Expert picks are filtering in for Week 5 of the NFL, and the New Orleans Saints are a popular pick to defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Per the results gathered by NFL Pickwatch, 77% of the experts are taking the Saints, with just 23% calling for the Buccaneers to escape the Mercedes-Benz Superdome with an upset.
Maybe the experts are learning their lesson after picking against the Saints so frequently. Last week, just 14% of them believed in the Saints’ odds to outplay the Dallas Cowboys at home. A week earlier on the road against the Seattle Seahawks, only 4% of the football cognoscenti were on board with the Teddy Bridgewater experience.