If you are tired of double digit lines going up every Sunday for NFL games, stick around. This week’s action will feature some of the tightest contests we have seen so far this pro football season.
The Colts & Chargers game opened as a pick and only four double digit spreads are posted for the week. The Tennessee Titans go out west to take on Pete Carroll’s Seattle Seahawks at home… always a tough task. There is no telling exactly how much home field advantage figures into the lines here but the Seahawks are favored by 13.5 points.
The another game with a big spread will take place when the Oakland Raiders go to Kansas City to play the Chiefs and their new head coach Andy Reid. The Raiders are coming off of an emotional boast after beating the San Diego Chargers when they weren’t supposed to win in a late night game in Oakland which was postponed because of the baseball game between the Athletics and the Detroit Tigers.
Many fans were kept up until after midnight to see the end of the exciting contest that saw the Chargers score 14 points in the fourth quarter and still loose the game. So the Raiders go to Kansas City as 10.5 point underdogs but, look for that number to drop.
In the other 10.5 point spread, the Arizona Cardinals, who are not living up to their preseason hype so far, go up to San Francisco to take on the 49ers who are coming off of a tremendous victory over the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football. This will turn into a contest between the excellent secondary of the Cardinals against Colin Kaepernick and his highly flaunted passing attack.
The biggest spread of the week and one of the largest you will ever see for an NFL game goes to the Jacksonville Jaguars who will travel up to the mile-high city of Denver to take on superstar quarterback Peyton Manning and his undefeated Broncos. The Jags are now 28 point underdogs against Denver but remember that Jacksonville is 0-5 both SU and ATS this season.
The rest of the games are all pretty tight as far as the spread goes. Eli Manning and his beleaguered Giants traveled to Chicago to try to finally win a game as eight point underdogs but Jay Cutler and crew were coming off a bitter loss to the Saints and hungry for a win, which they got.
