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Week 3 NFL Picks: Vegas Betting Odds, Over/Under Spreads and Line Projections
- Updated: September 20, 2016
Coming off a week in which the New England Patriots kept chugging right along without Tom Brady and a depleted Minnesota Vikings team upended the Green Bay Packers, bettors might find it hard to go into Week 3 with a ton of confidence.
Fret not, though. The early-season shenanigans aren’t new or surprising. Teams will surprise or disappoint, and players will lose jobs, get injured or have breakouts. These are the variables to expect, which is why for the first month of the season it is so important to carefully analyze the lines out of Las Vegas before picking and choosing spots to strike.
Week 3 offers plenty of intriguing lines for bettors who know where to look. On top of straight outcomes, over/under projections offer another way for bettors to provide a bit of insurance in an unpredictable environment.
NFL Week 3 Odds
Odds courtesy of Odds Shark.
Early Lines to Bet San Francisco at Seattle (-10)
A photo posted by Seattle Seahawks (@seahawks) on Sep 19, 2016 at 6:35pm PDT
Jump on this one, bettors.
Does anyone really want to take the Seattle Seahawks by double digits right now? With a hobbled Russell Wilson, the Seahawks hardly got past the Miami Dolphins in a Week 1 affair before losing 9-3 to the Los Angeles Rams.
How miserable is the Seattle offense? Those Dolphins went on to cough up 31 points in a loss to a Jimmy Garoppolo-led New England offense the next week. The game in the trenches? A disaster, as Pro Football Focus’ Steve Palazzolo pointed out:
Seahawks offensive line ranked in bottom four in both pass and run blocking @PFF
— Steve Palazzolo (@PFF_Steve) September 19, 2016
Now the Seahawks have to deal with the San Francisco 49ers, a team that shut out those Rams in 28-0 fashion to start the season. Though the 49ers came back to earth in a 46-27 loss to the Carolina Panthers last week, this is still a rough divisional matchup and a plodding Seahawks team.
This isn’t meant to suggest the Seahawks …
