- Payments’ Tremendous Bowl odds shift after two losses in a row
- Allen drops to 3rd in MVP odds after Mahomes and Mayfield
- Payments head into bye week, with coach saying crew wants to begin from “floor zero”
‘Tis the season for excessive NFL takes, six video games in, with the commerce deadline barrelling in quick (Nov. 4). The Buffalo Payments are on a bye week, and it couldn’t come quick sufficient for a crew that’s displaying foundational cracks.
Elijah Moore of the Buffalo Payments recovers a fumble in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons within the fourth quarter of the sport at Mercedes-Benz Stadium Monday evening in Atlanta, Georgia. Picture by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photos.
Falcons Dominate
Monday evening’s 24-14 rating of their loss to the Falcons was complementary – the Falcons beat them up. There wasn’t one second in that recreation the place it appeared the Payments have been going to return again and win it. The Payments have misplaced two in a row, sit at 4-2, and are second within the AFC East, behind the Patriots. For Payments’ followers of a sure classic, wanting up on the Patriots within the standings is a terrifying state of affairs.
These aren’t your Tom Brady Patriots, although. These are your Drake Maye Patriots, a younger QB who’s severely rising – fifth in NFL passing stats, at 1,522 yards, 73.2 % completion (second within the league to the Lions’ Jared Goff), with ten TDs (tied for ninth with 5 different QBs). As this guy writes, and we agree, Maye has turn into a proficient deep ball passer.
Blitzed and Battered
If the NFL season ended right now, the Payments can be on the highway for the playoffs. And this can be a Tremendous-Bowl-or-bust season. The takes on the Payments’ effort in opposition to the Falcons have been scathing – Payments QB Josh Allen was blitzed, battered and beat up by the Falcons’ defence, with 4 sacks. The Falcons racked up 21 factors by early within the second quarter, calling into query the Payments’ defence.
This is also a lull in what’s an extended season. That’s the way in which sports activities books appear to be it. At ESPN BET, the Payments stay the Tremendous Bowl favourite, now at +600. The Chiefs improved their Tremendous Bowl odds from +800 (4th finest on Sunday morning) to +600. The Packers are at +700, adopted by the Lions are at +775. The Chiefs at the moment are the most-bet Tremendous Bowl winner on ESPN BET by deal with for each the general market and for the reason that season began.
Allen Slips in MVP Odds
MVP odds have been tossed up into the air: Patrick Mahomes shortened his odds to +200, with Baker Mayfield at +300, and Allen dropping to 3rd after the weekend, now at +325 (entered Sunday at +140). Again-to-back losses will try this (and be careful for the aforementioned Maye, who entered the season at 50/1 for MVP, now fourth at 11/1).
The nervousness round Allen, the reigning MVP, that the crew shouldn’t be surrounding him with the requisite expertise, losing his prime years, is getting louder. That’s very true on the extensive receiver place. Makes one surprise how lively they are going to be on the commerce deadline.
McDermott: Time to Hunker Down
RB James Prepare dinner isn’t getting the ball sufficient (simply 17 touches for 87 yards in opposition to Atlanta). Injuries are an element, too, sure. WR Joshua Palmer is listed as week to week with an ankle harm, and WR Curtis Samuel has been out with a necks/ribs difficulty. It’s unclear if they are going to be prepared for the following recreation in opposition to the Panthers Oct. 26. The Payments don’t have a breakout participant at extensive receiver, and it’s costing them.
DT DaQuan Jones is week to week, whereas TE Dalton Kincaid, LB Matt Milano and LB Terrel Bernard are day after day, Payments head coach Sean McDermott advised the media yesterday.
After the sloppy Falcons recreation McDermott advised reporters the crew has to “begin from floor zero.” No ensures in what number of of their injured gamers they’ll get again for the following recreation in opposition to Carolina.
Commerce for a Vast Receiver?
“We are able to definitely carry out at the next degree, and we have to,” McDermott advised reporters. “Whenever you go right into a bye week, you’ve gotten slightly bit extra time in your palms to actually hunker down and examine issues, examine scheme, examine all the recent spots, if you’ll. And that’s what I’ve requested the coordinators to do, is let’s establish the issues after which let’s get collectively on it and determine the options and one of the simplest ways ahead. On this case, it’s evaluating personnel and ensuring that we’ve acquired the precise individuals in the precise locations that may get the job finished right here for us.”
All anybody remembers from the Falcons recreation is a botched finish round pitched to Elijah Moore on a 3rd and two within the fourth quarter. An terrible name that symbolized ineptitude, not good for a crew with Tremendous Bowl aspirations.
Stated Allen post-game: “Hear, if it really works, it’s an important name. If it doesn’t, it’s not. If we run the ball there, downhill, and it doesn’t work, it’s not an excellent name, proper? Little particulars matter. We’ve acquired to search out methods.”
Allen Not Happy
“We’re higher than that, and we’ve got to deal with that higher subsequent time,” mentioned McDermott. “Yearly you begin at floor zero and work your manner again as much as the place you’re. It is advisable be sure there’s nothing within the basis that must be fastened.
“The final two video games, we’ve had some good moments, however I additionally wish to sort of look underneath the hood slightly bit extra and be sure that we’ve acquired every part beneath when it comes to the inspiration, that it’s serving to us, to the way in which we follow, to the way in which we meet, to what we’re asking our gamers to do.”
So Palmer and Samuel are out. Kincaid too. Who is aware of what the Payments have in Keon Clark.
If the Payments choose to commerce for extensive receiver assist on the commerce deadline, what’s a few of the chatter we’re listening to? A reputation like Jakobi Meyers of the Raiders, who makes loads of a deep go catches (29 catches for 329 yards total up to now this season). Meyers requested to be traded out of Las Vegas initially of the season. The Raiders are a nasty crew and would possibly unload gamers. D.J. Moore with the Bears, with the ascending QB Caleb Williams throwing Rome Odunze the ball extra, are others.
Payments Nonetheless Favoured at BetMGM
How about actually fantasizing, and herald A.J. Brown, top-of-the-line receivers within the NFL, seemingly dissatisfied with the Eagles? Saints WR Chris Olave is one other potential goal.
At BetMGM, after sitting at +200 to win the AFC after Week 6, the Payments at the moment are +300, with the Chiefs at +325, the Patriots at +1700.
