NFL Frontrunners and Betting Odds: Chiefs, Steelers, Texans

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00:00And the Chiefs check in at a whopping minus 750.

00:07Baltimore right now is plus 130.

00:09The 3-0 Steelers are the second option there.

00:12Let me take these three minus-money favorites here and ask you guys where maybe if you think

00:19there is any value in fading them, maybe you think one of these teams should be a bigger

00:24favorite.

00:25When you look at the division favorites right now, Leecee, of the South, the North, and

00:28the South, excuse me, East and West, what really catches your eye?

00:32Well, I would say the South because of how Houston looked last week.

00:35Is this going to be a sophomore jinx the way we saw in regards to Jacksonville a couple

00:39years ago where they win the playoff game and then they start out 8-3 and then they

00:44lose five games down the stretch?

00:46Is that going to be a similar situation?

00:49I need to see that defense with Tomiko Ryan step up, close it back out today against Jacksonville.

00:55We know C.J. Stroud is one of the better quarterbacks in the AFC, but if the defense starts to slip,

01:01Donnie, that would be where I'd be concerned out of the three frontrunners.

01:04The one interesting part about the Houston Texans is coming into the season, I had a

01:08lot of high vibes for them.

01:09I thought C.J. Stroud would be a very good quarterback just like he was last year, maybe

01:12take it to the next level, Joe, and be an MVP candidate.

01:14They got hammered last week, but also under the guise of, oh, that's no big deal.

01:19They play Jacksonville at home.

01:20They should get right back.

01:21It wasn't as like they lost 34-31 last year.

01:23They got hammered.

01:24C.J. Stroud got benched on the final drive of the game.

01:26I'm interested to see if they deserve to be that price point at a minus 230, but I got

01:30to be honest, and it's me coming into the season handicapping, going like, I don't care

01:35who the Chiefs have as long as it's Patrick Mahomes.

01:37I love the second guess myself.

01:38They're 3-0 right now.

01:39They should be in the lead, but a minus 750 price with all of those injuries going up

01:43against the game today, Joe, two in one, the Chargers, if the Chargers beat them, the Chargers

01:49technically are in first place.

01:50Why is that minus 750?

01:52We don't believe in the Chargers?

01:54Well, I think because of the injury concerns about Herbert and the weapons that he has

01:57on the outside as well, right?

01:59I mean, Johnston is a good wide receiver.

02:02He's not elite.

02:03We put them at the same level of where Keenan Allen and Mike Williams were when they were

02:08healthy, and they've done it with a rushing attack right now, but it's sort of ugly winning

02:12games.

02:13I think, Donnie, it's a good point you bring up, but I think you answered your own question.

02:16If the Chiefs win today, a touchdown favorite, they're 4-0, LA's down to 2-2, Raiders are

02:22dogs today, and so are the Denver Broncos, not that upsets can't be had, but if Kansas

02:27City wins, now, if Kansas City wins today and goes like minus 1,800, I don't really

02:31understand what was the point of the minus 750 there.

02:35I'll bring up Buffalo, and some of it is to do with them, but I know I'm on a Jets island

02:43here, at least relative to Leecey, but just work with me here.

02:47Next three games, each of these two teams, Buffalo, what I think is maybe the hardest

02:50three-game stretch anyone's had all season, at Baltimore, at Houston, at New York, those

02:55Jets very well could be dogs in all of those games.

02:59The New York Jets today host Denver.

03:00They lay eight.

03:01They follow that up by playing Minnesota in London.

03:03They'll be favored in the game.

03:04Not run away.

03:05I'm not saying they're going to be laying 100.

03:06They'll be favored in the game, and they will be favored against Buffalo at home.

03:11They'll be playing their third consecutive road game here.

03:14My point is, the Jets were preseason favorites to win this division, Donnie, and I know you

03:18were on them.

03:19But the world where these teams have the same record after six weeks would be very reasonable

03:25to me, and at that point, wouldn't they shift back to the Jets as the favorites because

03:30that's who the preseason favorite was?

03:31Yeah, we're just waiting for that explosive moment for the Jets because they're not getting

03:35credit for going on the road and beating Tennessee.

03:36They're not getting credit for beating New England.

03:38It seems like everybody goes, well, I watched Monday Night Football to open the season.

03:41They looked bad.

03:42They're a good team, and I'm with Kevin.

03:43I like the Bills early in the preseason, but before we got to outside of training camp

03:47and the final preseason games, I switched over to the New York Jets here.

03:50The question's going to be the same thing I brought up this week, too, multiple times.

03:53Like, Josh, Alec, are you going to take, like, if you had to take the Buffalo Bills at minus

03:57180 this week, I'd say, you know what?

03:58If I think they're going to win this division, I'm waiting three weeks.

04:01I hope they lose two football games.

04:03Then I jump back in them because it gets a little bit easier because that schedule opening

04:06up is very tough.

04:07But I think Kevin's a good point here.

04:08The minus 180, I'm not running to the window and saying, I love the Buffalo Bills.

04:12They're 3-0 right now.

04:13They could be 4-0 tonight.

04:14But again, they beat the Baltimore Ravens tonight.

04:17You're looking at that number going from a minus 180 probably to a minus 200.

04:20Yeah, you are.

04:21And I'll just say the Jets are the only team in the division that you could look at to

04:24potentially challenge from the quarterback perspective, right?

04:27Have a Super Bowl champion.

04:29You have an MVP candidate in Aaron Rodgers.

04:31Miami has nothing right now with two of being on the sidelines and we know New England.

04:35So it's not a bad look out of that group.

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