Sunday NFL recaps, Monday Night Football Best Bet
Sunday was a thrilling day of sports betting action here in the Tuley’s Takes home office (as I stayed home to tend to my thumb injury suffered New Year’s Eve) with NFL Week 17 and then looking ahead to Monday Night Football and Week 18.
Favorites went 10-4 straight-up on the day, but underdogs led 8-6 ATS as “the point spread is the great equalizer” and dogs continued to thrive in this parity-filled season even though the public perception out there is that there’s a lot of difference between the haves and have-nots. We won with our Best Bet of the day on the Broncos +13 at the Chiefs as they stuck around all game before losing 27-24 and covering. That raised our record 40-24-2 ATS with our daily top play the last 66 days heading all the way back to late October. We also won with the Saints +5.5 at the Eagles in a 20-10 outright upset in a play that we originally gave out on our regular Sunday night appearance on “The Greg Peterson Experience” (12:15 a.m. ET/9:15 p.m. PT, or 15 minutes into the archived version). We did lose with the Texans, who closed +3 vs. the Jaguars, to go 1-1 ATS with our advance plays given out on that show (and VSiN email updates), but we’re still 32-18 ATS (64%) since the start of the football season and 19-9 ATS (67.8%) since the start of November. In other plays from these daily columns, we lost with the Panthers +3.5 at the Buccaneers (should have covered that, but Tom Brady led another late rally to not only win but also cover), but won with the Raiders +10 vs. the 49ers and hit our top 2-point, 6-point teaser play on Browns +8/Dolphins +8.5 and also have live teasers from Seahawks +7.5 and Steelers +8.5 to the Bengals +7.5 on Monday Night Football vs. the Bills. Let’s get to the rest of our Sunday recaps, then take a peek into Contest Corner (Circa Survivor has been as exciting to cover as the actual NFL games this season, but Sunday was anticlimactic as the 3 remaining entrants easily won with the Giants and Lions and advance to Week 17), plus give our Monday Night Football Best Bet as well as early NFL Week 18 plays. We’re 4-0-1 ATS with our Bowl Best Bets, but don’t like any on Monday, at least not enough to put that record on the line. Our leans are on Purdue +15.5 vs. LSU and Penn State +1.5 as our leans have done pretty well, too, as I’m in contention in several bowl pools, but then I also offered up my pick in the CFB Playoff Championship Game.Sunday Recaps
NFL: Steelers rallied to beat Ravens 16-13 on #SundayNightFootball to keep Steelers' playoff hopes alive & get Mike Tomlin to .500 at 8-8: ViewFromVegas is they did it after closing as 1-point road underdogs (stayed Under 35.5). faves went 10-4 SU on Sunday, but dogs led 8-6 ATS w/ 4 dogs covering in losses (Broncos, Raiders, Cardinals and Dolphins); home teams went 9-5 SU & 7-7 ATS; Unders led 7-6-1 w/ the push in the Chargers' 31-10 home win vs. Rams w/ a total of 41 points
More NFL: on season, faves lead 163-86-2 SU w/ 4 pick-'ems, but dogs improved to 133-111-7 ATS (54.5%); home teams lead 137-110-2 SU w/ 6 neutral-site games & 123-120-6 ATS (50.6%); Unders lead 140-112-3 (55.6%) w/ primetime Unders improving to 33-19-1 (63.5%).
Even more NFL: Early games: faves went 7-2 SU, but dogs actually led 5-4 ATS as Broncos (+12.5 in 27-24 loss at Chiefs), Cardinals (+6.5 in 20-10 loss at Falcons), Dolphins (+3 in 23-21 loss at Patriots) covered in SU losses; upsets by Saints (+4.5 in 20-10 win at Eagles) & Browns (+1 in 24-10 win at Commanders)…home teams went 6-3 SU but road teams led 6-3 ATS w/ Jaguars (-3.5 in 31-3 rout at Texans) covering as lone road fave; Unders led 5-4…faves went 3-1 SU but only 2-2 ATS as Raiders (+10) covered in 37-34 OT loss vs. 49ers; upset by Seahawks (+1.5 in 23-6 home win vs. Jets); Packers (-3.5) & Chargers (-6.5) easily covered in their wins; home teams 3-1 SU & 4-0 ATS; Overs 2-1-1 w/ push in LAR-LAC (41)