 We really like the card today so we are going with five selections. We are going to lead off the selections with the Dallas Cowboys.
Cowboys -4.5 over the Tampa Bay Bucs
The Cowboys should be much heavier favorites in this game than they are now. The only negative we can see in this game for the Cowboys is that they are on the road and there is a possibility they might wilt in the heat in the fourth quarter. Other than that this game should be an easy win for the Cowboys.
The Cowboys have advantages at almost every position than the Bucs and the Cowboys are also know for starting out seasons strong. How this is not a double digit win for the Cowboys we are not sure….but we see the Cowboys winning with a score of something like this: Cowboys 31 Tampa Bay 17
 Cincinnati -4.5 over Denver
This is our second best pick of the day. We absolutely do not know how Denver wins this game. In our opinion it would take a miracle for the Broncos to beat Cincy in Cincy…why? First of all the Broncos have one of the worst defenses in the NFL, or at least they did last year. We are hard pressed to see Denver stopping a fairly decent Bengal offense.
Second, the Broncos offense is in dissarray. Orton is going to start but will be playing with a right index finger that had a compound dislocation. In case you do not know what that is…it is when the dislocated joint breaks the skin. OUCH! This only happened two weeks ago.
Denver has had nothing but problems with Brandon Marshall, who they desperately need to play well. We don’t see that happening. The Broncos first round draft pick, RB Knowshown Moreno, has been injured and we do not see him having much of an impact. How the hell are the Broncos going to score?
Just like the Cowboy game we see Cincy winning easily by double digits. Cincy 27 Denver 13 (and the Denver 13 is being kind)
 Green Bay -4.5 over Chicago
This is a very interesting game. Green Bay was outstanding in the pre-season after a disappointing year last year. The Packer offense played well last year but the defense just fell apart. We think the Packer defense is a lot better this year…and they will show it against Jay Cutler and the anemic Chicago offense.
Chicago is hoping that Cutler is a huge improvement over Kyle Orton and Rex Grossman….and he probably is. But one thing Cutler has shown is the ability to throw interceptions, which just killed the Broncos at times last year. Chicago has a good ground game with Forte but their receiving corps is a work in progress.
We look for the Packers to score some points against a better-than-last-year Chicago defense and we expect the Packer defense to force some turnovers, most likely from Cutler.
These games, divisional games in the NFC North, can be a little dicey to pick but it is hard to see Green Bay not winning by a touchdown or 10 points. Green Bay 24 Chicago 13.
 Atlanta -4 over Miami
This is the very first game we liked when we saw the board. The only thing from keeping us a little more excited about this game is that we are just not sure how good the Falcons are as of now. Are they as good as last year? Yes, we think they are….but they need to get better. But one thing we are convinced of is that the Dolphins are not a top notch team…at least right now they are not. Miami seemed like a real flukey team last year.
Matt Ryan seems like the real deal, although people wanting to put him in Canton should calm down a little. The Falcons should have again a really good ground game and their defense should be strong enough to hold Miami to two TD’s or less.
Miami…hmmm, we just don’t see where the scoring is going to come from. Miami’s defense should be solid but this looks like a double digit win to us. Atlanta 21 Miami 10.
 New England -11 over Buffalo
We typically do NOT like to give this many points and it may come back to haunt us here. This game really does look like a blowout though. The Patriots should be able to score while the Bills offense seems to have many problems.
The Bills just recently fired the their offensive coordinator, RB Lynch is out, there seems to be problems on the offensive line, and it has yet to be seen if T.O. will have a real impact in the Bills passing game.
The Patriots defense is probably not a top notch defense but since they are facing a Bills offense that seems in turmoil we suspect they will hold the Bills to around two TD’s while the Patriots offense and Tom Brady put up 28-30. We like the Patriots by two TD’s at least. Patriots 28 Buffalo 13
 Mail this post | 