Bengals Early 1.5 Point Favourites — Vegas More Optimistic About the Bills Than Many?

[mannc]

5 hours ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:

Given the typical 3 points the Home Team gets and the Bengals are on a 3 game winning streak — beat @Cardinals, Seahawks and @49’ers — and the Bills have stumbled to victories recently, it seems Vegas sees the Bills in a more positive light than many here.

 

I tend to be an optimistic Bills fan however I don’t have a good feeling about Sunday Night’s game in Cincinnati.

 

What do you think Vegas is seeing that perhaps we are overlooking?

Vegas has liked the Bills all year, yet we’re only 3-5 ATS

[MikePJ76]

I had multiple people here tell me I must not watch football if I think the bengals are good.  

 

The bills do not have the horses to slow down that offense.  They are going to have to win a 38-35 game.  Doesn't feel like they are built to do that right now.  It feels like the game sunday will be a worse version of the playoff game last year. 

 

They have to go get help for this defense today or tomorrow, they just have to

[julian]

5 hours ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:

Given the typical 3 points the Home Team gets and the Bengals are on a 3 game winning streak — beat @Cardinals, Seahawks and @49’ers — and the Bills have stumbled to victories recently, it seems Vegas sees the Bills in a more positive light than many here.

 

I tend to be an optimistic Bills fan however I don’t have a good feeling about Sunday Night’s game in Cincinnati.

 

What do you think Vegas is seeing that perhaps we are overlooking?

Josh Allen

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

3 hours ago, newcam2012 said:

Well I'm a small better and never bet too much. It's all relative. I bet $300. That's a lot for me. 

hope you lose

 

[Beast]

I was expecting a -4.5 to -5 for the Bengals.

 

The Bills are just all out of sorts.

[Big Turk]

Bills are still Top 5 in DVOA.  Vegas sees them, and rightly so, as a very good team.

[BuffaloRebound]

I think it’s fortuitous that we’re playing the Bengals the week of the trade deadline.  McBeane can’t fool themselves in regards to the Bills weaknesses with the very real possibility of being bullied by the Bengals coming up.  I think a Donta Foreman type hammer RB to replace Harris and a stout DT next to Oliver are a must.  Probably wouldn’t cost more than a 4th and 6th rounder to fill those needs.  

[BeastMaster]

My initial feeling is that the Bills will put up a good fight, but the Bengals will just be too much on offense to stop late.

 

Maybe we get lucky with a key turnover or something, but smart money is on Cincy

[Captain_Quint]

28 minutes ago, BeastMaster said:

My initial feeling is that the Bills will put up a good fight, but the Bengals will just be too much on offense to stop late.

 

Maybe we get lucky with a key turnover or something, but smart money is on Cincy

My biggest fear is listening to Chris Collingsworth call a Cincy game. And if they get rolling, it will be unbearable. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

38 minutes ago, Beast said:

I was expecting a -4.5 to -5 for the Bengals.

 

The Bills are just all out of sorts.

Vegas doesn’t trust the bengals yet either…Deebo-less 49ers are a mediocre at best team that is now 0-3 in a 3 game stretch. Don’t think the non buffalo fan bettors are taking as much out of the niners bengals game as we are.

 

it’s possible they’re just starting out on an epic run but it’s possible they aren’t too 

[DabillsDaBillsDaBills]

The Bengals are having an interesting season. 

 

Offensively they've had 2 great, 1 mediocre, and 4 awful games. 

 

Defensively has been great the whole year outside of an inexplicable pounding in Tennessee. 

 

Obviously they are trending in a better direction than the Bills with those 2 great offensive games coming in the last 3 weeks. One of those was against the Cardinals (possibly the worst team in the league) and a suddenly reeling 49ers team. 

 

The Bills have avenged their last 2 playoff losses to KC with regular season wins at KC. I think we'll do the same to the Bengals this year with our offense finally hitting high gear again. 

[Drew21PA]

I’m betting bengals by at least a TD this werk

 

hope I lose my money 

[BuffaloMatt]

Its gonna be a long week and i don't have a good feeling about this one. Then again I never do. 

[Ramza86]

We are gonna get absolutely stomped again. This one is gonna be tough to watch.

[WotAGuy]

Bengals are just a difficult matchup for the Bills. Just like Jacksonville and the Jets. Not sure why, maybe it’s mojo or just certain individual matchups are bad, but it’s the NFL ‘Nother Flucking Loss - which also describes my betting record this year. 
 

 

[zow2]

7 hours ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:

Given the typical 3 points the Home Team gets and the Bengals are on a 3 game winning streak — beat @Cardinals, Seahawks and @49’ers — and the Bills have stumbled to victories recently, it seems Vegas sees the Bills in a more positive light than many here.

 

I tend to be an optimistic Bills fan however I don’t have a good feeling about Sunday Night’s game in Cincinnati.

 

What do you think Vegas is seeing that perhaps we are overlooking?

 

By the way, I was listening to a show about Vegas NFL odds and the "3 points for home teams" is not a thing anymore.  They said homefield is not the huge advantage it used to be, everything is analytical now.  At best the home team nowadays gets 1.5 points towards their side.

1 minute ago, WotAGuy said:

Bengals are just a difficult matchup for the Bills. Just like Jacksonville and the Jets. Not sure why, maybe it’s mojo or just certain individual matchups are bad, but it’s the NFL ‘Nother Flucking Loss - which also describes my betting record this year. 
 

 

 

It's been a bad matchup all the way back to the 1988 AFC Championship game.  I agree, we just haven't matched up well with the Bengals, especially in the big games.

[BuffaloRebound]

3 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Bengals are just a difficult matchup for the Bills. Just like Jacksonville and the Jets. Not sure why, maybe it’s mojo or just certain individual matchups are bad, but it’s the NFL ‘Nother Flucking Loss - which also describes my betting record this year. 
 

 

Bengals are physical on both sides of ball with an excellent QB who will take the 6-7 yard pass all day.  

[78thealltimegreat]

Have to remember as bad as the Bills played the 49ers team the Bengals just played scored 9 points against Cleveland and 17 points against Minnesota. 
They still should have lost to the Seahawks last week. So the Bengals are playing better but it’s not like we are playing some juggernaut that why even bother showing up type of game.

[uticaclub]

The Bengals defense shows up in big games, Buffalo’s doesn't (other than the Ravens playoff game) 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, 78thealltimegreat said:

Have to remember as bad as the Bills played the 49ers team the Bengals just played scored 9 points against Cleveland and 17 points against Minnesota. 
They still should have lost to the Seahawks last week. So the Bengals are playing better but it’s not like we are playing some juggernaut that why even bother showing up type of game.

The 49ers are lost without Deebo…we may lose for sure but this notion that the bengals beat a juggernaut is objectively false.