Week 13 of the 2025 NFL season began on Thanksgiving with an NFC North clash in which the Green Bay Packers leaned on quarterback Jordan Love and third-year wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks' two touchdowns to beat the Detroit Lions.
The second game featured a shootout between Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott and the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes. Prescott got the better of it as the Cowboys kept rolling.
The nightcap saw Joe Burrow, in his return from a toe injury, lead the Cincinnati Bengals to a comfortable victory over the surging Baltimore Ravens.
As for Black Friday's game, the Chicago Bears got a decisive win over the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-15.
Our NFL Nation reporters reacted to all the action, answering lingering questions coming out of each game and detailing everything you need to know for every team. Let's get to it.
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How does this win legitimize the 2025 Bears? This was the most important win for the franchise in years and quiets any talk about who the Bears have beaten along the way to get to 9-3. They went on the road and beat the reigning Super Bowl champions with a dominant rushing attack and defensive performance that forced Philadelphia into making uncharacteristic mistakes via Jalen Hurts interception and fumble on the tush push. It's time to start thinking playoffs in Chicago.
Most surprising performance: Chicago ran for 282 yards (2nd most this season) and were so dominant on the ground early on, so when they got away from that formula with a wonky two-minute drive to end the first half via a series of incompletions from Caleb Williams, it felt like that sparked the offense's sputter in the «middle eight» of the
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