Pro Football Odds

The Atlanta Falcons are arguably the best 5-3 team in the pro football odds. This is a team that when it’s firing on all cylinders is likely one of the best in football and it’s got a very good shot at going deep in the pro football odds post season. Its three losses have come at the hands of the Saints, Cowboys and Pats respectively, and all on the road –hardly embarrassing losses.

The Panthers, on the other hand, don’t have a lot of reasons to smile this football odds season. This has been one of the worst teams in the leagues at one point or another but it’s also the same team that marched into the Super Dome and by all accounts should have knocked off the mighty Saints.

At 3-5 this team is definitely where it wants to be. And it won’t get there so long as Jake Delhomme is at the helm of the offense. Simply put, he’s been atrocious. When he’s leading the football odds in INTs he’s missing receivers down field and missing them badly.

Fortunately the Panthers can bull you over with their running game led by the one-two punch combination of Jonathon Smith and DeAngelo Williams. Nobody likes to tackle these guys and for the most part they don’t.

However, the Falcons defense is too good to be beaten by a one-dimensional team and should crowd the box forcing Delhomme to do something he hasn’t been able to do all year: beat a team with his arm.

The NFL football odds list the Falcons as a slim favorite, but they should win this NFC South matchup on the road with little difficulty.