Bettors massively eschewing Jets in season opener against Bills

Everyone and their moms are betting on the Payments to beat the Jets on opening night time, at the very least thus far.

The Jets are 1.5-point underdogs to the Payments for the Monday night time, Sept. 11 opener at MetLife Stadium.

BetMGM experiences the Payments have been chosen on 85% of the tickets (to the Jets’ 15%), and much more starkly, Buffalo has a 91% to 9% margin in complete cash wager on the sport up to now.

The query is whether or not this can be a untimely snapshot of an rising betting market, or an early signal that bettors throughout the nation should not fairly shopping for into the Jets as a Super Bowl contender after 12 years of not even making the playoffs.

“There’s early lopsided motion on the Payments however we anticipate the betting to even out nearer to kickoff,” Seamus Magee, BetMGM’s buying and selling staff lead, advised The Publish. “Chiefs-Lions is the most-bet recreation presently and has 5 instances the variety of tickets in comparison with Jets-Payments.”

Magee factors out that the purpose unfold, which opened at Buffalo -1.5, has not modified regardless of the near-unanimous assist for the Payments.

The Jets have received the 2023 NFL offseason championship with their commerce for Aaron Rodgers, their signings of Allen Lazard and Dalvin Cook, the big contract extension for Quinnen Williams and the hype surrounding reigning rookies of the yr Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner.

The staff is getting essentially the most respect it obtained within the betting futures markets in additional than a decade.

Newest odds from BetMGM record the Jets at 18/1 to win the Tremendous Bowl (tied for seventh-highest within the NFL) and +900 to win the AFC championship (fifth-highest within the convention).

Their +250 odds to win the AFC East ranks slightly below the Payments (+130) and forward of the Dolphins (+275) and Patriots (+750).

And a few Jets seem close to the highest of the lists in particular person award markets, together with Gardner +900 to win Defensive Participant of the Yr, Rodgers 16/1 to be named regular-season MVP and Robert Saleh 16/1 to seize Coach of the Yr.

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In line with Magee, a big quantity of that backing at BetMGM is coming from its New York and New Jersey sportsbooks.

“Native groups at all times get further assist from home-state bettors,” Magee mentioned. “The Jets are not any completely different — 5.5% of the bets [nationwide] are on the Jets to win the Tremendous Bowl, however in New York and New Jersey, they’re receiving 14.8% of the bets, essentially the most.”