Week 7 Betting Picks: Against The Spread

Oct 20, 2021

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Week 7 in the NFL brings more bye weeks and some seriously lopsided games on the schedule. With six teams on bye, we only have 13 games to choose from this week. Diluting our betting pool even further is the scheduling mismatches this week. Three of those 13 games have point spreads in the neighborhood of two touchdowns, making betting picks on those games far more difficult. The betting lines have been pushed out to the point that taking the favorites becomes imprudent and the underdogs are simply not in play. We will still have two betting plays on two of the more tightly lined games for this week.

Last week we had just two plays. One of which was a sweat-free winner in the Colts. The other was full of sweat, and that was the Dolphins in London. The Dolphins squandered a 10-point lead against the lowly Jaguars. The game, and especially the fourth quarter was not Brian Flores’s most shining moment. An otherwise excellent head coach botched everything down the stretch, costing wins for both his team and our bet.

With that 1-1 week in the books, we move on to Week 7.