The top four scoring offenses in the NFL are in action on
Sunday with a trip to the 2019 Super Bowl on the line. Two teams will
see their dreams become a reality, while two more will see their season
come to an abrupt ending. To kick off the
Sunday NFL schedule, the New Orleans Saints host the Los Angeles Rams
in a rematch of a thrilling Week 9 matchup. New Orleans squeaked out a
45-35 victory in the first meeting and enters the
2019 NFC Championship Game as a three-point favorite. Elsewhere, Tom Brady finds himself in an unfamiliar position in the
NFL playoffs. Brady had been favored in 67 straight starts, but enters the 2019 AFC Championship Game as a three-point underdog to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Before making any
NFL picks this week, be sure to check out the latest
Super Bowl predictions from SportsLine's advanced computer model.
SportsLine's
proprietary computer model went 176-80 straight-up last season and beat
over 95 percent of CBS Sports Office Pool players in 2016 and '17. It
also performed better than 98 percent of experts tracked by
NFLPickWatch.com during that span. Additionally, it went 48-34 on
A-rated picks against the spread last season, and $100 bettors who have
followed it the past two seasons are up nearly $4,000.
The model
has continued to nail its top-rated
NFL picks in 2018-19, entering the
championship round on a blistering 16-6 run. For the season, it is now
30-15 on all top-rated picks, extending its two-year run to a strong
78-49. It also went 170-84 on straight-up NFL picks during the regular
season, ranking inside the top 10 on NFLPickWatch.com.
Additionally, it
is 7-1 on all against the spread picks in the 2019 NFL playoffs. Anyone
who has followed it is way up.
Now it has run every scenario in
the
NFL playoff bracket 10,000 times and generated unbiased picks for
the rest of the NFL playoff schedule. You can see all of them only at
SportsLine.
We can tell you that the model isn't high on the Patriots, the No. 2 seed in the AFC.
The Patriots cruised to victory against the Chargers
in the
divisional round, but their path is extremely difficult going
forward in the NFL playoff bracket, as they travel to Arrowhead Stadium
to take on the Chiefs. Mahomes and company averaged over 35 points per
game during the regular season, which ranked first in the league.
Kansas
City's defense has also been playing lights-out at home this season. In
fact, the Chiefs allowed just 17.4 points per game at Arrowhead
Stadium, the third-best home mark in the NFL. Their disruptive defense
was on full display last week against the Colts, holding Andrew Luck and company to just 263 total yards of offense and one touchdown.
Meanwhile,
New England went just 3-5 on the road this season, the first time since
2009 that the Patriots had a losing road record. The Patriots' offense
played a major role in their struggles away from Foxborough, averaging
just 22 points per game on the road compared to 33 at Gillette Stadium.
SportsLine's
model gives New England just a 19.8 percent chance of winning the Super
Bowl, less than its 7-2 Super Bowl odds imply (22.2 percent). They're a
team to steer clear of in your 2019 Super Bowl picks this week.
The model has revealed the exact Super Bowl chances for all
four teams, and it says one team hoists the Lombardi Trophy in nearly
one-third of simulations. This team has all the value, and anyone who
backs it could it hit big.
So who should you back in the
2019 NFL playoffs? And which team has all the value? Check out the
latest NFL playoff bracket below, and then visit
SportsLine now to see the optimal 2019 Super Bowl and NFL picks, all
from the model that has outperformed 98 percent of experts tracked by
NFLPickWatch.com the past two seasons.
Remaining playoff schedule:
Sunday, January 20
NFC Championship: Los Angeles Rams vs. New Orleans Saints, 3:05 p.m. ET
AFC Championship: Kansas City Chiefs vs. New England Patriots, 6:40 p.m. ET (CBS)
Sunday, February 3
Super Bowl LIII
AFC vs. NFC in Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. ET (CBS)
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