NFL Week 8 Picks and Discussions Pro-line, Pools... Whatever!

Hey guys, its thursday and no one has posted a new NFL thread so I thought I would start one. The early lines are out for pro-line. Discuss away. Here are this weeks match-ups with the pro-line early spreads. I will update it when the OLGC gets their final lines in.

List Number 796

Sunday, October 31, 2004
1 1:00 pm FTB GB -3.5 WSH
2 1:00 pm FTB BAL PHI -7.5
3 1:00 pm FTB ARZ BUF -3.5
4 1:00 pm FTB NJ MIN -7.5
5 1:00 pm FTB CIN TEN -3.5
6 1:00 pm FTB IND -1.5 KC
7 1:00 pm FTB DET DAL -2.5
8 1:00 pm FTB JAK -1.5 HOU
9 4:00 pm FTB ATL DEN -7.5
10 4:00 pm FTB CAR SEA -8.5
11 4:15 pm FTB NE -3.5 PIT
12 4:15 pm FTB OAK -6.5 SD
13 8:30 pm FTB SF CHI -2.5

Monday, November 1, 2004
14 9:00 pm FTB MIA NY -6.5


Your thoughts were very helpful last week as I am a football betting newbie. I look forward to your responses.

Usually I don't bet on the early lines because ProLine will use that to gauge on how much people are spending on a particular spread and will adjust accordingly so i normally just wait until the final lines come out on Friday and start pounding them


Also another angle to look at is the official injury report produced by the NFL won't be available until every Thursday so another reason to wait a bit

Some lines do jump out though

I like Buffalo to beat the road-woeful Cards who just came off a big win last week and Tennessee (pending McNair's status) to beat Cincy (the team that won on MNF usually loses the next week for whatever reason, shorter schedule, emotional roller-coaster etc with Philly the only exception this year!)

Back with more thoughts later

Here are my picks:

Arizona (3.5) over BUFFALO
Detroit (3.5) over DALLAS
MINNESOTA (-6.5) over NY Giants
Baltimore (7.5) over PHILADELPHIA
Green Bay (-2.5) over WASHINGTON
Indianapolis (-1.5) over KANSAS CITY
TENNESSEE (-3.5) over Cincinnati
Jacksonville (1.5) over HOUSTON
DENVER (-6.5) over Atlanta
SEATTLE (-7.5) over Carolina
New England (-3.5) over PITTSBURGH
SAN DIEGO (-5.5) over Oakland
San Francisco (1.5) over CHICAGO
NY JETS (-6.5) over Miami

Here are my 12 pick (final spreads), sure picks, straightup & 12 pick (early spreads).

Oreo, You got guts to picking giants over the vikings. Gaints haven't beaten a team with a winning record this year.

Amen to that brother. Plus Moss at 50% is still better than 90% of normal receivers. Go Vikings, my favorite team!

Originally Posted by Lando

Amen to that brother. Plus Moss at 50% is still better than 90% of normal receivers. Go Vikings, my favorite team!

Well Vikings have one of the worst defense in the league, at least in terms of allowing passing yardage.

Giants have way too many weaponts in Warner, Barber, Shockey, Hilliard, Toomer etc to ignore, plus Warner used to spend time playing in St Loo's dome so this is not new territory for him. Couglin will sure have the troops fired up after last week's loss to the Leos

I watched the Vikings play last week against the Titans without McNair and i'm not impressed 1 bit, so i'm not surprised to see the G-men to cover this spread if not win S/U

Hey Oreo, on 1 ticket you have Dal to cover the -2.5 spread but on the other ticket you have Detroit to win by 4 ??

Other than that, all tickets look solid man, gl and let's bring in the $$$

I just bought 1 small ticket last night while filling up at the station

Bills by 4
Titans by 4
Cowboys by 4

More to follow because I'm looking at the college games now

Originally Posted by canabiz

Hey Oreo, on 1 ticket you have Dal to cover the -2.5 spread but on the other ticket you have Detroit to win by 4 ??

I always play a variety of tickets, I have 6 more that I didn't post up, like O/U and theme tickets (I'll explain later). That and I always discuss picks with my friends and they seemed to like Dallas and I wasn't absolutely partial to Det winning so I thought I'd mix it up. Can't win em all

Of course the Vikings have one of the worst defenses in the NFL! The whole idea is that no other defense in the NFL can stop them. They win by simply scoring more points than the other team can. You want to talk about weapons the Giants have, how about you talk about weapons the Vikings have. We will see tomorrow I suppose

GL today fellas

Several tickets in running

including

NYG +7 (gotta put my $ where my mouth is or in this case where my fingers are LOL)

Jack -2.5

Dal -2.5

SF +2.5

and KC +2.5

<insert my foot in mouth here> .. Vikings sure fell apart, guess that is part of football!

Jacksonville, New England & Oakland hurt me on a lot of tickets with JAK costing me the most. Made some good calls, got hit on my supposed locks, another week breaking even with GB & Philly winning their games.

Hehe, I got one winning ticket, depending on the outcome of monday night football:

List Number 797

NO. TIME SPORT VISITOR HOME PROLINE OVER UNDER

Sunday, October 31, 2004
15 1:00 pm FTB ARZ BUF H 2
17 1:00 pm FTB CIN TEN H 2.1
19 1:00 pm FTB DET DAL H 2.1

Monday, November 1, 2004
26 9:00 pm FTB MIA NY H 1.4


Your wager: $2.00
Your potential winnings: $24.70

I got the same winning ticket as you too airblade!!

Thanks God Testaverde came up with a late TD to save us

I lost the PS because of Jack and right now SF is looking real bad

Breaking even online too, oh well just another week

Real good news is my survivor pick survives!

I screwed up pick on one ticket and i got 1/12 in point spread. I picked Houston but my first instinct was to pick Jacksonville. Next time i'll just pick the reverse of my instincts.

How you post images?