NFL Play of the Week (10/1/23)
The play of the week in the NFL will be a post in which I give my best bet for the NFL each week. It will always be either a straight bet or a 2-team teaser. This week we will take a 2-team teaser for our first Best Bet of the year. Let’s take a look at the teaser for this week.
Week 3 Best Bet: 2-Team 6-Point Teaser = Philadelphia Eagles -3 | Kansas City Chiefs -2.5
Summary:
The Eagles come into this game undefeated. They are also coming off one of their better offensive performances of the year. The defense has been elite in forcing turnovers, leading the league in that category. Although Jalen Hurts hasn’t played well this season, he still has some dangerous weapons on the outside in Devanta Smith and AJ Brown. Additionally, the Eagles rushing attack has been really good the past few weeks, as the offensive line has looked as dominant as they did a year ago.
Even though the Commanders started 2-0, they beat a bad Arizona team by a narrow margin in game one, followed by a 2 point win against a very bad Denver Broncos team who is looking worse by the week. Week 3 the Commanders came back to reality, losing by 30+ points at home to the Buffalo Bills. I believe that week 3 really exposed the Commanders as a fraud 2-0 team, and the Eagles are the far superior team in this matchup. The Eagles did fall to the Commanders when they played in Phili last season, but I think that is all the more reason to believe the Eagles will not take this game lightly. I think Phili gets the win here easy. They likely cover the real number of 9. I wish we could tease this through the key number of 3, to 2.5, but we will settle for -3.
The second matchup is pretty simple here. You have a Chiefs team who already suffered an upset early in the season (week 1 at home vs. the Lions). Since then, the Chiefs got back Chris Jones on the interior of their D-Line, and they have looked really good defensively since. This might be the best Chiefs defense we’ve seen in the Patrick Mahomes era. The other side features the New York Jets. Yes the Jets got the win in Primetime last time they faced the Bills on Sunday night. But this is clearly a mismatch for the Jets. There is no way anyone is backing the Jets and Zach Wilson against a competent NFL defense. I don’t care where the game is played.
So we will tease the Eagles to -3 and the Chiefs to -2.5, & that’s our best bet of the week in the NFL for week 3.
