If the Saints score under 30 here it will be a big surprise

Ellis has not practiced this week.Usually when a team has a good chance to lose the rushing battle, you don’t want to put too much faith in them winning the game Usually. The rest of this game is so lopsided in the Saints' favor, expecting anything less than them being 9-0 at the end of the day is a shot in the dark.Against top offenses, and some not so top offenses, the Rams are allowing 30-plus points per game. Only the Lions and Washington Redskins have been held under 20 points. As we are well aware, the Saints are a if not the top offense. They’ve scored 30 or more six times and 45 or more four times.The Saints are using a balanced running and passing game to move the ball almost at will.

They started slow out of the gate in each of the games against the Carolina Panthers and Miami Dolphins in recent weeks. There are just too many options for QB Drew Brees to call upon for the Rams defense to account for. If the Saints score under 30 here, it will be a big surprise.When the Rams have the ball, Jackson is the focus, but it took him eight weeks to finally find the end zone their last game for the first time, securing a win over the Lions. WR Donnie Avery is expected to play, which is a plus since he is the only halfway reliable receiver on the Rams.The Saints' front four are getting good pressure on opposing quarterbacks though, and the opportunistic defense now has seven touchdowns on the year The Rams offense has allowed five such touchdowns.

If we took just the Rams offense scoring against the Saints defense scoring, I wonder what an appropriate point spread line would be It might be close to even.The Saints still have some weaker teams in the upcoming schedule, so consider them a possible save candidate for survivor, but if you’ve already used the Ravens and Vikings and want to play it safe, lock up the Saints for a win this week.Mike MacGregor created the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy fantasy football and fantasy baseball draft tools, plus he developed various features and sports pools found at FFToday and MyOfficePool.ca Mike owns and operates MyOfficePool.ca.. NEW YORK(Business Wire)Investment Grade Municipal Income Fund Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: PPM), aclosed-end management investment company normally investing substantially all ofits assets in a diversified portfolio of tax-exempt municipal obligations, withcommon and preferred shares outstanding, today announced that the Funds Boardof Directors has declared a dividend from net investment income of $0.0600 pershare of common stock. The dividend is payable on January 30, 2009 to commonshareholders of record as of January 22, 2009 The ex-dividend date is January20, 2009.