Kansas City has stayed UNDER five of its last seven preseason contests, including the Chiefs' 17-10 home loss to Houston last week. The Falcons are 8-5 UNDER with Dan Quinn as coach and his last three preseason games went UNDER last year making it four in a row now. Andy Reid played four quarterbacks against the Texans with veteran Chad Henne completing 8-of-14 for 91 yards and a touchdown and interception and Chase Litton, a rookie out of Marshall, finishing 7-of-13 for 66 yards. Atlanta got a decent performance by rookie Kurt Benkert as he was 9-of-17 for 125 yards with an interception, but the running game was almost non-existent as it gained a total of 49 yards on 22 carries for a 2.2 average. Matt Ryan played one series and it didn't go well and he says he wants a second chance in this game. The Falcons had one first down and 34 total offense yards in the first half. Reid never has put too much importance on preseason games and Quinn says he still he has a lot of evaluating to do. Look for another low-scoring affair, so play the UNDER.
This pick was released to clients on August 15, 2018 at 2:38PM ET.
NFL
Kansas City at Atlanta
August 17, 2018
7:00 PM Eastern
1 unit on Game Total UNDER 39.5 -110 (risk 1 to return 1.91)
Result:
LOSS
LOSS
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