Week 8 2011 Free Football Picks for 3 NFL Match ups

New Orleans Saints (-13.5) @ St. Louis Rams
The Rams can’t seem to do anything right, and to add to their troubles, injuries abound. The Saints come in ready to kick the door down after putting up 60 some odd points the other night against some poor foe. The Rams have some pieces, no doubt, and the Saints have shown that they can play with anyone, for better or worse. I don’t think it can get to this kind of worse, but hey, I’ve been fooled before. I just don’t see a team that can’t stop the run, can’t stop the pass, can’t rush the passer, and can’t produce points on their own beating the Saints. If the Ravens hadn’t killed my survivor pool last week, I’d totally be rocking the Saints this time around. I think they win by at least two touchdowns.

Miami Dolphins @ New York Giants (-10)
The Dolphins are in a similar boat as the Rams. There was very little pre-season hype, and injuries have only smothered them more. At least the Rams have their quarterback coming back, the Dolphins lost their guy for the season. The Giants aren’t exciting and they are even better than New Orleans at playing bad against bad teams – but a lost before the bye to the Seahawks should have sobered them up enough to come out and shut down Matt Moore and company. We’ll see, 10 points with the G-men is a scary beast, but I have to do it.

Arizona Cardinals (+13) @ Baltimore Ravens
This may be a hate pick. As mentioned above, the Ravens hideous performance against the Jaguars on Monday Night kicked me right out of my survivor pool. Still, the Cardinals are going to start playing better. Kolb’s not great, but he’s not terrible either, and he can get to the Ravens secondary a little. The Ravens have a pretty sorry offense, but the Cardinals could make Joe look good. Hmm…. I’m torn. I’ll have to take the points because it seems like too many to give the Ravens’ offense.