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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Week 8 Betting Preview: 7-point favorites just keep on winning

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Nfl, Sports News, News, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As we near the halfway-point of the regular season, two shocking NFL stats stand out that may be of interest to bettors: double digit favorites are 11-3 against the spread while every 7+ point favorite has won outright.Scott Pianowski & Frank Schwab kick off their weekly Wednesday betting pod discussing these two numbers, and why the weirdness of the 2021 NFL season may be its chalkiness.Later in the show, they dive into the Week 8 lines, including figuring out what to do with the COVID-diminished Packers visiting the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night, a potentially low-scoring Browns/Steelers matchup on Sunday and the Kansas City Chiefs laying a whopping 10 points against the New York Giants on Monday night, despite their double-digit loss to the Tennessee Titans last weekend.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. It's a handicapping Tuesday coming to your ears on Wednesday, and I'm Scott Pianowski. I'll be joined by my good friend and handicapper to the stars Yahoo Sports Books, Frank Schwab in just a minute. But before we get into the NFL, the lines, the actions, the sharp money, let's

0:22.4

just remind you that all of our lines today come courtesy of our friends at bed MGM, and they've

0:27.4

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0:32.0

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0:42.0

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0:53.8

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0:57.4

started or use the promo code Yahoo when making your first deposit. Get in there in time for the

1:03.5

Michigan Mission State game on Saturday, perhaps. Okay, we're going to talk NFL. Let's get my man

1:08.5

Frank Schwab in here. You know him for all the Yahoo football coverage. He's on just about every podcast. I feel like we do here at Yahoo, including a big part of the Yahoo Sportsbook Daily program. Mr. Schwab, Aloha. You know, I mean, this is week eight, right? Eighth time we've done this. And as I looked through the lines when I was writing the first look on Monday, I was like, I'm glad we're doing the show because I honestly need to be talked into some

1:31.5

sides. This is this is a toughest one I've seen where I just, nothing really popped out at me.

1:38.1

Nothing was like, wow, yeah, I really love that. At least I won't have undying love for the

1:42.3

Carolina Panthers again like I did last week.

1:44.3

So I'm looking forward to this one just because I want to figure out, all right, let's get some,

1:49.0

let's get some bets down.

1:50.3

Let's get some sides I like.

1:51.7

More games to work with.

1:52.9

Remember, we had that crazy by week.

1:54.7

Six teams didn't play last week.

1:56.4

This week, it's only the Ravens and the Raiders on holiday.

1:59.6

So 30 of the 32 teams are in play.

2:02.3

And before we jump into the games, I just want to do one really quick thing here.

2:06.5

We were talking off air about, I believe the status, this is for my friend Mike Traynor

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