PREMIUM
Rogers' Afternoon Upset Special
(NFL) New Orleans vs. San Diego,
Point Spread: 4.00 | -115.00 New Orleans (Away)
Result: Win
Point Spread: 4.00 | -115.00 New Orleans (Away)
Result: Win
New Orleans: Drew Brees is completing 66.4 percent of his passes for 1062 yards with eight TD passes and just one INT (105.1 QB rating). Clearly, age is not slowing him down. However, despite the fact that the Saints lead the NFL in passing, they are one of just four winless teams entering Week 4 (0-3 SU and 1-2 ATS). The team's defense, a mess last season ranking 31st in total yards (413.8 YPG) and last in points allowed (29.8), is at it again in the early going of 2016. The Saints again rank 31st in total yards (448.3 YPG) and at the moment, 31st in points allowed (32.0).
San Diego: The Chargers opened the season by blowing a 17-point fourth quarter lead in Kansas City (lost in OT), before returning home to bury the Jags, 38-14. The Chargers had the Colts on the ropes late last Sunday at Indianapolis but Luck connected on a 63-yard TD pass with just 1:17 left in the game, in a four-point Colts win. Realistically, the Chargers could be 3-0. Rivers threw for a single-season high 4792 yards last year (seventh time he's topped 4000 yards over the last eight seasons), along with a 29-13 ratio. He's off to another excellent start in 2016, completing 68.7% with a 5-0 ratio and a QB rating of 109.4. The running game, so bad last year (84.9 YPG to rank 31st), is improved but still a question mark. Gordon, a flop as a rookie, scored two TDs in Week 1 (the first of his career), then added his first-ever 100-yard game in Week 2 (102 YR and another TD). However, he had just 35 yards rushing last week on 2.2 YPC.
The pick: Brees was the Chargers' starting quarterback back in 2005 but he was traded to New Orleans, in order to usher in the Philip Rivers era. Brees, who fashioned a HOF career which includes a Super Bowl win, returns to San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium at age 37, for the first time since he was traded. The Saints surely have had their fair share of road woes in recent seasons but Rivers has already has lost his two-best ‘weapons,' in WR Keenan Allen and the do-everything Danny Woodhead. Brees has beaten the Chargers in each of three previous meetings (once in London and twice in New Orleans) and now gets a chance to win one in San Diego. New Orleans is an 8* play.
San Diego: The Chargers opened the season by blowing a 17-point fourth quarter lead in Kansas City (lost in OT), before returning home to bury the Jags, 38-14. The Chargers had the Colts on the ropes late last Sunday at Indianapolis but Luck connected on a 63-yard TD pass with just 1:17 left in the game, in a four-point Colts win. Realistically, the Chargers could be 3-0. Rivers threw for a single-season high 4792 yards last year (seventh time he's topped 4000 yards over the last eight seasons), along with a 29-13 ratio. He's off to another excellent start in 2016, completing 68.7% with a 5-0 ratio and a QB rating of 109.4. The running game, so bad last year (84.9 YPG to rank 31st), is improved but still a question mark. Gordon, a flop as a rookie, scored two TDs in Week 1 (the first of his career), then added his first-ever 100-yard game in Week 2 (102 YR and another TD). However, he had just 35 yards rushing last week on 2.2 YPC.
The pick: Brees was the Chargers' starting quarterback back in 2005 but he was traded to New Orleans, in order to usher in the Philip Rivers era. Brees, who fashioned a HOF career which includes a Super Bowl win, returns to San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium at age 37, for the first time since he was traded. The Saints surely have had their fair share of road woes in recent seasons but Rivers has already has lost his two-best ‘weapons,' in WR Keenan Allen and the do-everything Danny Woodhead. Brees has beaten the Chargers in each of three previous meetings (once in London and twice in New Orleans) and now gets a chance to win one in San Diego. New Orleans is an 8* play.
