Which outcome will be better for the pats and cardinals?
Staying home is nice, but does Zona really want to play Seattle again? Would the pats rather play the black and gold with AB and probably D-will back?
Part of me thinks both teams would be better off Going on the road as dumb as that sounds
Pitt is the most dangerous team to new England's bid to repeat considering when clicking they can put up 7's all different ways...Denver offense is not nearly as prolific and surely not as consistent
Seattle has been there and done it 2 years straight...and knows they can beat Zona in zona....plus the LOB thrives this time of year
My guesses would be:
Zona -3 vs Seattle and 45
Zona pick @ Carolina and 44
Patriots -7.5 vs Pitt and 49.5
Patriots -3 @ Denver 48
I honestly think both teams would match up better vs the higher seeds, but traveling, especially across country which would be the scenario for both Arizona and New England, is never ideal
As for bettors-
AFC - I think pats vs Denver would be best case scenario, as New England should be a much smaller fav and thus only need to win by a FG at most to cover....and since I dont think you can ever be confident betting against the Pats this late in the season...I'd prefer the smaller # even if it is in spite of them traveling across the entire country
NFC - I'd probably myself prefer Zona vs Seattle simply because we have many prior games to try and analyze to come up with a prediction- Carolina is a hard team to figure. Their defense always shows up, but trying to predict their offensive game plan is never easy....will Cam and J-Stew, along with a small mix of Tolbert and artis-payne, dominate touches and thus have them trying to grind it out....or will they be comfortable and confident with a game plan that calls for Cam to throw it 40 times....their offense is so hard to predict because of the different abilities Cam has...
I hope we have good games ahead this afternoon, but would love to be inside the organization's walls, simply to know who will be rooting for who
Staying home is nice, but does Zona really want to play Seattle again? Would the pats rather play the black and gold with AB and probably D-will back?
Part of me thinks both teams would be better off Going on the road as dumb as that sounds
Pitt is the most dangerous team to new England's bid to repeat considering when clicking they can put up 7's all different ways...Denver offense is not nearly as prolific and surely not as consistent
Seattle has been there and done it 2 years straight...and knows they can beat Zona in zona....plus the LOB thrives this time of year
My guesses would be:
Zona -3 vs Seattle and 45
Zona pick @ Carolina and 44
Patriots -7.5 vs Pitt and 49.5
Patriots -3 @ Denver 48
I honestly think both teams would match up better vs the higher seeds, but traveling, especially across country which would be the scenario for both Arizona and New England, is never ideal
As for bettors-
AFC - I think pats vs Denver would be best case scenario, as New England should be a much smaller fav and thus only need to win by a FG at most to cover....and since I dont think you can ever be confident betting against the Pats this late in the season...I'd prefer the smaller # even if it is in spite of them traveling across the entire country
NFC - I'd probably myself prefer Zona vs Seattle simply because we have many prior games to try and analyze to come up with a prediction- Carolina is a hard team to figure. Their defense always shows up, but trying to predict their offensive game plan is never easy....will Cam and J-Stew, along with a small mix of Tolbert and artis-payne, dominate touches and thus have them trying to grind it out....or will they be comfortable and confident with a game plan that calls for Cam to throw it 40 times....their offense is so hard to predict because of the different abilities Cam has...
I hope we have good games ahead this afternoon, but would love to be inside the organization's walls, simply to know who will be rooting for who
