Not too often you'll hear me talking about how excited I am to watch a Bears game, but tomorrow's weather is the Weather Channel's wet dream of a situation. Think of their ratings during blizzards: has to be like 0.000002 share, compared to their normal 0.000001. While I won't say I pleasure myself like WC does to the thought of bad weather, I do love the concept of bad weather games in football. Some of my favorite games to watch have been bad weather games. Some off the top of my head that I watched nearly in full: Monday Night game with Pitt winning 3-0 over Miami, Nebraska at Missouri last year in a monsoon, GB at Chicago on a Halloween night about 10-11 years ago. This is gonna be a Sunday fun day of football even more so than normal, and we'll see if I'm able to get out to a local pub to watch it.
Picks for the week, already mentioned some, read last blog if you wanna read a write-up:
NO -9, Dal +3.5, Cle +1/even
Other games I'm looking to book:
Oak/Jax Over 42: Two teams that run a lot would normally be an automatic Under bet or no play for me, but Oakland's rush defense is in the bottom fourth of the league (something that San Diego wasn't able to take advantage of last week) and Jacksonville's defense isn't as good as Tennessee made it look last week. I think this game will be in the low 50s. MJD and McFadden are licking their chops at this one.
KC +9.5/10 at SD: I'm gonna take a shot here on KC. I don't think Croyle will be running a complicated passing offense. And while I do expect SD to stack the box against KC, I am reminded of Oakland last week shredding the SD defense with their two-headed backfield of McFadden and Bush when Oakland really presents no passing threat themselves. KC's defense is capable enough of keeping this within a score or possibly being capable of pulling off the upset. The line should be in the 9-10 range, which is tasty for an 8-4 team to be getting.
And book it....those are the bets.
