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All lines are courtesy of Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook. Jerome Brown Jersey .Seattle Seahawks at New Orleans SaintsLine: Seahawks -2.5; Over/Under: 48- The Saints have covered in each of their last seven games as an underdog, including four outright wins.- The total has gone over in eight straight Saints home games.New England Patriots at Buffalo BillsLine: Patriots -6; Over/Under: 47- The Bills are 5-0-1 ATS in their last six games against teams with a winning record. Buffalo is 3-6 ATS in all other games during this span.- The Bills are 3-1 ATS with three outright wins as a home underdog under Rex Ryan.Washington Redskins vs Cincinnati BengalsLine: Bengals -3; Over/Under: 49.5- Dating back to last season, the total has gone over in 10 of the Redskins last 12 games.New York Jets at Cleveland BrownsLine: Jets -3; Over/Under: 43.5- Under Todd Bowles, the Jets are 1-4 ATS as a road favorite, having lost three of those games outright.- The total has gone over in five of the Browns last six games.Oakland Raiders at Tampa Bay BuccaneersLine: Pick em; Over/Under 49- Under Jack Del Rio, the Raiders are 10-2 ATS on the road. Oakland is 2-9 ATS at home during this span.- Jameis Winston is 3-7 ATS in 10 career home starts, including 0-2 ATS and 0-2 SU this season.Detroit Lions at Houston TexansLine: Texans -2.5; Over/Under: 46- The Texans are 3-0-1 ATS and 4-0 SU at home this season, compared to 0-3 ATS and 0-3 SU on the road.Kansas City Chiefs at Indianapolis ColtsLine: Chiefs -3; Over/Under: 50- Andrew Luck is 8-0 ATS with seven outright wins as a home underdog in his career.- The total has gone over in 10 of Lucks last 12 starts.Arizona Cardinals at Carolina PanthersLine: Panthers -3; Over/Under: 47.5- The Panthers have covered in seven of their last eight home games with Cam Newton as their starting quarterback. This includes a 49-15 win over the Cardinals as a 3.5-point favorite in last seasons NFC Championship Game.San Diego Chargers at Denver BroncosLine: Broncos -4.5; Over/Under: 43.5- The Chargers have covered in six of their last seven games as an underdog, including ATS wins in back-to-back games entering this week.- Philip Rivers is 9-2 ATS in 11 career games at Denver (including playoffs).Green Bay Packers at Atlanta FalconsLine: Falcons -3; Over/Under: 52- Six of the Falcons seven games this season have gone over the total. Last season, the over hit in just two of Atlantas games (13 unders, 1 push).- The Falcons are 0-11 ATS in their last 11 games as a favorite, having lost nine of those games outright.Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas CowboysLine: Cowboys -5; Over/Under: 43- The underdog has covered in six of the last seven meetings between these teams.- The Cowboys are the only team in the NFL without an ATS loss this season (5-0-1).- The Eagles have won outright in each of their last four games as an underdog.Minnesota Vikings at Chicago BearsLine: Vikings -4.5; Over/Under: 41- Last week, the Vikings streak of 10 straight covers came to an end against the Eagles (lost 21-10 as a 3-point road favorite). Minnesota hasnt had consecutive ATS losses (in the same season) since Weeks 5-6 in 2014.- The Bears have won outright in five of their last six games as a home underdog against the Vikings. JJ Arcega-Whiteside Jersey . 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Most competitions begin Saturday and, barring a potential disaster, the discussion may actually turn from the problems of Rio to sports from badminton to basketball in an extravaganza that only the worlds biggest sporting event can bring.It will happen in a city of astonishing beauty and incredible poverty. It will happen despite worries about everything from virus-carrying mosquitoes to gun-toting criminals.And it will happen with some athletes eyeing each other carefully, not knowing if the playing field is truly level.The Rio Olympics open with a lot more at stake than gold medals and national pride. Not since Los Angeles rescued the troubled movement with a stripped-down version of the games in 1984 has there been more trepidation about the future of the massive sporting event.Some issues, like the Zika mosquitoes, were out of the control of the International Olympic Committee. Others were things they simply failed to control, like the rampant dopers who have made a mockery of the Olympic movement itself.Bowing down to Vladimir Putin and allowing Russian athletes to remain in the games may have prevented a full-blown Cold War from breaking out among Olympic nations. But it also highlighted a schism between Olympic officials and those running the World Anti-Doping Agency, bringing into question their commitment to clean sport.It also exposed the IOC as a spineless organization more bent on self-preservation than on ensuring cheaters are not allowed in any Olympic sport.Disappointing, but hardly surprising.These are the same people, you might remember, who awarded the first Olympics in South America to Rio in 2009, buying without question the promise that in seven years Rio would somehow clean up waters long polluted by raw sewage and build mass transportation systems to whisk people around town.Instead, the citys highways are a logjam and on Saturday athletes will row their way through the slimy and dangerous waters of Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where hastily erected barricades and garbage collection boats will be on duty so that television viewers from around the world wont have to see just how filthy the water really is. JJ Arcega-Whiteside Youth Jersey. Its enough to make some of the stuffed shirts at the IOC a bit unsettled.How worried should we be? Prince Albert of Monaco asked his fellow IOC members this week.Plenty worried, though about seven years too late. Every Olympics has its issues -- few thought Athens would ever be able to pull off the 2004 Games -- but there are so many facing Rio that there will be a collective sigh of relief if everything has gone off mostly as planned when the Olympics end in just over two weeks.Indeed, IOC President Thomas Bach envisions clear sailing for the Olympic movement if that happens.If this model stands such a stress test like it had to here in Brazil, then you can see that this model is more than robust, Bach said.NBC for one isnt worried. The Olympics have long been little more than a long-running prime-time summer TV show and the network that paid $1.2 billion for the games says it will make money on this edition.Rather than cutting into ad sales, the stories about crime, Zika and Brazils economic and political woes have actually increased them. And the backdrop for these games will be a directors dream, with stunning views from venues around the city, including beach volleyball on the famed Copacabana Beach.The billions in TV revenue have padded the IOC coffers and increased its appetite for adding sports to an already bloated program that for some incomprehensible reason now includes golf. The newest for Tokyo will be sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, efforts to lure younger viewers into the games while traditional track and field and other sports are in decline.It may turn out that Bach is right. Barring a terrorist attack or mass illness of rowers and sailors, Rio -- for all its myriad of problems -- may be remembered as a success.Proof that no matter how incompetently theyre managed, the Olympics are simply too big to fail.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg Wholeslae Jerseys NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale NBA Jerseys Cheap NHL Jerseys Cheap MLB Jerseys Wholesale Soccer Jerseys Cheap College Jerseys Cheap Football Jerseys Cheap Basketball Jerseys Cheap Baseball Jerseys ' ' '