Washington and the Giants spent seventy minutes in the Landover rain on Sunday and settled nothing. NFL tie betting is the edge case most people never think about until a slip comes back with results that disagree with each other. The moneyline came back as a refund. Anyone holding the Giants at plus-3.5 got paid. … Read more
Dallas had the ball at the Tampa Bay 24 on Thursday night, down eight with less than two minutes to play. Dak Prescott’s pass went off tight end Jake Ferguson’s hands, Alex Anzalone caught the carom, and Tampa Bay won 24-16 as an underdog of about 8.5 points. It took 347 days to see the … Read more
The Associated Press preview of tonight’s game in Arlington lists Tampa Bay at 0-4 against the spread and says the team is on a 13-game losing streak against the number, the longest of the Super Bowl era. Pro-Football-Reference’s lines page for the same team reads 0-3-1. Both describe the Buccaneers against the spread through four … Read more
New England lost 35-6 in Jacksonville on September 27. Seven days later the Patriots were getting 7 points at Buffalo, which was 3-0, and Drake Maye threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Efton Chism with under two minutes left to win 29-26. It was the longest shot among seven NFL Week 4 upsets. Casino.org, a … Read more
On Friday we wrote down Jets -2.5 and promised to print Monday’s number beside it. Monday’s number is Jets -1.5. The Browns Jets odds now have a 1-3 team that has lost three straight laying points to a 3-1 team that has won three straight and shares the AFC North lead with Baltimore. If the … Read more
Andre Szmyt’s 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds left gave Cleveland a 27-24 win over Pittsburgh on Thursday night. The Browns Steelers odds had Pittsburgh as a 2.5-point road favorite with a total of 38.5, per ESPN’s DraftKings listing. Cleveland has now been priced as the worse team in all four of its games this … Read more
Seattle was the only number that both scoreboards still had moving at kickoff. The Seahawks were 2.5-point favorites in the lookahead, 6 on Monday after Jayden Daniels hurt his elbow, and 8.5 by Sunday. Washington won 33-31. Marcus Mariota threw three touchdown passes in Daniels’ place, and linebacker Kain Medrano returned an interception 50 yards … Read more
The Ravens Cowboys total opened at 52 at Borgata last Sunday night and 52.5 at DraftKings, according to the odds site VegasInsider and ESPN. By Saturday morning it was 53.5 at five of the seven sportsbooks VegasInsider tracks, for a game on a Rio de Janeiro field that the players’ union spent Friday worrying about … Read more
Green Bay was a 6.5-point favorite over Atlanta in DraftKings’ September 17 lookahead and 7 on Monday morning, which is where Tuesday’s baseline recorded it. By kickoff the Falcons Packers odds had come all the way back to 4.5 at DraftKings and 5.5 at FanDuel, BetMGM and Caesars. Atlanta won 35-14 at Lambeau Field. The … Read more
Yesterday’s post promised to record the NFL Week 3 odds before a single game was played, and it said one more result would not turn ten coin flips into a rule. The Rams game was that result. Los Angeles was a 9.5-point favorite over the Giants in DraftKings’ September 10 lookahead, 7.5 on Monday and … Read more