Seahawks vs. Broncos: Thursday Night Betting Preview

A Thursday night football game tomorrow night. And boy, oh boy, the more I keep looking at this game, Craig, the more and more I'm just going to be fascinated with the chess match here between these two head coaches who, if you don't, if you recall, when McDonald got the job as the head coach of Seattle, the first game that he actually was going up against was Denver and Sean Payton. and so what he did is he had uh he instructed his guys to listen we don't have anything on what Denver's doing what's going on so he had all the guys go look up on social media and pull all the clips from training camps or anything that was posted online was said let's go let's try to figure out what's going on what they're running what's Peyton doing Sean Peyton ended up catching wind of that and lost his mind uh and then accused McDonald of cheating then they threatened a lawsuit back and said how dare you think i'm cheating so these two do not like one another under any circumstances and let's face it this is kind of a pretty important game for both these teams at this point uh especially Seattle coming off of that loss to the 49ers now they gotta go to Denver uh i'm wondering if he found any more videos on social media about what because it would be nice to see what offense looks like from Denver except Craig we're not getting any and that's the problem the total is 40 and a half i i'm still struggling to figure out how we get over that number here tomorrow night yeah i mean the recipe for Denver has been the same in every game home or road which is nothing in the first half and then in the second half Bo Nix starts throwing it around they start running and so that that might that's good that like we talked about yesterday that's gonna be my play tomorrow is first half Seattle I mean why should I change why should anybody change why should Denver be different than what they've been for four games or five games already whatever week we're in but they just seemingly sleepwalk through the first half and then like how about that game against Jacksonville when they looked like they were going to get crushed and they came all the way back i don't and beat Jacksonville in the second half i don't know amazing amazing you can't keep starting buying the eight ball every game and expect now again you can get away with it with the Chargers who are even worse uh offensively here but uh if you can cut back on the turnovers there Sam Darnold that would be fantastic but i'm with you you know what that first half play love that look as well because i think that is exactly what we're going to get if it ain't broke don't fix it that offense is broke with Sean Payton right now who took over play calling duties uh from Webb who everyone kind of looked sideways when he said all right we're going I'm hiring an offensive you know Davis Webb is going to hold he's going to call a shot uh turns out that when you look at what they did prior to the game last time yeah the offense actually performed a little bit better than they did with Sean Payton calling to play so it feels like there's a lot of finger pointing we're looking for answers that nobody has but i can tell you this seattle better be able to run the ball right and sooner rather than later because if Sam Darnold is going to be or have to drop back and throw 40 passes seattle's because that defense is not what it was a year ago i don't think anybody expected it to be but you you're gonna need a running game at some point so hopefully they get healthier uh and not have to use halani third string running backs who fumble in the end zone much more going forward yeah so another another thing you brought up in this game that that i think is is worth looking at and i'm not sure that i'd have an opinion one way or the other but i will have an opinion on something which is like i i think at this point on the monday night and sunday night games i cannot recommend an under at all until i see one because there are none every single game is going over they're going to overtime a lot of scoring now last thursday if i'm not mistaken the total was 48 and a half with dallas and tampa bay and that thing went way under so thursday night generally has been the under night of the week so i think i can buy that with you but i do want to say that when we're back here next monday i'm not going under on anymore like and on sunday night anymore i mean these these primetime games for whatever reason these guys are showing up in a big way there's so much 60 70 points in all these games thursday night though a little bit different here so maybe i could go with that one now the previous thursday night games have been going over too but i think the trend's got to start to get back to where it normally is which is i agree thursday games used to be duds through the years Thank you.