After a bye week (official) and an out-to-lunch-host-week (oops) we're back at last... Current standings:

NickD90 2
IrishRogue 1
Jerry Garcia 1
RowVsWade 1
FleaFlickr02 1
Jaydee 1
Chuck S 1
Todd 0
Salmo g. 0
Sky-Guy 0
OceanSun 0
Banned User 0
Dan S. 0
Sol Duc 0
gvbest 0
reefer 0

The Hawks play Minnesota at home and are 13 point favorites.
The Niners are 3 point UNDERDOGS to New Orleans...

Now remember, we're picking for who does BETTER against the LINE... Baseline is hawks gotta win by 13, Niners lose by a field-goal. Let's do some examples:

* Hawks win by 20, Niners win by 3 -- that goes to HAWKS (who were +7 above the spread) over Niners (who were +6).
* Hawks win by 10, Niners lose by 3 -- that goes to NINERS (who were exactly at spread, or 0) over Hawks (who missed the spread by -3)

My pick is NINERS. Hawks spread seems about right, I think Niners are more of a "push" with the Saints, so I'll take the 3 points.

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