Falcons Betting Lines

NFL Wildcard Round Betting Previews- Atlanta Falcons vs. New York Giants Point spread: New York -3 Total line: 47

NFL Week 16 Betting Previews- Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints Point spread: New Orleans -6.5 Total line: 52.5

Carolina is 1-4 on the season but much better off than last year’s 2-14 mark due to the play of rookie quarterback Cam Newton, who is the only player in NFL history

Green Bay strolled into the Georgia Dome in last year’s playoffs as one-point road underdogs and came out with a convincing 48-21 win. The Packers are the defending Super Bowl champions

Atlanta will already be playing its third road game of the season and has dropped the first two contest against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (16-13) and Chicago Bears (30-12). The Falcons did manage to pick up a 34-18 win in last year’s meeting with Seattle as 5.5-point road favorites.

Atlanta needed a win and got it last week with a 35-31 win over the Philadelphia Eagles as 2.5-point home underdogs. The Falcons were embarrassed in a 30-12 loss to the Chicago Bears in Week 1, but professional bettors are quick to point out that the team was out-gained by 129 yards last week.

Lines for Week 3 in the NFL

Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles pay a visit to Vick’s old stomping ground, the Georgia Dome, this upcoming Sunday night to tangle with the Atlanta Falcons in an early season showdown between two division winners from a year ago. The opening kick-off is slated for 8:20 p.m. (ET) and the game will be broadcast nationally on NBC

NFL Lines for week 2

The Atlanta Falcons hope that being favored on the road in a season opener turns out better than last year’s 15-9 loss in Pittsburgh last year. If you were Falcons betting

Early bettors continue to push this line in favor of the Atlanta Falcons, who finished the 2010 season with the best record in the NFC, but was eliminated by eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay

Florida Atlantic travels to The Swamp in Gainesville and will begin the final season under head coach Howard Schnellenberger, who began the program 13 years ago, taking it from obscurity into the major college football ranks

LSU is a dominating 20-4 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference, which includes a 3-0 mark under Miles. Playing inside of a dome will likely factor little in the Tigers ability to come out with a victory, entering with a 22-7 all-time mark when indoors. LSU has won

The Baltimore Ravens won their last two preseason games both at home and seem ready for the regular season to begin. Bettors will be quick to point out that the squad has compiled a 1-2 ATS mark during exhibition

Atlanta has looked nothing like the team that went into last year’s playoffs as the No. 1 seed in opening the preseason with two straight losses over the Miami Dolphins (28-23) and Jacksonville Jaguars (15-13)

Bettors are enjoying a unique opportunity to start playing around with the NFL Week 1 lines this year, even with many roster spots in doubt due to free agency starting this week. Professional bettors will continue moving these numbers around until the season kicks off with a premiere matchup

Atlanta quickly moved out to a 17-0 first quarter lead, but was unable to hold off the Miami Dolphins in a 28-23 home loss to open the preseason. The Falcons starters played the first quarter and quarterback Matt Ryan finished 6 of 10 for

The ongoing negotiations between the NFL owners and the Players Association to arrive at a new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) continue to point towards a resolution that could potentially end a four-month owner imposed lockout of the players and reopen the league for business as early as the end of this week

The 2011 Pro Bowl returns to Hawaii after being held in Miami, Florida last year. The annual contest of the AFC's and NFC's best will take place Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 7 p.m. ET. This is only the second time in history that the Pro Bowl will be held the week

Green Bay sure looked pretty good last week, and many people will bet them this week. They will lose. Every year a team that looks good in week one of the play-offs, is bet on by stupid money and every year

You saw what happened to the Eagles last Tuesday. The same fate may be waiting for the Falcons here. This is the NFL and the difference between

This is for the division title, although the Falcons still can win their last game and clinch.The Saints didn’t step up to the plate last week in Baltimore while

This could be a trap game as it sure looks like that on paper. Atlanta has been playing like the best team in the league, and Seattle can play very bad or very good depending

Atlanta keeps right on winning and covering every week. It is very tough to bet against them at this point, and they may win the best record in the NFC. We still feel that they are not that great

Atlanta just keeps on winning while Tampa was on a roll till last week, but just played a better team in Baltimore. This game will be

These are 2 of the teams that you must take very seriously when making your picks on who will win the NFC. Atlanta is one of the only teams that’s really hasn’t been in a slump all year. Green Bay had

The Falcons are a great team, the Rams are a good team. The Falcons are ready to do some damage in the playoffs this year, while St. Louis is a year or two away. Atlanta took

After going 5-3-1 last week our record stands at 49-32-3 for the year. The first Thursday night game of this year starts this week

I guess Tampa is this year’s surprise team. The Falcons are not, we felt that they would have a good team this year. This is a big game for both teams in the NFC South

Boy, the Bengals have been disappointing this year. Atlanta has played great until they threw in a stinker at Philadelphia last week. We are going to pick Cincinnati for 2 reasons

Atlanta has been playing great football while Philadelphia has been playing pretty good as well. It really doesn’t matter who will be the quarterback this week for the Eagles

Part 2 of our teaser is Browns +16. Cleveland surprised the Bengals last week, and is making great improvements while Atlanta

Another great week. We went 7-3 and hit on our big teaser bet. That makes it year to date, 27-14-1 and 3-1 on Teaser betting. We will start the week

This is a trap game for the Falcons. They are coming off of a huge win in New Orleans last week.San Francisco

Atlanta played very well in both games versus New Orleans last year as they match up well against them. The Saints got lucky last week

After a surprising Week 3 performance in which Wisconsin barely squeaked out a 20-19 win over Arizona State and needed a blocked extra point to do it, the Badgers get

Arizona found a way to win last week in St. Louis whileAtlanta did the opposite against Pittsburgh. Atlanta has to have this game if they want to have a good year.

Pittsburgh has many question marks. How will the quarterback who is replacing “Big Ben” play to start the year. They lost their best receiver

With emotions running high on both sides of the ball, one team (Florida) will benefit greatly. The other will suffer an embarrassing loss on New Year’s Day. Cincinnati is playing without former head coach Brian Kelly, who led the Bearcats to significant success in recent years

Again we have a match up of teams that played very similar games last week. However, the difference is that one of these teams won a close fought boring game, and the other lost. The Giants win on Monday night eliminates Atlanta from the playoffs this year while Buffalo was eliminated when they signed Terrell Owens in the offseason.

If you have been following my column all year you know I always love a juicy dog and we have one here. We bet the Falcons +10 on Monday Night Football against the Saints a few weeks ago when nobody else did, and we won. We are taking Atlanta again here

Atlanta showed a lot of character ,with their late rally against the Giants last week.They really are a pretty good team. Unfortunately they might miss the playoffs now. They can’t catch the Saints, and that loss might hurt them down the road for a wild card spot

Virginia coach Al Groh has beaten the Cavaliers’ arch rival Hokies just one time in his nine years at UVA. He and the Cavaliers look to make that number two and possibly avoid his firing this Saturday in Charlottesville. The Hokies are in a down year at 8-3 and will not contend for the ACC Championship,

Not quite the same allure as the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, but this week’s Bedlam Rivalry game is Oklahoma State’s Super Bowl. The Cowboys have had a tremendous season so far and Oklahoma is sitting at 6-5, ensured of its worst season since 1999

Boise State doesn’t play too many home games where they are only 14 point favorites, but that is exactly what they are this week when Nevada comes to play on the blue turf. Boise State needs a win this week, and badly. Though the Broncos are 11-0, their only hope for a BCS appearance

Despite an 11-0 record up to this point, Alabama still realistically needs to win its next two games to get into the National Championship. With Florida a perfect 11-0 as well, the Crimson Tide will need to beat Auburn this week and Florida in the SEC Championship

At first glance you might think that it was quite a shocker that Oakland beat Cincinnati last week, but at we said the Bengals were coming off their biggest win in years and might be flat. We also felt that Jamarcus Russell was hindering the Raider offense and the switch to anybody but he was the correct move

We made money on Carolina +12.5 at New Orleans last week,but were disappointed that Carolina didn’t win the game outright. Late mistakes in the second half cost them the game. Atlanta however rolled over Washington like we said they would.

Atlanta +10 made us money last week on Monday Night Football at New Orleans. We almost made more money on Atlanta +450 on the money line. The Falcons had many chances to win that game. They missed 2 field goals

Finally a game that we feel good about betting. The Saints have been playing great while Atlanta was playing very well till they looked flat vs. Dallas last week. New Orleans looked flat at Miami last week also. Maybe both teams were looking ahead to this week.

Both of these teams have problems. Miami really can’t play offense at the N.F.L. level. They look like a college or high school team at times, with their “Wildcat” offense and their quarterback who throws the ball like a shot put. Another quarterback, who has a funky delivery is Phillip Rivers

The next 2 games that we are picking, we are going a little bit out on a limb. There are 2 home dogs that both played very well last week as huge underdogs. Both teams had opportunities to win outright but didn’t.

It’s kind of appropriate that these 2 teams meet to open the season. They both were 2 of the biggest surprises last year. One of these teams however will be in the mix this year, the other will not.

The Falcons must have thought a lot of wide receiver Roddy White, who finished 2008 with 88 receptions for 1,382 yards and 7 touchdowns.

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