The National Football League will present a pair of Monday Night Football games this evening on opposite sides of the eastern seaboard. The New York Giants are hosting the Green Bay Packers and the Miami Dolphins are at home to battle the Tennessee Titans.
The wagering public has no trouble picking both these two games, they like the favorites. If there are eight bettors at the window getting down on the Giants home game, seven of them are taking the Packers and laying the points. If the crowd reaches 19 people wagering on the game at Hard Rock Stadium tonight, 17 of them are there to get down on the Dolphins.
That is too much public action on the favorites to have me jump on their side with any confidence, leaving me much more interested in taking a longer look at the underdogs to see if there is viability for a play on the Giants or Titans.
The wise guys think so.
They are taking the Giants tonight.
I suspect the smart money move to the Giants is driven by a key injury, it usually is, and we have it tonight with the Packers. The Packers had won only two games through October but have been on a playoff drive in recent weeks. Before their victory last Sunday night over the Kansas City Chiefs, the NBC graphic department developed an uncanny comparison between Jordan Love and Aaron Rodgers. Seems the two quarterbacks began their careers with the Packers, brace yourself, with identical statistics.