NFL Week 14 Lookahead Lines And 2023 Market Moves
The 2023 NFL Week 14 lookahead lines provide us an advance look at the following week’s NFL lines before the current week’s games are played. I provide an explanation and tools for using lookahead lines below, and more information at OSGA. As you review my Week 13 underdog picks, which are now losing this season but nearly 57% the past six years posting weekly (175-135 ATS), take a glance at the Week 14 matchups and lookahead lines before they are posted for next week’s games. Then compare them to the actual lines following the Week 13 games.
These NFL Lookahead Lines or advance lines can be useful in not only projecting ahead to next week’s games and lines, but also to keep you from over-reacting to one game or the upcoming games results. That’s especially the case with game totals that are averaging just over 43 points per game and still hitting better than 60% ‘unders’ this season.
Prime Time NFL Totals
But prime time NFL football fans are not over-reacting to the lack of scoring in the night games on Thursday, Sunday and Monday night. Leading online sportsbooks and bookmakers are taking a hit as bettors continue to bet ‘unders’ and win. Except this past Thursday to kickoff Week 13 as the Dallas Cowboys smacked the Seattle Seahawks in a 41-35 non-covering win. NFL prime time undes are now 27-8 not including Thanksgiving. That includes 13-1 on Monday Night Football, with those MNF games averaging just 36.1 points per game.
The Week 13 SNF game features the Kansas City Chiefs at Green Bay Packers, and I provide more props, bets and odds in my NFL Week 13 coverage in Forbes. along with an underdog pick on the Packers.
NFL Week 14 Lookahead Lines
Week 14 look ahead lines include six division games including the big division duel in Dallas between the Cowboys and Eagles on Sunday Night Football.
NFL Week 14 Games | SuperBook | |
New England at Pittsburgh (Thurs) | PIT -6 and 35 | |
Jacksonville at Cleveland | JAX -3 and 38 | |
LA Rams at Baltimore | BAL -7.5 and 44.5 | |
Detroit at Chicago | DET -5.5 and 45.5 | |
Carolina at New Orleans | NO -6.5 and 37 | |
Tampa Bay at Atlanta | ATL -2 and 39 | |
Indianapolis at Cincinnati | IND -2 and 41.5 | |
Houston at NY Jets | HOU -4.5 and 39.5 | |
Seattle at San Francisco | SF -11 and 43.5 | |
Minnesota at Las Vegas | MIN -1 and 41 | |
Denver at LA Chargers | LAC -3 and 45 | |
Buffalo at Kansas City | KC -3 and 48 | |
Philadelphia at Dallas (SNF) | DAL -2.5 and 48.5 | |
Tennessee at Miami (MNF) | MIA -12.5 and 44.5 | |
Green Bay at NY Giants (MNF) | GB -4.5 and 37 |
As you evaluate, watch and wager and live bet on the Week 13 games, be sure you review box scores, impactful injuries, misleading stats and meaningful data from each week’s results. From there you can see where the leading online sportsbooks and bookmaker posts the following week’s lines on Sunday and Monday, and compare them to the lookahead lines and market moves during the week. That includes for NFL Week 14 lookahead lines.
Quarterback Changes
With so many backup quarterbacks and rookies playing, we’ve seen more line adjustments and a decrease in scoring with the QB carousel impacting games, scoring and quality of play. There was 42 different starting QBs this year into Week 9, and more into Week 10 with Giants QB Daniel Jones (torn ACL) out for the season and another rookie Tommy DeVito perhaps making his first NFL start. Josh Dobbs will be the new starter for the Vikings in Week 10. The former Cardinals starter this year came into the Week 9 game and win at Atlanta replacing rookie Jaren Hall (concussion), who had replaced Kirk Cousins (torn ACL).
Then into Week 11, Deshaun Watson of the Browns is finished for the season, and Joe Burrow of the Bengals tore a ligament in his wrist in the Bengals-Ravens Thursday Night Football game I covered in Forbes (and picked/bet Ravens – favorite). Burrow is finished for the 2023 season.
More (clueless) QB’s are starting including Browns rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who is now benched in favor of off-the-street signing of 38-year-old Joe Flacco. The New England Patriots will also start backup QB Bailey Zappe in Week 13 versus the Chargers with Mac Jones benched for now.
There was an NFL-record 68 different starting quarterbacks last season.
How to use Lookahead Lines
Advance NFL lookahead lines provide a sneak peak at the projected lines for the following week’s games. This advance information from top sportsbooks like the SuperBook provides lessons in understanding lines and projections before the current week’s games are played.
The tendencies for many bettors is to over-react to previous weeks’ scores and results. The lookahead lines provide a sense of stability from the linemaker, who is unbiased in setting the lines in advance without the information from the current week’s contests.
Bettors can also gain an edge or find value in the lines once the current week’s lines are released. They do this based on not only a potential over-reaction to the recent week’s results, but by using information they have on teams including power rankings. Making adjustments is part of the process, along with formulating an opinion on certain teams. This can be based on personnel, injuries, situations and stats that come to light as the season progresses.
As you become more astute in your evaluations, betting and handicapping, you’ll be able to use your skills to project and time the market better and make more +EV bets ahead of market moves.