NFL Wk. 3

[TazaD]

St. Louis -6.5 Jumping on this one early, because I can see it rising to 7. League: 13-26-2 (Av. loss 9.1) away 3+ dog, off 14+ SU win as home 7- dog. [Tenn] 3-12-1 (Av. loss 11.8) if total is 40+ 0-5-1 (Av. loss 11.0) if total 44+ Just like the way this game sets up. Titans are being over-rated after "upsetting" a team who really should never have been favourites. They simply stacked the box, took Lewis out of the game and made Wright throw the ball 40 times. On the surface 25 points against the Balti D is a good effort, but their first TD was only a 3 play, 25 yard 'drive' off a fumble. FG, FG, FG, then an Int return for a TD. St. Louis haven't looked good at all, but their 2 games so far have both been on the road, outdoors and on grass...far from their favourite situation. But first game at home, I expect them to roll over this young Titans team who allowed over 200 yards rushing and nearly 20 yards per pass in their first road game of the year. (34-7 loss @ Pittsburgh) :cheers

[TazaD]

Re: NFL Wk. 3 NE @ Pittsburgh over 42 League: 9-3 over (11-1 over this no...11-0 since 1995....av. 51.8...+9.0) home 3- fav off 14+ ats win as away 7- fav. [Pits] Big Ben has started right where he left off last year, leading the Steelers to scores of 34 and 27 so far...admittedly against some poor defense, but they had 20 at HT in both games before calling off the dogs. NE defense has looked shaky so far, esp. in the red zone, where they've allowed 5 TD's from 5 inside 20's. NE will score their share of points . There's been some concern over the lack of a running game so far, but in last season's reg meeting, Pits won 34-20, and NE had exactly 5 rushing yards from 6 attempts!!! The other meeting last year was 41-27 NE. I think we'll see some points again this time around.