After a ho-hum set of matchups and results in Week 11, everything has been dialed up in Week 12. Of the full slate of 16 NFL games, 11 of them have teams favored by a touchdown or less.

Even with so many potentially close contests, it was still easy to see it's a very important week for two road teams that play their home games in Giants Stadium:

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