Forecasting the outcome of every NFL Week 17 game

Last week: 10-6, leaving the season forecast at 143-97 and counting the tie as a loss.   The final week of the NFL regular season is always one of the roughest forecasts. Teams have varying motivations, with injury replacements and playoff rest also in play. As such, the commentary is like the relative heat wave we’re having here in Michigan (it’s 58 degrees on Dec. 26th as I write this): brilliant but brief.  All games are on Sunday. The lines here are from BetOnline as of 6:27 p.m. ET on Thursday. - San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks (+3): Marshawn Lynch came out of retirement to help the desperate Seahawks, who are now without their top three RBs. Two weeks ago, Lynch was passing out shots in the Raiders parking lot as Oakland closed down being an NFL city. It’s a great story, and it could spark the kind of magic the Seahawks need to sweep San Francisco. I don’t see it happening, not even in Seattle. The 49ers win the NFC West thanks to a passing offense that consistently finds a way. George Kittle w

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