Darby and Mills have been out for weeks, and Jones almost as long. Douglass and Maddox have been starting, with LeBlanc, basically starting with that Saints game when they got torched the second they were thrown in the lineup. It took several weeks for these young kids to get their footing under them, and have been playing solid D (except for gift INTs bouncing off of their facemasks that they need to come up with) for the past couple of weeks including wins over the Rams and Texans. I unfortunately flew down to NO for that drubbing, but this isn't the same team from November and it for sure isn't going to be another blowout that most of the air bettors on this board are predicting. Do I expect the Birds to win? No, but solely based on the fact that we rarely see teams repeat, or even get back to, Super Bowls in back to back years. Birds +8, I'm trying so hard to pull the trigger on ML based solely on nothing other than BDN magic, but I think you're correct on your over pick