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Not over yet but it seems that Washington will win because of that costly mistakes. I have them on ML.

Why did the Steelers not choose to let their kicker out for the field goal and 3 point lead? They were 4th down on the 30 yard line. This occured on the 4th quarter, 5:45 minute. Was that a mistake by the coach? The Redskins might won because of that.

Nah, I'm a lifelong degen


Well, not really, if the other team fails it too 5 minutes later

Yes, it's just speculation on my end, but you always to have speculate a bit; some would call it anticipate But remember that awful showing from PIT in Dallas - the next two games they won with a combined score of 63-13. Then they had this poor showing against the Ravens at home afterwards again. They don't look too sharp today, but teams can have bad days without having to reinvent themselves afterwards. It's a lot of little details that sometimes click and sometimes not. And these divisional games against the Ravens are always hard-fought and it's never easy to play a team that has a lot of fresh injuries (here to Covid). You don't know what to expect from them, they usually grow even more together as a group and you as their opponent have the mental obstacle of this being an easy must-win, maybe underestimating things.

Slightly offtopic, from Basketball a few years ago:

The day before a game one team caught some virus and they didn't get 5 players ready, having to call some youth players to join them on short notice in an away game. In the end they had 7 players, while the home team had a full roster and were like 15pts favs without the overnight injuries being factored in. So I jumped like crazy on that HC and was already counting my profits. The away team played their hearts out and gave one hell of a fight. End of the story, they lost with 10 iirc. And the HC was 30+ shortly before tip-off......

Well it hasn't been a runaway game thus far by any stretch of the imagination, but not looking good for Washington.

I'm a bit surprised to see you here. Were you bitten by the gambling bug after winning the big bet against eddie?


Gah. Awful time to go for it on 4 and 1...

I guess the proposition is that now the Steelers after a short 5-day break after a tough win against a weak team are not particularly good.

Me personally... I still wouldn't put money against them, no matter how much I think they suck.


Ravens weren't very "decent" last week... a bunch of their starters were out with covid, including the QB.

I couldn't go past the Steelers as they have been on a great run even though like you said they looked were not at their best last game but then again they were playing a decent team in the Ravens so I do expect them to take care of business and beat Washington.

Yeah I guess but redskins haven't really been good against good teams.  They've kind of feasted on the ntc east (except for the giants) and the bengles.  I just don't see what everyone else sees in this being the game that the redskins bust out a signature win.

Sure. It's a 50:50 chance that it's going to be worse, I think that's how probabilities work LOL

Seriously though, playing on Wednesday and then next Monday doesn't give much time to reinvent themselves. And Boswell's out.

Why is everyone in on Washington?  They blew out Dallas which isn't hard to do nowadays.  They are playing pitt who hasn't lost a game.  I know they looked shaky last game but still, we are talking about Washington.  They have barely beaten anyone decent let alone being the one to drop pitt for the first time of the year.  Am I missing something?

This is what I am thinking as well, lol. I thought the odds are ok, until everyone here fell in love with WAS and now I am suddenly thinking on betting on the Steelers Pittsburgh was really poor against a decimated Ravens team, but in NFL one should never draw any conclusions from what happened the week before (although I do this as well, but you shouldn't in a perfect world). This is a new game and I expect a different Steelers team today. And tbf, yes, they are not super convincing often, but they find a way to win, which is a quality as well. They easily beat the Jaguars/Bengals before and is Washington that much better ? Not sure. Beating Dallas and Burrow-less Bengals isn't that much of an accomplishment.

All in all I think Pittsburgh will find a way to win this one too, but as people anticipate, it could be close again. I wouldn't feel comfortable with +HC on WAS nor with -HC on Steelers, so will just enjoy a NFL game at a very unusual time of the day on a Monday.

In the meantime the odds for the 49ers keep on dropping, but I guess you will be able to get 2.50+ for both teams inplay, so better to wait for that, if you fancy any team.

Yay Jets have fired Gregg Williams, the outraged internet folk can now relax as if he is/was their main problem.



Lost my 'what could go wrong' 6 team parlay because of them @1.17 for the ml haha
Giants are not that bad though, they have a good defense and play physical, 5-2 in the last seven games, both losses are 1 and 2pts.
I just thought that without Daniel Jones they will struggle putting points on the board, guess not; still a pretty big upset, Seattle with a 5-0 record at home prior to this game.

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Everyone in here likes Washington tonight, me too, but that probably means we should all fade them. Cold weather in Pittsburgh, i could see dropped passes, fumbles, possibly low scoring game, and i will likely end up with a prop bet on A.Gibson total rush yards/scoring a TD...still a couple of hours to decide.


Afaik no, but you are right, no total passing yards market for Josh Allen...this is weird.
You can still find it within the 'BetBuilder' but you have to make at least two selections.

I'm also taking Washington later i've bought some points and pushed the spread to +7.5 . Confident in them to keep it close since half of the Steelers home matches came down to a single possession while the other half that ended in blowouts are against weaker teams like the Bengals and Jags.

This was one of the big upsets this week I nearly took them in my survivor pool too luckily I decided to avoid them knowing the Seattle's defense isn't that great. Now i'm having second thoughts about their match next week against the Jets.

Edit : Wow, what an upset by Washington. 

That one really bugged me.  I put a small wager on the Jets in the early 4th, and was counting my winnings with less than two minutes left.  All they needed was one first down, just ONE FIRST DOWN!  Ugh!

The Chiefs game really surprised me, I really didn't expect the Denver defense to make Patrick Mahomes' life so difficult.  

Wow terrible day for me yesterday...
I missed the early games, so I bet on some of the late games... I should have probbaly missed them as well...

Seattle losing to the Giants... to the GIANTS! 

Then I thought, Hey the Chiefs have been on a roll, they should cover the -6.5 at Half against the Broncoss... NOPE.

Chargers getting shutout, Jets losing to that Hail Mary in the very last second (Tank mode still in full mode).

Crazy day of NFL.

Did sportsbet.io presently remove the betting for quarterback passing yards? I made a bet on this maybe only 2 weeks ago.

In any case, there are many injuries for San Francisco. The passing yards for Josh Allen might be good for over?

Washington's last couple wins were from opponents that were more or less pushovers, but they really ran up the score big last time and seem to be on a hot streak. Which is what Pittsburgh's been on all year long. But I just feel like Washington needs this one while Pittsburgh doesn't, although I'm sure they want to keep their streak in tact, of course.

I put a bet in on Washington to win the ML, and a bigger bet to cover @ +6.5 (in retrospect I should have gone with +7). So if they just cover then I'll still be up a little, we'll see.

I like Washington in this game, I'm actually surprised to find the odds so high against them.  Their defense is stout, and now they finally have a real quarterback.  And like you said, the Steelers looked off last week.  I believe the Steelers have been skating by on an easy schedule.  This year's NFC adversaries are the East, and the south for the AFC.  Not the toughest divisions.  The only team with a winning record they've beaten by more than 7 points was Cleveland in week 6.

The way they've been playing recently it's bound to happen sooner rather than later. I'm not much of a football fan but there was nothing else to watch last Wednesday when Steelers barely beat Ravens B-team... they would have lost against any team with an actual quarterback.

OTOH it was like 5th undeserved win they got this season so what do I know.

The Washington game is Monday.

We had this discussion the other week about players tanking, being told to tank by the coaches, GM's etc. And if you watch the last TD-play from the Raiders, it's crystal clear that the Jets didn't want to win this one.

3rd & 10 on the NYJ46, 13 sec left, no TO left for LV. Here you normally play my beloved prevent defense (and it makes sense there), cover the sidelines and allow plays through the middle, secondary stands deep-ish. What do the Jets do ? They send 7 in a low-effort blitz and even have the safety spying on Carr - as if he would or even could run 46 yards All 3 CB's had to play man-to-man et voilá the hail mary found its target.


I placed a bet on the Giants at HT, so SEA win at least should be safe


During losing runs I often had the idea of just doing my normal analyses and then just bet against them. But never had the guts to go through with it in the end