Early in the season, you can cite plenty of reasons for bad football. Teams don’t really take the preseason seriously and there is one fewer week to prepare now that the regular season is 17 games. You end up with a lot of turnovers, bad offense and sloppy games.
Well, it’s almost Week 7 and we’re still seeing a lot of turnovers, bad offense and sloppy games. Not to mention some awful flag fests.
But the NFL is a titan in the sports betting world and any game is a good game because wagering exists. We’re still seeing a lot of low scores, though, as defenses are keeping everything in front of them and teams are getting bottled up with their spread formations in the red zone. We thought we’d see more scoring in Week 6, but that wasn’t the case in most games. Will it be the case in Week 7?
Here are some early lines to consider (odds are from DraftKings as of Sunday night):