Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

Week #4 line O/U
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>Sun 10/2/05<font color="green">
Bills at Saints - pick'em over 39
Broncos at Jaguars -4 over 37
Lions at Buccaneers -7 over 34
Texans at Bengals -10 under 42.5
Colts at Titans +7 over 45
Eagles at Chiefs -2.5 over 46
Chargers at Patriots -5.5 over 47
Seahawks at Redskins -2 under 36.5
Rams at Giants -3 under 46.5
Jets at Ravens -7.5 under 31.5
Cowboys at Raiders -3 over 46
Vikings at Falcons -6 over 45
49ers at Cardinals -3 over 42

Bye- Bears, Dolphins, Browns, Steelers </font>

Mon 10/3/05<font color="purple">
Packers at Panthers -8 over 43</font>
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Only one home dog this week- interesting.

Re: Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

$400 - Jets
$300 - Colts under 45
$200 - Colts -7
$100 - Raiders -3

Re: Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

$400 Eagles
$300 Raiders
$200 Patriots
$100 Buccaneers

My Picks
 

At this pace, I'll want to know what the record loss for a season is soon.

400$ Raiders Absolute desperation game, have looked good in all 3 losses.

300$ Texans Fade the Bar Stools

200$ 49ers McCowan is a joke

100$ Chiefs Home cooking

Record loss
 

Check the "Results" thread for the link to last year's results

Re: Record loss
 

No matter how bad it gets, I'll keep picking [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Although, I will be fading my own picks shortly.

Re: Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

If my picks were a WR, I'd have been Marvin Harrison for the first 2 weeks - just quietly getting it done. OK last week not so much when I decided to pull a Freddy Mitchell and just talk. Hopefully we'll go Terrell Owens this week and do both.

$400 - Jets +7.5 - Can you name the starting QB's in this game? Me neither. The Ravens handed me my only 2 losses for the first 2 weeks, so they're on pace to become my dreaded enemy with the inevitable backdoor cover with a defensive TD in the closing seconds against Bonnie Bernstein or whoever is under center for the Jets. Nevertheless, this group has always been a gritty road team under Herm with the exception of week 1 this year. And lets face it, you'll never hear anybody say: "I wouldn't want to give an offensive guru like Brian Billick 2 weeks to prepare for my team". Just smells like a 13-10 game.

$300 - Houston +10 - I've already commented on this game, but unlike Sean Salisbury, I'm not ready to call this Bengals D one of the league's best.

$200 - New Orleans PK - I've seen a lot of bad QB play in my tenure as a Bills fan. Todd Collins, Billy Joe Hobert, Rob Johnson, Doug Flutie, Drew Bledsoe....I don't remember any of those guys managing to lose a game despite winning the turnover battle AND getting their RB to rush for 140 yards...at home. How is that even possible? Now he's got to play on the road vs. a good pass-rush and likely one of the most fired up crowds in recent memory. Also, look for McAllister to have a big game receiving with Spikes out and a gimpy Fletcher.

$100 - Chiefs -2.5 - Here's my new "conference tiers" theory. Take each conference and divide the teams into three tiers: Good, average, and bad. When an NFC team plays an AFC team from a respective equal tier, the AFC team pretty much always wins, especially at home. Seattle-Jacksonville on opening day was a pretty good example of this. I still think the Chiefs are in the "good" category despite Monday night, so this feels a little like last year's Philly-Pittsburgh game to me. Of course the preceeding Saints pick makes no sense according to this theory, but hey, Terrell Owens doesn't make any sense either.

Re: Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

$400 Raiders
$300 Eagles
$200 Giants
$100 Saints

Re: Official Week #4 lines for \"3+1 Challenge\"
 

$400 Giants -4
$300 Falcons -7
$200 49ers +3
$100 Colts -7

My Picks
 

$400 Titans under
$300 Jets
$200 Texans
$100 Panthers

After fading myself the first few weeks to a mediocre +500, in my arrogance have broken with that tactic ... here comes the inevitable collapse ...