The Pick: My 200 Dime winner is the Detroit Lions.
The Line: The current line is -3 at the majority of books in Vegas and offshore as of 8:30 AM EST. Be sure to shop around for the best line available.
Note: If your line is anywhere from -3 to -4 1/2, I advise buying the 1/2 point down on the Lions.
My Analysis
I will ride them again.
Back on October 20th in Minnesota, I came with a 150 dime play on the Lions (+1 1/2) and they delivered the win 31-29.
The Vikings jumped out to a 10-0 lead but the Lions never flinched, outscoring them 21-0 in the 2nd quarter and holding on for the win.
That was the 9th straight cover in this series for Detroit.
Now they meet again with the overall #1 seed and 1st round bye going to the winner.
And I will ride and die with the boys from Motown again.
Since their road loss to the Rams week eight 30-20, the Vikings have won 9 in a row but look at who they beat???
Home wins over 7-9 Indy, 7-9 Arizona, 8-8 Atlanta, 4-12 Chicago and 11-5 Green Bay.
Did you look at who those road wins came against?????
Let's start with week 10 at 4-12 Jacksonville winning 12-7, week 11 at 3-13 Tennessee 23-13, week 13 at 4-12 Chicago 30-27 (OT) and weel 16 at 9-7 Seattle 27-24.
With exception of the Titans win, the other 3 games went down to the wire.
So yes, I get the 9 game winning streak but only 2 of those 9 wins came against winning teams.
Bill Parcell's said you are what your record says you are but I just don't feel the Vikings are as good as this 14-2 record says they are.
The Jags had them on the ropes, the Cards had them on the ropes, the Bears had them on the ropes, the Seahawks had them on the ropes.
This Detroit Lions team has beaten every single opponent this year and beaten them soundly with exception of Josh Allen and the Bills.
Their other loss to Tampa at home, they gave that one away.
Despite their injuries on defense, the Lions have still been the most dominant team in the NFC all year long and I am not about to go against that tonight.
And if Sam Darnold comes in here and plays a perfect game and beats me, so be it but I just don't see that happening tonight.
This game is going to come down to which QB makes the winning play and for my dollar, it will be Jared Goff.
Lions make it 10 straight covers in this series with the win.