Seahawks vs. Broncos Betting Preview and First-Half Line

Thursday night should be an intriguing battle here, Craig, I think, with Denver taking on Seattle. Short week, Denver got the job done on the road there against the Chargers, although that was more about the Chargers ineptitude than really anything, certainly offensively, that Denver did. But Seattle has got to be kicking themselves because that game, they did everything in their power to give the 49ers that game, and they lost at home. now they got to go on the road to altitude to Denver the total has been crashing wouldn't shock me if this closes below 40 uh it's at 40 and a half right now what are we thinking here two and a half Seattle as a road favorite is it a bounce back spot for them uh because i don't like Denver's offense in any way here yeah we've reached also the point in the season for the Broncos where the home field advantage is not what it was in September teams are now more conditioned uh i i have not liked what i've seen from Denver and i think Seattle is the better team the other part of this also if you're gonna back Seattle is this is where look i look look obviously i like watching the games and i think part of handicapping is watching the games but i think way too much is put into watching it and i think a lot more should be the line but in that game in particular if you watch that game Seattle should have won that game i mean there was a pass from Sam Darnold to Jackson Smith and jiggle at the end that that he usually catches and if he does Seattle wins the football game and then what is this line Seattle minus three Seattle minus four Seattle minus five maybe something there so i think you are getting a little bit of a extra uh you know point or two here from Seattle just off that loss and i and i do think that they're better than Denver uh the question is if Denver is going to turn it around Joe they haven't put together two halves of football all season it seems like they just sleepwalk in the first half and then the second half they come back so i i sort of look at this game and say give me Seattle first half it's kind of like i honestly like like why go against something that's been happening all season long if the line is about even Seattle's probably a one point favorite just to have a halftime lead i may just take Seattle in the first half that's it yeah it's gonna be i think a pretty good test uh now here because we're getting to that point uh in the season right where all right Denver if if we're going to take you seriously because we both think Kansas City right now is the class of that division uh in the AFC West well let's you got to prove it man you got to here defending Super Bowl champions coming to your building you've always had a pretty good home field advantage here so well we got to see it now right we can't just be like oh they'll figure it out then we're getting to that point in the middle of october there's no more figuring it out right you are what your record says you are so i'm gonna need to see i don't know what's going on offensively with denver but you brought in Davis Webb nobody thought it was a great hire because he was inexperienced then you pulled it from him uh the duties of calling the game from them sean they looked worse with sean payton calling plays uh in that game than they did with webb so i i don't know i mean there's only so many games you're going to win defensively in the afc west right agreed agreed yeah look i i think in the end denver's a team that gets better in the second half of the season similar to last year uh but their offense is shaky man and and they don't really have a strong running game they don't have a ton of great receivers uh waddle you know maybe i was too tough on waddle i i just didn't think waddle was going to be good at all in denver he's been okay is that fair to say like he's been okay but like what is he had one really good game and then the rest like sort of mediocre games uh i believe i i agree with these odds here i i think the raiders will fall back a little bit and the Chargers at this point even though i think they're going to become a cover monster by the way in the second half of the season yeah they're going to start covering games and they may not win but this is this is getting toward like history levels of not covering every game i think they will uh but i i think that the Chiefs yes you said of the class of division why because i think that this has a chance to be a historical free agent add for Kansas City this is to me like Randy Moss going to New England like like Kenneth Walker may be the biggest impact signing of anybody in the offseason and usually it's never a running back in the NFL but i have personally been shocked and so impressed with how he is look he is look Bijan Robinson and more dynamic running back yeah fair Gibbs yeah fair i got Walker right there Joe with those guys right now like this this guy is 75 yards running 50 yards rush and 40 yards rush he looks better than he was when he was with Seattle and it makes you wonder what Seattle was thinking and letting him go like what like whose decision was that that was a poor one so i think Seattle's saying that correct now like what the heck like what the heck man well Wilson actually has done a nice job for them truthfully uh you know Charbonnet will come back and Wilson's done a nice job but how did they not just want to pay him that money with the way that the salary cap doesn't really work in the NFL and every year it goes up by 50 million that the Super Bowl MVP is the guy you let go bizarre any team could have had him Kansas City's the one that did i i think that those odds that we just showed for the West are inarguable it's very rare for me to say that can't argue anything i see there