NFL Best Bets for Week 9
November 7th 2015 - Old Man Winner
ATL-7 @ SF
Dude, just bet on Goliath!
OK, maybe David wins every once in a while, but does that mean you would bet on
him in a fight if there was a rematch? I'll bet you that guy from Sports Science
would show how the speed of the of the twirling of the stone and the exact
release point by David in combination with the distance to Goliath's eye would
put the odds of taking the giant down at exactly a 0.003% chance.
Dude, just bet on Goliath!
The San Francisco 49'ers are David if I've ever seen David. Not the David in the
Bible, but David the 97 pound weakling that everyone picked on in school who
couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. You know this David.
The 9'ers not only started out this season with the worst roster in the league,
but have continued to lose players along the way. As you all remember, over the
course of the offseason, they lost the great preponderance of their quality
players. Let's see there was Frank Gore and Mike Upati. There was Anthony Davis
and Justin Smith. There was Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, and Chris Borland.
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, and gone. As if that wasn't enough, over the
past couple weeks they have lost the rest of the next tier of players - they
benched Colin Kaepernick, traded Vernon Davis, lost their starting safety,
Bethea to injury, lost their starting RB, Carlos Hyde, their back up RB Reggie
Bush, their 3rd string RB Mike Davis, cut their 4th string RB and look to start
one of a list of three RB's that they just signed this week, including a
practice squad guy that no one has ever heard of and two guys that every other
team has passed on, over and over again. The only thing that could possibly be
more apt would be if they were to sign Trent Richardson for God's sake. Oh, and
did I mention that their best wideout, Anquan Boldin, is doubtful this week?
Hell, even their Punter is questionable. Probably overuse of the leg the last
couple weeks.
OK, so what about their opponent? Their opponent? . . . . Their opponent??? WTF
cares about their opponent! The way I see it. They are their own opponent. Look,
the last two weeks the 9er's have put up a singe digit on the scoreboard. If the
Falcons can't cover that by at least 7 I'll start writing this kind of article
about them next week.
I admit the Falcons have not been playing great lately. They've disappointed in
their last three games. But if this isn't a 'get right' game, I don't know of
one. They should be able to roll up a pretty big number on this defense, even on
the road - not that they will need it.
If you happen to hear that annoying repetitive beeping sound. Don't worry.
That's just me backing up my truck to collect my winnings!
This week SF has about the same chance as David had. Duuuude . . . . just bet on
Goliath.
Atl 31 SF 6
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