NFL Week 8 Picks: Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos Ready for Home Upsets

The Seahawks and Broncos are two home underdogs you can ride to victory this week. Both teams enjoy a ravenous home-field advantage, and both will use that to help fuel them to a victory today.

Read on to see why.

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Cincinnati Bengals at Seattle Seahawks

Betting Line: Bengals -1.5

The Seahawks enjoy one of the best home-field advantages in all of football. Their stadium gets loud and intense and it can rattle even the most experienced QB. The Bengals do not have the most experienced QB; they have rookie Andy Dalton.

This is going to be a low-scoring and ugly game. The Seahawks are stuffing the run this season. And they will be able to shut down the Bengals' run game.

This will put the game in the hands of Dalton. He will have to take to the air and he will have to do so with that noisy crowd behind him.

This will lead to a couple of costly turnovers and give the Seahawks' struggling offense the field position they need to put up a few points and capture the momentum.

Prediction: Seahawks 17, Bengals 13

Detroit Lions at Denver Broncos

Betting Line: Lions -3

Matthew Stafford is a game-time decision for this game, but either way the Lions are in for a big letdown here.

The home Denver crowd is going to be fired up to root for their new Tebow-led team. This will give a boost to defense that is playing some solid football.

The Broncos are 18th in rushing and 19th in passing yards allowed per game this season, and they are playing better than those numbers suggest as they are getting healthy as the season goes on.

Champ Bailey will be able to match up with Calvin Johnson, and while he won't shut him down, he will be able to limit him, and free up the rest of the Broncos defense to make life hard on the Lions.

Offensively, the Broncos will need to run the ball to win. And that is the preferable way to attack the Lions. They have struggled to stop the run all year. They are 28th in rushing yards allowed per game.

This will give the Broncos enough sustained success to lead them to victory.

Prediction: Broncos 20, Lions 17