Poor QB play has made the Cardinals’ cast ineffective. David Johnson is sitting at 116 yards rushing and hasn’t made an impact. Larry Fitzgerald is at 113 yards. Young ball-catchers and former Texas A&M products Christian Kirk and Ricky Seals-Jones are nice weapons, but there is nothing nice about 20 points of scoring through three games. Will the birds’ offense remain grounded on Sunday? Loot makes his NFL pick.
Online sportsbooks have the Raiders -2.5. Many people will look at this game and measure the teams against their expectations, as opposed to the match up against each other. By an expectations-standard, the Browns have been far-better than the Raiders, but are they better than the Raiders overall? That’s a trickier question. Let’s try to answer that question and make our pick.
Cal is off to a nice 3-0 start. Wins over UNC and certainly Idaho St. don’t get the blood pumping, but a win over a BYU team that beat Wisconsin on the road the following week puts a different light on Cal football. Can they take out an Oregon team that’s favored by a field goal?
Two 3-1 teams go at it Saturday, September 29, 2018 when the BYU Cougars visit the Washington Huskies. Unfortunately for BYU that record may be where the similarities in these two teams end. Sportsbooks list BYU as 17 to 18 point underdogs. Loot breaks down the match up to project who covers Saturday night.
Loot Levinson warns against overreacting to the Cowboys loss or the beatdown the Lions placed upon the New England Patriots. Loot analyzes the state of both teams and who will cover the spread in week 4.
If you didn’t think the arrival of Chip Kelly would solve all of UCLA’s problems, did you think they would be this bad out of the gate? The week off might have afforded them a chance to get their act together, but it’s hard to remember such a weak Bruins’ football team, even though they’ve been stinking it up the last few seasons. Loot Levinson looks at UCLA vs Colorado and the odds Chip gets his first W.
On Sunday, we saw some bad things from the Vikings. It was one of those results that could lead us off-track if we put too much weight on it. The Bills won by 21, a staggering feat for the biggest underdog to win straight-up since 1995. With only one win Minnesota is feeling the pressure to come into form as they take on the 3-0 Rams.
Loot Levinson feels the Cowboys were underestimated before the season while almost everyone had the Seahawks ready for their fishing trip in January. Loot is betting on the Dallas Cowboys +1 beating the Seattle Seahawks. The game kicks off at 4:05 in Seattle.
The season has opened a little unevenly for a Niners team that rode Jimmy Garoppolo’s arm to a strong 2017 finish. Then again, a one-score loss at the Vikings and beating the Lions isn’t so bad for a team that hasn’t much to celebrate recently. 49er backers are getting 6.5 points versus the Chiefs, a full touchdown less than last time these two teams met.
A lot of us looked at the Rams with some restraint, as they were ballyhooed all preseason as big Super Bowl contenders. Granted, they improved drastically last season, winning their division, followed by a frenzied offseason, obtaining valued personnel. But are the Rams as good as they look? And do they look 7 points better than the chargers? We take a… look.