It Just Dawned On Me...

[Monte51Coleman]

For some reason I guess that I haven't been paying full attention but it just occured to me that......

Tomorrow we are playing a team with a winning record, on the road, and we are FAVORED! How cool is that? When is the last time that happened, 1999?

Thanks Joe. Thank you more than you will ever know.

[REDPepper]

we're favored? i was wondering abotu this because it would seem we should be heavily favored, but espn.com has us at even? i dont really know that much about lines and whatnot, but whats upw ith that?

[SkinsNeverDie]

I must admit, i hate it when we are favored...

[REDPepper]

same, i feel like we SHOULD get credit from the media, but i love being hte underdog, it keeps people off the bandwagon

[ILikeTheRedskins]

I don't know what's going on with the line for our game...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/dailylines

But the headline for the insider preview thing says "Bucs skid won't stop here." Sounds good to me.

[REDPepper]

maybe it has something to do with our matchup being the only one with both teams over .500?

[KillaCam21]

We aren't favored anymore. At the beginning of the week, we were one point favorites. Now, we're one point underdogs.

[REDPepper]

i just dont see how anyone could justify that other than we are on teh road?

[ILikeTheRedskins]

We aren't favored anymore. At the beginning of the week, we were one point favorites. Now, we're one point underdogs.

Every place I've seen (other than ESPN...whatever) has us at -1.

[SkinsNeverDie]

We aren't favored anymore. At the beginning of the week, we were one point favorites. Now, we're one point underdogs.

Good! I like that a lot better than being favored.

[Monte51Coleman]

My paper has us -1.5 but that is not the point that I was making. The point was that we are considered a threat to a winning team on the road for the first time it what seems like forever. It is a purely emotionally thing not a practical evaluation. Hell, in the recent past we were lucky to be considered a threat at home.

[fuji869]

It looks like there is not much faith in Tampa after the 4-0 Start with the injury to Brian Gresie.

[NewAgeSkins]

thats cause they beat no quality teams... hell, they almost lost to the lions when they had griese (see Marcus Pollard TD in the endzone)

[SKiNz Jus 2 sick]

i like the skins better as underdogs

[armstrong001]

As I understand it, betting lines aren't a measure of who is favored to win the game. The line is set by those who take bets to even out the number of bets on each side. It is a crude way of determining favorites, but its purpose is to encourage betting.