Longtime rivals will meet on Monday Night Football at Raymond James Stadium. The New Orleans Saints will take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second matchup of the season between the clubs. Tampa Bay won on the road in Week 2, with New Orleans looking to return the favor. The Saints are 4-8 overall and the Buccaneers lead the NFC South despite a disappointing 5-6 mark.
Kickoff is at 8:15 p.m. ET in Tampa. Caesars Sportsbook lists Tampa Bay as a three-point favorite, while the over/under, or total number of points Vegas thinks will be scored, is 41 in the latest Buccaneers vs. Saints odds. Before locking in any Saints vs. Buccaneers picks or NFL bets, you should check out the NFL predictions from the SportsLine Projection Model.
The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters Week 13 of the 2022 NFL season on an incredible 155-110 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season.
The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94% of CBS Sports Football Pick’em players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is way up.
Now, the model has broken down Buccaneers vs. Saints on MNF. You can head to SportsLine to see the picks. Here are the NFL lines and trends for Saints vs. Bucs:
- Buccaneers vs. Saints spread: Buccaneers -3
- Buccaneers vs. Saints over/under: 41 points
- Buccaneers vs. Saints money line: Bucs -170, Saints +143
- NO: Saints are 4-8 against the spread this season
- TB: Under has hit in nine of 11 Bucs games
- Buccaneers vs. Saints picks: See picks at SportsLine
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Why the Saints can cover
New Orleans hasn’t lit up the scoreboard on offense this season, but the Saints do rank in the top ten of the NFL with 19 passing touchdowns and 6.6 net yards per pass attempt. Andy Dalton ranks in the top tier of the league with a 95.0 passer rating and 7.5 yards per attempt, and the Saints are protecting Dalton with a sack rate below 5% for the season. New…
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