Rams 1-point favorites over Bills in Week One, but Bills are favorites to win the Super Bowl

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 5, 2022, 6:10 AM EDT
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The betting public is high on the Buffalo Bills in the 2022 NFL season. But not necessarily in the first game of the season.

The Bills are the favorites to win Super Bowl LVII at every major sports book, with their odds typically listed at +600 or +650.

After the Bills, the next-most likely Super Bowl winner, according to the sports books, is the Buccaneers, at +700 or +750. The Chiefs are next at +900 to +1000, followed by the defending champion Rams at +1100.

But when the Rams face the Bills in Week One, it’s the Rams who are 1-point favorites at most sports books. The Rams are the home team in that game, as the defending Super Bowl champion traditionally is, in the season opener on Thursday, September 8.

After the Rams, the oddsmakers list the Packers at+1200 to win the Super Bowl, followed by the Chargers, 49ers and Broncos all at around +1600.

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28 responses to “Rams 1-point favorites over Bills in Week One, but Bills are favorites to win the Super Bowl”

  2. So the Bills have a new special teams coach who knows to kick short to run time off the clock?

  4. Rams getting the 3 point benefit of being home team??? Inconceivable!!!

    I guess winning a Superbowl will mean less visiting fans in the stands.

  5. 65 days until the most wonderful time of the year begins but whos counting?

  6. Prediction: Every single team named in this article will NOT win the Super Bowl. Is there a parley for that?

  9. So the Bills are winning another offseason SB? How many does this make in total now?

  10. The Bills are the new Cowboys. The media fawns over them all during the lead up to the season, and declares them the team to beat, but every year their fans are left saying the same things – If only we blah blah blah…and you just wait till next year man blah blah blah…

  11. Both the Rams and the Bills will have targets on their backs.

  12. oscarxray says:
    July 5, 2022 at 7:37 am
    So the Bills have a new special teams coach who knows to kick short to run time off the clock?

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    Scott Farkus doesn’t get off the hook that easy. Pretty amazing how the media let him skate after that. That’s a head coach decision and their hubris caught up to them.

  15. Rams should win and honestly the AFC is such a cluster you know what that anybody can grab the Conference Champion Spot. Well except the Jets and Jags of course.

  16. Pre-season super bowl picks never win it. I like it that my team will be under the radar while making a run to the super bowl.
    Go Ravens!!

  18. 3 of the Top 8 teams are in the same division and 2 others are in the NFC West? but the NFL Championship weekend would go off the charts with Bucs-Packers and Pats-Chiefs in the setup for a Brady vs. Belichick Armageddon

  19. I think the Rams were an overrated champion and would have struggled if the Bills had not lost the nail-biter to KC. Cinci would have never beat the Bills in Buffalo and the Rams would have had a big problem with Allen.

    I think the Bills will win this one pretty easily, but I could have it completely wrong, as I often do early in the season.

  20. The Patriots win the division this year. If the Bills are going to win the SB, they will need to win 3 road playoff games then the SB. It can be done but it’s very difficult.

  21. “I think the Rams were an overrated champion and would have struggled if the Bills had not lost the nail-biter to KC. Cinci would have never beat the Bills in Buffalo and the Rams would have had a big problem with Allen.”
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    It would have been a good SB. I see it as more of a toss-up; the Bills D would have had a hard time covering all of those great receivers, and the pass rush of the Rams would have been a formidable challenge for the Bills line.

    Even though there have been changes to both teams, the opener is going to be a really interesting game. If the Bills win handily, it will definitely make the KC loss feel worse.

  22. I think the Rams were an overrated champion and would have struggled if the Bills had not lost the nail-biter to KC. Cinci would have never beat the Bills in Buffalo and the Rams would have had a big problem with Allen.

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    I think it bears repeating that the Bills defense played 10 games vs backup or rookie QBs last year and went 8-2 against them. They went 3-4 against teams that had a QB who has started at least 2 years.

    I think Stafford would have had a great day against them if they played. As for Cinci no one game them a shot to win any of their playoff games, and look what happened. They actually did what the Bills couldn’t, beat KC at home in the playoffs in OT after losing a coin toss

  23. I remember watching the Bills fall just short of the prize four years in a row back in the early 90’s. I can’t even imagine how that felt as a Bills fan. The current Bills are an exciting team to watch and I’d be more than happy to see them finally win the big one.

  24. What really matters is the Ravens will go undefeated, in the preseason, yet again.

  26. It’s July for God sake, between the “expert” prognosticators and the fans that have certain teams dead and buried in May and others crowned conference Champions you can’t do anything but laugh.
    And come mid-December when their predictions look like picks made by blind circus animals you don’t hear a word from them.
    And when you do, it’s, “who me?, that’s not what I said…”.

    I’m not impressed by people who said the Bills would make the playoffs or the Rams would be a contender. I’m impressed by people who foresaw the Bengals rise or that after a 7-9 season NE would finish 10-7 with a rookie QB and just one game behind the division champs.

    As for teams like the Chargers and the Bills, I’ll believe it when I see it. First, your coaching staff has to at least learn to kill 13 seconds off the clock before being crowned SB Champions or anything else.
    And your “Analytics minded” HC has to realize that just because the numbers “tell you” to go for it on 4th and 1 or 4th and 2 at critical points during a do or die game it doesn’t mean you should blindly go for it every time without taking in all the factors involved.

  27. buffalobluecollarlunchbucket56 says:
    July 5, 2022 at 10:05 am
    Both the Rams and the Bills will have targets on their backs.

    True, but no different than the Bengals, Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Packers, Bucs, etc and any other team that has enjoyed recent success or heavy media attention. For example, is anyone gonna sleep on the Ravens or Eagles this year?

  28. AFC East 2022/3:
    1: Bills (obviously)
    2: Dolphins (wildcard)
    3: Jets (Surprise!)
    4: Patriots (lead by the guy who has a losing record without the greatest QB in the history of ever)

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