Official Week #4 lines for "3+1 Challenge" - Page 3

#21 09-28-2005, 12:20 PM

I'll add a little commentary this week in support of the folks like McGahee who risk being maligned by hindsight, but put themselves out there anyway. I know very little about this, however, so I don't recommend anyone taking me seriously.

$400 Giants -3
$300 Chargers +5.5
$200 Jaguars -4
$100 49ers +3

I thought that the Giants, and especially Eli were pretty composed on Sunday night. The Rams have been awful on the road (they barely scraped out of Arizona with the win), the Giants respectable at home (if we include the NO game), so I'll stick with that pattern.

Seems like too many points to give San Diego against a depleted New England squad. They're at home, of course, but if Carolina can catch them off guard, so can San Diego. The win helped the Chargers, but 1-3 is still pretty ugly, so they should have that same intensity they displayed on Sunday night.

The Jags have looked pretty solid so far, whereas the Broncs will have a short week's rest, and may be a team that struggles on the road.

My "just for fun" $100 pick, which is the only one that came through last week. There are a few non-believers out there, but the Niners have at least kept pace with (and in one case beaten) two mediocre teams, and Arizona is mediocre at best. There's no real home-field advantage, Warner's out, so why the three points?

asb165 · #22 09-28-2005, 12:25 PM

$400 Chargers
$300 Eagles
$200 Jags
$100 Cowboys

West · #23 09-28-2005, 03:09 PM

First time for me in this thread this year.

Seems like a lot of people are jumping on the Texans at +10 this week. The thinking must be, Houston can't possibly be as bad as they've looked, and there's no way Cincy is as good as they've looked. Both probably true. Will this be one of those games that goes differently then how it looks on paper so far?

I don't think so. Cincy has handled Houston twice before in the Dom Capers era with worse teams than they have now, and I don't see any reason for things to change this week. With two non division road games coming up, and considering their past, the Bengals have no reason to psychologically look past this game (like they might if they had Pittsburgh in week 5). I don't see Cincy taking this game for granted, I see them hungry and poised to lay a whooping on a team they matchup well with, playing at home. I'll take Cincinnati -10 , and I also like Cin/Hou over 42.5 .

I've also seen a few people take the under in the Colts/Titans game....I'm going to go with recent history and take Ind/Ten over 45 . The Titans haven't been able to stop Indy's O the last two years, and haven't been able to stop anyone this year except for Baltimore. Low scoring games for Indy bring the line down - I think it's back to normal this week.

Hopefully Willie Roaf is back for the Chiefs - I like them at home, Kan -2 1/2 .

$400 Bengals
$300 Ind/Ten over
$200 Chiefs
$100 Cin/Hou over