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.

We only have a handful of weeks left to make up a big deficit, but a second straight win on Thursday Night Football has us feeling optimistic.