Tag: Odds

Jaguars open as favorites in London vs. mirror-image Broncos

The 2-5 Jaguars and 2-5 Broncos are both on four-game losing streaks heading into their Week 7 duel in London.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are far removed from their 2-1 start to the year after four straight losses. The Denver Broncos can say the same exact thing after losing a fourth straight game in Week 7.

Now the pair of 2-5 teams are set to meet overseas at Wembley Stadium in London for an early morning Week 8 game, and oddsmakers have the Jaguars as the favorites.

Jacksonville opened as a 3.5-point favorite over the Broncos on Tipico Sportsbook with the point total set at 39.5.

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The Broncos were without starting quarterback Russell Wilson in Week 7 and instead relied on backup Brett Rypien in a 16-9 loss to the New York Jets. Wilson was questionable for the game with a hamstring injury and reportedly wanted to play, but was shelved by Broncos head coach Daniel Hackett.

Wilson will presumably be back in action against the Jaguars, but the line could move with updates on his injury status through the week.

Jacksonville has been favored in two games this season, but lost both: a Week 5 home game against the Houston Texans and a Week 7 loss to the New York Giants.

Aaron Rodgers could be double-digit underdog for first time in latest sign of how far Packers have fallen

The Packers are visiting Buffalo in Week 8. Yikes.

The Green Bay Packers have hit rock bottom, relatively speaking.

A 3-4 record hardly seems like a time to panic, but when three of those losses have come in a row, each to a team the Packers were favored to beat, there’s a problem.

Now, they have to play a team they were never going to be favored to beat. And oddsmakers don’t love Green Bay’s chances.

The Packers are 10.5-point underdogs for their Sunday night road game against the Buffalo Bills in Week 8. If the spread holds, it’ll be the first time Aaron Rodgers has been a double-digit underdog in his career.

Considering how bad the Packers have looked in losses to the New York Giants, Jets and Washington Commanders, 10.5 points almost doesn’t feel big enough.

The 5-1 Bills are heavy Super Bowl favorites this season, and unlike the Packers in the NFC, they’ve lived up to every preseason expectation of how they’d fare in the AFC.

Buffalo remains heavy Super Bowl favorites with +260 odds at Tipico, while the Packers have slipped all the way down to seventh in the NFC alone at +1300 odds.

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Packers set as 10.5-point underdogs in Week 8 vs. Bills

The Packers, who lost three straight games as betting favorites, will be gigantic underdogs in Week 8 against the Bills.

The Green Bay Packers, fresh off three consecutive defeats as big betting favorites, will go into Week 8 as a gigantic underdog for Sunday night’s primetime showdown with the Buffalo Bills.

Tipico Sportsbook has the Packers set as a 10.5-point underdog as of Monday morning.

The Bills, at 5-1, might be the best team in the NFL, and Josh Allen, with 19 total touchdowns in six games, might be the best quarterback in the NFL. Adding to the challenge: Sean McDermott’s team is coming off a giant win over the Kansas City Chiefs on the road in Week 6 and the bye week in Week 7.

The Packers, now 3-4 overall, will be playing in their fourth stadium in four weeks when they arrive at Highmark Stadium on Sunday.

The Bills will be confident and rested. The Packers will be desperate and worn down.

Betting on the Packers hasn’t been a smart financial decision this year. The Packers are 2-5 against the spread and haven’t covered the spread since beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as road underdogs in Week 3.

One thing to note: Aaron Rodgers has never been a double-digit underdog as a starter.

Will Rodgers and the Packers use the framing of this week as a rallying cry? No one is going to expect Green Bay to go to Buffalo to win. And for good reason. If ever there was a week to come together and play the team’s best game of the season, this is the one.

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NFL Week 7 public betting data: Public money is riding on Chiefs over 49ers

Week 7 public betting stats from Tipico.

Part of being successful in sports betting is being aware of how the public is betting and where the sharp money lies. So, each and every Sunday of the NFL season, Bet For The Win is going to provide public betting stats straight from Tipico Sportsbook to help bring that knowledge to the forefront.

Betting the same way as the public doesn’t guarantee positive results, but it can’t hurt to be more informed. When the percentages are drastically slanted in an unexpected direction, there’s likely a reason for that beyond simple matchups.

Here’s how the public is betting in Week 7.

5 player prop picks for Giants vs. Jaguars in Week 7

Will Trevor Lawrence have over or under 223.5 passing yards today?

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The Jacksonville Jaguars have been wildly unpredictable through the first six weeks of the season.

In a Week 5 loss to the Houston Texans, the team racked up a season-best 422 total yards of offense, but couldn’t score a single touchdown in a 13-6 loss. A week later, the defense couldn’t get off the field in a 34-27 loss against an Indianapolis Colts team it shut out earlier in the season.

When the Jaguars offense and defense are both running on all cylinders, the team has had spectacular results. Getting those units to actually complement one another for an entire game has been a challenge.

That said, with six weeks of evidence showing who the Jaguars are, here are five player prop bets that stand out for the team’s Week 7 home game against the New York Giants:

Prince’s NFL Player Props: Leonard Fournette, Breece Hall and more Week 7 prop picks

NFL Week 7 player prop bets.

Welcome back to Prince’s Props, and this week is apparently the receiving edition because five of my six prop picks are on receiving yardage overs or unders.

While this hyper-focus on Week 7 receiving wasn’t intentional, it’s hopefully a welcomed change, because Week 6 was another rough week of picks in a season full of them.

I went 2-4 once again, an improvement over the “down” previous week but mostly just status quo for 2022. However, I did go 1-for-1 on receiving yards props — Gabe Davis had over 57.5 yards against the Chiefs — so maybe that’s a sign of good things to come?

Week 6: 2-4

2022 record: 10-25

Los Angeles Sparks shake up WNBA with reported hire of Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller

Miller led Connecticut to the WNBA Finals for the second time this past season.

A potential power shift has taken place in the W.

The Los Angeles Sparks, owners of the WNBA’s second-worst record last season, are hiring away head coach Curt Miller from the Connecticut Sun, Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes and Cassandra Negley are reporting.

Miller is a two-time WNBA Coach of the Year and led the Sun to the postseason six of his seven years with the team, including two trips to the WNBA Finals. They were unable to get over the hump for their first title, however, including this past season when Connecticut lost in four games to the Las Vegas Aces.

Miller joins a proud Sparks franchise that has missed the playoffs in consecutive years for the first time since its inaugural years in 1997 and 1998. The Sparks job opened up after Derek Fisher was fired in the middle of his fourth season and veteran coach Fred Williams finished the year as interim.

LA’s +4000 odds at Tipico to win next year’s title are the second-longest of any team, but the apparent hope is that Miller’s coaching and management expertise can speed up the timeline. The Sun have the second-shortest odds to win the 2023 title at +350, but they have to first find a coach to guide a veteran group.

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The Panthers might not win another game (seriously) as they go into full rebuild mode

Bettors, rejoice.

Congratulations, bettors! The real winners of the Christian McCaffrey trade.

When the Carolina Panthers handed their star running back to one of the best team’s in the NFC, bettors officially gained a sure winner to throw into their parlays each week for the remainder of the 2022 season.

No, the lock I speak of isn’t the San Francisco 49ers, who got a B- trade grade for gaining one of the best and most versatile running backs in the league. Though McCaffrey makes the Niners better, I wouldn’t just write them in to win every week.

The lock is the Carolina Panthers, who are apparently tanking as they look to rebuild and may not win another game this season. More accurately, bettors should be playing the moneyline of whoever the Panthers are playing each week.

At 1-5, I wasn’t sure how much winning the Panthers would do even before trading their best player. But, now, I’m certain it won’t be a lot, if any. That’s not simply because McCaffrey is gone, but also because his trade likely means more players will follow — we even have a few suggestions on who those players should be.

Panthers GM Scott Fitterer said Friday the team isn’t tanking and expects to win, but their actions say otherwise.

You don’t trade McCaffrey and starting receiver Robbie Anderson if the intention is to win. Those players gave you a better shot at doing so.

 

Carolina is very clearly collecting draft assets, and it has a few other players on the roster who can fetch more while that remains the goal.

In the meantime, this team will do a lot of losing, starting with Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-13). Even with the NFL’s fourth-easiest remaining strength of schedule, according to Tankathon, bettors are going to be confident wagering against Carolina’s moneyline.

If only we could nail the other legs in our parlays, we might actually make some money.

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Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Iowa Hawkeyes: Odds stay stagnant

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Ohio State Buckeyes: @Tipico odds stay stagnant #GoBucks

The Ohio State Buckeyes (6-0) will kick off their seventh game of the season against the Iowa Hawkeyes (3-3) at noon ET on Oct. 22 in Columbus, Ohio. This series has been very interesting. The home team has gone 5-2, but 3-3-1 against the spread, during the last seven contests.

Our friends at Tipico, our official odds provider, have Ohio State listed as a mighty large 29.5-point favorite with the total points set at 49.5. We covered that this opened up at 29.5 at the beginning of the week and there has been no movement.

This number has ranged between 28-points and 30-points at various books, which doesn’t seem like a huge gap, but that 28-point mark is a key number. Most pundits have mentioned that they felt this number was high, which also makes it odd that we haven’t seen it lowered at any point.

The total in this contest also hasn’t budged at all as it sits at 49.5-points. You can catch 50-points at some books, but half of a point shouldn’t be a determining factor.

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Now isn’t the time to panic about the Lakers. It’s after their next game

The Lakers are 0-2, but they lost to two of the NBA’s best teams.

The Los Angeles Lakers are off to an 0-2 start to the season. But if we’re being honest with ourselves, this is always how the season was going to start.

They played arguably the two best teams in the Western Conference to open the season, the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers — and lost the latter by a mere six points. For a team coming off a missed postseason appearance, there’s no shame in that.

If you were high on the team’s now -280 odds at Tipico to make the playoffs coming into the season, or the over on its 44.5 preseason wins total, now isn’t the time to panic. But if the Lakers lose their next game Sunday against the Portland Trail Blazers, that would be the time.

It’s not that the Blazers aren’t a good team. I contend they’ll be better than most people think and similarly push for a play-in tournament spot like the Lakers. So as hard as it may be to accept, this is the Lakers’ real competition.

However, the Trail Blazers shouldn’t be better than the Lakers. Not six months from now when their young pieces are more settled and ready to contribute, and definitely not now when LA’s veterans should be at their freshest.

Three-point shooting woes aside — the Lakers are 22% through two games — a team led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis has no business losing, at home, to a team whose best player just returned from a season-long absence (Damian Lillard) and whose next best player is probably Anfernee Simons.

If the Lakers lose that game, then you can start panicking — and considering the +220 odds for them to miss the playoffs again. But now isn’t the time, because anyone with some sense knew the Lakers were never going to be competing on a level with the Warriors or Clippers in the first place.

So far, the season is going as expected.

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