Categories: Trending now

Vikings Favored by Most in ‘TNF’ Clash at Rams

2024-10-25 03:30:04

Rams 23, Vikings 20 – John Breech, CBS Sports

On paper, the Vikings are definitely the better team in this game, but no one uses paper anymore, so that fact means nothing to me.

I only care about trends, and there are two trends telling me to pick the Rams to win this game. First, teams flying two time zones or more to the west for a Thursday game almost always lose. Since the return of Thursday Night Football in 2006, this has happened a total of 20 times and the Central/Eastern time zone team that flew west has gone 4-16 straight up and 4-14-2 ATS (And two of those four wins were by Aaron Rodgers while he was going through his MVP run with the Packers).

I have no idea why teams are so bad in this situation, but I have some theories. When you’re playing on a Thursday, you only have 72 hours to recover from your Sunday game, and 3.5 of those hours are spent on a plane because you have to fly halfway across the country. Once you get off the plane, you then have to adjust to a new time zone.

Not only is it tough to turn around and play on a Thursday, but the Vikings have to do it after playing the Lions, which brings me to my second trend. No team has won a game this year the week after playing the Lions. Apparently, the Lions are beating up on teams so badly that it makes it impossible to win the following week. It doesn’t matter whether a team wins or loses to the Lions, this trend only involves their next game after facing Detroit.

Here’s a look at the Lions opponents so far in 2024:

Week 1: Rams (Lost 41-10 to Cardinals in Week 2)
Week 2: Buccaneers (Lost 26-7 to Broncos in Week 3 – Tampa Bay was favored by 6)
Week 3: Cardinals (Lost 42-14 to Commanders in Week 4 – Arizona was favored by 3.5)
Week 4: Seahawks (Lost 29-20 to Giants in Week 5 – Seattle was favored by 7)
Week 5: Detroit’s bye week
Week 6: Cowboys (Got a bye in Week 7, face the 49ers in Week 8)
Week 7: Vikings (Playing the Rams in Week 8)

That’s four teams that have gone a combined 0-4 after facing the Lions, and three of the teams were favored to win. Also, the four losses were by an average of 21.8 points per game. At this point, I couldn’t even pick the Vikings if I wanted to. And let’s not forget, the Rams will likely be getting Cooper Kupp back, which should provide a huge boost for the offense.

News Today

Recent Posts

USA Lacrosse Regional Academies Feature Expert Speakers

2024-11-06 16:55:03 SPARKS, Md. — USA Lacrosse is bringing expert education to Denver and Dallas next…

4 mins ago

Bitcoin price hits new high on anticipated Trump victory

2024-11-06 16:45:02 Crypto markets roared on Tuesday night as investors, anticipating a victory for Donald…

14 mins ago

House of Quadri opens experience centre in Gurugram

Published November 5, 2024 House of Quadri, a luxury lab grown diamonds jewellery brand has…

19 mins ago

10 Tips For A Happier Vacation Experience

As fun and exciting as travel can be, it sure can come with some chaos.To…

24 mins ago

We Don’t Need To Get Vulgar About It

Do not call yourself a Bollywood fan if you haven't seen Nora Fatehi dancing to…

29 mins ago

Bitcoin surges to a record $75,000 as traders bet a Trump presidency will boost crypto, weaken regulation

2024-11-06 16:25:04 Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBitcoin rallied overnight, hitting an all-time high…

34 mins ago