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FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES

New York Giants Hope To Keep Playoff Hopes Alive & Packers Look To Stay Undefeated This Sunday on FOX

Garrett Breaks Down Options With Billick on ‘Coach Speak’

GIANTS & PACKERS HEADLINE NFL ON FOX WEEK 15 ACTION – On Sunday, Dec. 18 FOX Sports kicks off Week 15 with singleheader coverage of six hard-hitting matchups – each presented in true HD. Two weeks after their dramatic matchup on FOX, both the Giants and Packers enter Week 15 in first place. is coming off a big performance in the Giants’ comeback victory over the Cowboys and look to take control of their playoff destiny as they welcome the Redskins to . , and call all of the action from MetLife Stadium. Meanwhile, Green Bay takes their 13-0 record to Kansas City to face the Chiefs. In , the AFC South Champion Texans host and the Panthers. With two-straight home wins, the Seahawks find themselves back on the edge of the NFC playoff race. This week, they hit the road to face the Bears. and the Saints close out FOX’s Week 15 early window as they travel to Minneapolis to battle the Vikings. The 4:00 PM ET window features the return of the Lions’ Ndamukong Suh as they are in Oakland to take on Carson Palmer and the Raiders.

Coverage begins at 12:00 PM ET with America’s most-watched Sunday afternoon pregame show, FOX NFL SUNDAY. and co-host the Emmy Award-winning program and are joined by analysts , and Jimmy Johnson . NFL Insider presents the latest league news and scoops from the FOX NFL SUNDAY studio while comedic prognosticator Frank Caliendo contributes his weekly “Frank’s Picks” segment. FOX Sports rules analyst is also on hand to go over any impactful officiating issues.

This week’s edition of “The Journey,” which opens the show, is narrated by actor and producer Mark Wahlberg . This week, Oliver sits down with Giants and players Eli Manning , Jason Pierre-Paul and Brandon Jacobs to talk about their playoff hopes and roller coaster season.

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GAME PLAY-BY-PLAY/ANALYST/SIDELINE COV. TIME Washington Redskins at Joe Buck, Troy Aikman 32% 1:00PM & Pam Oliver MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, NJ MARKETS INCLUDE: Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, , Hartford, , Memphis, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Providence, Richmond, Washington, West Palm Beach

Green Bay Packers at , Daryl Johnston 29% 1:00PM & on-field analyst Arrowhead Stadium – Kansas City, MO MARKETS INCLUDE: Albuquerque, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Knoxville, Las Vegas, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Phoenix, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, Tulsa

Carolina Panthers at Ron Pitts, Charles Davis 11% 1:00PM & Drea Avent Reliant Stadium – Houston, TX MARKETS INCLUDE: Austin, Charlotte, Greensboro, Greenville, Houston, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, San Antonio

Seattle Seahawks at Bears , Tim Ryan 9% 1:00PM & Jaime Maggio Soldier Field– Chicago, IL MARKETS INCLUDE: Chicago, Portland, Seattle

New Orleans Saints at , John Lynch 8% 1:00PM & Jennifer Hale Mall of America Field – Minneapolis, MN MARKETS INCLUDE: , Birmingham, New Orleans

Detroit Lions at Oakland Raiders , Brian Billick 10% 4:05PM & Laura Okmin Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum – Oakland, CA MARKETS INCLUDE: , Dayton, Detroit, Indianapolis, Miami, Nashville

COWBOYS COACH JASON GARRETT DISCUSSES IMPACT OF DEMARCO MURRAY INJURY ON COACH SPEAK – Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett joined Brian Billick on this week’s episode of Coach Speak and Garrett weighed in on the impact of running back DeMarco Murray ’s season-ending injury and what it means for the team’s play calling with Felix Jones now taking more carries. “Each of those guys are pretty versatile backs,” said Garrett. “We’ve been comfortable running anything with those guys. Both of them can run inside, both of them can run outside, they can block, they can catch, they can do a lot of different things. I don’t think we’re changing the calls very much. The big issue that we had in the game on Sunday is we were just down to one halfback. Felix had been a guy who’d been playing on 3 rd downs and spotting DeMarco on 1 st and 2 nd down. Now all of a sudden, he was playing all of the 1 st and 2 nd down snaps and he was playing on 3 rd down. We had to do some things with personnel to kind of give him a little bit of a breather because he was getting the ball a lot and he was getting it on consecutive plays. He did a really nice job stepping up and making plays in both the run and pass game.”

To listen to Billick’s full interview with Garrett, visit: http://tinyurl.com/793oopk

GLAZER: WHY NOT T.J. YATES? – Each week, FOX NFL Insider Jay Glazer welcomes NFL headline makers to join him on the AFTER PARTY on FOXSports.com. This week, he sat down with Houston QB T.J. Yates and explored the surprising Texans. “It’s taken Bob McNair , one of the classiest owners, a decade to make the playoffs,” said Glazer. Surprisingly, the guy to lead the Texans in clinching their first- ever playoff berth is QB Yates. “This guy was the third-string not too long ago. He wasn’t even suiting up for games just three weeks ago. T.J. Yates is making the most of his opportunity and he has Texans fans saying, ‘why not, T.J. Yates?’”

To hear this week’s episode of After Party click here: http://tinyurl.com/798pl9y

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