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NFL Picks Week 3: Advice for Current Vegas Odds, Spreads and Over/Under Lines
- Updated: September 20, 2016
The days when the only thing that mattered in the NFL was whether your favorite team won or lost are long gone.
Other areas of interest such as fantasy football and, yes, betting have taken over the way many people consume the NFL product. In fact, the winner of the game doesn’t even matter if you are betting on the over/under lines.
Week 3 of the 2016 season brings an entirely new slate of games for fans to gamble on, even if they don’t have a large sample size of contests to fall back on for informed decisions. With that in mind, here is a look at the odds from Vegas, the over/under lines, projections the games and specific bets to target.
Point spreads and over/under lines are courtesy of Odds Shark as of Tuesday at 12:30 a.m. ET.
Point Spread to Target: Green Bay Packers (-7.5) vs. Detroit Lions
Aaron Rodgers has tormented the Detroit Lions throughout his career, and that is not going to stop on Sunday.
His career record against Detroit is 11-3, per Pro Football Reference, and Kyle Meinke of MLive noted that Rodgers’ first loss in the series came when he missed the second half of a game in 2010 with a concussion.
Detroit actually won one of the two matchups with the Green Bay Packers last year, but Rodgers put up 333 passing yards and two touchdown throws in that contest. Had the Packers received more than 47 rushing yards on 18 carries (eight yards came from Rodgers himself), Rodgers likely would have beaten the Lions again.
The signal-caller got redemption in the next matchup with a game-winning Hail Mary to Richard Rodgers. He finished with 273 passing yards and three total touchdowns (one on the ground) in the 27-23 victory. What’s more, he didn’t have wide receiver Jordy Nelson for either of those games, and he will on Sunday.
The Week 3 showdown is also the home opener for the Packers, and the crowd at Lambeau Field should be fired up from the opening kickoff. That is especially the case since the Packers are looking to bounce back from Sunday’s divisional loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
Look for Green Bay to play with a level of …
