Yet another road game for the Saints... Yet another double digit spread for the undefeated favorites. Atlanta is a divisional rival that beats the Saints when they shouldn't and have had their number for years.
That being said the turf toe on starting quarterback Matt Ryan and the high ankle sprain on starting running back Michael Turner are two of the worst types of injuries for their positions. Quarterback has to throw effectively and a turf toe is brutal for that. Running back has to be able to cut and obviously a high ankle sprain doesn't help. Then throw in an offensive line that is decimated with injuries leaving both these battered players vulnerable.
The Saints got over their Monday night hangover, anointing themselves as champions before the playoffs and the redskins attempt to "crown" them. The Saints will cruise over the Falcons. I don't like that the Iggles just crushed ATL because they should have a little more fight in em. We saw the Giants last week, a team left for dead, find some vigor vs. the Cowboys and that could happen here, but more likely the Saints pin 40 on the defense that used to be. They only had to replace 6 or 7 key guys from last year.
If the Falcons were an injury, they'd be a leg hanging on by skin after a landmine explosion. This team lacks cartilage, bone, and muscle. A gimme. Take the Saints and the big spread and sleep easy Saturday night. Granted Matt Ryan and Michael Turner turn up healthy on the Falcons offense and this could be a game, but unless the Flukeins are doing a little Beli-cheating and angle shooting this is not likley to happen. Everything that is being reported is these guys are not likely to play.
Last week I gave you two gimmes and two terrible picks. Vikes and Saints were bad, the Saints struggled for all the reasons I listed (and I still picked them--dumb), the Vikings had a letdown, and Arizona woke up (again) and remembered they still have the talent that took them to the Superbowl. I also banged the WVA-Rutgers game out of the park and told you Miami would win outright vs. New England. That should have been my Lock of the Week... home dog instead of homer pick (okay quasi-homer pick) with the Saints. Home underdogs are generally safe bets, making Road favorites bad bets. Going against conventionally wisdom I bet on the road favorite instead of the home underdog. Next I'll be betting favorites in the first round of the NCAAs.
This week isn't a homer pick. I've done my due diligence, I'm green lighting it, fire up your sports betting accounts and put a little money on the black and gold.
Now... time for a Tiger Woods video. There is some part of me that feels bad for the guy, then there is another part of me laughing at that part of me. He has everything, everything, have you seen his wife, well apart from her being disgustingly ugly, he had everything. If you are bad at detecting sarcasm, I was being sarcastic.
Please don't blame it on the alcohol, Tiger...
By the way... I like Hot Clicks on Si.com... Don't think Tiger would blame it on the alcohol as he seems to be a borderline Ambien addict. His mistresses talk about it, sounds like he was driving on it, and there has to be some concern the guy could pull a Heath Ledger Andy now that he is cooped up in his private yacht named Privacy.
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