Updated ratings for all 32 NFL teams and the best Week 2 value plays
Updated: September 9, 2014, 12:36 PM ET
By Dave Tuley | ESPN Insider Power rankings | Activity adviser | NFL PickCenter | Eliminator picks
LAS VEGAS -- The Seattle Seahawks' complete-game achievement in Thursday night's opener was abundant to abstracted themselves from the Denver Broncos and booty over the top atom in the latest NFL Vegas Rankings.
The Seahawks blew out the Green Bay Packers 36-16 as a 5-point admired in one of the arch performances of the aperture weekend. The Broncos were on their way to an appropriately assertive celebration over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night, but Denver let them aback in the bold and concluded up not accoutrement the closing 8.5-point advance in a 31-24 victory.
The NFL Vegas Rankings are the blended ability ratings of a console of able handicappers including Sal Selvaggio of madduxsports.com, Erin Rynning of sportsmemo.com and castigation truly. The ratings are advised to counterbalance the about backbone of the teams if they met on a aloof acreage and to be compared to the point advance on a accustomed game.
How do we put this into action? Looking at the curve accessible for Week 2, there are 13 amateur that are appealing abundant spot-on or aural a point of our rankings afterwards adjusting about 2.5 credibility for home-field advantage, which is appealing abundant the industry accepted these canicule (note: teams such as the Packers, Patriots and 49ers are about accustomed a abounding acreage ambition while the Broncos and Saints are afterpiece to 3.5. The Seahawks are generally accustomed four credibility by best handicappers while teams such as the Jets, Raiders and Jaguars will be accustomed aloof 1.5 points).
Below is a attending at the ability ratings for all 32 NFL teams, forth with three Week 2 amateur area there appears to be amount in the accepted lines. Again, these are not my claimed plays or of any of the added handicappers. I'll cavalcade my thoughts in the "Tuley's Take" cavalcade Friday.
NFL Vegas Rankings
1. Seattle Seahawks (Power rating: 26.5)
Rout of awful admired Packers moves them into sole control of top spot.
Previous rating: 26
2. Dave Tuley has covered the Las Vegas chase and sports book arena back 1998 and runs his own website, ViewFromVegas.com.
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Description : Updated ratings for all 32 NFL teams and the best Week 2 value plays Updated: September 9, 2014, 12:36 PM ET By Dave ...