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Mike the Dealer's Football Picks
It’s too easy.
This year in the NFL has been jarringly simple
to predict, the old motto of ‘any given Sunday’ has long since been killed
off.
Massive double digit favorites are covering with
ease over their weak sister opponents. In last week’s games 3 out of the
4 teams
favored by 10+ covered, and the one that failed
to do so, the Steelers, won by 8.
The Giants won 44-7 over the Raiders and the game
wasn’t even that close, on the only scoring drive of the game, the Raiders
benefitted from a horrible call by the refs that
negated a Giants defensive touchdown and left the Raider offense in position
to
score a TD of their own, so if the game had been
reffed honestly, the Giants win 51-0.
Normally people will see a game and debate if
it’s close or not, but this week’s Colts/Titans game was nothing of the
sort.
4 People out of the 12 we had playing this week,
took the Colts -3.5 as their lock of the week, that’s a full 1/3rd of the
field,
and they were all right. 8 out of 12 locks were
hit this week. Vegas doesn’t make money when the games are this easy to
predict.
As you’ll see this week, the Titans have fallen
very far in the linesmaker’s eyes going from only getting +3.5 against
the class
of the AFC at home, to now being a 9.5 point
dog at New England.
RESULTS
Last week’s winner group was 4-1’s who hit their locks, nobody went 4-1 and missed a lock.
The 4-1 Hall of Glory (Back after 1 week absence)
Mike The Dealer (I’m really not this good, my luck has to run out sometime)
Wins: Dolphins (lock), Vikings, Giants, Bengals, Loss: Patriots
Mike D.
Wins: Broncos (lock) Colts, Eagles, Falcons Loss: Panthers
Big Mig
Wins: Bengals (lock) Browns, Dolphins, Giants Loss: Texans
Nic G.
Wins: Giants (lock) Redskins, Colts, Eagles Loss: 49’ers
3-2’s
Tex, James D, Other Bart, Paul W,
I lost the names on two off the 2-3’s so I’ll just not name anyone from that bracket and wish everyone the best of luck this week.
Contest
Pick 5 teams against the spread, please list the
team and the spread to make it easier on me, pick one of your picks
to be your lock of the week, if you don’t
list a lock, then the first team listed will be your lock. Send your picks
to
Home team in CAPS
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG
REDSKINS -6.5 Chiefs
BENGALS -4.5 Texans
STEELERS -13.5 Browns
VIKINGS -2.5 Ravens
SAINTS -2.5 Giants
JAUGARS -9.5 Rams
Panthers -2.5 BUCS
PACKERS -13.5 Lions
Eagles -14.5 RAIDERS
SEAHAWKS -2.5 Cards
JETS -9.5 Bills
PATRIOTS -9.5 Titans
FALCONS -3.5 Bears
CHARGERS -3.5 Broncos
Good luck everyone.
Mike the Dealer
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