Week 1 NFL Football Predictions


June 12, 2008 | Posted By Larry Cook

Larry Cook and his InfoPlays team of handicapping experts are ready to help you bring home the bacon with their week 1 NFL predictions. Here’s a little trick of the trade using the point spreads and totals to help you figure out what the oddsmakers feel the projected score of a game will be. If you think, based on this score, that they are off the mark, you may want to take advantage of their line mistake. If you feel they are dead on, you’ll probably want to leave that matchup alone. I think you will find that it helps to see the scores written out and you may want to start doing this as a part of your weekly handicapping practices. This also will help you in your office pool with your buddies as you’ll pick the most straight up winners.

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Here are our week 1 NFL predictions solely based on what the oddsmakers have given us.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

New Orleans Saints 24
Indianapolis Colts 30

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Kansas City Chiefs 17
Houston Texans 20

Denver Broncos 20
Buffalo Bills 17

Pittsburgh Steelers 20
Cleveland Browns16

Tennessee Titans 16
Jacksonville Jaguars 22

Carolina Panthers 21
St. Louis Rams 22

Philadelphia Eagles 23
Green Bay Packers 20

Atlanta Falcons 16
Minnesota Vikings 19

Miami Dolphins 16
Washington Redskins 19

New England Patriots 24
New York Jets 17

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17
Seattle Seahawks 23

Chicago Bears 19
San Diego Chargers 25

Detroit Lions 19
Oakland Raiders 21

New York Giants 19
Dallas Cowboys 25

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Baltimore Ravens 18
Cincinnati Bengals 21

Arizona Cardinals 21
San Francisco 49ers 24

After looking at the scores that the oddsmakers have projected, it’s much easier to find where you feel mistakes have been made based on your own knowledge and expertise of these teams and matchups. For example, I don’t feel the Dolphins offense is even worth 16 points as I have the Washington Redskins’ defense chalked up to have a much better year. Off first glance this looks like a good unders opportunity. Further research and consideration of other angles will lead me to know if this is going to be a play for the week and how strongly I will play it. A red flag also went up when I saw the Falcons/Vikings score. Atlanta relies on the run and will now more than ever this season if they hope to get anything done. Minnesota is the best run stopping team in the league and will likely not allow Atlanta anything. On the other side of things, I feel like the Vikes are going to have to show me that they can be a solid offensive team as well because they are very one dimensional. This could be another possibility as an under play in week one.

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