Just 13 games make up the Week 7 schedule of the 2021 NFL season with six teams on a bye as we enter the crucial middle third of the campaign.
Arizona should be the headline story as they remain unbeaten, however a glorified training run against Houston does not suggest we will be in for the most competitive of games as they try to move to 7-0. The biggest game of the weekend comes to us from Baltimore as the red hot Ravens will take on the upstart Bengals.Three teams are currently installed as double digit favourites as the market suggests we could be in for a week of blowouts.
Read on for our previews and best bets for every Week 7 NFL game.
Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens
The Cincinnati Bengals (4-2) and Baltimore Ravens (5-1) meet at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland for a key AFC North Division battle in Week 7.
Bengals are becoming legit force , thanks to Joe Burrow as he is overcoming his ACL injury thing and showing what he can do. Their defense is good, particularly against the run.
Baltimore are a contender. They proved during the season as they are kicking ass all around the league. After their week 1 loss, they have been a great force on the wings of 2019 MVP QB, Lamar Jackson.
Baltimore has covered the spread in their last 3 games in a row against the Bengals. We expect them to prove they are red and hot and real favorites here and cover the touchdown spread here.
Prediction: Ravens -6.5
Washington Football Team at Green Bay Packers
Another contender again here, against a low class team. Packers same as the Ravens, lost their Week 1 game, but after that it feels like that loss from the Saints (38-3) never happened.
Washington fell to 2-4 despite putting up a good fight for most of three quarters against the Chiefs, ultimately losing by a 31-13 margin. The Packers had some struggles early at Soldier Field, but they ultimately pulled away from Justin Fields and company by a 24-14 margin.
Green Bay is 2-0 at Lambeau Field thus far with an average margin of victory of 14 points. Washington’s aforementioned sieve-like secondary could certainly facilitate one of Aaron Rodgers’ and Davante Adams’ signature performances, while the increasingly dangerous Aaron Jones-AJ Dillon duo could also make inroads versus a defense that gave up a pair of rushing TDs to Darrel Williams on Sunday.
Prediction: Green Bay Packers -9.5
Kansas City Chiefs at Tennessee Titans
The Chiefs have decided they are back. (They’re) a good bet to win in the division at +110 at the moment. There is so much football to be played. And if you look at how they’ve covered the last few weeks, they’re scoring late.
Chiefs have to prove a point and win probably all games from the rest of the season as if they want to be considered a real contender as they were before the start of the league.
The Chiefs took a while to get going, but they avoided what would have been a disastrous 2-4 start to the season by notching a 31-13 win going away versus Washington on Sunday. The Titans took down the Bills on Monday Night Football but the win did little to immediately impact this line as the Chiefs were -4.5 road favorites over Tennessee Tuesday morning.
Prediction: Chiefs -4
Detroit Lions at LA Rams
Matthew Stafford’s revenge game will look like a lot of revenge games, except the sacrificial lambs are the visiting Lions. Detroit hit a wall against Cincinnati at home last week, simply breaking down from winless frustration after several previous close games. The Rams are relentless in smashing bad teams, something they proved against the Giants. They will treat Honolulu Blue like Big Blue, with their defense prepared to keep things rough on former QB Jared Goff.
Stafford was traded from the Lions to the Rams last offseason and set a record with 16 touchdown passes, the most by a player in his first six games with a new team.
Detroit are the only winless team in the league.
Prediction : LA Rams -15.5
Bonus picks:
Houston Texans at Arizona Cardinals
Prediction: Arizona Cardinals -175
Chicago Bears at Tampa Bay Bucs
Prediction: Tampa Bay -11.5