NFL Betting Free Picks: Indianapolis at Green Bay

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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AT GREEN BAY PACKERS 5:00 PM PACIFIC
By now everyone knows that the Indianapolis Colts couldn’t care less about their preseason wins and losses. That’s clearly evident in the Indy preseason ATS record which is downright pitiful—4-11 straight up and against the spread over the last three NFL preseasons. Ouch. We’re aware that playing ON 0-2 preseason teams has been a long term profitable situation, and an even better situation has been 0-2 teams off of a 13+ point loss which has hit for 63.6%. Indianapolis just doesn’t work in this type of play—usually teams that fit this criterion are bad teams that don’t want to go into the regular season with a winless preseason. The Colts are in no way a “bad” team and they know this—they have the utmost confidence in their personnel and preparation and will be ready to go on Sunday, September 12 when the games start to count. They just don’t care about preseason wins and losses.
In theory, Green Bay could be a ‘go against’ here and they are in a rough ATS situation--they’re 2-12 ATS against an opponent off of two preseason losses. But as we noted before, those rules just don’t apply to Indy. Indy does have a couple more days of preparation while the Packers are off a short week, but in our view this doesn’t matter. The Packers will look to get their first team offense in high gear and the result should be a Green Bay victory by a touchdown or more over a Colts team that’ll be going through the motions and trying to keep everyone healthy in advance of the regular season. Since Aaron Rodgers took over at the starting QB position for Brett Favre, the Packers have let him air it out in preseason and it’ll be more of that here. For that reason, the Packers are OVER in 9 of their last 10 preseason games.
PLAY GREEN BAY -3’ OVER INDIANAPOLIS
PLAY GREEN BAY/INDIANAPOLIS OVER 44’