Bengals at Falcons -6.5 O/U 38.5
So we all know the song and dance about the starters playing and the spread moving in preseason football. The big question is what happens when the starters come out? What we know is that Joe Burrow is out until the season and we also know that Atlanta will play their starters including QB Desmond Ritter. The issue that I have is that Ritter is still sorta green so there is no guarantee exactly how good that this man will be. I know that Arthur smith is also not stupid enough to risk injury to Calvin Ridley and Kyle Pitts. From the Bengals side of things, we do have some competent quarterbacks here in Jake Browning and Trevor Siemian. These guys are just fighting to keep their jobs much less win the game. Lastly, neither of these coaches are winning preseason coaches with Smith at 2-4 and Zac Taylor at 3-7. Take the dog here. They could lose by six or less and it still hits.
Bengals +6.5 – 1 star
