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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Don't mind the Jacksonville play, we'll find out if them regularly going to London and knowing what to expect eventually starts to result in them doing better in these games. Either way, Bortles has been playing reasonably well and Buffalo's offence is pretty scattered.

Yep, and as well as Buffalo's D line has played, their secondary has been bad (mostly due to injuries).

Like the Jets to cover against the Patriots this week. New England is pretty banged up on the offensive line and the Jets have good corners and line backers to cover the Pats weapons.

I think they'll be able to move Brady around in the pocket which is when he tends to struggle. I also like the match-up of Marshall and Decker against New England's corners.

I don't like your Tennessee +5 at home to Atlanta. The Falcons have had a longer week and Mariota got banged up against Miami. Even with the Titans at home I expect Atlanta to play well coming off the loss and having had extra prep time.

Mettenberger has gotten all the reps this week and is pretty comfortable in this offense. Atlanta also has a history of playing down to their opponents. They very easily could be 1-6 right now.

Indy -4 against New Orleans, I don't like that one for you. New Orleans has had extra time and Brees is starting to show some life on offence. Indy did play the Pats reasonably well, but I still don't see a Fletcher Cox in their defence to destroy the Saints like what happened against Philly.

Fair enough. All of the Saints' losses this year have come against pretty good defenses, something the Colts definitely don't have.

Don't like San Diego at -3.5 against the Raiders coming off a bye. I think this years Raiders are a vastly improved team and will be a field goal apart max. These last two losses for the Chargers will take a toll on them.

The bye week thing tends to be over-exaggerated. Teams that have good records coming off the bye tend to just be good teams with good coaches. The Raiders do not fit this description. Oakland has also had a lot of trouble stopping TEs this year, so I'm expecting Rivers and Gates to light them up.

Giants as a 3.5 at home against the Boys...I might personally avoid that game myself, Dallas could be a bit unpredictable this week. The fundamentals support the play as Matt Cassel is crap, and Dallas' run game is also mediocre this year. But they are off a bye and the Giants played on Monday night.

I think the Giants are probably the best team in the NFC East. They played a really dumb and sloppy game against the Eagles that they probably should've won if they had limited the mistakes.

Carolina and Philly under 45.5...hmmm Seattle and Carolina were 50 last week. Phillies offence looks to be improving and their defence is good, but is it at the same level of Seattle's at home? I think I'd play the over here.

I actually don't really think the offense has gotten much better. The run game is still getting stuffed in the backfield way too often. The offensive line is committing way too many penalties and mental errors. The WRs are still dropping balls, and Bradford still looks terrible. I think they'll be lucky to put up more than 17 against a good Panthers defense. I'm expecting something like a 24-17 Panthers win.