Sports blog information from USA TODAY.
5 best bets to make in #Bills-#Titans Monday Night Football matchup:
Here are five of the best bets to place during the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans Week 2 matchup on Monday Night Football:
Updated Super Bowl LVII odds for the #Bills heading into 2022 preseason:
Good news: As the 2022 NFL preseason rolls around, the Buffalo Bills remain the favorite to win Super Bowl LVII.
Gooder news (unless you wanted better odds): the Bills have pulled away even further in some sportsbooks. Buffalo is now a slightly bigger favorite to win next year’s title.
According to DraftKings Sportsbook, the Bills sit atop their chart for the 2022/23 NFL Super Bowl winner list at +600 odds. Previously Buffalo held that same honor but with +650, which means there’s even more belief in the Bills now.
However, there’s a twist. Our last check in April saw the Tampa Buccaneers with the second-best odds at +750. Like the Bills, the Bucs have started to slightly pull away from the pack as they now sit at +700.
Here’s the full rundown of the top-10 teams with the best Super Bowl LVII odds:
[lawrence-related id=103755,103753,103747]
[mm-video type=playlist id=01eqbw1j59gmjw5gdj player_id=none image=https://billswire.usatoday.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]
That’s the #Bills right now:
The Buffalo Bills are currently the favorite to win the NFL title in 2022. Many sportsbooks, including Tipico, have the Bills with the best odds to take home Super Bowl LVII.
Currently sitting at +650, Buffalo leads the way in the oddsmakers eyes.
For those curious, the top-five teams are:
However, just because the Bills might be sitting pretty in the summer doesn’t guarantee a thing.
In fact, according to WGR-550 radio in Buffalo, only six times has such a team went on to win the Super Bowl. It hasn’t happened at all since 2018, either.
Check out the list below:
Only 6-times ever has the preseason Super Bowl favorite (which the Bills are) gone on to win the Super Bowl…
2018: New England
2016: New England
2006: Indianapolis
1993: Dallas
1989: San Francisco
1988: San Francisco— Joe DiBiase (@SneakyJoeSports) May 17, 2022
[lawrence-related id=101195,101191,101182]
#Bills are NFL’s best team in terms of betting lines ahead of 2022:
The Buffalo Bills are among a handful of teams held in very high regard prior to the upcoming 2022 NFL season.
Typically in such discussions, you’re splitting hairs when trying to decide the very best team during the offseason. But if that ledger so happens to be betting lines? Then the Bills are the top dog.
The Athletic put together a side-by-side comparison of each team in terms of their betting odds, combined, for each of their games in the 2022 season. In this regard, the Bills come out on top and are the most-favored team by oddsmakers ahead of next season:
Now that the schedule is out, we can use game-by-game betting lines posted on DraftKings to see how good each NFL team is expected to be in 2022 pic.twitter.com/V2j3OFWHFx
— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) May 13, 2022
Of course, each team’s comparison is not going to factor in the exact same way.
In the NFL, teams do not play the same schedule as other sports leagues do, it rotates each year.
Still, the Bills don’t exactly have an easy slate. Playing in the AFC East might help, but Buffalo still has to face teams like the Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers, all of whom rank high on the above list–the Bills still outrank all of them on this list.
[lawrence-related id=101127,101124,101121]
Oddsmakers: #Bills, #Buccaneers, #Packers have highest projected win totals for 2022:
[mm-video type=playlist id=01eqbw1j59gmjw5gdj player_id=none image=https://billswire.usatoday.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]
The Buffalo Bills, Green Bay Packers, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are three teams that have the attention of the oddsmakers early this offseason.
According to various sportsbooks and CBS Sports, the Bills, Pack and Bucs are seeing their opening win totals line at 11.5 for 2022. That number is the highest amongst any teams in the NFL.
In 2021, Buffalo was tabbed with a win total over/under figure of 10.5. With 11 wins, the Bills hit the over.
This past February following the conclusion of the Super Bowl, Buffalo was also handed the top odds to win next year’s title.
In terms of over/under for win totals, here’s how the rest of the AFC East sits:
Other notable teams:
[lawrence-related id=99649,99677,99673]
#Bills currently 6.5-point favorites vs. #Steelers in Week 1:
[mm-video type=playlist id=01eqbw1j59gmjw5gdj player_id=none image=https://billswire.usatoday.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]
We’re still a few weeks and preseason games away, but the Buffalo Bills currently have the edge on the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2021’s opening day in Las Vegas.
According to tipico, the Bills are 6.5-point favorites presently.
All-time, Pittsburgh has the series edge on Buffalo, 16-11. However, the Bills have started to even things out in recent years against the team that is logistically the closest NFL club to Orchard Park.
The Bills have topped the Steelers in back-to-back games the last two seasons. Both wins were on primetime as well.
In 2020’s meeting, the Steelers got out to a 7-0 lead before the Bills won 26-15 which included a 14-point third quarter. Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen had 266 total yards in the game with two touchdown passes.
The Bills defense also held Pittsburgh on third down, as the Steelers were 1-for-10 in that category.
That loss that the Bills handed the Steelers was the second of the Steelers’ season. Pittsburgh started 2020 with an 11-0 record before running into a late-season spiral which also included a first-round exit in the playoffs.
In 2021, the Steelers will travel to Buffalo for the contest.
[lawrence-related id=85355,85349,85342,85339]
The Dallas signal-caller received high praise from Alex Smith, the former Washington QB who won in 2020 after his own return from injury.
Cowboys fans are primed for a big-time comeback from quarterback Dak Prescott. So is at least one of the major sportsbooks in the betting world.
FanDuel Sportsbook lists the Dallas signal-caller as the leading candidate to take home the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year award for 2021, with +200 odds. Prescott was on an early pace to break the league’s season passing yards record in 2020 when he went down in Week 5 with a total dislocation and compound fracture of his right ankle.
A healthy Prescott took part in the Cowboys’ OTAs and minicamp and is expected by the team to be a full participant in training camp next month.
If Prescott does go on to land the honor, he’ll follow in the footsteps of former Washington quarterback Alex Smith, 2020’s winner. Smith underwent an epic rehabilitation of his own tibia and fibula fractures- as well as a life-threatening infection- to return to the field after a two-year absence on October 11.
It was the same day Prescott suffered his injury.
Prescott has acknowledged that having watched Smith’s recovery helped him navigate his own rehab and prepare him both physically and mentally for a return to action.
Smith, who retired in April after 16 seasons as a pro, says he sees in Prescott the qualities necessary to not just come back, but come back better than before.
“Dak is, I think, one of the most unique athletes in the NFL — and I really think that from, like, a freakish perspective,” Smith told Jori Epstein of USA TODAY Sports recently over Zoom. “He is such a strong, powerful, such a good athlete. So I really expect him to come back and be rolling. Then you add that on to his fortitude and mental perspective? I think he’s going to have a huge, huge year.”
The oddsmakers at FanDuel agree. Carolina RB Christian McCaffrey, Cincinnati QB Joe Burrow, and New York Giants RB Saquon Barkley- all coming off injury-plagued seasons- are tied for second-best odds at +700.
[listicle id=672466]
[vertical-gallery id=670875]
[listicle id=672578]
[lawrence-newsletter]
Westgate Las Vegas has established over/under lines for every regular-season game; Dak Prescott and Patrick Mahomes could put on a show.
When Dak Prescott was at the helm in 2020, the Cowboys offense was scoring at a good clip, averaging over 32 points per game in the contests Prescott started. Vegas oddsmakers believe that with No. 4 back under center, the Dallas offense will pick up right where it left off during those five weeks.
The Westgate Las Vegas lines are in for the 272 games that make up the 2021 regular season, and the Cowboys-Chiefs showdown in Week 11 boasts an over/under of 55 points, the highest single game of the entire league slate.
As per Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk, the Chiefs have the most games with over/under numbers currently at 50 points or more, in 14 of their 17 matchups. The Buccaneers have 12 such games, and the Cowboys have seven.
Whether this signals high confidence in Prescott’s return to form in Dallas’s high-potential offense or skepticism that the team’s defensive woes have been adequately addressed… or is simply a byproduct of a mostly weak schedule remains to be seen.
But there is high-scoring history between the two historic franchises.
The last time the Cowboys and Chiefs met, in 2017, they combined for 45 points (in a 28-17 Dallas victory). They combined for 59 points in their 2005 meeting, a 31-28 Cowboys win. And remarkably, in a three-game series from 1975 to 1989, they combined for 65, 62, and 64 points.
For now, oddsmakers say bettors can also bank on a ton of points when Prescott and Patrick Mahomes renew the rivalry at Arrowhead Stadium the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2021.
[vertical-gallery id=670875]
[listicle id=670899]
[lawrence-newsletter]
Buffalo Bills odds at winning Super Bowl LIV in 2021.
The Buffalo Bills’ next chance to win the Super Bowl is officially Super Bowl LVI. Buffalo lost their shot at Super Bowl LV after falling 38-24 to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game.
It wasn’t the fairytale ending many were hoping for out of the Bills, but could one of those soon be on the horizon? Specifically next season?
While the tears of Bills Mafia might not even be dry just yet, the oddsmakers are giving those in Buffalo a reason to smile a bit on Monday. In regard to winning next year’s Super Bowl, the Bills currently are third for the third-best odds to do so.
According to BetMGM, here’s a full rundown of the Bills’ odds of winning Super Bowl LVI, just one day after falling in the AFC title game:
Kansas City Chiefs: +600
Green Bay Packers: +900
Baltimore Ravens: +1200
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: +1200
San Francisco 49ers: +1400
New Orleans Saints: +1800
Seattle Seahawks: +1800
Los Angeles Rams: +2000
Cleveland Browns: +2500
Dallas Cowboys: +2500
Indianapolis Colts: +2500
Miami Dolphins: +2500
Tennessee Titans: +2500
Los Angeles Chargers: +3000
Minnesota Vikings: +3000
New England Patriots: +3000
Pittsburgh Steelers: +3000
Arizona Cardinals: +4000
Chicago Bears: +5000
Las Vegas Raiders: +5000
Philadelphia Eagles: +5000
Atlanta Falcons: +6600
Carolina Panthers: +6600
Denver Broncos: +6600
New York Giants: +6600
Washington Football Team: +6600
Cincinnati Bengals: +8000
Detroit Lions: +8000
Houston Texans: +8000
New York Jets: +8000
Jacksonville Jaguars: +10000
[lawrence-related id=77612,77610,77578,77595]
Regardless of the speculation, oddsmakers are leaning towards Tom Herman being the head coach at Texas in 2021.
Although there’s currently not a coaching vacancy at Texas, speculation continues to grow that the prestigious job could be open soon. Continue reading “Oddsmakers have Tom Herman as the head coach of Texas next season”
