Lions Vs. Saints: Odds, Analysis, Picks For NFL Week 13 Game

Editor’s note: NESN.com’s Mike Cole, Ricky Doyle and Andre Khatchaturian deliver their NFL picks every Thursday of the season, and here’s who they like in the Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints Week 13 game, with the line from OddsShark.

Detroit Lions at (-5.5) New Orleans Saints, Sunday, 1 p.m. ET
Mike: Saints. At some point, the Lions losing in the fourth quarter of literally every single game is going to catch up with them. It might be here against a Saints team that’s especially good in the first half at home (17 points per game) and might build a lead too big even for Matt Stafford and the Lions to erase.
Andre: Lions. Any time you give me the Lions with that many points, I?ll take them. All of their games have been decided by seven points or fewer, and they are more than capable of being in a shootout against the Saints. Stafford has 12 touchdowns and just one interception in the last seven games and has faced some tough defenses in that span (Rams, Texans, Vikings twice, Jaguars).
Ricky: Saints. The Lions don’t exactly get after the quarterback — 25th in the NFL with 20 sacks, last with 41 QB hurries — and the Saints have done a good job of keeping Drew Brees upright. If Brees has time to throw, he’ll make you pay, and New Orleans’ running back tandem of Mark Ingram and Tim Hightower is proving just as dangerous of late.