Football Betting Picks – Washington Redskins vs. St. Louis Rams

If Donavan McNabb’s first game as a Washington Redskins quarterback was a horrifying disappointment, his second game should boost the football betting backers in our nation’s capital.

McNabb threw for 426 passing yards and led three successful scoring drives that resulted in touchdowns. With Coach Shanahan finally getting his teeth aptly in to this team, you’re going to have to throw on the Redskins to keep up with them.

Which Sam Bradford can do…in about two or three years.

Bradford has thrown for 420 yards, 3 touchdowns and 4 interceptions thus far and has shown a tremendous amount of command and poise. But he doesn’t have the experience, nor the weapons that McNabb has in Washington. It doesn’t help that St. Louis has only won 6-of-13 games against the football betting line in their last 19 games at home.

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I’d be more encouraged by the St. Louis Rams as an underdog football betting pick if Steven Jackson was putting up big games. Jackson has averaged just 3.8 yards per carry this season, and hasn’t had a touchdown in his past six games. Bradford and Jackson are showing flashes of a bright future, but those are few and far in between.

Washington Red Skins (1-1) vs. St. Louis Rams (1-1)

Sunday, September 26th — Edward Jones Dome — 1:00pm EST

NLF Football Betting Line: Washington -3.5 (39)

Honestly, I didn’t think I’d turn the corner on the Washington Redskins so quickly. After such a dismal outing against the Cowboys, I had written Washington off. The weird part about this season for them is that, in terms of football betting, they lose games they play badly in and win games that they play well in.

The other weird thing is that they couldn’t cover the small spread last weekend and pushed a +/- 3.0 point number in a 30-27 loss, which brought them to a 1-2-2 ATS record in their past 5 games. Fortunately, they’re also 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 road games and 5-1 SU in their last 6 road games against St. Louis.

St. Louis is a one-dimensional team right now. They either throw the ball to Mark Clayton, or try and squeeze Steven Jackson behind an atrocious offensive line. Eventually, the Redskins will figure out how to stop St. Louis from moving up and down the field, making their chances of defending the football betting line at home nearly impossible.

I’m not wholly convinced by Washington, but I’m not convinced by anybody this early in the season. The fact that they gave Houston such a problem last weekend leads me to believe they can throttle a team as dismal as the Rams, while easily clearing the -3.5 football betting line.

There’s a stark difference between great teams, good teams and bad teams. Great teams challenge every competitor in the league, and hand bad teams their asses. Good teams give up bad games to bad teams. If Washington is the latter, I don’t like the forecast for the remainder of their football betting season, but I’m willing to give them the edge until they prove me wrong.

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