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NFL experts overwhelmingly pick Saints to knock off Bears

The New Orleans Saints have been the popular choice to win their Wild-Card Round matchup with the Chicago Bears in the NFL playoffs.

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There isn’t much of an argument to be made about who should win Sunday’s Wild-Card Round playoffs game between the New Orleans Saints and the Chicago Bears, per results surveyed from NFL Pickwatch. 96% of those in the know are siding with New Orleans, with a 4% minority picking the Bears to pull off an upset.

Now, that doesn’t guarantee anything. It’s just an informed perspective from experts around the league’s orbit. The same group picked the Saints to beat the Philadelphia Eagles by a similar margin, and, well, we saw how that turned out. So don’t take it as proof of the Saints automatically advancing to the next round.

Anyway: for the curious, experts picks for the other Wild-Card Round matchups have nearly-equal confidence in the Buffalo Bills (96%) over the Indianapolis Colts and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (93%) against the Washington Football Team. The Pittsburgh Steelers (86%) and Seattle Seahawks (85%) are also widely favored in their games with the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams, respectively, while the experts are a little more optimistic for a competitive game between the Baltimore Ravens (69%) and Tennessee Titans.

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NFL experts picks: Saints are a near-unanimous choice to beat the 49ers

The New Orleans Saints are a popular pick to defeat the San Francisco 49ers during Week 10 of the 2020 NFL regular season, per expert picks.

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The New Orleans Saints know the dangers of being the popular pick to win a game. None of the network analysts sided with them on Sunday night a week ago, and the Saints embarrassed them all by demolishing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a near-shutout. So it’s good to see some outliers in this week’s survey.

Per NFL Pickwatch, 99% of NFL experts have picked the Saints to defeat the San Francisco 49ers, which isn’t the same as 100%. There are still a couple of islands of resistance out there angling for the 49ers to pull off an upset. And thank goodness, because unanimous picks for New Orleans would almost certainly spell bad news for them.

If the Green Bay Packers lose to the Jacksonville Jaguars, it will be because 100% of experts picked Green Bay over the 1-7 squad. Of course.

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NFL experts picks go against Saints for the first time in Week 3

NFL experts are picking the Green Bay Packers against the New Orleans Saints in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday Night Football Week 3.

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The majority of NFL experts picked the New Orleans Saints to win each of their first two matchups in the 2020 season, but the tide has shifted with the Green Bay Packers coming to town.

Game picks collected by NFL Pickwatch on Friday have 65% of experts siding with the Packers, while just 35% like the Saints to defend the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. For context, last week 90% of experts picked the Saints on “Monday Night Football” with the Las Vegas Raiders, while an 86% majority picked New Orleans over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 1.

That’s quite a big swing, but that’s going to happen when the Saints defense makes Derek Carr look like Aaron Rodgers. Now Rodgers himself is preparing to play them, though he could be without top wideout Davante Adams. That’s not too reassuring considering Drew Brees and the Saints offense also disappointed at Las Vegas — and could still be without Michael Thomas, their own star receiver.

We’ll see what happens next. The Saints proved the experts wrong a week ago, and now they can do it again (silver linings, right?).

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