Now, granted, it's a Wednesday and it feels weird to have the NFL season start on a Wednesday, but we've been without actual NFL football long enough that we can deal with the season starting a day early just so the league can spread its wings into Australia and force-feed us a second kickoff game that takes place in the future (the Rams and 49ers will play on Friday and most of us will watch on Thursday. Seahawks and more NFL Week 1 games with the FanDuel promo code for up to $350 in bonus bets: And we get a banger of a kickoff, too, with a rematch of the Super Bowl, where the Patriots and Drake Maye were dismantled by the Seahawks' defense. Hopefully, the game is much better this time around.
We do have a low total in this one with two defensive-minded coaches, so let's not get crazy with touchdown parlay bets. But there's plenty of NFL betting meat on the bone for the first game of the year. There's no doubt the Patriots will be motivated to show last year wasn't a fluke and to get revenge on Seattle for embarrassing them in the final game of the season.
But the Seahawks should be plenty motivated too; when's the last time you saw a team win a Super Bowl and get as little love as the Seahawks did this offseason. Mike MacDonald's defense should only be better and despite losing Kenneth Walker to free agency, Seattle's run game should be stout with Jadarian Price stepping in. What the offense specifically looks like sans Klint Kubiak is a major storyline for the entire season, but I'm not worried about the Seahawks finding their way to enough points to cover the three and letting the defense do most of the work en route to taking out the Patriots again.
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Douglas cleared this number in 10 games last year, including the playoffs, and produced a seven-target, five-catch game for 45 yards against the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. We're basically asking for three catches (although we could get there with two potentially) against a defense that will be heavily shifting its attention to A.J. Brown and Romeo Doubs, leaving Douglas as a nice safety valve for Maye when Seattle dials up the pressure.
I don't believe this game will be a shootout, but I do think it will be closer than the Super Bowl and both of these quarterbacks will throw enough to clear the measly number of 200 yards. By comparison, the two to combine for 400 yards is -375 on DraftKings. Maye and Darnold's respective pass attempt Over/Under betting lines are 33 and 31, so they'd need just 6.5 yards per attempt to clear 200.
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