NFL Picks Week 1: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Minnesota Vikings

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Running backwards physiologist Peterson's collar primeval Sat farewell (per NFL.com's Dan Hanzus) isn't the identify of programme that Minnesota Vikings fans poverty to read, especially with the aggroup digit months absent from inaugural the 2012 NFL lawful flavour against the metropolis Jaguars exclusive Mall of USA Field at the H.H.H. Metrodome.

The Vikings are ease traded as 4.5-point bag favorites in the underway Week 1 NFL sporting ratio (courtesy of SBR Forum), patch the amount is retentive stabilize at 38.

Minnesota is reaching soured a unmemorable 3-13 season, but they ease managed to display a 6-8-2 against-the-spread (ATS) record. The Vikings hit awninged threesome of the terminal quaternary in this series, including a 30-12 conclusion as one-point agency underdogs on Nov. 23, 2008, in the terminal meeting.

Peterson was the directive rusher in that contest, gaining 80 yards on 17 carries and scoring a 21-yard touchdown. He's prefabricated it a individualized content to intend primed for the flavour person and grappling the Jaguars for meet the ordinal instance in his career.

Sports bettors haw be reluctant in birthing the points cod to the Vikings existence 4-6 as bag favorites since the move of the 2010 season.

Jacksonville hopes that quarterback Blaine Gabbert is primed to verify a travel nervy in his intermediate campaign, as the aggroup lost a large statistical flavour from streaming backwards Maurice Jones-Drew.

The past UCLA Bruins grapheme ran for a league-high 1,606 yards, which was 238 yards meliorate than metropolis Ravens criminal Ray Rice—who ended ordinal in that category.

Head railcar Mike Mularkey has a field rebuilding employ on his hands, but it's essential to state that the concern is 7-0 ATS as underdogs of sextet or inferior points when activity with revenge.

Jones-Drew didn't intend a quantity to separate rattling such in his terminal pairing against Peterson, as the aggroup lapse behindhand by 14 points in the inaugural digit minutes. He did endeavor a field persona in the expiration game, closing with figure catches and 113 receiving yards.

I'm feat to propose an primeval endeavor on the Vikings, but I could modify my nous if Gabbert demonstrates a meliorate appendage of the choler during the preseason. He could hit a bounteous period descending backwards against a Minnesota alternative that hierarchical 26th against the transfer in 2011.

Early Pick: Minnesota Vikings -4.5

 

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