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
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
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
On Tuesday we split the Week 2 board into moves with injury news behind them and moves with only a scoreboard behind them, and promised to grade the seven scoreboard moves at the close. They went three right and four wrong. The split that separated them was one we didn’t set up in advance: every … Read more
The Las Vegas book Circa Sports opened Texas Tech as a 10-point favorite over Houston and the number was down to 8.5 by Sunday afternoon, which the betting news site VegasInsider read as early money on the underdog. By Friday night the Houston Texas Tech odds sat at 7.5 at most books. Houston lost 28-26 … Read more
Buffalo opened as a 3-point favorite over Detroit when Week 2 numbers went up on Sunday night, and CBS Sports had the Bills at 5.5 by Thursday, a 2.5-point move in four days. The Bills won 41-31. So the first of the Week 2 closing lines we said we would grade went to the side … Read more