Seattle Seahawks (1-0, 1-0 ATS) @ San Diego Chargers (0-1, 1-0 ATS)
*ATS= against the spread
BETDAQ Line: Seattle -5 (44)
Significant Injuries
Seattle: RB Christine Michael (out– hamstring), CB Tharold Simon (out– knee)
San Diego: CB Brandon Flowers (questionable– groin), LB Melvin Ingram (questionable– hamstring), CB Christopher Davis (out– ankle)
Recent Trends
Seattle is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 September games
Seattle is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 road games
Seattle is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these 2 teams
San Diego is 5-0-1 ATS in their last 6 September games
San Diego is 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games following a loss
The UNDER is 4-1 in Seattle’s last 5 road games
The UNDER is 5-1 in San Diego’s last 6 games overall
The OVER is 12-3-1 in San Diego’s last 16 Week 1 games
Three reasons to back Seattle
1. The Seahawks are the NFL’s best team, a juggernaut that seems to be getting progressively better. They’re better than San Diego in all phases.
2. Seattle has the league’s best defense, a unit that ranked 1st in both yards allowed and points allowed last season and continued their dominating ways in Week 1, humbling the explosive Green Bay offense. They’ll feast on a one-dimensional San Diego offense that sputtered repeatedly against Arizona last week.
3. Russell Wilson is one of the NFL’s brightest young stars and he’ll have every opportunity to shine against a San Diego defense that ranked 29th against the pass in 2013 and surrendered over 300 passing yards to Arizona last week. The Chargers have run out of answers in the defensive backfield.
Three reasons to back San Diego
1. After a Super Bowl win and a dominating Week 1 performance the Seahawks have tipped the scales of public perception dramatically in their favor, resulting in a line that feels a bit inflated. After all, the Chargers were a playoff team in 2013 and they’ve been underdogs of 5 points or more just twice in their last 20 home games. This is a rare opportunity to back a quality team as a significant home ‘dog.
2. Pete Carroll’s Seahawks have always been much better at home than they are on the road, a fact people have conveniently forgotten now that Seattle has won the Super Bowl. Remember, though, that last season the Seahawks lost twice on the road and won three other road games by 5 points or fewer.
3. The San Diego defense is strong in the front seven, which will serve them well against Seattle’s run-first offense. The Chargers have much more trouble with pass-first teams, as their secondary is considered a weakness, but Seattle finished just 26th in passing offense in 2013.
Prediction
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