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NFL Week 1 delivered chaos—and the biggest lesson wasn't simply that favorites lost. It was that the price mattered.

On this episode of Madden On The Line, host Jo Madden, Vice President of Sports Gaming Media at CrossCheck Media Inc., welcomes George Kurtz of SportsGrid to separate legitimate Week 1 warning signs from the overreactions that could cost bettors money in Week 2.

Arizona, the Giants and Jets delivered outright wins as underdogs, while Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle won their games but failed to cover their respective spreads. As Madden explains, bettors could correctly predict which team would win and still make the wrong bet.

Kurtz joins the show to examine what went wrong for the Los Angeles Chargers, why he's more concerned about their offense than one poor defensive performance, and what an 0-2 start could mean if they fail to rebound. The conversation then turns to his Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott's Week 1 performance and why Dallas' upcoming schedule makes its next game particularly important.

Madden also goes Buy, Sell or Overreact, examining Baltimore's explosive start, Chicago's offense, Cincinnati's defense and a Minnesota final score she believes doesn't tell the complete story. Green Bay led Minnesota 22-10 late in the third quarter before the game flipped dramatically—exactly the kind of result that can distort how bettors approach the following week's lines.

Then it's on to the early NFL Week 2 betting board: Lions-Bills, Bengals-Texans, Packers-Jets and 49ers-Dolphins. Which numbers deserve attention? Which teams could offer buy-low opportunities? And which spreads may already be too expensive?

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