Comments on: The Jets Outlook vs. the Saints is Petty Ugly http://www.footballperspective.com/the-jets-outlook-vs-the-saints-is-petty-ugly/ NFL History and Stats Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richie http://www.footballperspective.com/the-jets-outlook-vs-the-saints-is-petty-ugly/#comment-330483 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=36353#comment-330483 The Colts were 16.5 point underdogs at home? Nice.

The PFR database has 10 games where a home team was an underdog of 15+ points. Atlanta has the lead as a 23-point underdog at home to San Francisco in 1987. I think that was a game with Atlanta using replacement players (Erik Kramer at QB) while San Francisco had most of their roster (including Joe Montana). I’m surprised the spread was only 23 points. But San Francisco won by 8 after pulling Montana in the 2nd quarter with a 13-0 lead.

http://pfref.com/tiny/dBq9m

]]> By: Tom http://www.footballperspective.com/the-jets-outlook-vs-the-saints-is-petty-ugly/#comment-330481 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:22:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=36353#comment-330481 Wow…let me get this straight: in the last four years, the league has seen just three games with a spread greater than 15 points (including this week’s game), and Bryce Petty was/is QB in two of them? Yikes.

This is an odd one for me…my numbers say the Saints win by 16, but it seems like too many points. The Saints running game might slow this thing down a bit, heck, maybe they even take Brees out in the 4th if it gets out of hand and the Jets get the back door cover, game ends 30-17.

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