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betting lines have very little to do with the actual strengths/weaknesses/records of the teams playing. they are there to get people betting. normally, home team gets 3, so you could interpret this as the Jets being favored by 2.

 

all that said, i'd take the Jets to win outright.

exactly
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How charming that someone still believes that point spreads have anything to do with what some "experts" think will actually happen on the football field. Point spreads are meant to do one thing: to take the body of bettors and divide them equally between the two teams so that the book will win either way. In other words, the point spreads are meant to reflect the opinions of the bettors.

 

It's charming that "let me educate you on vegas" guy is dead wrong for the 873rd consecutive time.

 

Dividing the body of bettors is not remotely close to the same as dividing the $.

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