Axsmithsports.com handicapper Alex B. Smith analyzes every NFL Week 8 Sunday and Monday game, with odds, trends and projected final scores.
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VSiN host Brent Musburger and Systemplays.com handicapper Doug Fitz are tied for the lead at 22-13. RJ sports betting reporter Todd Dewey is in third place at 20-14-1.
Russell Wilson was ridiculed this week after saying that he spent four hours of the team’s eight-hour flight to London “doing high knees” in the aisles as his teammates slept.
The Raiders are 1½-point road favorites over the Saints after the line opened at 2½. The total is 49½ and both teams have gone over in their last four games.
The Raiders, 3-6 against the spread in their last nine road games, have gone over in their last five games and the Saints are on a four-game over streak.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a 2-point favorite over the Baltimore Ravens at most Las Vegas sportsbooks for “Thursday Night Football.”
Bettors are all over the New England Patriots, consensus 8½-point home favorites over Chicago. The line has climbed to 9 at South Point and the Golden Nugget books.
When the Giants stopped the Jaguars at the 1-yard line with no time left, it not only preserved their 23-17 win, it also kept alive a $48, 14-leg parlay that paid $188,450.37.
For the past two decades, bettors could count on Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers to bounce back from a loss and not only win the next week, but cover. Those days are gone.
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