{"id":222,"date":"2022-10-06T20:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:02:33","slug":"nicks-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/nfl-picks\/nicks-picks-2\/222\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick&#8217;s Picks &#8211; Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lock Pick: Green Bay<\/span><\/strong><br><strong>NY Giants (+8) v Green Bay (-8) T 41<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Giants going to 4-1 just seems impossible. Daniel Jones is playing with one ankle. The only<br>threat to Green Bay is RB Saquon Barkley. The Packers front 7 is deep but still rank 24th in the<br>league in yards given up to RBs per rush (4.97). But you just don\u2019t bet against Aaron Rodgers.<br>Rodgers has been slinging it to new, yet still relatively inexperienced WRs Allen Lazard, Romeo<br>Doubs and Christian Watson. I think this game is close because it\u2019s in London, but I don\u2019t<br>believe New York can possibly win this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Upset Pick: Houston Texans<\/span><\/strong><br><strong>Houston Texans (+270, +7) v Jacksonville Jaguars (-340, -7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This could be an emotional, stretch pick, since Jacksonville is fully expected to win this one,<br>which makes it all the reason why they won\u2019t. It\u2019s a divisional game, Houston is still searching for<br>their first win, and I just don\u2019t believe Jacksonville is actually a good team. They are very<br>vulnerable in this game. Houston nearly completed a miracle comeback against The Chargers<br>last week, lost by 3 to the Bears, 7 to Denver and tied Week 1 to Indy. I think Jacksonville is too<br>heavily favored in this one. I like Houston, and they even offer fair value at +270.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Value pick: Las Vegas Raiders (+260) MNF<\/span><\/strong><br><strong>Las Vegas Raiders (+260) v Kansas City Chiefs (-320)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Reminder that my value picks are not necessarily who I think will win, just those that offer good<br>value. A typical -7, +7 line is priced around (+245\/250, -330\/-335). Which means that you\u2019re<br>getting more for your dollar on an averaged priced -7 line that pays out +250, (Las Vegas is<br>currently +260). What do the Raiders have to do to win? You\u2019re not going to stop Mahomes, only<br>limit. Derek Carr is going to have to keep pace and force feed newly acquired WR Davante<br>Adams, something we finally saw a glimpse of last week against Denver since Week 1. The<br>Raiders always play Kansas City tough. I definitely think they cover 7, but the more important<br>question is can they win. Are the Raiders really going to fall to 1-4?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lock Pick: Green BayNY Giants (+8) v Green Bay (-8) T 41 The Giants going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[61,8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluechipbets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}