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What can we expect from a betting standpoint for Monday night's games?
Betting analysts Tyler Fulghum, Erin Dolan, Eric Moody,Seth Walder and André Snellings are here to provide their thoughts.
Note: Lines from Caesars Sportsbook unless otherwise indicated.
Browns (-2, 38) at Steelers. Have you soured on the Steelers after their woeful Week 1, or do you chalk that up as a bad opener against a Niners team that might be the best in the NFL?
Fulghum: I trust Mike Tomlin. The Steelers looked awful, no doubt. The 49ers are my pick to win the Super Bowl, so there's no shame in losing to them. The shame comes from the fact that they physically dominated that game. That doesn't fly in Pittsburgh. That doesn't fly with Mike Tomlin. Somehow, someway, he'll have this team winning somewhere between 8 and 10 games by the end of the season, no matter what. Mike Tomlin is too good of a head coach.
Walder: Yes, somewhat. I was starting to buy in on the hype of the Steelers' offense, but we didn't see any of that in Week 1, and now Pittsburgh is going to be without Diontae Johnson, one of the most underrated receivers in the league. I think this offense will be outmatched by the Cleveland defense.
Cleveland limited the high-flying Bengals offense to 3 points in the opener. Are you buying this Browns defense as one of the best in the NFL after that showing?
Walder: I'll buy them as, say, a top-seven defense. I think the last game has to be taken with a pretty big grain of salt considering the weather. But at the same time, you look at this defense on paper and you could absolutely imagine them putting it all together and being elite. But I'd still comfortably have the Browns behind the Cowboys, 49ers and Jets without much thought.
Snellings: I don't think you can take much from last week's game against the Bengals. Much like last season, Joe Burrow missed the entire preseason with a physical issue and came out in Week 1 with zero timing and a horrible performance. Plus, for whatever reason, the Browns seem to have Burrow's number more times than not. I do think the Browns are potentially a strong defense, and they should have some success against a Steelers team not operating at full strength either, but I don't think it should be interpreted that the Browns shut down a high-flying offense and thus are elite. They haven't faced a strong offense yet, and likely won't this week either.
Nick Chubb rushed 18 times for 108 yards against the Bengals last week and surpassed 75 yards rushing in 13 of 17 games played last season), including both games against the Steelers. Does that make you feel confident about betting the OVER for his 80.5 rushing yards prop?
Fulghum: I'm confident in Chubb going over that prop. Now that Kareem Hunt is gone, Chubb dominates the usage in the Browns' backfield. Cleveland has a tremendous run scheme and good offensive line (though it lost Jack Conklin to injury). The Steelers just allowed San Francisco and Christian McCaffrey to run all over them in Week 1, and Cameron Heyward just went on IR. Chubb is a strong play in this matchup.
Dolan: Yes. It's already being bet up for a reason. Chubb surpassed this mark in Week 1 against the Bengals. I like this even more given that Pittsburgh just allowed Christian McCaffrey to go for 152 rushing yards. It's worth noting as well that Amari Cooper is questionable for the game, and I believe the Browns will work on running the ball.
Snellings: Yes, I still like him at the 80.5 yard mark it's climbed to. Chubb is the primary option for the Browns, with a strong rush-blocking offensive line and the lion's share of the touches. In two games against the Steelers last season, Chubb notched 190 yards on 35 carries, a 5.4 YPC average. He should be able to produce against them on Monday as well, with the volume to potentially start the season with consecutive 100-yard performances.
Moody: Like my colleagues here, I am confident that Chubb will surpass 80.5 rushing yards. In his past five games against the Steelers, he has averaged 83.4 rushing yards per game. Pittsburgh's run defense is vulnerable without Cameron Heyward.
Saints (-3, 39.5) at Panthers. The Saints are 38-19 ATS on the road since 2016. Did Bryce Young and the new-look Panthers offense show enough in Week 1 against Atlanta (24-10 loss) to make you feel confident that this will be a close game against the Saints?
Dolan: Absolutely not. I think the Saints win and cover on the road. Week 1 was not shocking for the Panthers. The offense struggled as expected and there is no reason to believe that is suddenly going to change. On defense, they held the Falcons to 115 passing yards, but Desmond Ridder was under center. This Panthers defense will now have to face Derek Carr coming off a 305-yard game against the Titans. The Saints have a good enough wideout group to score points against this defense. Plus, the Saints' defense forced Ryan Tannehill to throw three picks in Week 1 ... do we really think Young won't throw another pick ... or maybe two?
Moody: Despite the Panthers being the home team, I do not expect a close game. Young will have a tough time against the Saints' defense. New Orleans' offense should also be more polished. The past three Saints wins against the Panthers have come by an average of 14.0 points.
Is there anything else you are playing in this game?
Walder: Alex Highsmith over 0.75 sacks (+145). Since joining the Browns, Deshaun Watson has taken sacks at a very high 9.8% rate. T.J. Watt is the most obvious beneficiary, but the odds aren't favorable. Highsmith is a good player too, though, and is coming off a 14.5-sack season.
Moody: Nick Chubb over 101.5 rushing+receiving yards. The Browns have a chance to start the season 2-0 for the first time since 1993. In order to exploit a Steelers defense without Heyward, Cleveland should prioritize the battle in the trenches despite losing right tackle Jack Conklin for the season. With Kareem Hunt no longer in Cleveland, Chubb could be used as a receiver more, too. Against the Bengals in Week 1, Chubb rushed for 106 yards and caught four passes for 21 yards. Meanwhile, the Steelers allowed 5.5 yards per rushing attempt to the 49ers last week.
Moody: Derek Carr over 234.5 passing yards. Carr completed nearly 70% of his passes for 305 yards against the Titans in Week 1. A great receiving cast surrounds him, including Chris Olave, Michael Thomas, Juwan Johnson and Rashid Shaheed. Carr is in a great position to exploit a Panthers secondary without No. 1 cornerback Jaycee Horn.
Moody: Rashid Shaheed over 37.5 receiving yards. Shaheed accumulated 99 air yards against the Titans in Week 1, second only to Chris Olave (131). Shaheed also finished with six targets and had an aDOT (average depth of target) of 16.5. Besides running a lot of routes, the Saints want to put the ball in his hands as a receiver, runner and on special teams. Shaheed is one of the league's fastest players. With a 40-yard dash time of 4.3 seconds, he's always a threat to score.
A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom.
The world’s many pirate spiders exploit a very particular food source — other spiders. But while most pirate spiders invade the webs of other arachnids, Gelanor siquirresdupes potential prey into building a web right into a trap, researchers report in an upcoming Animal Behaviour.
Like any respectable pirate, pirate spiders have an extensive bag of tricks. Some species delicately strum the threads of other spiders’ webs to convince the arachnids they’ve caught an insect, only to strike when the web owner comes to collect its prey. Others mimic on a web the signature rhythms of a different spider’s courtship dance, luring would-be suitors to their deaths.
On a trip several years ago to a biological reserve in Costa Rica, researchers were the first to witness a hunt by a little-known species called G. siquirres. It cleverly exploits the way other spiders make their webs to get a meal, the team realized.
At nightfall in the steamy lowland rainforests of Costa Rica, orb weavers let loose “floating lines” — single strands of silk that blow in the breeze until the free end sticks on another surface, such as a tree branch. The orb weaver then scurries across to secure the second anchor point, and this first moored line serves as the foundation for the web.
But when G. siquirres strikes, the orb weaver does not scuttle across this bridge line to some welcoming vegetation. Instead, it walks into a trap; G. siquirres has already cast its own silk lines, not with the intention of building a web, but to intercept that of the orb weaver.
During their trip, arachnologist Laura Segura-Hernández and colleagues came upon a perplexing scene: An unusual configuration of multiple strands of silk converged at a single leaf. The group also noticed another spider’s floating line caught on one of those strands. Then, as the floating line’s owner — a juvenile orb weaver — scuttled across, a pirate spider emerged from behind its leaf hideout and crept down toward the intersection.
Probably feeling vibrations from the approaching pirate spider, the orb weaver attached a dragline — the arachnid’s version of a bungee cord — and flung itself off its bridge line. The pirate spider was close on its heels, pursuing from its own dragline.
“They’re hanging there, fighting,” says Segura-Hernández, who recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. It was a dramatic scene, she says, like two swashbuckling pirates exchanging blows while swinging from the rigging. The encounter ended with a surprisingly swift attack from the pirate that instantly immobilized its prey.
The hunting strategy comes as a total surprise, says Gustavo Hormiga, a biologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who helped name and describe G. siquirres in 2016. Exploiting how other spiders build their webs is “actually pretty sophisticated,” he says. “I don’t know of anything like that in any [other] spider group.”
This new study helps bring G. siquirres to life, Hormiga says. Until now, the spider was known to science through only a dead specimen collected in 1994.
The finding also underscores the need for old-school natural historians, Hormiga says, the kind of scientists who wander out at night with a head lamp to see what there is to find. “For many of us, this is really what brought us into science,” he says. “Not pipetting. Just being out there.”
While it’s important to remember that Bedard was facing overmatched St. Louis Blues prospects and hopefuls on Saturday, he dazzled with a hat trick and an assist in Chicago’s 5-0 win.
As a reminder, Bedard also collected an assist. He finished his unofficial debut with 11 shots on goal, while also threatening with a breakaway chance. Not bad for his first bit of hockey action in five months.
Hat trick in prospect game showcases Bedard’s ridiculous release
All three of Bedard’s goals put his deceptive, lightning-fast release on display. You can really see how Bedard can change the angle of his shot with his first tally, a skill that could very well torture even the best NHL goalies.
Bedard likely won’t get the same space to maneuver, nor as much net to shoot at, when he faces true NHL competition, but his second goal was just as jaw-dropping. Not many players can score like Bedard did, shooting from below the faceoff dot.
The third, and maybe least scintillating of Bedard’s hat trick of goals, also showed off what the 18-year-old is capable of. Observe how quickly he was able to unleash his world-class shot.
Heading into the 2023 NHL Draft, analysts raved about Bedard already possessing a world-class release. It wasn’t just prospect experts either, as even pros like Nathan MacKinnonsang his praises to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, ranking the lethal shot among the best in the world with Bedard just 17-years-old.
Nevertheless, in true hockey player fashion, Bedard brushed this first glimpse off.
Connor Bedard: "Just a rookie game here, doesn't mean much, but...it's nice to play games.
It was so much fun being with the guys. Getting here, music is playing — you just have that mojo going in. That was the best part: getting back into it."
For every person wondering about a 50-goal rookie season and a 90-point debut, there are more modest projections, slating Bedard for about 60 points on a Blackhawks team with limited talent. Perhaps he’ll straddle both lines, echoing Auston Matthews’ impressive feat of scoring 40 goals in his first NHL season (but finishing with “just” 69 total points). If Bedard ends up like Matthews, his almost one-of-a-kind shooting can buy time for the rest of his game to mature.
Remarkably, Bedard wasn’t the only high pick from the 2023 NHL Draft to record an impressive hat trick in prospect action this weekend. Third-overall pick Adam Fantilli gave the Columbus Blue Jackets some much-needed positive press with his hat trick and five-point game in a 10-7 scoring fest at the Traverse City Tournament.
