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Week 8 brings us a full 16-game NFL card. Point spread underdogs displayed some serious bite in Week 7, with nine of the 13 covering and eight winning outright. Unfortunately, though, I couldn’t cash in, going 1-2 ATS to fall to 8-13 on the season.
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The NFC South-leading Falcons are 4-3 and coming off a solid, 16-13 road win in Tampa.
But they are 2-5 ATS and are now a road favorite for only the ninth time since the start of the 2018 season, going 3-5 ATS in those eight contests.
Tennessee, meanwhile, dropped two straight heading into its Week 7 bye and may have to rely on the young quarterback duo of Malik Willis and Will Levis if veteran Ryan Tannehill isn’t recovered from his Week 6 ankle injury.
The Titans are 11-6 as home underdogs under current coach Mike Vrabel, and they should be up to the challenge with an extra week to prepare for former offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, turnover-prone QB Desmond Ridder and the visiting Falcons.
Yeah, we’re going with another underdog with a starting QB question mark in Deshaun Watson.
That’s typically not a recommended play on the road and facing a 4-2 team.
But we love what we’ve seen from Myles Garrett and the Browns’ highly-ranked defense (No. 2 in EPA).
And whether it’s Watson or backup P.J. Walker at the helm, they should at least find a way to keep things close Sunday against a Seahawks team that is 5-8 ATS as a home favorite over the last three seasons.
We have another suspect home favorite hosting the Sunday night game.
The Chargers are 2-4 straight up this season and are only 26-24 SU at home and 15-23-2 ATS as a home favorite since moving up the coast to L.A. in 2017.
So now the Bolts are laying nearly 10 points coming off back-to-back losses and owning the league’s second-worst EPA defense?
It hardly makes much ATS sense, even against a 2-5 Bears team which likely will be starting rookie backup QB Tyson Bagent for the second straight week.
We can only take the points with Chicago, which has won two of its last three games by 18 points or more — including a 30-12 rout of the Raiders in Week 7 — and should be well represented in terms of the fan split at visitor-friendly SoFi Stadium.
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