NFL 2020: Week 6 picks, TV listings

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Time for Week 6 of the NFL season.

Who will be playing?

Who knows.

The coronavirus is making its presence felt in the NFL. We are seeing games getting postponed and shifted to other weeks. We recently had a second Monday doubleheader and will have a third one this upcoming Monday. We had Tuesday night football this week, thanks to the coronavirus outbreak with the Tennessee Titans. There is no Thursday game in Week 6.

And, it was reported Thursday that the Atlanta Falcons had a positive coronavirus test, endangering their game Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.

This makes picking games a bit more challenging than usual.

Who’s playing? Who’s sitting out? What games are being moved?

My head is spinning.

I had a good Week 5, going 10-4 to go to 50-26-1, Gazette news columnist Sara Foss was 11-3 to improve to 54-22-1, so she has back her four-game lead over me.

You can play The Daily Gazette U Pick ‘Em Football Contest by going to https://dailygazetteprofootball.upickem.net/.

Here are my Week 6 picks, which are subject to change due to who knows how many more teams will have players test positive for COVID-19,

Sunday

Tennessee 31, Houston 17

Indianapolis 21, Cincinnati 20

Minnesota 28, Atlanta 19

N.Y. Giants 27, Washington 10

Pittsburgh 30, Cleveland 27

Baltimore 35, Philadelphia 14

Carolina 24, Chicago 21

Detroit 20, Jacksonville 17

New England 31, Denver 14

Miami 40, N.Y. Jets 3

Green Bay 38, Tampa Bay 34

L.A. Rams 38, San Francisco 20

Monday

Kansas City 33, Buffalo 24

Arizona 34, Dallas 28

WEEK 6 TV SCHEDULE

(Announcers subject to change)

Sunday

FOX23 (WXXA) — Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth, Lindsay Czarniak); Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews).

CBS6 (WRGB) — N.Y. Jets at Miami, 4:05 p.m. (Andrew Catalon, James Lofton, Sherree Burruss).

NBC13 (WNYT) — L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya).

DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket — Baltimore at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Evan Washburn); Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Tracy Wolfson); Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (Greg Gumbel, Rich Gannon, Amanda Balionis); Denver at New England, 1 p.m. (Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, Melanie Collins); Atlanta at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (Brandon Gaudin, Daryl Johnston, Pam Oliver); Chicago at Carolina, 1 p.m. (Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma, Shannon Spake); Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (Kevin Kugler, Chris Spielman, Laura Okmin); Detroit at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (Chris Myers, Brock Huard, Jennifer Hale).

Monday

FOX23, NFL Network and Amazon Prime Video — Kansas City at Buffalo, 5 p.m. (FOX/NFL Network: Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews and Kristina Pink; Amazon: Hannah Storm, Andrea Kremer).

ESPN — Arizona at Dallas, 8:15 p.m. (Steve Levy, Brain Griese and Louis Riddick, Lisa Salters).

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