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I like both these teams a lot this season....quite frankly it's hard not to. Case Keenum knows that Teddy Bridgewater has been cleared to play but he doesn't need that motivation. This Vikings team will have a MAJOR EDGE because of the Home Field advantage. On a neutral field I'm not sure who I'd take but to me the Vikes have one of the top 3 Home Field advantages in the League! I could name all the different players for both teams in a two paragraph write up but the main reason I love this game in the location. The Vikes already beat New Orleans so if they win this one and Philly drops another, Minnesota could end up with the inside track to Home Field throughout the play-offs. This could finally be the year for the Purple & Gold but they need this one to start sealing up the NFC North. Minnesota by 7 or more!
Paul Leiner:
Sorry guys, we had 45 points scored in the first half and then Texas A&M and Ole Miss scoring came to a halt in the second. Bad call by me. Today we are going to crush the books. Thanks and goodluck.
2500* NFL Broncos -2.5
500* NFL Lions -3
100* NFL Over 42 Bucs/Dolphins
100* CBB Ohio State -9.5
Sunday, Nov. 19th
#459-460
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
LOS ANGELES RAMS @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS
3*** BEST BET on: OVER THE TOTAL
We had to officially hold out on this BEST BET until Wednesday. That’s because Minnesota was going to hold off on naming their starting quarterback until Wednesday morning. As expected, we got the get that we wanted all along… and we can now officially proceed to 3* BEST BET status. If Teddy Bridgewater was named the starter, we would have considered passing in this game. Or at the very least, downgrading it to a 2* or less play. We have nothing against Bridgewater. In fact, he’s on my KEEPER Fantasy Football team and I expect great things from him in 2018 and beyond. But this play is much stronger thanks to the career resurgence of Case Keenum at QB. He is ranked as the 3rd BEST QB in the NFL in 2017 from a ‘Total QBR’ perspective of 72.6. The only guys who are ahead of Keenum are Deshaun Watson (out for the year) and Dak Prescott. He’s off his best game of the season last week against the Redskins. Keenum threw 3 TDS… had 304 passing yards… a QBR rating of 117.0… and led the 7-2 Vikings to 38 points. He’s REASON #1 that Minnesota averages 60 MORE YPG on offense compared to last year… are ranked in the Top Ten in offense… and are also scoring almost 7 PPG more than last year. And he has a little bit of an AX to GRIND against this week’s opponent. It was Keenun that was benched by the Rams last year in favor of our next quarterback. That would be 2nd-year guy Jared Goff. Another QB that’s been playing out of his mind as of late. A QB rating of 125.4 in last week’s win over Houston… and a QB rating of 146.8 two weeks ago in the big road win over the NY Giants. A game in which we cashed a pretty easy play on the OVER. After struggling last season (he went 0-7) in his rookie year, Goff was basically rebuilt overnight when new Head Coach Sean McVay came to Los Angeles. He now directs the NFL’s highest-scoring offense (32.9 ppg compared to only 14 ppg last year!). Golf’s 2385 passing yards, 16 TDS, and 101.5 QB rating (the conventional scale) all rank amongst the Top Ten in the league. During the off-season, Goff worked with QB coach and ‘guru’ Tom House. A guy who also happens to train guys named Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Matt Ryan. Nice company there!
We’ve been selective with our Ram OVERS this season, and have yet to lose a game. In Week 2, it was an OVER winner in the Rams / Redskins game. That followed with the OVER winner against Dallas (our Sept GOM)… a OVER winner vs the Jaguars… and a 3* OVER winner against the Giants. Sharp OU bettors have stayed away from Ram OVERS at home. That makes sense, given average of only 41.9 IN Los Angeles. But put the Rams on the road, and you’ve been rockin’ and rollin’ (4-1 O/U / 58.0 combined PPG). We also see that this is one of those WEST Time Zone teams traveling east and playing in a Sunday 1:00n ET early kickoff. If you’ve been following our Totals Plays in the last 5-6 years, then you already know how we feel about high-scoring results in those games. This one is NOT a ‘true’ West to East OVER candidate, but its close enough for us to see more points than expected. On the flip side, the Vikings DO indeed trend UNDER in division play (0-3 O/U THIS season / 4-16 O/U last 4 years). But teepee gone 5-1 O/U in NON-division games this season… including a perfect 4-0 O/U in their last four (vs Washington, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay). The average OU margin in those games has been +12.8 ppg…
Everything from the database is fast and furious. It starts with the fact that this is a NFC vs NFC game… with a low pointspread (MIN is -2.5 to -3)… with extreme SHOOTOUT potential… 36-12-1 O/U last four years and already 8-1 O/U THIS season: All GAME THREE or greater NFC non-division conference games (RAMS @ VIKINGS)… with the host favored by only 5 points or less. To tighten things up even further, we note that these games have gone an amazing 16-1 O/U when the OU line is LESS than (<) 47 points.
Next up,we look for later-season games when both teams have very good W/L records (both LA and MIN are 7-2 SU)… 26-9-2 O/U since 1997 / 6-0 O/U last 3 years: All GAME SIX or greater .750 > teams (MIN) vs a .750 > non-division opponent (LAR).. when the OU line is > 43 points. These games have gone an amazing 16-2-1 O/U when the home team is favored by < 10 pts (Like the VIKINGS).
Last week was a good one to stay off a Rams OVER. No one could would expect the QB-challenged HoustonTexans to go toe-to-toe with the hot Rams. And they didn’t. The final score was 3 to 7… 12-6-1 O/U since 2011: All non-division teams off a SU win in which they SCORED 31 > points and ALLOWED 7 < points (RAMS). These teams have gone 8-0 O/U in the last two years.
Next up for the host Vikings is a Turkey Day THUƒRSDAY affair against the Detroit Lions..
(1) 11-1 O/U last 3 years: All non-division conference short favorite of < 4 points (VIKINGS) before a Thursday Game the next week…
(2) 12-2 O/U since 2004 / 9-1 O/U in non-division play: All NFL teams BEFORE playing the DETROIT LIONS on Thanksgiving (VIKINGS).
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