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The Buffalo Bills have opened as +6 underdogs on the road against the Jacksonville Jaguars despite a brilliant home win against the Seattle Seahawks and we're pretty certain some new found optimism about having a chance in the AFC following several losses by favored teams during Week 1 - not to mention the loss of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
The "sharp" books have moved this line down to Jaguars -5 ½ already on Tuesday. This line might come down below -5 ½. Why? Nearly 90 percent of the early action was on the Buffalo Bills.
The line should be Jacksonville -5 ½ based on our own mathematics so Gambling911.com has determined that this one opened higher than it should have. Oddsmakers probably believe this game will fall either on the "5" or "6". We probably won't see the line move up to -6 ½ since most of the action is already on Buffalo and a move up wouldn't make much sense. Moving the line under 5 ½ will be dangerous for the books so we don't really expect to see this happen either unless of course the odds makers really believe Buffalo can pull off a win here.
Jacksonville lost to Tennessee during Week 1 while Buffalo destroyed Seattle at home.
Perfect might come close to describing how everyone else -- offense, defense and special teams -- played in helping Buffalo open the regular season with a dominating 34-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks to open the 2008 NFL season.
It's early, no doubt. But if the Bills' objective is to end an eight-year playoff drought this season, they got off to a very promising start in blowing out the four-time defending NFC West champions.
It was a victory that began and ended with Buffalo's special teams. Roscoe Parrish returned a punt 63 yards for a touchdown to put the Bills up 14-0 in the second quarter. Then there was kicker Rian Lindell, who recovered a fumble on a kickoff that set up Trent Edwards' 30-yard touchdown pass to Robert Royal -- 20 seconds after Denney scored.
Brian Moorman became the first Bills punter to throw a touchdown pass, and first NFL punter to do so since Pittsburgh's Josh Miller on Dec. 28, 2003. He caught the Seahawks completely flat-footed in finding the 6-foot-7 Denney wide open in the left flats.
Sports Interaction had this one at +6 Buffalo early in the week.
