Betting tips for ‘Sunday Night Football’: Bengals at Giants

The last game of the Sunday Week 6 slate features Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals taking on Daniel Jones and the New York Giants. The Bengals enter Sunday night’s tilt coming off a close OT loss to the Baltimore Ravens after Evan McPherson missed a 53-yard game-winning kick. Meanwhile the Giants upset the Seahawks as nearly eight-point underdogs in Week 5 behind strong performances from Jones under center and rookie Tyrone Tracy Jr., who played in relief of Devin Singletary.

The line for this game opened at Bengals -3.5 earlier in the week and has since stayed the same ahead of kickoff, with the total sitting at 46.5 points.

Game lines

Spread:Bengals -3.5

Money line: Bengals (-195), Giants (+165)

Over/Under: 46.5

First-half spread:Bengals -2.5 (-120), Giants +2.5 (-110)

First-half moneyline: Bengals (-175), Giants (+135)

Bengals total points:25.5 (Over -115/Under -115)

Giants total points:20.5 (Over -120/Under -110)

The props

Passing

Joe Burrow total passing yards:249.5 (Over -145/Under +115)

Burrow total passing TDs:1.5 (Over -135/Under +105)

Daniel Jones total passing yards:224.5 (Over +115/Under -145)

Rushing

Chase Brown total rushing yards:44.5 (Over -105/Under -125)

Zack Mosstotal rushing yards:44.5 (Over +105/Under -135)

Jones total rushing yards:34.5 (Over -105/Under -125)

Receiving

Ja’Marr Chase total receiving yards:79.5 (Over Even/Under -130)

Tee Higgins total receiving yards:59.5 (Over +105/Under -135)

Wan’Dale Robinsontotal receiving yards:49.5 (Over -145/Under +115)

Darius Slayton total receiving yards: 49.5 (Over -110/Under -120)

Theo Johnson total receiving yards:24.5 (Over -125/Under -105)

Andrei Iosivastotal receiving yards:24.5 (Over -105/Under -125)

Joe Fortenbaugh’s pick

Bengals -3.5 over Giants

The look-ahead line here was Cincinnati -5.5, so we’re getting the Bengals at a price that’s two points cheaper than last week. Ruminate on that for a second because I just upgraded my power number for Cincinnati after Joe Burrow and the Bengals offense posted 520 yards and 38 points on Baltimore’s defense. Cincinnati may be 1-4, but they have four one-score losses…and those losses have come by a combined 15 points. This is a good buy-low spot on the Bengals, who face a Giants team that is 1-14 straight-up in prime time with quarterback Daniel Jones under center.

Betting trends

Courtesy ESPN Research

• The Giants have covered three straight games.
• The Giants are 22-11 ATS as underdogs under Brian Daboll.
• The Bengals are 18-9 ATS on the road since the start of 2021. Joe Burrow is 19-10 ATS in his career on the road (22-11 ATS including playoffs).
• Daniel Jones is 1-13 outright in prime-time games (6-8 ATS).
• Over the last decade, teams with 0-1 wins and 4+ losses are 2-12 ATS as road favorites (4-10 outright). However, the last two teams in that spot both covered the spread.
• The Bengals are 1-2 outright as favorites this season, losing as 7.5-point favorites against the Commanders and Patriots.
• Unders are 5-0 in Sunday night games this season, 31-10 in the last three seasons and 60-31-2 since 2019.

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