San Francisco at New Orleans

These two teams enter this game in very different places. The Saints are feeling sky-high after their 49-17 drubbing of the Cowboys last week. San Francisco is off a humiliating loss to Carolina in a game in which they scored all of 9 points. The good news for the Niners is that their defense allowed 10 points. It was the sixth straight game that they held a team to 20 or less. Over those six games, the 49ers have given up just 11.8 points per game! Collin Kaepernick has regressed severely this season resulting in the Niners scoring in single digits in a third of their games thus far. Last week he threw for 91 yards with an interception and six sacks. Clearly with a total this high we need to look at the UNDER. Of course the Saints offense is very potent, scoring over 20 points in seven of their nine games. But, this is clearly the best defense the Saints have seen all year. The next best was the Jets two weeks ago and they held New Orleans to just 20 points. I expect the 49ers will feature a lot of Frank Gore to take the game out of Kaepernick's hands and keep Brees off the field. They will try to slow this game down.  I look for this game to come in UNDER the total.