Thursday, September 9, 2021

2021 Week 1 Thursday Night Pick


Tom Brady throwing the Super Bowl Trophy in the water



Bucs’ QB Tom Brady will start his NFL record 300th regular-season game tonight.


Italicized for win

Bolded for spread


Dallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Bucs (-7.5)

The NFL season kicks off with the defending Super Bowl Champions taking on the Dallas Cowboys, who are Vegas's presumptive favorites to win the NFC East.  It looks as though the Cowboys will not have top offensive lineman Zach Martin due to the CoVid protocol; Connor McGovern will try to fill the void.  The Cowboys can open it up with its offensive arsenal of Prescott with its great wide receivers in Cooper, Lamb, and Gallup.  Elliott also looks to bee in better shape than last season as least from what was seen in HBO's Hard Knocks.  

Still, the Bucs defense is running it back and was already one of the best last season.  The Cowboys defense was below average last season although they have seemed to have addressed it with some draft picks including Trevon Diggs, a 6 foot 2 corner who will likely go against Mike Evans and Micah Parson, who looks to be a really good linebacker out of Penn State. Although they will have their work cut out for them against the Bucs offense which may be even stronger if Antonio Brown can get back to where he was a few seasons ago.  

Prescott could be overcoming some rust coming off an ankle injury from last season, not to mention he was dealing with an arm injury in training camp.  The Bucs could continue their momentum that they had from the postseason.  


2021 Playoffs Against the Spread- 7-6 
2021 Playoffs Straight Up- 10-3
2020 Against the Spread- 124-140-6
2020 Week Straight Up - 173-97-1
2020 Locks- 24-24-2

2019 Season Against the Spread- 128-113-3
2019 Season Straight Up- 158-103
2019 Locks - 21-19-2
2020 Postseason against the Spread- 8-3
2020 Postseason Straight Up- 7-4


2018 Season against the Spread- 112-107-7
2018 Season Straight Up- 137-86-2
2018 Locks- 21-16-2

2017-18 Against the Spread- 121-125-7
2017-18 Season Straight Up - 167-92

2016-17 Against the Spread - 141-115-7
2016-17 Straight Up - 101-41

2015-16 Against the Spread - 140-110

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