Although we may be favored right now in most games, I don't know how good of a true reading that gives anyone.
The handicappers obviously take everything into account based on last games' performance, the season as a whole, both teams' injuries, amount of points scored, momentum, trends, etc--and it will change week to week.
So actually, no one could really know if we'll be favored v. Baltimore, v. Tennessee, v. Indy, etc, etc, etc. What if we lose the next game or 2, a substantial player or 2 gets hurt, and Baltimore wins very handidly the next couple games in blowouts? It's almost a trick question. Are we favored based on what happened in past years, last week, and the team we're fielding now? Yes. But how do you know Atlanta doesn't go undefeated from now until then? How do you know Tennessee doesn't hold all of their opponents to 13 pts or less until we play them? What if Randy Moss or Wes Welker go down for an extended period?
Obviously if you asked at the beginning of the year, we'd look great for the future--but you're basing your data on the team we had then, such as Seymour and Mayo. You're also basing your data about being favored on what our opponents did...when? Last Season? How do you know exactly what Baltimore team we'll be facing? Not to be a smart ass, but to me, it's a totally loaded question. You can say that we are the odds on favorites to go to the AFCCG or whatever, because we have the best odds so far, but those odds will go up or down based on other teams performances just as well as our own. But to try and figure out if we'll be favored 4-6-8 weeks down the road is kind of silly, IMHO--because you can't predict what the variables will be.
