2. Atlanta at Kansas City
LINE: Kansas City -11
ATS PICK: Atlanta
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This falls under the Don’t Give Up Double Digit Points In The NFL Unless You Absolutely Have To.
Kansas City will win, it’ll be the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and it’ll go on to have a very wonderful and fulfilling life. But Atlanta has a funky way of keeping games close.
It didn’t show up in a blowout loss to New Orleans on the road a few weeks ago, but that was the only double-digit loss since Week 4.
Meanwhile, Kansas City has a funky way of not turning easy games into routs.
Winning hasn’t been a problem, but there hasn’t been a victory by more than six since beating the Jets on November 1st.
Now, there is the fear that Atlanta decides to arrive on the Get The Season Over bus, but there are just enough young parts playing that the effort should be there on both sides.
The Kansas City secondary can be thrown on, the Atlanta defense hasn’t been bad against the run, and …
It’ll be a Chief win, but don’t give up double-digit points in an NFL game. Atlanta has enough pop and firepower to throw a few late scores on the board once KC goes into chill mode early in the fourth to get ready for the playoffs.