49ers vs. Saints Pick For Monday Night Football: September 20th 2010

San Francisco 49ers vs. New Orleans Saints
Pick: San Francisco 49ers +6.5 -110 odds
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Saints/49ers 8:30: This line opened at 49ers +4′ but soon jumped to +5′. We now see +6 in a lot of online sportsbooks. In this instance, like a good offense, we’ll take what the defense, or sportsbooks, give us. SF has exhibited strength off disastrous losses under Singleltary and sports a 5-0 ATS mark off a SU loss vs winning teams under him. Sure, the 49ers’ offense looked embarrassingly bad last week unable to get plays called on time, interceptions, no run game; on the other hand, the Super Bowl
incumbents (Saints) still look like world beaters coming off a win and cover vs Minnesota. However, in the NFL, a lot of times you’re not as good as you think you are and you’re not as bad as they say you are. We’ll look for that to hold true tonight. The 49ers have a very good defense and we’re projecting the 49ers’ offense will play more “smash mouth” Singletary style football and get the run game going behind Gore instead of heaving the ball up 45 times (last week). Alex Smith has shown ability to lead the
offense effectively in the right situation and getting the run game going is surely the right situation for him. The New Orleans’ defense can be ran on. SF is a resilient and resourceful team as their 13-4-1 ATS mark off a SU loss of more than 14 points indicates. Throw in that they’re 6-0 ATS off a SU favorite loss while the Saints are just 1-11 ATS in September vs losing teams, and we got a dangerous dog tonight. Get more NFL betting info from Vic Duke at Touthouse.com