OffshoreInsiders.com Matt Rivers (the real one) has a winner Buffalo Bills getting 5.5 to the Minnesota Vikings.
There is no debating that the Vikings have more talent than the Bills as Brett Favre and the fellas are far better than their porous record but the Bills are much improved of late and should be competitive one more time today.
Ryan Fitzpatrick has been pretty solid of late leading Chan Gailey’s team to a pair of recent wins on the field and a 4-0-2 run against the number. Obviously it’s far too late for the playoffs or anything like that but the players are a lot more confident right now than in the dreadful 0-8 start to the season where the defense was shredded game in and game out.
In the last four losses they fell by literally three points per game and those came against the Steelers, Chiefs, Bears and Chiefs, not bad at all huh? Plus as we all know if Stevie Williams held onto that ball in overtime last week the result would have been an upset win over Mike Tomlin’s boys.
Minnesota is at home here and has far more talent than what the Bills put on the field. But with that said Adrian Peterson is not close to being healthy and may or may not go. Add in how the Vikings have been half a disgrace all season long and really should not beat fatten up on anybody right now anywhere. Just a few weeks ago they had to have a miraculous comeback and overtime victory to beat the horrific Derek Anderson and an inept Arizona team at home.
I do think that the Vikes are a better team and will play harder with Brad Childress gone but they still almost blew the lead and imploded last week in Washington and truly are what they are right now which is not very good, with or without AP.
The pick: Buffalo +5
There is no debating that the Vikings have more talent than the Bills as Brett Favre and the fellas are far better than their porous record but the Bills are much improved of late and should be competitive one more time today.
Ryan Fitzpatrick has been pretty solid of late leading Chan Gailey’s team to a pair of recent wins on the field and a 4-0-2 run against the number. Obviously it’s far too late for the playoffs or anything like that but the players are a lot more confident right now than in the dreadful 0-8 start to the season where the defense was shredded game in and game out.
In the last four losses they fell by literally three points per game and those came against the Steelers, Chiefs, Bears and Chiefs, not bad at all huh? Plus as we all know if Stevie Williams held onto that ball in overtime last week the result would have been an upset win over Mike Tomlin’s boys.
Minnesota is at home here and has far more talent than what the Bills put on the field. But with that said Adrian Peterson is not close to being healthy and may or may not go. Add in how the Vikings have been half a disgrace all season long and really should not beat fatten up on anybody right now anywhere. Just a few weeks ago they had to have a miraculous comeback and overtime victory to beat the horrific Derek Anderson and an inept Arizona team at home.
I do think that the Vikes are a better team and will play harder with Brad Childress gone but they still almost blew the lead and imploded last week in Washington and truly are what they are right now which is not very good, with or without AP.
The pick: Buffalo +5
