Buccaneers Picks

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers come off their bye week with a chance to take the lead in the NFC South when they square-off against the New Orleans Saints this Sunday afternoon at the Superdome.

The New Orleans Saints head down to Raymond James Stadium this upcoming Sunday afternoon for a crucial early-season divisional tilt against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with first-place in the NFC South on the line.

Tampa Bay picked up its third win of the year in a 24-17 win on Monday Night Football over the Indianapolis Colts last week, but failed to cover the 10 points. It’s a common theme for this team

Indianapolis has played much better football the past two weeks, but will enter this week’s Monday Night Football contest with an 0-3 record. The Colts have been out-gained in all three games this year and it’s likely that quarterback Peyton Manning will be out the entire year.

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

Tampa Bay dropped a 27-20 contest to the Detroit Lions as one-point home favorites in its season opener and will look to run the ball more heading out on the road. The Buccaneers completely abandoned the

NFL Lines for week 2

The Detroit Lions were the only NFL team to finish the 2011 NFL preseason with a perfect 4-0 SU and ATS record. Fans of the team know that it means absolutely nothing due to the franchise

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

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

The New England Patriots started the 2011 NFL preseason in style by picking up a 47-12 blow out home victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars last Thursday

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

The Buccaneers have really been one of the great surprises this year. New Orleans didn’t suffer a post-Super Bowl hangover, although it is unlikely that

Seattle still has a realistic shot to win their division while Tampa Bay has an unrealistic shot to get a wild card. Both teams need this game badly

The Lions really surprised the Packers last week; maybe finally all the high draft picks are starting to get their act together. One team that has got its act together is

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

We still don’t feel that they are that good but this team continues to win and they continue to cover every week. We are talking about the

Tampa Bay has played great football all year long while San Francisco has been playing better the last few weeks. Both of these teams have an outside shot at winning their divisions

Tampa Bay has proved that they are no longer a laughing stock while Carolina still is. However, it is hard to justify the Buccaneers being a touchdown favorite

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

Tampa Bay has been playing great football all year. Every year there is one team that takes advantage of a weak schedule, and continues winning. The Cardinals were that team a few years ago

The Rams have really been playing great football. Tampa was playing great until last week against the Saints. This is a tough one to call

Tampa Bay has been playing very good football. New Orleans hasn’t been playing badly, it’s just that every team has been playing their hearts out against them. We are making our pick

Cincinnati really let us down last week. At least we hit with them as part of our teaser. We are still not sure about Tampa Bay. We were surprised last time out when they got killed

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

Both of these teams are a surprising 2-0. The Steelers are a surprise because Ben is out and they beat 2 really good teams while the Bucs are a surprise because they are the Bucs. Tampa Bay has been playing good defense

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

The quarterback for Carolina was banged up last week.How would you like to be Jimmy Clausen last week

Both of these teams played some pretty good ball at the end of last year. The Browns have a good coach and some good young players. Tampa drafted 2 great defensive tight ends to help an already good defense.

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

Boy did the Saints really change the playoff picture with their loss to Dallas last week. Not only did it give life to the Cowboys, it showed that any team still might win the NFC. As a matter of fact these are our most likely teams to go to the Super bowl now. The Eagles, Saints, Giants, Cardinals, Cowboys, Packers and the Vikings in that order to win it all. Not quite the way the seeds are right now

Mark Sanchez is a little banged up for the Jets here so at the time of writing this column there was no betting line on the game. No matter, we couldn’t care less who wins this game. The Jets still feel like they can make the playoffs, yea right, and I still have a chance to marry Scarlett Johansen

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 said last week that New Orleans is having a difficult time lately being the hunted as opposed to the hunter. They will continue to play that way until they finally lose a game. The sports books here say take the home dog and we will. Traditionally in late November there are always a weekend where there are a lot of crazy upsets

Congratulations to Tampa Bay who finally won a game last week vs. Green Bay. The Dolphins have been playing hard every week since their 0-3 start. This is the NFL and the margin of victory is very slight. As you’ve heard me say before it comes down to motivation

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.

The Cowboys are much better off without Terrel Owens. Tony Romo can finally take control of the team and do things his way. The NFC East has been tough in recent years, but never this tough as all 4 teams are very good.

Last season was a good time to be betting on the Tennessee Titans.

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