Patriots Vs. Bills Odds: AFC East-Leading New England Favored Monday
The New England Patriots will be trying to extend their current winning streak at home to eight games when they welcome the Buffalo Bills to Foxboro on Monday night as 7 1/2-point betting favorites at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
The Patriots’ straight-up home win streak includes five victories this season in which they went 3-0-2 against the spread at the sportsbooks.
New England returns home for Monday’s Bills vs. Patriots betting matchup at Gillette Stadium after avoiding its first SU defeat of the season in New York last weekend, escaping with a slender 27-26 win over the Giants and picking up the against-the-spread loss as 7-point favorites.
Overall the Patriots have been dominant, earning their current perch atop the Super Bowl 50 odds as 12-5 favorites by winning 12 straight SU while scoring an eye-popping 34.25 points per game. They have been favored by at least seven points in each of their last seven games.
They could face a real challenge to their perfect 9-0 record, however, from their division rivals from Western New York, who have shown steady improvement in a pair of wins since coming off their bye week and travel to New England on a full 10 days rest.
The Bills improved to 5-4 and returned to the hunt for an AFC Wild Card with a 22-17 road win over the New York Jets on “Thursday Night Football” last week, also tallying their second-straight ATS victory and ending an inconsistent seven-game stretch in which they failed to record back-to-back wins.
Buffalo now sits alongside the Jets in the AFC East standings. They are four games back of the division-leading Patriots, and hold the tiebreaker edge over the Jets in the battle for the second Wild Card. They still lag on the odds to win the AFC at a distant 40-1.
The Bills’ current record of futility against New England has seen them notch just three SU wins in the last 25 meetings between the two teams dating back to 2003, including a 40-32 loss in Week 2.
However, they also stand as the last team to hand the Patriots a SU loss, coming away with a 17-9 victory as 4 1/2-point underdogs in their last visit in the final week of the 2014 NFL regular season.
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