Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers shrugged off that opening week loss to San Francisco but Monday they’ll ring the bell on Round 2 against the NFC West in a primetime showdown against the Seattle Seahawks
Non-divisional Monday Night Football road faves are 8-1 SU/ATS in their last nine games when coming off a divisional win
Our NFL Best Bets split in Week 2 and with three picks in the bank we are 2-1 ATS. The first of this week’s NFL picks skips past the huge Sunday NFL betting lineup for a chance to grab early line value on the Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks matchup.
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Green Bay didn’t feel bad about its 30-22 loss to the 49ers and why should they? Scouting around the NFL betting websites and power rating boards, San Francisco is the top pick on nine out of ten.
The Packers steamrolled Chicago four days later on their first primetime bill of the 2012 season and sportsbooks list them as 3-point favorites in the team’s only September road game. On-deck is a Week 4 home date vs. the New Orleans Saints.
Seattle lost a close one in Arizona but got to work early against the Cowboys and carried a 13-7 lead into half-time. From there, Seattle shut the Boys down in a 27-7 win. Seattle is 5-0 ATS in its past five Monday nighters but this will be rookie QB Russell Wilson’s primetime debut.
RESTED AND READY
With the Packers’ veteran coaching staff, you can bet they’ve made good use of the extra prep time for this game and one of the tasks may have been changing the signals so ex-Pack backup quarterback Matt Flynn doesn’t tip his new teammates off.
The Packers are well versed in the role of road favorite and since 2002, Monday Night Football road faves of less than -7 points are 15-4 SU and 14-5 ATS when coming off a home win.
When the Monday Night host happens to be playing its second of back-to-back home games, the road fave of -7 or less off a home win is 6-1 SU/ATS since 2001, outscoring its host by an average of 29-11.6 PPG.
WEEK 3 NFL BEST BETS
Pinnacle sportsbook offers the Packers at -3 as of Friday and we feel this line could go to -3.5 by gameday. As our first best bet of Week 3, we’re backing the road savvy Packers team to score an ATS victory. Take the Packers
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