Well, I stunk again last week. If you are sticking with me in this column, you are a glutton for
Seattle Seahawks Pet Gear punishment and I sincerely hope that I reward your loyalty at some point here soon. Last week we went 0-3-1 and we are now four games under .500 this season. Brutal.I am four under for the season picking every game and same thing with the best bets. Very disappointing. All you can do is keep chopping wood and plugging ahead and this week there's going to be a bit of a common theme with these pics. The weather is starting to turn in the holiday season and I am really favoring, by and large, teams that can run the football and do so in a multitude of ways. Latest Odds: Kansas City Chiefs -7.5 OK in this instance the run the ball better than the Chiefs but it's not going to matter. I can understand Las Vegas taking a victory lap after beating Kansas City earlier this year at Arrowhead but they ain't sweeping the Chiefs. The Chiefs are better on special teams, the Chiefs are better on defense and the Chiefs are better on offense. There's plenty of motivation for Kansas City and it already got its mulligan out of the way and is catching the Raiders on a week in which they basically had no defensive players in the building at all due to COVID-19. I'm sorry, that matters. Beating the Chiefs twice when you have no pa s rush to speak of just isn't going to happen and you also aren't going to keep the game close that way either. The Raiders have just 11 sacks on the season they don't
Al Woods Jersey have anyone you have to worry about in that regard really besides and even he is a try-hard guy. Kansas City's offensive line is as healthy as it has been in a long time and I think this is going to be a bloodbath.My pick: Chiefs -8 Latest Odds: New England Patriots -2.5 New England's offensive line is healthy and understands what he has to do to win, which basically translates to taking care of the football. The don't turn you over very much, they can't stop the run and they are going to get bullied in this game with heavy jumbo formations. Bill Belichick ran it 39 times against the last week and he might run it 45 times this week. Newton will be a handful himself in the run game and Rex Burkhead and Damien Harris are no joke right now. New England can sense that its season is once again vibrant and alive and it doesn't matter that it doesn't really throw to wide receivers or tight ends and it doesn't really matter what its offensive limitations are. Defensively the Patriots in good shape because the Texans can't run the ball at all and the strength of the New England defense is the secondary. I expect this to be another lopsided affair.My pick: Patriots -1.5 Latest Odds: Minnesota Vikings -7 Yes, Dalvin Cook was bottled up last week by the Bears, but Chicago is a pretty unique defensive team and is doing special stuff on that side of the ball. This is a very different scenario this week. Cook will get going and this young Vikings team loaded with rookies
Derrick Coleman Jersey will continue to excel and stay on the uptick. They see a schedule that will allow them to get back in the NFC playoff race and the cannot stand up against the type of volume in the run game that the Vikings present. knows he just needs to be a point guard and not force anything. Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen will be an absolute handful for this Cowboys defense.My pick: Vikings -7 Latest Odds: Indianapolis Colts -1.5 Frank Reich will keep this team balanced and he will continue to pound the ball on the ground as he has the past two weeks. The Colts had great succe s on the ground against the Ravens and then again against the . Nyheim Hines is thriving right now on short pa ses and won't scare you down the
Rashaad Penny Jersey field but he doesn't have to here. He will hit the open receiver underneath in four- and five-wide receiver sets to neutralize the pa s rush and the Colts will use three running backs to wear down the behind their dominant offensive line. I still have pretty significant questions about Green Bay. I don't think it can play much from behind and I expect it to have to in this game.My pick: Colts -2 Latest Odds: Cleveland Browns -2.5 No one in the NFL is running the ball better than the Browns right now when you look at the totality of their attack. Having Kareem Hunt and back behind a fully healthy offensive line and a full complement of tight ends puts this team right in its comfort
Levi Lewis Jersey zone. It allows Cleveland to stick to its identity. And while the Eagles are strong up front, their deficiencies at linebacker and problems with their secondary stopping the run will be exploited here. There will be opportunities for the Browns tight ends to pick up yards in chunks and Cleveland will stick to its formula which includes not throwing the ball more than 20 times. If you drop back to pa s too much, guys like and will change the game but Kevin Stefanski is well aware of that and will play to those strengths. I don't know what's going on with right now but it's nothing good and is going to be a problem for the Eagles. My pick: Browns -3
