The NFL doesn’t want teams playing on very short weeks in the final two games of the season so this Thursday’s New York Jets at Baltimore Ravens matchup to kick off Week 15 is the final Thursday game of the year. There will be three Saturday games in Week 16 and then every game is played on Sunday in Week 17.

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This might be the Thursday mismatch of the season with the Ravens as 15-point favorites. New York has lost its past six trips to the Ravens, covering just once. Baltimore is charging toward the top seed in the AFC playoffs and has supplanted the New England Patriots as the overall favorites to win the Super Bowl. The Ravens have clinched at least a Wild-Card spot and clinch the AFC North this week with a victory.

It’s the first meeting between second-year quarterbacks in the Jets’ Sam Darnold and the Ravens’ Lamar Jackson. New York traded up to No. 3 overall in the 2018 draft and took Darnold out of USC, while Baltimore traded back into the final spot of the first round and took the former Heisman winner Jackson out of Louisville.