NFL Week 13

Here’s the picks:

Away Home     Winner Vegas Line O/U Bets  
NY Jets Buffalo 20 20 NYJ NYJ 3 37 BUF Over
Philadelphia Atlanta 22 21 PHI PHI 5 43.5 ATL Under
Denver Kansas City 23 22 DEN DEN 6 39 KC Over
New Orleans Washington 22 19 NO NO 9.5 47 WAS Under
Oakland Pittsburgh 15 24 PIT PIT 15 37 OAK Over
Houston Jacksonville 20 25 JAC HOU 2 47 JAC Under
St. Louis Chicago 16 26 CHI CHI 9 41 CHI Over
Detroit Cincinnati 18 24 CIN CIN 13 42 DET Under
Tennessee Indianapolis 17 23 IND IND 6.5 46.5 TEN Under
Tampa Bay Carolina 19 20 CAR CAR 4 40 TB Under
San Diego Cleveland 22 20 SD SD 13.5 43 CLE Under
Minnesota Arizona 24 24 AZ MIN 3.5 48.5 AZ Under
San Francisco Seattle 17 24 SEA SF 1 41 SEA Under
Dallas NY Giants 21 23 NYG DAL 1.5 45.5 NYG Under
New England Miami 27 21 NE NE 5 46 NE Over
Baltimore Green Bay 18 22 GB GB 3.5 43.5 GB Under

There is one good bet today, Cleveland will cover the massive spread. So far I’m about skunked this year on betting that bad teams will show up and play, so this should be fun.

I noticed something happy though, it appears that the lines actually moved some this week, good omen for the economy I guess.

The Superbowl preview last week looked pretty bad for the Pats. I get the feeling that they expected NO to curl up in a fetal position as many of the teams playing them seem to do. Instead they came to play football and the Pats played so flat I’m surprised they didn’t get beat worse. Despite that beating the computer still says the Pats are the better team. Here’s how the playoffs shake out:

Wild Cards AFC Denver Pittsburgh 17 25 Pittsburgh
    Cincinnati San Diego 18 25 San Diego
             
  NFC Dallas Arizona 22 24 Arizona
    Green Bay NY Giants 23 24 NY Giants
             
Division AFC Pittsburgh Indianapolis 19 21 Indianapolis
    San Diego New England 20 24 New England
             
  NFC Arizona New Orleans 23 28 New Orleans
    NY Giants Minnesota 20 22 Minnesota
             
Conference AFC New England Indianapolis 23 22 New England
             
  NFC Minnesota New Orleans 23 26 New Orleans
             
Superbowl   New England New Orleans 26 25 New England
    New Orleans New England 21 25 New England

E.W.

“That’s easy, the egg came first… it’s a breakfast food.”

-King Julian