STL-WSH
Time: NOON CST
Spread: STL -3
Total: 42
Betting odds c/o Bovada
Saint Louis looks to win back-to-back games for the first time this season as 3-point favorites visiting the Washington Redskins in NFL odds this Sunday. The Rams are 5-7 on the season, and demolished the Oakland Raiders last week by a 52-0 count.
The total in this game is set much lower at 42, but the Rams have taken good care of the football and though the team started the season just 1-4, it has rebounded to respectability on the shoulders of Tre Mason’s emergence in the backfield.
Mason broke 100 yards in the last three contests and ran for a career best 117 yards and two TDs in the contest against the Raiders, needing just 14 carries. He added another score on three catches for 47 receiving yards. Mason said “..if I’ve done it once, why not do it again?”
The Redskins have struggled far worse than the Rams this season and are just 3-9 on the year. The team is good at controlling the run, though, which has been what has aided the Rams. The Redskins allow just 102.8 yards per game via the rush, and ranks 11th in the NFL in overall defensive yards (344.)
But with an offense that has struggled so badly, it averages just 26.8 points per game, ranking in the bottom-5 of NFL offenes.
The defense is still looking for redemption as well, since the Skins gave up 487 yards to Andrew Luck and the Colts in the 49-27 loss. Coach Jay Gruden said the defense “Has to go out and make some plays…stand up defensively and take them by the throat…”
The Redskins are hoping Colt McCoy can keep the offense going. He’s taken over in the benching of RG3 and he was 31-of-47 with three TDs in his second start of the season, which is one more than Griffin had in five games. He’s thrown just one INT, but he did fumble the ball four times against the Colts, even though WAS recovered three of those.
The Rams will look to put the pressure on McCoy, given that the team had six sacks against OAK. The D has 22 in five NOV games and is just one behind PHI for the league lead since Week 9. In the first five games of the season, Saint Louis had just one sack.
