The theme for Week 2 in pretty much any NFL season is to not overreact. It’s pretty common knowledge that we get some results that turn out to be massive outliers in the season’s opening week, so don’t go wild basing too many of your Week 2 bets on what happened last week.
While some of the results could carry over — maybe the Saints are good and the Falcons stink, others will likely be corrected as all those star rookies can’t possibly be that bad… Sadly, Bryce Young probably is though.
While some teams and players quite simply aren’t themselves at this point of the season, we probably shouldn’t be confused by the performance of the Bengals in Week 1. While they’re still hovering around the top ten on the Super Bowl futures odds board, we’ve seen a serious NFL betting trend from this team of being downright pathetic to open their seasons.
Since 2020 when Joe Burrow debuted, the team has gone 1-8 SU and 2-7 ATS in games played in Weeks 1 and 2. Five of those eight outright losses came as a favorite and it’s not like they’ve played a lot of stiff competition in these games as they’ve lost to teams quarterbacked by Deshaun Watson, Mitch Trubisky, Cooper Rush, Justin Fields, Tyrod Taylor, and Jacoby Brissett this past week.
Now, they’ll hit the road to take on the defending Super Bowl champions who have a nice rest advantage. We’ll see if the Bengals can put their early-season issues behind them, but it won’t be easy against a Chiefs team who’ll likely be extremely locked in for the matchup.
Check out the rest of my favorite betting trends for the week below — best of luck in Week 2!
