The trade deadline reshaped two key matchups as the Seahawks face the Raiders and Kirk Cousins makes his Vikings debut on the road at Green Bay.
I haven’t had much luck this season when putting multiple games into one play. I’ve lost three of the four teaser bets that I’ve shared. However, the few times I’ve done games with multiple plays, they’ve shown decent success.
Since the trade deadline was this week, I want to share a play on a pair of games that involved two teams that swapped quarterbacks. Let’s take a look at what to play as the Seahawks and Raiders play and the Vikings and Packers square off.
The Seattle Seahawks are 5-4 for the season, and the defending Super Bowl champions. However, it feels like this team, despite still having a solid defense, will not be part of the playoffs. Seattle has a quarterback issue with Sam Darnold being injured. Drew Lock will be under center tonight, and this isn’t the first time this season. Lock has played well for the Seahawks, and this will be his fourth game of the year. You could make a very compelling argument that this team has been better with Lock under center than a hobbled Darnold. Lock has almost 600 yards and five touchdowns in his three games played.
The Raiders are one of those teams that started the season promising, but have since stumbled. They are 4-5 for the season, and are just 1-3 at home this year. They must’ve decided their playoff chances are slim enough this season, because they traded away Kirk Cousins. I have to give Cousins a bit of credit for playing well, but the rest of the team has not really been great. More on him in a moment, but the ball now gets turned over to Fernando Mendoza to lead the way. Asthon Jeanty is underperforming, and the Raiders defense isn’t good, so this will be an uphill and difficult battle for Mendoza.
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However, I do think the Raiders will get a boost from Mendoza. There will be some bumps in the road, and they have to do something about a defense that ranks 26th against the pass and dead last against the run. But I think at home, and facing Lock (even though he has played well), the Raiders are the right choice; give me them +4.5. In fairness, the under is probably the best bet here, though, as neither team is likely to put up a ton of points.
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Cousins comes back to Minnesota, where he saw most of his career take place. However, I have some significant concerns about him. He will step in instantly and upgrade the quarterback play.
The Vikings are arguably the deepest team at the position with Cousins, Kyler Murray, and Carson Wentz. However, I feel like a lot of Cousins’s success was due to Klint Kubiak. Multiple guys have played well with him calling the shots. He won’t have that in Minnesota, and I genuinely wonder if he will have the same success he’s had this season. The Vikings are elite on defense, and now they have at least a competent quarterback. To be clear, Cousins is an upgrade, but don’t expect Minnesota to be perfect just because he was added.
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The Green Bay Packers are 6-3 for the season and had to have circled this game on the calendar. They started the season with a bad loss against these Vikings. The Packers were winning with ease, but couldn’t get anything going in the second half. Wentz gave the Packers’ defense fits, and the Vikings stole the game. Since then, Jordan Love has improved, and the Green Bay running game actually looks fairly decent as well. The Packers defense may not rank as highly as the Vikings, but they are still solid in terms of yards allowed.
I do think the Vikings offense will improve – it is hard to be much worse than what we saw on Monday night – but a short week, with a new quarterback, on the road, against a good Packers team… it just doesn’t smell like a good opportunity for Minnesota. I’ll take the Packers -5.5.
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