his Thanksgiving meal right

on the Cowboys' field.

He destroyed their football team.

I have never seen them

play so bad on defense.

Offensively, they just

looked discombobulated.

Do you like that?

That is good.

I have been in England for a while,

I have learned English language.

Quite frankly, I did not

think the Dallas Cowboys

were going to fall down this far

without Zeke Elliott.

Who would have imagined

that he meant that much to the team?

I was all about the offensive line

and I thought they could put anybody

back there, but him not being there

has made all the difference

to this football team.

I have got to ask you,

because I'm starting

to hear these words,

little birdies talking

about Dak Prescott, might be

a bust, what do you think?

Not at all.

Quarterbacks have their ups

and downs but ultimately young

quarterbacks always have

help from somebody.

If he had the help of the running

game, he could lean on that.

In this situation, he needs the kind

of wide receivers that get open

so he knows who is open

and he can make those throws.

They are still in second

place in the NFC East,

four games behind the Philadelphia

Eagles.

Maybe by the end of this week

with Philly playing Chicago

they will be five games behind.

What do you think of their chances

of making the play-offs?

I am not sure they are heading

in the right direction just now.

It does not look positive.

Just because they have got a lot

of holes that need to be filled

and it does not look

like it is going to happen.

They have a 0% chance

of making the play-offs,

ladies and gentlemen.

Zero.

If you missed our Tuesday

show, the NFL This Week,

it is on the iPlayer right now,

but if you want a flavour

of what happened last weekend,

check out these bits.

The New England Patriots

and the Oakland Raiders.

South of the border

and high above sea.

At 7,000 feet in Mexico City,

the reigning Super Bowl champions

going about their rarefied business,

relentless in their

statement of intent.

To all you out there,

if you want the crown,

you're going to have to take

it from us.

Give it up.

You keep it up, man.

We're going to try.

The Philadelphia Eagles

at the Dallas Cowboys,

Dak Prescott hunted down,

the Eagles circling their prey, and

then striking in the second half.

Nigel Bradham, took it

in for a touchdown.

This is a blow out.

My nickname is Sweetpea.

Taking to the air again,

the Philadelphia highflyers.

The Detroit Lions

at the Chicago Bears.

A Great Lakes game.

Touchdown.

The Bears, rooted to

the bottom of the NFC North.

The Atlanta Falcons

at the Seattle Seahawks.

The tension that comes

with chasing a game.

Atlanta building their lead

and Russell Wilson leading

the charge in the comeback.

A last chance, in

Blair Walsh's range?

Not quite.

The LA Rams at the

Minnesota Vikings.

How to avoid being sacked?

He went through my soul.

Keenan to Murray.

The Vikings out in front

of the NFC North.

Washington Redskins at New Orleans.

The Saints on a streak of seven,

deep into the fourth quarter,

and the chances of making

it a straight eight?

Slim.

But then, Alvin Kamara.

It is caught by Kamara.

In he goes into the end zone.

And a chance for Wil Lutz to keep

the Saints on their roll.

The Kansas City Chiefs

at the New York Giants.

Not at touchdown-fest here.

More Janoris Jenkins

than wide receivers.

Roger Lewis,

a spectacular exception.

And the Giants have earned

their second win of the season.

The Green Bay Packers

at the Baltimore Ravens.

The defense of the Ravens

feasting on Brett Hundley.

He's going to be sacked.

Both teams now five and five,

but whose wild card prospects

are more realistic?

That is a good one, look

at them all together,

it is a good orchestrated dance.

Well, Jason, last game.

Last one.

The New York Giants, the lowly,

lowly New York Giants,

versus the Washington Redskins.

I mean, this is a team,

the New York Giants,

trying to find their identity,

Washington we already know

has a good quarterback,

suffered some injuries,

but this is a good football team.

The New York Giants,

what is going on with those boys?

They need to figure it out,

they are playing for their jobs.

Right now they get the label

of quitting so they need to step it

up and need a victory.

Let's look at the highlights,

or low-lights!

Giants rush forward.

Cousins in trouble.

On the run.

Throws.

Caught.

Touch down.

Jamison Crowder.

They just have to keep working

on the outside, stepping up

and through was Kirk Cousins

and the one thing that breaks down

zone defenses more than anything

else is quarterback movement

because now you have to be

responsible inside that zone

for five, six different seconds,

and Kirk Cousins finally

wakes up this offense.

Have to get to the 35 to convert.

Swinging out here and it is picked

off down the sideline

goes Janoris Jenkins.

He's inside the ten,

and he will get into the end zone.

Janoris Jenkins, with the pick

and the run back, and an extra

point will tie the game.

Second and eight.

Play action.

To the end zone.

It is caught for a touchdown.

Josh Doctson.

Watch this play fake.

Kirk Cousins takes such great

pride in his ability

to make those play fakes.

He is the number one quarterback off

of play action passes

in the National Football League,

and the reason, he sells it.

He sold it hard, got

the one-on-one coverage,

and I tell you who else sold it down

the field, Josh Doctson.

No question.

Beat Jackrabbit Jenkins on the play.

The Redskins take a 16-10 lead

with three and a half to go.

You have got two 19s.

If you want to kick it,

you have got all three timeouts

plus the two-minute warning

but when you are two

and eight, whatever.

Go for it.

Fourth and three and they will.

Or at least line up to.

Manning is going to get enveloped,

sacked, penalty, lost the ball.

Giants have it but will

lose it on downs.

We will see about the call.

Offense, number 74.

Penalty is declined.

This is exactly why the Giants

are playing the kind

of offense they are,

the conservative style

because they could not

hold up on the outside,

and for Junior Galette,

who has had Achilles issues

for two straight years,

to make a game-winning play

like that, you know it

has to mean something.

Eli hit as he throws.

That will be picked off

at the 14 yard line.

That will be the finish to it.

Kendall Fuller, having a really good

year, will just about end it.

Junior Galette put the pressure

on Manning and hit him as he threw.

McAdoo can only look

on as his team is on the cusp

of going two and nine.

The Redskins can run the clock out.

Is it over?

Is it over?

I just wanted to keep my head down.

You looked crushed.

Emotionally...

You should be used it by now

because they have lost

eight games already.

You know you cannot lose hope, man,

you have got to hope for the best,

especially after last week,

you thought they had

maybe found their way.

I am lost for words.

Offensively, they are

a shell of themselves.

I cannot understand how they fell...

It is not like they were

playing well last year.

I cannot understand how

they fell so far this year,

even with Odell Beckham earlier

in the year.

They are worse than last year.

This is a terrible

performance by Eli.

I know he does not have the weapons

around him, but with Odell,

at least they had a little spark

where he would make that play

and get them in the game,

get that emotion up,

but without that, it is like

they are sleepwalking.

I hate using the quitting word,

I am not saying that,

I am not going to say that,

but I feel that.

Defensively, at least

they are showing some signs of life,

but overall, as a football team,

the New York Giants are playing

terrible football this entire season

and who knows what will happen

at the end of the year?

I do not know.

It is not looking good.

A lot of people have to go.

A lot of people have

to get other jobs.

All those games are done.

Let's see what it

means to the tables.

In the AFC East, the New England

Patriots are on top as usual.

I am not sure about

the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Are you serious?

I really like Pittsburgh,

man, but we will see.

AFC South, the

Jacksonville Jaguars...

Excuse me.

Not the Jacksonville Jaguars,

the Sacksonville Jaguars.

I know that felt good to you.

Yes, it did.

In the AFC West, the Kanas

City Chiefs are on top,

but I have a feeling that

Kansas City will not

be on top for long.

I like the Los Angeles Chargers.

If the play-offs were to start now,

this is what we have.

The top four are always

the divisional winners.

The fifth seed, the Tennessee

Titans, the sixth seed,

the Baltimore Ravens.

These are the teams looking in.

Let's talk about the NFC,

where the real battles are.

Right now and on the East,

the Philadelphia Eagles on top.

In the North, the Minnesota Vikings

with my friends on top.

Your boys.

The South is where

the real battle is.

You have the New Orleans Saints

on top but you have battles

from Carolina and Atlanta.

It is tough.

In the West, you have got

the Los Angeles Rams

with that offense on top.

In the NFC, the play-off

picture looks like this.

Once again, the two teams coming out

of the South are pushing for those

wildcard spots and have the ability

to move forward.

My man, what games are you looking

forward to this week?

We have got some good games,

some divisional matchups.

Miami Dolphins against

New England Patriots.

Miami at New England.

We also have the Tampa Bay

Buccaneers at the Atlanta Falcons.

A tasty divisional game.

Tampa is not playing that well

but it is still a divisional game,

so it should be a great game.

They always play each other tough.

Last but not least,

we have got a tasty game.

We have got the New Orleans Saints

at the Los Angeles Rams.

Good call.

You know it is crazy,

the battle this week with those two

teams is New Orleans defense

against the Rams offense,

and Marshon Lattimore

got hurt last week.

They need him on the field.

When he went out, you saw

what happened to their secondary.

Their secondary has got to play

tight and communicate

well against the Rams

or they could be dominated.

It should be a little easier

for them because Robert Woods,

the outstanding receiver

for Los Angeles, is not going to be

playing for a couple weeks,

so without Lattimore,

they should be OK.

They should be able

to contain Los Angeles.

We will see what happens.

It will be a tight battle,

it is the game of the week.

Well, ladies and gentlemen,

the next time you will see us

will be on Tuesday, on BBC Two,

11:15, NFL This Week.

My man, I tell you what,

you are impressive.

You like that?

I like the flow.

You really ran this good.

You know in the NFL,

it is the more you can do...

Yeah.

The more YOU can do.

We need our boy, Mark Chapman,

man, sitting right here.

We miss you, man.

Come on back, man.

They will forget you quick.

See you guys next time.