NFL week 5 Odds, Betting Tips & Picks

NFL week 5 sees the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs head to Indianapolis to take on the Colts. Genie is here to offer some betting tips and picks at the best odds around.

Televised matches this week are Chiefs @ Colts and Chargers @ Raiders both on Sky Sports. The late game is Eagles @ 49ers on C4 and the Vikings travel to play the Jets in New York on Monday Night Football (ESPN).

The big news of the week has been the transfer of Randy Moss to Minnesota, where he was such a star for many years. The 33 year old comes back to offer a much needed deep threat in what has been a predictable Vikings offence to date. They have badly missed Sidney Rice and the signing of Moss goes to highlight just how important the next couple of games are for Minnesota’s season. The arrival of Moss should do a lot to free up space for Percy Harvin who can be backed at odds of 10/1 to score the first TD.   Defeat on Monday would leave them 1-3 and in danger of not making the playoffs, with a tough couple of fixtures to follow. The Jets welcome Santonio Holmes into the fold in what has fast become the Galactico team of the NFL.

Betting Tips

This week Genie’s 3 NFL picks are:

Vikings to win away to the Jets      33/20 with Ladbrokes.

Titans to win away to the  Cowboys           11/4 with Victor Chandler.

Texans to win at home to Giants          2/3 with Ladbrokes.

Other Bets
Harvin to score first TD vs Jets        10/1 with Paddy Power.

Last week we had 2 out of 3 winners and hope to get the hat trick this weekend. The Bears let us down but credit to the Giants defence for taking Cutler out of the game.

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