Jaguars vs. Bills and Bengals vs. Commanders: A Night of Redemption

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Sep 23, 2024, 20:15 IST

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Three NFL teams enter Week 3 without a win, including the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals, who feature in a Monday Night Football doubleheader. The Jaguars face the Buffalo Bills as underdogs, while the Bengals are favored against the Washington Commanders. Sportsbooks are hoping for underdog victories to balance betting action.

Jaguars vs. Bills and Bengals vs. Commanders: A Night of Redemption

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Three teams enter their third week with no wins, and two of them will be featured in a "Monday Night Football" doubleheader. The first game is the Jacksonville Jaguars (0-2) as 5½-point underdogs against the Bills (2-0) at 4:30 p.m. The second game finds the Bengals (0-2), favored 7½ points at home, against the Washington Commanders (1-1) at 5:15 p.m.

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Red Rock Resort sportsbook director Chuck Esposito is excited to have the doubleheader, but he would have liked to see the game times spread out. According to RJ Espanol, he said, “I love the Monday night doubleheaders. I just wish the games were staggered with a 4 o’clock start and a 7 o’clock start. Everything is going to be rolling over to the Bills and Bengals. We’re definitely going to be Jags and Commanders fans.”
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Cincinnati, which began the year losing 31-21 to the New England Patriots as 7½-point favorites, responded with a 26-25 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs as 6½-point underdogs. The Bengals today are the largest point-spread favorites of Week 3 and underdogs are now 7-7 straight up and against the spread both.
Eric Fenstermaker, trading lead for Caesars Sportsbook's U.S. said about the public's trust in Joe Burrow. According to RJ Espanol, he said, "I think a lot of people still don't see them falling to 0-3." The Bengals are huge in Circa Survivor, which has 988 of the remaining 1,630 entries on their side.

Washington begins with a straight-up loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and rebounds against New York Giants. The over/under for the Bengals-Commanders game is 47, and the last two meetings have both taken overs to cash.
Other tough losses for Jacksonville were the 20-17 loss to Miami Dolphins and 18-13 loss to Cleveland Browns. But Buffalo started their season with a bang, winning one game at Arizona Cardinals and a more influential victory over the Dolphins that shifted the line by -5½.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay said both sides needed a bit of underdog love. According to RJ Espanol, he said, "Obviously, both the Jaguars and Commanders are a tad less appealing on the betting board with either side being favored.".
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