Saints vs Chargers Final Score Prediction for NFL Week 8 (New Orleans Loses Without Derek Carr)

The New Orleans Saints’ season imploded due to heartbreaking losses and a few injuries at key positions, none bigger than their starting quarterback, Derek Carr, who will miss at least one more game before returning to action.

Spencer Rattler will make his second straight start in his absence and will do his best to put on a better performance than he did against the Broncos in a 33-10 loss to New Orleans.

Meanwhile, the Chargers will try to get back on track after losing Monday Night Football to the Cardinals. Can they get the job done against the short-handed Saints?

Let’s take a look at the latest odds and then I’ll predict the final score of this interconference matchup.

Odds by BetMGM sports betting

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The spread made a small move in favor of the Saints. The Chargers were 7.5-point favorites earlier this week, but now sit as 7-point favorites after the halfway mark. The total rose half a point from 40.0 to 40.5.

In this week’s edition of “Road to 272 Bets“, I detailed why I think putting the points on the Chargers is the right move:

We saw what happened to the New Orleans Saints last Thursday when they had to put their backup quarterback up against an elite defense. It was a terrible performance by New Orleans that ended in an upset by the Broncos. Well, we have the exact same situation in Week 8. The Saints are still not healthy and must again try to get some sort of offensive production against one of the best defenses in the NFL in Los Angeles.

Let’s not forget that the Saints defense is dead last in the league in opposing yards per game, allowing 6.1 yards per snap.

When it comes to the total, I’ll go with the line movement and take the OVER. The Saints defense has been bad enough that I think we will see a Chargers offensive explosion for the first time this season. The Rattlers and the New Orleans offense can hopefully do enough to contribute to the scoring to help this surpass the lowly 40.5 total.

Final score prediction: Saints 13, Chargers 32

Quotations are updated periodically and are subject to change.

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