The Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the New England Patriots on Sunday in Tom Brady’s return to the city where he won six Super Bowls with Bill Belichick as coach.
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Bettors were all over the Raiders, who outlasted the Dolphins 31-28 in overtime as 3½-point favorites after squandering an 11-point fourth-quarter lead.
On the lookahead line at the Westgate SuperBook, which posts lines for NFL games 12 days in advance, the Raiders opened -1 over the Dolphins and that number has shot up to -4.
The Raiders are arguably the most surprising 2-0 team after traveling across the country on a short week and beating the Steelers 26-17 on Sunday as 5½-point underdogs.
One of the biggest challenges for bettors is to not overreact to what happens one week, especially in Week 1 of the NFL season.
New Orleans, which whipped Green Bay 38-3, delivered the biggest win on a monster day for the books as underdogs went 10-3 ATS with eight outright upsets entering Sunday night.
The biggest line move has seen the New Orleans Saints drop from 3-point home favorites over the Green Bay Packers to 4-point underdogs in a game that was moved to Jacksonville.
Florida resident Mark DeRosa won $300,000 on Lamar Jackson to win the 2019 NFL MVP and more than a half million on Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020.