NFL Week Five Picks

For the most part, week four was another good week for the NFL. At least in terms of watching the games. Turns out Denver isn't quite as over-rated as I had thought and San Diego still can't win in Pittsburgh. Betting on them wasn't such a walk in the park for me, though. Unlike last week, I had good reasons to be wary of all the giant point spreads because a couple of them reached out and bit me pretty hard. That whole being over the hump with a winning record against the spread thingy kinda went up in flames real quick last week. A few of them I can only blame myself for, though. I definitely should have known better than to hitch my wagon onto Oakland's falling star. They are just god awful on offense and they weren't much better on defense last week either.

Last week, I had a bit of an opposites thing going on and I ended up with a 9-5 record straight up and a rather ugly 5-9 record against the spread. Which leaves me with an overall season record of 42-19 straight up and a 30-31 record against the spread. So, now I'm back to fighting to get back to the positive side of the dial with my picks against the line, but I'm still doing pretty decent picking straight winners. I'm pretty sure I'm due a break out week against these bookies. Maybe this week is the one. (READ THE ENTIRE POST ON HUBPAGES)

My Picks for the 2009 Week Five NFL Games

Sun, Oct. 11	10:00 am (PST)	11:00 am (MST)	12:00 pm (CST)	1:00 pm (EST)
Favorite	Underdog	Point Spread	Straight Up	Against The Spread
Buffalo	Cleveland	6.0	Buffalo	Cleveland
Pittsburgh	Detroit	10.5	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh
Minnesota	St. Louis	9.5	Minnesota	Minnesota
Dallas	Kansas City	8.5	Dallas	Dallas
New York Giants	Oakland	15.5	New York Giants	New York Giants
Philadelphia	Tampa Bay	14.5	Philadelphia	Philadelphia
Carolina	Washington	3.5	Washington	Washington
Baltimore	Cincinnati	8.5	Baltimore	Cincinnati
Sun, Oct. 11	1:00 pm (PST)	2:00 pm (MST)	3:00 pm (CST)	4:00 pm (EST)
San Francisco	Atlanta	2.5	San Francisco	San Francisco
New England	Denver	3.0	New England	New England
Arizona	Houston	5.5	Arizona	Houston
Seattle	Jacksonville	2.0	Jacksonville	Jacksonville
Sun, Oct. 11	5:20 pm (PST)	6:20 pm (MST)	7:20 pm (CST)	8:20 pm (EST)
Indianapolis	Tennessee	3.5	Indianapolis	Indianapolis
Mon, Oct. 12	5:35 pm (PST)	6:35 pm (MST)	7:35 pm (CST)	8:35 pm (EST)
New York Jets	Miami	1.5	New York Jets	New York Jets

Teams With Byes This Week: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego