NFL Lines For Week 10 - NFL Football Line Week Ten NFL Line 11/12 - 11/16, 2009 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 11/12 8:20 ET At San Francisco -3 Chicago 43.5 11/15 1:00 ET At NY Jets -6.5 Jacksonville 40 11/15 1:00 ET Denver -5* At Washington 36.5* 11/15 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -6.5* Cincinnati 40.5* 11/15 1:00 ET At Tennessee -6.5 Buffalo 41 11/15 1:00 ET At Minnesota -16.5 Detroit 48 11/15 1:00 ET New Orleans -13.5 At St. Louis 50 11/15 1:00 ET Atlanta -1.5 At Carolina 44.5 11/15 1:00 ET At Miami -9.5 Tampa Bay 44 11/15 4:05 ET At Oakland -1.5 Kansas City 36.5 11/15 4:15 ET At Arizona -9 Seattle 47 11/15 4:15 ET At San Diego -2.5 Philadelphia 47 11/15 4:15 ET Dallas -3 At Green Bay 47.5 11/15 8:20 ET At Indianapolis -3 New England 50 Monday Night Football Line 11/16 8:35 ET Baltimore -11 At Cleveland 40 * = Last available line. Currently off due to Monday night play and/or an injury situation. Number may differ when game back on. Bye Weeks: Houston, NY. Giants
No money down yet, but I like what I see here. Pats......-120 @Indy -3...Even I like the Colts by 4. Jags........-110 @Jets -6....-110 Jets by a TD Hawks.........-110 @Cards -7.5....-110 Cards by 10. I'm a sucker for points, so I have my eye on these games, too. Lions............-115 @Vikings -17.....-105 Lions. Bucs............-110 @Phins -10.......-110 Bucs Ravens -11.......-110 @Browns..........-110 Browns
sun night----this should be a good one Manning was an absolute machine until the last two weeks, where he looked kind of flummoxed. Which Manning will show up? I think that will determine winner here. Too bad I'll probably go to bed before it's over.
If your QB throws 98 times in two games, you have issues. Their lack of a running game is going to haunt them for the rest of the season. Manning completed 66% of his passes and passed for almost 700 yds against the Niners and Texans. Those games should have been blowouts. Still, I think the Colts handle the Patriots at home and go 9-0, but with a road game in Jacksonville and Houston, the Jets and their running game at home, and a January game in Buffalo, I don't give them much of a chance for 16-0 and think they will have trouble in the playoffs if Addai and Brown keep rushing for 50 and 60 yards per game.
<--------Colts fan since they moved to my hometown. Yes, I watched both games. #18 wasn't as sharp as in the first 6, but 66% is 66%. Addai ran for 39 yds against the Niners until the last drive of the game and ended up with a whopping 62 yds. Manning throwing 48 times and Addai rushing for 39 yards when it matters is a recipe for disaster. The Texans game was similar. Manning had 50 attempts and Addai had 45 yds when it mattered. As a fan I don't know whether to blame the play calling, the OL or Addai, but they better figure something out before the postseason. Maybe Brown is the answer. Not sure at this point.
I see the line has moved a bit after the monday night game, so let's use this one. NFL Lines For Week 10 - NFL Football Line Week Ten NFL Line 11/12 - 11/16, 2009 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 11/12 8:20 ET At San Francisco -3 Chicago 43.5 11/15 1:00 ET At NY Jets -6.5 Jacksonville 40 11/15 1:00 ET Denver -4 At Washington 36 11/15 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -7 Cincinnati 41.5 11/15 1:00 ET At Tennessee -6.5 Buffalo 40.5 11/15 1:00 ET At Minnesota -16.5 Detroit 48 11/15 1:00 ET New Orleans -13.5 At St. Louis 50 11/15 1:00 ET Atlanta -1.5 At Carolina 44.5 11/15 1:00 ET At Miami -10 Tampa Bay 44 11/15 4:05 ET At Oakland -2 Kansas City 36.5 11/15 4:15 ET At Arizona -8.5 Seattle 47 11/15 4:15 ET At San Diego -2.5 Philadelphia 47 11/15 4:15 ET Dallas -3 At Green Bay 47.5 11/15 8:20 ET At Indianapolis -3 New England 50 Monday Night Football Line 11/16 8:35 ET Baltimore -11 At Cleveland 40 Bye Weeks: Houston, NY. Giants
Hard to believe it's week 10 already. Crunch time for a lot of teams like Chicago, GB, Atlanta, Carolina and SF in the NFC and basically every team but Tennessee, KC, Cleveland and Oakland in the AFC. I hope you got some rest amd time with the family last weekend, because it's time to fill up the cooler, blast some nachos and grab a seat in front of the big screen. We get warmed up with a Thursday night matchup between two teams hanging onto playoff hopes by their fingernails. Both the Bears and host SF started well but are piling up the losses. Chicago is coming off two embarrassing blowouts sandwiched around a dreary win over Cleveland. Lovie Smith is not feeling any love at all from the chi-towners. The Vegas boys have installed the Niners as 3 point favorites, which seems about right. Chicago's defense struggles against premier passing attacks, their offense struggles to run the ball and they are heavily dependent on special teams and turnovers. SF doesn't really have the kind of passing attack that has torched Chicago, but they can run the ball and complete the occasional pass. This one will likely depend on turnovers and special teams play, and I can't predict those, so have to give it an Avoid. The biggest game of the week is the sunday night clash between two of the premier AFC squads, NE and Indy. Indy is a 3 point favorite at home. This has every indication of being a shootout, and I hate to go against Peyton and the Colts offense in that case, but they have looked very unColt-like the last two weeks in grinding out close wins. They are stepping up in competition this week, and a half-assed effort will not get the job done. NE by contrast has been machine-like the past few weeks and seems to be rounding into post-season form. The depleted Colts secondary will face a stern test, and i doubt they are up to it. Can Manning match the Brady-Moss TD connection? It'll be interesting to see, but no way I touch this one. Avoid. Atlanta travels all the way to Carolina as a 1 1/2 point favorite in a game that has big wildcard implications. Carolina has been a big disappointment this year, Atlanta has played pretty well, so why isn't Atlanta a bigger favorite? Maybe it has something to do with their flat second half against the Skins last week, maybe the Vegas boys took a beating on Carolina at Arizona and don't want a repeat. Who knows, but I think this spread is way tight. Atlanta's defense is nothing special however, and Carolina's problems have been caused largely by a turnover machine offense. Tempting game but I feel like I'm missing something here, so Avoid. Jacksonville travels to NJ to play the Jets(-6.5). The problem I have with this game is the Jets defense has been vulnerable to pound it out ground games, and that is the one thing Jacksonville does well. I could see the Jags hogging the ball and converting a couple of turnovers, so this one is also an Avoid. Sometimes you wonder if the oddsmakers even bother checking prior games. Cleveland beat the Steelers 23-20 in week three. They have beaten Baltimore twice and blown out the bears in the intervening weeks, so it wasn't a fluke. So why are the Steelers 7 point favorites, coming off a cross-country MNF game? Maybe because they have beaten SD and Minnesota by 10 at home and Denver by 18 on the road since the Cincy loss. This one has huge playoff implications, as the winner could be looking at home field advantage down the road. I don't see this as a 7 point game, but I'm not fading Pittsburg at home, so Avoid. Detroit visits Minnesota(-16.5) in the kind of mismatch I usually like to jump on, but the Vikes are not the 2007 Pats and this spread leaves no room for an off-sides penalty. Avoid. A potentially very interesting game features Philly traveling way out west to SD(-2.5). SD is coming off a big win against the Giants, Philly a big loss against the Cowboys, and on their last trip out west the Iggles managed to crap in their pants in a horrifying loss to the horrid Raiders. I regard Philly as basically unbettable however, as they depend almost exclusively on big plays on offense and the return game. SD is solid but hardly an elite team, so another Avoid. Denver is coming off two consecutive losses but gets an easier test this week, traveling to Washington as a 4 point favorite. The Redskins have botched the ridiculously easy part of their schedule and now face the very real possiblity of losing all their remaining games. They will be starting a left tackle, Levi Jones, who was on the street two weeks ago. Their RT this week was the LT the last two weeks and before that was the RT. You get the idea. RB Clinton Portis has a concussion and is out, but opinions differ as to whether that is a net negative or positive. The Skins D has been decent but often struggles against big receivers and mobile TEs, which happen to be just what the Broncos feature. Both teams feature top 10 defenses and middle of the pack offenses statistically, but Denver has played by far the tougher schedule. I usually stay away from Skins games, but I have to lay the points here. Denver. NO(-13.5) travels up the mighty Mississippi to St. Louis. The Rams are coming off a bye week, leaving them an extra week to celebrate their win over Detroit. They did make it close against Washington and Jacksonville, but otherwise they have made it a habit to get blown out. They are at the bottom of the offensive and defensive stats. Meanwhile, NO has been rolling and looks a lot like the best team in the league. Give the points here. NO. Dallas(-3) is at GB, fresh off a humiliating loss to TB. GB's season could be on the line here. GB's stats look impressive for a 4-4 squad, but they have played an even easier schedule than the Redskins. The only thing close to a quality win they have is the opening night home win against chicago. Dallas has losses against the Giants and Denver on the road, but is coming off their best win of the season in Philly. The Cowboys are scoring points, and their defense should tee off agianst Aaron Rodgers. Give the three, Dallas. The Monday night game has Baltimore(-11) at Cleveland. Baltimore has lost some close games against top teams, but it should have way too much for a Browns team that seems to be coming apart from the front office on down. Give the 11, Baltimore. I just realized I am laying points on four road teams. That's not a really smart way to play the betting game, and the last time I did that, in week two I believe, I got my head handed to me.
I was really looking forward to the first Thursday night game, and the Bears-Niners looked like a great way to start. Couldn't have been more wrong. These two turned in one of the worst games of this, or any, season. SF's offense was so bad it might make Cleveland look decent. Alex Smith was totally unimpressive at QB. Of course, Lovie Smith and the Bears might prefer a little less "flair" from their QB, since he managed to lose the game for them by tossing five picks. Five turnovers and SF still only managed 10 points, but it was enough to not only win the game but cover the spread.
Carolina appears to have resolved a big chunk of their problems and may now be about 80% as good as everybody thought they would be when we started this season. If they don't turn the ball over and they get their running game going then they will win.