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                                      ESPN senior writer Mike Sando asks league insiders to pick winners in selected games each week. Jordan 6 Canada Sale . Three personnel evaluators took the challenge in Week 7. The games on the docket:?Giants-Rams, Redskins-Lions, Vikings-Eagles, Cardinals-Seahawks and Texans-Broncos.New York Giants at Los Angeles RamsSunday:?9:30 p.m. ET, NFL |?Point spread: NYG by 3Two of three insiders took the Rams while acknowledging that Los Angeles, diminished by top corner Trumaine Johnsons ankle injury, might have no answer for Odell Beckham Jr. The thinking was that Robert Quinns return to the Rams defensive line could be enough.I feel like Eli [Manning] has been totally afraid of the rush. It is almost like he is ducking as he tries to get the ball off, one insider said. Maybe that win last week ignites them, but it has been a struggle for him.The other insider picking the Rams wavered, but he liked their chances if Quinn and fellow defensive lineman Michael Brockers were available. He took the Rams by a field goal. It wasnt yet clear how much Quinn or Brockers might play, or how effective they could be. Jordan 6 Canada . The veteran safety was a starter for the Bengals from 2008-2012. He totaled 41 tackles and three interceptions while starting all but four of the 13 games he played last season. Cheap Air Jordan 6 Canada . -- Running backs Darren McFadden and Rashad Jennings were back at practice for the Oakland Raiders on Wednesday despite being hampered by hamstring injuries. http://www.cheapairjordan6canada.com/ .C. -- Chris Thorburn thinks one of the reasons the Winnipeg Jets have been successful under new coach Paul Maurice is that theyre playing together as a team. WACO, Texas -- This is not how Baylor seniors wanted to be preparing for their final home game on the banks of the Brazos River.There is the three-game losing streak that has the Bears unranked for the first time in three years. Starting quarterback Seth Russell will soon have surgery after a gruesome left ankle injury. And there is no longer the chance of a third Big 12 title in four years.Im going to go out to practice tomorrow like my hair is on fire, senior cornerback Ryan Reid said Monday. We have to get this team going. We have to get this win. We have to.As freshman receiver and now part-time running back Blake Lynch put it: Mindset? Get back on the right track. Win.The Bears (6-3, 3-3 Big 12), who have gone a month since their last victory that got them to 6-0 and bowl eligible, play their home finale Saturday against Kansas State (5-4, 3-3).Before Russell got hurt in the third quarter of a 45-24 loss at Big 12-leading Oklahoma on Saturday, the Bears had consecutive losses that followed off-field distractions before the game.Acting head coach Jim Grobe said its been difficult all season trying to keep it together. ... We did a pretty good job of it up until the Friday before Texas, and thats when the Wall Street Journal (article) came out, and that stirred up the coaches. And of course if the coaches get stirred up, then the players get stirred up.Baylors 62-22 loss to TCU, the Bears worst home loss since 2005, came a day after assistant coaches and several staff members issued a statement on Twitter expressing their support for former coach Art Briles, who was fired in May. They were disputing claims by school regents that Briles knew of an alleged gang rape. There were also T-shirts sold and was even a banner flying with (hash)CAB, which stands for Coach Art Briles.That was a week aafter a 35-34 loss at Texas, after the Wall Street Journal article when a group of Baylor regents first provided some details about some of the allegations. Jordan 6 Canada Outlet. Now the Bears are trying to regroup for the closing stretch. After Kansas State, they play Texas Tech in the Dallas Cowboys NFL stadium and close the season at No. 10 West Virginia.I think our football team right now is just kind of focused on playing football. I think thats the mindset we ought to be in, Grobe said. At the start of the season, everyone wants to be Big 12 champs. Thats your goal, thats what you talk about all the time. And now were in a position where we need to just talk about playing good football. I thought we played hard last week, but we didnt play real good.Senior running back Shock Linwood, the schools career rushing leader, will be back to face K-State after being suspended for the Oklahoma game for what Grobe had described as attitude issues.Grobe said Monday there are times to give kids a reminder that their behavior is more important than their ability on the football field.Once weve done that, well see where we can go from here, but Im expecting were going to get a guy that comes back and does all the things we want him to do, Grobe said of Linwood, who holds Baylor career marks with 4,056 yards rushing and 36 touchdowns on the ground.True freshman Zach Smith will take over as the starting quarterback. After replacing Russell against Oklahoma, the sixth game hes played in this season, Smith was 6-of-15 passing for 144 yards and a touchdown.It was really heartbreaking what happened to Seth, Smith said. But Ive just got to honor him and go in there and do what I know I can. ' ' '