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in the ACC and Nick Chubb was plowing through SEC defenses Wil Lutz Jersey , the second cousins dreamed of facing each other in a bowl game.Bradley, a defensive end at North Carolina State, and Nick, a running back at Georgia, never got that opportunity in college.They'll finally meet up Saturday night when Nick's Cleveland Browns (5-7-1) visit Bradley's Denver Broncos (6-7) in what is essentially an elimination game in the cluttered AFC wild-card race."I know he's not going to hold back and he knows I'm not going to hold back," Bradley said. "It's just going to be a regular football game. You can't put too much weight on it because then if you start thinking, 'My cousin's on the other side,' then you end up getting trucked or something. You've just got to keep it pushing and just play."That said, he knows the winner will have family bragging rights. "It's going to be junk talking for about a year or until whenever we play each other again," Bradley said. "It should be fun."Many draft prognosticators pegged Bradley as the Chubb that would star in Cleveland, but the Browns instead chose defensive back Denzel Ward with the fourth overall pick in the 2018 draft and the Broncos gladly grabbed Bradley at No. 5.Thirty picks later, Cleveland selected his second cousin in the second round.Both Chubbs have are having strong rookie seasons.Nick's 92-yard TD run against Atlanta in Week 10 was the longest in Browns history and the second longest by a rookie in the NFL.Bradley's 12 sacks are a franchise rookie record and he's 2陆 sacks shy of Javon Kearse's NFL rookie record that has stood for nearly two decades."I'm not really thinking about that," Bradley said. "We just came off a tough loss and now I want to get back on the winning track, whether it be getting one sack, zero sacks or 30 sacks in one game."Other notable subplots when the Browns try to snap an 11-game losing streak to the Broncos, whom they haven't beaten since 1990:RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHTThe Broncos want their offensive leader to let it rip and their defensive leader to quit winging it .Case Keenum has gone five games without throwing an interception after throwing 11 in his first eight games in Denver. But coach Vance Joseph called out his quarterback for being too risk-averse on downfield throws and told him to ditch the caution and get more aggressive.Keenum said he would.Joseph has the opposite message for Von Miller, saying he wants his superstar linebacker to quit trying to time the snap after he jumped offside three times last week. Miller said he wouldn't.Miller says his timing is usually spot-on and a big part of why he has 103陆 sacks, counting playoffs, one shy of besting Simon Fletcher's franchise record that's stood for 23 years."Yeah, I jumped offsides. But quarterbacks throw interceptions, too. It's not like you tell them not to throw the ball down the field no more," Miller said. "Sometimes I gamble big and win ... and sometimes I don't."BETTER BAKERMayfield has been a different quarterback since coach Hue Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley were fired on Oct. 29 and their replacements, Gregg Williams and Freddie Kitchens, took over."The biggest thing we're doing with Baker is that we're fitting things to his skill set," Williams said. "And I'm not saying anything about who was here before because I wasn't on that side of the ball. But once I did become involved, we have to involve our players that deserve to be involved. The quarterback is one of those."Mayfield's completion percentage is up from 58 to 73 percent and he's passed for 1,406 yards with 11 touchdowns and four interceptions. Under Williams and Kitchens, Mayfield has a 114.4 rating, which ranks behind only Drew Brees http://www.saintsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-demario-davis-jersey , Patrick Mahomes and Philip Rivers.FAMILIAR FOENo opponent knows Mayfield like the Broncos, whose staff coached him at the Senior Bowl."After the first install, he could've taught the offense. He was that good with the offense," Joseph said. "His personality, it's infectious. His energy and his confidence, you can feel it."Going No. 1 overall, "I wasn't sure about that," Joseph said. "But I knew he had the arm talent to do it and the football IQ."PLAYOFF PUSHA week ago, the Broncos appeared to have a gilded road to the wild-card round with just one of their final five games against a winning team, the Chargers, whom they'd already beaten in Los Angeles. Then they went and lost to a 2-10 team in San Francisco."We've been here before," Joseph said of the adversity the Broncos navigated in overcoming a 3-6 start. "We'll play our best ball on Saturday night. We have to. We have no choice."Their odds are long, maybe impossible, but the Browns are holding hope of ending the league's longest playoff drought at 16 seasons just one year after going 0-16."We know we dug ourselves in a hole, and we know that we need some help," said safety Damarious Randall, who insists the Browns would make some noise if they do somehow sneak into the playoffs. "We got all the pieces, man. We're a complete team, and if guys take care of what they got to do play in and play out, we're a tough out." Drew Brees and the Saints have a chance to do something that should seem familiar to Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys. If it happens, New Orleans might even have the NFC South title already in hand by the end of the week.The record-setting quarterback will go for an 11th straight win after a season-opening loss in a visit to the Cowboys on Thursday night. That's exactly what Dallas did when Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott were rookie sensations in 2016.It won't be a franchise record the way it was for Dallas. The Cowboys might remember when New Orleans started 13-0 on the way to a Super Bowl title nine years ago, because they won on the road to start the Saints' season-ending three-game skid.The Saints can't afford a similar slump if they want the NFC's top seed, which Dallas had with 13 wins two years ago. The Los Angeles Rams enter the week with the same 10-1 record. But New Orleans can wrap up the division title with four games remaining with a win and a Carolina loss at Tampa Bay on Sunday."You don't begin to count, but then you start beginning to do the things that are necessary to win," said Saints coach Sean Payton, architect of the two longest winning streaks in franchise history. "Generally, if you are going to have a decent team, you are going to win some games in a row. It is going to be hard not to if you aspire to get into the postseason."The Cowboys (6-5) have a modest three-game run, capped by a Thanksgiving win over Washington that vaulted them to a tie for the NFC East lead with the Redskins. Questions about the future of coach Jason Garrett have been replaced by talk of a second division title in three years."We have all the confidence in ourselves," said Prescott Marcus Williams Jersey , coming off a season-high 289 yards passing. "They put on their pants the same way we do. They've won 10, and I guess we've won three (in a row). As I've said, we're going to take it one game at a time. That's all that matters."OLD AND YOUNGBrees, less than two months shy of his 40th birthday, leads the NFL in completion percentage and passer rating. The 23-year-old Elliott feels like a rookie again, with a chance to match his career-best run of four straight 100-yard games from 2016, when he won the rushing title.With three consecutive games of at least 120 yards rushing, Elliott has overtaken Todd Gurley for the league rushing lead."I feel like I'm in a good place right now," said Elliott, who has 1,074 yards to 1,043 for Gurley. "Coaches have been doing a great job of putting me in runs where I'm comfortable and just getting me going early and letting me get that momentum and being able to carry it through the game."STATE PRIDEBrees, an Austin native, cherishes his Texas roots and wasn't about to downplay his latest chance to visit the Cowboys. "I can't say it's no big deal," said Brees, who was in high school during the Dallas Super Bowl dynasty of the 1990s. "I remember waking up every Sunday morning and watching the Cowboys after church. That was a big deal growing up. I played a state championship game in the old Texas Stadium."The NFL's all-time leader in passing yards has some memorable road victories against the Cowboys, starting with a blowout in prime time his first year with New Orleans in 2006. There was also a dramatic Thanksgiving comeback in 2010. Now he's having one of his best seasons. "I feel like we've had some really good teams when we played them," he said. "I feel like there's always been a lot at stake."PRESCOTT TO COOPERDallas' trade for new No. 1 receiver Amari Cooper is paying immediate dividends. Not only is the offensive efficiency much better, but Cooper is among the NFL's first-down conversion rate leaders for receivers since coming over from Oakland for the Cowboys' 2019 first-round pick.Cooper's 180 yards against Washington were a team Thanksgiving record, and the 90-yard touchdown tied for the third-longest catch in club history. "When you are a great player like him and you get separation and run routes, it makes my job easy," Prescott said. "So when you have that, give credit to him."DON'T FORGET DEFENSEThe Cowboys have the fourth-best scoring defense in the NFL at 19.3 points per game. But the Saints have outperformed Dallas in that category the past three weeks, winning by an average score of 43-13, capped by a 31-17 Thanksgiving win over Atlanta . The Cowboys have allowed an average of 21 points during their winning streak."Their defense is definitely playing really well right now, so we have to do a good job of possessing the ball, running the ball, try to give our defense some breaks because we know what they have on the other side," Cowboys right guard Zack Martin said.