On Thursday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was at Campus Martius in Detroit as part of the free party to celebrate Detroit being awarded the 2024 NFL Draft.
When Goodell was announced to the stage, he was booed by the Detroit Lions fans in attendance.
After taking his medicine, Goodell challenged Lions fans.
From Detroit News:
“Just so you know, Nashville hosted a few years ago and had 600,000 people in those three days at the draft,” Goodell said.
“So you have your challenge, Detroit.”
“It’s a passion and dedication of all of you that will bring this to life and put Detroit on the big stage,” Goodell said. “It’s also an opportunity for us to highlight the resurgence of your city and make sure that the things that are being done here are known.”
Nation, do you plan on heading to Detroit for the 2024 NFL Draft?
Sannes’ Win Total Projections: 5 Bets to Make Based on Opening 2022 Win Totals
It’s a betting bonanza kind of week. We had the women’s basketball national championship last night with the men on tap Monday.
Then we sprint to Thursday with The Masters and MLB opening day at the same time.
But the NFL had to stick its snoot in the action, too.
Last Friday, FanDuel Sportsbook posted its first win totals for the 2022 season. As if there weren’t enough already on our plates.
We could ignore these for a bit until the non-NFL sports start to chill out. But then we’re missing out on — potentially — the softest numbers we’ll get all year. We want to pepper these before the market grinds them into efficiency.
As such, let’s run through just the spots where my numbers differ most from the market in order to pick off the biggest values. Then we can circle back and run through more bets later on.
Here are the five totals where my win total projections differ from the market by at least one win. As a note, I omitted the Seattle Seahawks over 5.5 (-130) because my numbers are currently assuming DK Metcalf will return. A trade there would make their projection much lower than its current mark of 6.7.
