NFL Week 2 Betting Picks: Against the Spread

Sep 15, 2021

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With Week 1 in the books, we have some actionable data on the new season. Of course, it will be a bit until we have the sample size we prefer, but we got answers to a good deal of questions that we were not in a position to ask a week ago. Some of the most important of which are strengths and weaknesses of certain teams' lines and secondaries. There are certainly a handful of teams that look to have real problems on the defensive back end, and those should be actionable immediately.

A handful of teams were as lifeless as can be last week. A handful of teams were dominant and impressive. These spots are interesting because it is rarely as good or as bad as it seems when there’s a Week 1 performance on a polar end. This will be important when we feel the urge to piggyback onto one very strong or very weak performance from a given team. In most—or all—of those cases, the actual expectation should be closer to that of the preseason than the Week 1 outcome.

We have four betting picks for Week 2, and will be bearing the above points in mind when making these picks. Let’s dive in...