New England @ New Orleans
New England -3½ -105 over New Orleans

Pinnacle    -3½ -105   BET365  -3½ -105   Sportsinteraction  -3½ -105 888port  -3½ -105

Posted at 8:00AM ET. Odds are subject to change

New England -3½ over New Orleans

1:00 PM ET. The Saints beat the Giants, a win that looks better today than it did last Sunday after the G-Men knocked off the Eagles on TNF. Now the market’s pretending that means something. It doesn’t. That was New York’s third road game in four weeks and a mercy win for a Saints team that had been dead in the water for a month.

New England, meanwhile, has quietly started to figure it out. The Patriots didn’t just beat Buffalo last week—they outplayed them. That was a statement road win over an undefeated division rival, and it came with Mike Vrabel’s fingerprints all over it. The Pats were organized, physical, disciplined, and committed to the game plan. That’s not luck. That’s coaching.

Drake Maye has been remarkably steady for a rookie—sixth in the league in passer rating despite getting almost nothing from the run game. Vrabel knows it. He’s not asking Maye to win games alone, but to manage them smartly while the defense does the heavy lifting. That’s exactly how New England is built to win right now.

New Orleans isn’t built for much of anything. Spencer Rattler finally got his first career win, and he looked fine doing it, but the Saints are still bottom-five in red-zone scoring, still can’t sustain drives, and still can’t punch it in when it matters. Moore’s offense looks like a college spread system without the athletes to run it. You can dink and dunk all day, but at some point, you have to move the sticks against a real defense—and the Patriots have one.

The Saints’ 34-0 win in Foxboro last year doesn’t mean a thing here. This is a completely different New England team under Vrabel—faster, meaner, and buying in. The Patriots are 2-0 on the road, and they’ve won back-to-back games because they’re starting to play with identity and edge. The same cannot be said for a Saints team that got its one feel-good moment of the season last week and now faces a massive step up in class.

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Our Pick

New England -3½ -105 (Risking 2.10 units - To Win: 2.00)

Chicago +5½ -110 over Washington
Atlanta +3½-105 over Buffalo