December and January football really matters. So should you really love New England on a six-game winning streak? Should you really give up on the Rams, on a three-game losing streak? November football matters. New England, 10-1 after 12 weeks in 2019, went 2-4 after that, including the ugly Tom Brady swansong wild-card loss to Tennessee. The Steelers went 1-5 after Week 12 last year, getting embarrassed in the wild-card game by Cleveland. They were 8-0 the rest of the way, fresh as daisies. Remember last year, when the Bucs used the first week of December to modify their offense so it wasn’t a bunch of guys just running around? Worked. Kyler Murray, Julio Jones, the pinky toe of Aaron Rodgers, and maybe Derrick Henry will all benefit by the December break. So many of my top teams have byes in Weeks 12, 13, 14 this year-KC, Arizona, Tennessee, Green Bay and New England. In 2020, Tampa Bay had a Week 13 bye and won the Super Bowl. In 2019, Kansas City had a Week 12 bye and won the Super Bowl. In 2018, New England had a Week 11 bye and won the Super Bowl. So abandon faith in the Vikings at your own risk. But the Vikings play Chicago twice and Detroit once in the final six weeks. Who loves psycho 5-6 Minnesota? Not me, particularly with Dalvin Cook headed for the MRI tube this morning to check his troubled shoulder. (You thought I’d say Cincinnati, and I almost did.) The team that could be the ultimate spoiler: San Francisco. The best team in football heading into December: Green Bay, by an immunized pinky toe (thanks, Joe Buck) over Arizona. This year, well, I’m going to give you the top 10 in the league heading into snow-squall season, and I’m going to give you the five teams who could be this year’s Bucs. Tampa Bay, on a two-game losing streak with some internal grousing about the dysfunctional offense making the rumor rounds, was 7-5, not a top 10 team as the calendar flipped to December. After 12 weeks, the Steelers were 11-0, the clear number one team in the league. When the calendar turns to December, we should know the lay of the land in the NFL, right? Of course. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Peer-reviewed papers from the 3rd European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming are presented in a companion proceedings, Precision livestock farming '07. The wide range of research topics reported will be a valuable resource for researchers, advisors, teachers and professionals in agriculture long after the conference has finished The papers reflect the wide range of disciplines encompassed by precision agriculture, including: soil physics, crop physiology, agronomy, IT, agricultural technology, sensor technology, remote sensing, geostatistics and environmental science. This publication contains papers presented at the 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. ‘Doing arable agriculture and horticulture more precisely’ means that the use of inputs is optimised, crop yield and quality are maximised and leakage of agro-chemicals and fertilisers to the environment is minimised. With ever-increasing pressures on world agriculture in both economic and environmental terms, application of the concept of precision agriculture is one way of enabling farmers and producers to cope.