NFL Week 1 Recap + Week 2 Lookahead Lines

Starting off in rotation, Cleveland on the road at Jacksonville.

Seven and a half was the initial opener.

There was sharp money at that price.

Pushed it up all the way.

Saw nine and a halfs.

at a couple of books.

That was taken away this morning.

Nines were taken out and closed as 8.5. Jags money completely validated.

Game went over the total as well, 44 points versus a closing total of 40.

There was some sharp money on the under.

That got bought back.

Bit of a battle on the total.

Over money prevails in that game.

I don't have really a major takeaway.

I think the most concerning thing that I saw in this game was that the Browns' defense looked way worse than I expected it to be.

We had some very sharp previews, some very sharp thoughts, and the kind of consensus opinion was that this defense, even without Garrett, still had a lot of good pieces and was still going to be able to be somewhat competitive.

Like an average defense, maybe slightly better.

They gave up 10 yards of pass to Trevor Lawrence, and his receivers running wide open.

Had this as one of the four screens up during the early slate, and every time I looked down, it was guys running wide open.

Now, Cleveland driving down the field, getting the ball first.

Game's tied 0-0.

Watson with a terrible interception.

Just... seemed to flip the game completely.

And then from that point onward, there was just no support for this defense.

And so while I do kind of have a takeaway here that this defense looked a lot worse than I expected it to, being put in that game state so quickly against a very good game plan from Liam Cohen, that was a very tough spot for them to be in when there was zero support from the offense.