In the NFL, the playoff races really don’t begin until Thanksgiving. At least, that’s the saying. Well, the turkey has been carved up, even the leftovers have disappeared, and December football is here.
“I think the later you get in the season, every game — the importance increases because you’re getting down to the end and everybody’s fighting to win their next game,” Dolphins coach Adam Gase told reporters in Miami. “The stakes go up. Everything starts feeling ... it feels different in December.”
Sure, there are still a lot of “one-game-at-a-time” chants and variations thereof being thrown around the NFL.