Are you ready for some football? The pre-season is finally over and teams get to strap on their pads for real starting Thursday night with the Saints hosting the Vikings in a rematch of January's NFC title game on NBC. (5:30pm PST)
Heavy betting action already towards the Saints with the Line opening up at 4.5 in their favour which has quickly moved to 5.5 today. The line move is meaningless as does not cross a key number of 4 or 7, but D$ sees an aging Favre, a depleted Vikings receiving corps (no Sidney Rice, Percy Harvin limited with migranes, and Bernard Berrinan looking average in the pre-season), and the Saints home crowd as some solid reasons to back New Orleans.
From a betting prospective the only thing that has me a bit concerned about the Saints in the intangibles as they will be receiving their super bowl rings and playing a motivated Vikings squad who wants to avenge an OT January loss. The Saints are the better team here, but will they come out and play like it?
The over/under has also dropped from an open of 51 to a current 48. Will the two gun-slinger QBs rack up points with their offenses? Not sure yet...
More analysis on this game and other NFL Week #1 picks throughout the week.
FYI - The season kicks off in style with Taylor Swift performing in the kickoff concert before the game!
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