Before you get into your free fishing games, head over to your sports betting book to make some picks for the third week of the NFL regular season, and here are the games we’re keeping an eye on.

Patriots Bills Odds – Sunday, 1:00 PM ET

The Patriots are 9-point favorites in Buffalo according to NFL betting lines, and the Bills haven’t beaten New England in 15 straight games, including seven at home. However, they’re filled with confidence after a 2-0 start and they’ll keep it close. Ultimately, they’ll fall to Tom Brady and company, but the Patriots won’t over.

Online Betting Pick: Buffalo +9

Packers Bears Odds – Sunday, 4:15 PM ET

The Packers are 3.5-point road favorites on the road in Chicago, where they beat the Bears in last year’s NFC title game, and they should come away with the win again unless Chicago can protect Jay Cutler, who was sacked six times and hit on seemingly every offensive play against New Orleans. The Packers also love to blitz and they knocked Cutler out of last year’s postseason meeting. The Bears are also missing two starters up front.

Online Betting Pick: Green Bay -3.5

Steelers Colts Odds – Sunday, 8:20 PM ET

Finally, the Steelers are 10.5-point favorites in Indianapolis, but the Colts are going to prevent them from covering that double-digit spread as Kerry Collins has decent numbers against Pittsburgh, and he has to be more familiar with his receivers by now…in theory. Pride will keep the Colts in this game, so take the home team.

Online Betting Pick: Indianapolis +10.5

The first week of the 2011 NFL betting lines season was an incredible one. There were some absolutely fantastic games both to start and finish the week. As well, there were several absolute blowouts, that no fishing games enthusiasts could have seen coming from a mile away. With week two right around the corner, here are some picks for you to consider.

Chicago Bears At New Orleans Saints (-6.5) – This past weekend, the Chicago Bears made a huge statement to both their fans and critics that they plan to make it to the Super Bowl this season. Despite being a seven and a half point underdog to the Atlanta Falcons, the Bears showed that the offseason additions of Roy Williams and Marion Barber were all they needed to help a woeful 2010 offense move into elite level status. The 30 to seven blowout of the Falcons also showed that Bears defense expects to be amongst the top five for another season.

Nevertheless, many sportsbooks are expecting the Bears whose offensive line gave up a league high 52 sacks last season, to return to form this week against the New Orleans Saints. The Saints are coming off a loss to defending Super Bowl Champions the Green Bay Packers. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was able to dissect the Saints defense all game long. Now a week later, we are supposed to believe the Saints will return to form?

Cincinnati Bengals At Denver Broncos (-6) – The bookies were nice to the zero and one Denver Broncos, who many people, we included expect to finish near the bottom this season, when they gave them a six point advantage over the Cincinnati Bengals. Fans expecting the Bengals to lose to the Broncos should change their bet now, because if the game against the Browns was any indication, the Bengals defense minus Jonathan Joseph, seems to have returned to 2009 form.

Your fishing video of the trip you took this summer won’t be able to hold a candle to Sunday’s excitement as the NFL cranks up the heat after Thursday’s opener in Green Bay featuring the Packers and New Orleans, the last two teams to win the Super Bowl. Here is a look at the top three games on Sunday.

Falcons Bears Odds – Sunday, 1:00 PM ET

The Falcons are favored by a field goal if you’re doing some football betting online, and these two have aspirations of reaching the Super Bowl. The Bears fell to Green Bay in the NFC title game last season, while the Falcons were routed by the Packers as well, and a big win this week could set the tone for the season.

Sports Betting Pick: Atlanta -3

Colts Texans Odds – Sunday, 1:00 PM ET

No player means more to his team than Peyton Manning does to the Colts, and when news leaked that he was going to miss the first game of his career, Indy went from a slight road favorite to a 9-point favorite. Essentially, if the Texans can’t take advantage of this situation, they’re never going to win the AFC South. Watch the spread, though; Indy could be inspired, especially defensively.

Sports Betting Pick: Indianapolis +9

Cowboys Jets Odds – Sunday, 8:20 PM ET

In a primetime showdown of Ryan brothers (Rex is the Jets’ head coach, Rob is the defensive coordinator in Dallas), the Jets are 4.5-point favorites, and this is a matchup of the Cowboys’ explosive offense against New York’s lockdown defense. This should be an intriguing matchup for online sports betting players.

Sports Betting Pick: New York Jets -4.5