2024 NFL Preseason Week 3 Odds - Football Betting

2024 NFL Preseason Week 3 Spreads, Moneylines and Totals

Week 3 marks the final week of the Preseason and that means games with a revolving door of lineups. The in-game changes will almost resemble a hockey game. For marginal players, Week 3 is their final chance to convince their teams to keep them. If not, they want to make enough good plays on tape so that they can find another team. In the final preseason game, there will not be much in the way of regular players performing. Preseason is hated because the main object of the game for teams is to avoid losing their best players to injury. Thus, in the preseason finale, all of the teams just want to get out unscathed. But for players on the bubble for roster spots, the games are more important than the Super Bowl. As always, information is key in the preseason and that will be the case again in Week 3, as there will be a few instances where teams play their starters. Line moves will be important to monitor in advance of the action which begins on Thursday with the Indianapolis Colts at the Cincinnati Bengals on Prime Video. There will be a lot of televised action in the final week of the NFL preseason, as in addition to the Prime Video game, NFL Network will be showing eight games, while CBS and NBC have one game each.

NFL Preseason Week 3 Betting Lines

NFL Preseason Week 3 Betting Lines

The Atlanta Falcons will be under intense scrutiny this year. Kirk Cousins was acquired from the Minnesota Vikings to become the Atlanta starting quarterback. But a few weeks later, the Falcons took Michael Penix 8th overall in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Penix is an unorthodox QB and a left-hander, which will complicate the offense that is used to having a right-handed QB. Additionally, Penix was injury-prone in his college days. The Falcons also created an interesting conversation regarding the selection of their head coach. Despite Bill Belichick being available and having interviewed with the Falcons, Atlanta preferred to hire Raheem Morris instead. Apparently, Belichick’s old boss, Patriots owner Bob Kraft, reportedly told Falcons owner Robert Kraft that the Hoodie was a difficult man to deal with. But Morris’ career record of 21-38 pales in comparison to the man many consider to be the GOAT of NFL coaching. Cousins and Penix are not expected to play in the preseason finale against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Friday night.

The Miami Dolphins will visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to conclude their preseason. There has been plenty of concern about starting QB Tua Tagovailoa after he missed several workouts in a contract dispute. The Dolphins had better hope Tua stays healthy because neither of the backup quarterbacks, Skylar Thompson or Mike White has played well during the preseason. Meanwhile the Bucs will be looking to get Kyle Trask some more work as the backup QB to Baker Mayfield. Trask has outplayed John Wolford this preseason and should be the No. 2 quarterback behind Mayfield.

The Carolina Panthers will play at the Buffalo Bills to end their preseason. Carolina has a new head coach, Dave Canales, who was hired to restart the career of Bryce Young, who had his rookie season go to waste in a nightmare campaign in which first-year coach Frank Reich didn’t even last to the end of the season. Veteran journeymen Andy Dalton and Jake Plummer are the backups to Young. The Panthers didn’t play their starters last week and sat both Young and Dalton. They still managed to cover the spread in a loss to the Jets, losing by just three as 3.5-point dogs. On the other side, the Bills have backup quarterback issues, as Mitch Trubisky was injured last week and even if he returns healthy, he has not played well this preseason. Josh Allen has been a rock in terms of health, but the Bills still need a quality backup. Ben DiNucci actually had to finish out last week’s game for Buffalo.

The Las Vegas Raiders will host the San Francisco 49ers in the preseason finale for both clubs. The Raiders have a second-year head coach, Antonio Pierce, who took over for the fired Josh McDaniels last year. Pierce went 5-4 and won over the players to secure the job last season. However, Pierce does not have anything close to a championship-level quarterback room. Journeyman Gardner Minshew won the starting job this preseason, while Aidan O’Connell will start the season as the backup. The 49ers rested almost all of their starters last week and that should be the case again this week against the Raiders.

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