Saturday was an action-packed day in and out of the Tuley’s Takes home office.
It started with me staying up late and filing Saturday’s edition of this column (and frankly falling asleep before I posted). Then, I had to get up early to post my Team Tuley’s Thoroughbred Takes column. I also signed up some proxy clients for a couple of the football contests here in town and was able to finally find shock for my pool (I bought a whole box in case the shortage continues!). In between all the other stuff, I was also following horse racing picks (didn’t go so well) and I was also playing in two online horse racing tournaments (those didn’t go well either). In the morning, I also lost my lone NFL preseason game on the day with the Broncos-Bills Under 42.5. I didn’t expect either team to be playing many starters and just wanting to get out of the game healthy, but someone forgot to tell the Bills’ backups the plan as they jumped out to a 28-6 halftime lead and I stopping following along when it went Over the total at 35-9 on the way to the Bills’ 42-15 victory. The day got better with my Best Bet as the A’s 1st + 160 cashed as the A’s were trailing 2-0 going into the bottom of the 5th and rallied for 3 runs to get me the cash! I didn’t luck out as well with the Rangers 1st 5 + 146 as they were leading the Twins 1-0 heading into the bottom of the 5th but the Twins rallied to tie it 1-1 for a push. But, hey, it’s better than a loss! Let’s recap the rest of Saturday’s (full-game) betting results and then look for more 1st 5 plays on Sunday along with my last NFL Preseason Week 2 pick for the weekend.Saturday’s recaps
Leon Edwards stunned Kamaru Usman with 5th-round KO to win UFC welterweight belt at UFC 278. The ViewFromVegas is he did it as consensus closing + 300 underdog (high of + 320 at Westgate SuperBook, Wynn Las Vegas and Station Casinos) and was around + 1500 before the final round at some books.
NFL preseason: Faves went 4-3 SU with Steelers-Jaguars closing pick-'em. Faves/dogs split 3-3-1 ATS with that 1 PK. The push was Lions (-1) in a 27-26 win at Colts. Road teams went 5-3 SU and 4-3-1 ATS. Unders 5-3. In Preseason Week 2, faves are 7-4 SU and 6-4-1 ATS, road teams are 7-5 SU and 6-5-1 ATS, while Unders lead 8-4 (after Overs were 13-3 in Preseason Week 1).