Week 7 picks from a “dog or pass” point of view”
Last Sunday was a rough one in the Tuley’s Take home office. We went a disappointing 1-4 ATS with our (supposed) Best Bets here. It wasn’t an overly chalky day (favorites went 8-5 ATS), but we found ourselves on the wrong side of the majority of games we played.
Sunday started early with the 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT kickoff of the Ravens-Titans game in London. Frankly, I’m kinda getting sick of these international games as it messes up my whole schedule. Anyway, I lost with the Titans +4, and it didn’t get better in the “regular early games” with the Colts +4. The losses kept coming in the afternoon, with the Buccaneers +3 and Cardinals +7.
What I should have been doing was betting Unders, as they went 10-2-1 on the day and 12-2-1 overall in Week 7. I even commented to my friends Roger Dorn and Rick Corcoran that it felt like I had stolen Doc Brown’s DeLorean back to the 1970s or 80s as the low scores kept rolling in: 24-16 (twice), 17-13, 19-13, 19-17, 20-13, 20-6, 21-17, 14-9 and so on. It wasn’t “three yards and a cloud of dust,” more like “three yards, penalty, incomplete, short pass short of first down.”
We cut our losses in the Sunday Night Football game as the Giants +14 (I got +16 earlier Sunday afternoon) covered in their 14-9 loss at the Bills. Fortunately for yours truly, Dave Tuley, it wasn’t a financial bloodbath as a 1-4 record would usually indicate, as at least we swept our recommended 2-team, 6-point teaser plays. We included Commanders +8.5/Bears +9 and Commanders +8.5/Texans +7.5 as Best Bets on those games and also mentioned Bears +9/Texans +7.5 as a “maybe.”