Monday Preview - NFL Week 3

Monday Night Football kicks off just after 11.30 a.m. local time here in Saskatoon.

So we are about seven and a half hours away from kickoff.

It is currently Rams a six and a half point favorite across the board.

Total holding steady at 47 from left to right across the screen.

Not much movement on the total all week.

The side is where I think it's interesting to talk about as well as what we can look at as we get into Monday Night Football.

So the question when you're handicapping this game is, I think the Rams now at a reasonable price.

I was talking to a pretty popular better that's professionally preseason before they played on Netflix against San Francisco.

And his thought process, which I agreed with, was I just want to be able to fade this Rams team as much as possible every week and hopefully spots line up to do so.

The rationale behind that was pretty simple.

It was just they're the preview darlings.

They're the all hype team.

And they're at a price which with the expanded schedule, with how the league is trending, it's just never warranted in the NFL.

They're priced super short and it just was never something that would make a lot of sense.

for a team with a lot of aging veterans and a team that is really focused on not starting very fast, but ramping up as the season goes on and being healthy for December in the stretch run.

And now it's a very different conversation one game later because Myles Garrett is out.

Puka Nakua may more than likely not play in this game.

She had the best defender, the best wide receiver.

you have a game that everybody watched on Netflix that painted a very different perception for this Rams team, as well as now a Giants team coming off of a game everyone watched on Sunday Night Football against the Cowboys that paints a very different perception of them.

And so the Rams are at a price point which I look at six and a half and I think it is reasonable.

And reasonable in this game and this matchup with the talent that the Rams still have, even if Nakua is out, is something that I don't think, at least me personally, I was not expecting to have Rams and reasonable in a price conversation really at all during the season.

So I'm thinking about the Rams in a very different way.

Something else I think factors into this too.

There's some more recent information that we have from this.

So if the thought process was that the 49ers game really was a surprise, and it changed the perception on the Rams.