Here are some headlines as we turn the page on October and give way to November, bringing out the back nine of the NFL season.
Last week, the only team that we got to see winning by outright was the Panthers, against the Saints. The chalk came back, following an opening-month pronouncement of intention where underdog upset after upset occurred.
Lions ‘statement win’ on Green Bay was the highlight of Week 9 performance. DETROIT ever set it 24-3 on Green Bay before the Packers added a couple of late touchdowns to make the final 24-14 – a score that hardly told the story of how the Lions dominated the Packers for 59 minutes.
Afraid that the Lions have lost only once they are on route to being the best NFC team, and potentially the best team over in the NFL, because they lost an otherwise silly home game against Tampa Bay back in week 2.
Chiefs did it again in AFC and Ravens showed that they are on a path to a defense title AFC championship rematch seems more probable week by week.
Jackson, Allen, Mahomes and Goff came into last week with single-digit odds to win the MVP. All four players helped their teams to victories, so the odds do not change much, although Jackson slimmed to +250 and Goff to +600.
As for the next bet I don’t notice a great deal in that market, however I noticed other award bet that interested me.
Joe Burrow to be crowned as the NFL’s Offensive Player of the year with odds of 100-1 at FanDuel
Joe Burrow is having a great season, although it may not be that noticeable given the Bengals’ poor beginning to the year.
But the team has improved in the past weeks and it is still favored to make the playoffs.
The player who is considered most valuable usually comes from a team that wins 12 games or more and clinches a number two seed. Chances are Burrow won’t fit into that category but can he be the Rookie Offesive Player Of the Year?
This award has not been given to a quarterback for the past several years but was awarded three times in four years, between 2105 and 2018. Burrow is going into Thursday night game against the Ravens with a score of 20 touchdown passes for the season and only four for interceptions means he has a shot at topping 40 touchdown passes in a single season.
Paying that into context, Jackson scored 24 TDs the entire season for him to earn MVP, Mahomes won the award the previous year with 41 TDs and Rodgers, in his 2021 MVP year, tossed 37 TDs.
Os Burrow may not even have enough team success to actually win the MVP, but technically he’s a 100-1 shot with some seriously big numbers, laying $1,000,000 on him to win the Offensive Player of the Year would be an exciting and possibly even profitable proposition.
