3. Los Angeles Chargers at Jacksonville
LINE Los Angeles -2.5
ATS PICK Jacksonville
“I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.” – Bobby Knight
Yeah, I’m about to throw a few stats your way to fit my own beliefs, and we’ll all have a few laughs and kill some time, but …
Warning: If you’re not sure about this, or if you sort of like the Chargers, move on the the No. 1 pick against the spread this week because I’ll freely admit that this is way flaky.
I can’t shake the idea in my head that Jacksonville is about to be the junior version of the 2022 playoff Bengals.
I also can’t shake my core belief that Brandon Staley – the living, breathing definition of too cute by half – will screw this up.
Oh no, Doug Pederson is hardly the next Bill Belichick – or Bobby Knight – but I’ll take my chances that he and his staff will have this figured out as the home underdog as long as his quarterback stops throwing it in key situations like he just powered down five bowls of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
Trevor Lawrence will be better than he was against the Titans. He wasn’t bad, but he was two easy throws away from putting that thing away, and he didn’t come through. That’s about to change.
No, this won’t be as easy as the 38-10 Jaguar win way back in Week 3. However, Chargers didn’t win a game on the road against a playoff team, the absence of Mike Williams will matter, and …
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