Kansas City Chiefs @ Seattle Seahawks Point Spread Pick

Kansas City Chiefs @ Seattle Seahawks Point Spread Pick: I got this one when the getting was good earlier in the week, -1 for the Chiefs – but listen, it’s not much different, -1 or -2 or -2.5 – they all cover if your team wins by a field goal, and I expect that from the Chiefs at last. Earlier in the year, even when the Chiefs were winning football games, I would have expected them to lose this game in Seattle – but they aren’t a one dimensional football team anymore, as finally Matt Cassel has been looking like the guy KC expected when they traded a 2nd round pick for him and paid him a boat-load of money two seasons ago.

Cassel has 18 touchdowns to just 4 interceptions this season – that’s one of if not the best ratio in the entire league. Like I said, earlier in the season, I would have taken Seattle at home, but in his last 6 games, Cassel has thrown 14 touchdowns to just 1 interception, leading the Chiefs to a 6-4 record on the season, and showing he’s not just a hand-it-off quarterback.

Not that handing it off in Kansas City is bad, even against a solid Hawks defensive front, I expect Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones to gain a nice bunch of yards on the Hawks. It will be cold and rainy in Sea-Town most likely – so the ground game will be important.

But Seattle hasn’t been able to stop the pass, staking their claim as one of the worst pass defenses in football.

A couple warnings here: The Hawks almost always screw me. I pick this way, they go that way, I zig, they zag, I throw a Hail-Mary to the 6 yard line like Kellen Moore did with 1 second left, and the Hawks come in and miss the short field goal. The Hawks and I are not a good match by any means. Also Kansas City is 5-0, undefeated at home. They are 6-4 overall. The easy math will tell you they are 1-4 on the road. Seattle is 3-1. I’m just saying, the warnings are there, I’m just going against those warnings.

Kansas City Chiefs (-1) @ Seattle Seahawks