Colts Favored Over Ravens in NFL Preseason Matchup on Thursday

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00:00Those one and a half here at the opening number, I now just saw a six and a half crack across

00:04DraftKings right now as a favorite towards the Indianapolis Colts. Now, typically in the

00:08preseason, you might say, yeah, Don, of course, like one team has a quarterback battle, which

00:12means if you play both of those starters, you have to start them on equal footing, right? Now,

00:16you know, most of the starters are going to play obviously with the starting quarterback in the

00:20game. That's Anthony Richardson. But if Daniel Jones comes in, you can't say, okay, four stringers,

00:24guys that won't be here next week, get out there and play with Daniel Jones. We'll measure up the

00:27same. You have to have some modicum of success for both of these guys and call it legitimate game

00:32plan so you can equally evaluate. Now, understand this too. NFL coaches will tell you, Joe Ranieri,

00:37they don't put much stock in the preseason games. You win this in the scrimmages and you win this

00:41in daily practices here, not in the game itself, but barring. It'd be great if you threw three

00:45touchdown passes. It would be terrible if you threw three interceptions. But here's the issue I have,

00:49like again, with the odds makers, Baltimore doesn't lose preseason games. Baltimore usually wins those

00:55games. Baltimore is usually favored in those games. Baltimore is now getting close to seven.

01:00So my spidey senses are telling me just on the line alone, you should probably be taking Indy.

01:06But there's that pride in that locker room that you're right. Once that first half is done and

01:12the rest of the guys are out there and the starters aren't in anymore for the Colts, particularly the

01:16starting quarterbacks, there's no saying that Baltimore can't cover this number or win this game

01:20outright, right? Well, you got to look, we're not going to see Lamar, right? I think is that

01:24fair to say? We're probably, if we're going to see him, it's for one snap, one series and that's

01:31it. So that means we got what? Cooper Rush and Devin Leary as the backups there for the Baltimore

01:36Ravens. So judging from the line movement here, we believe this true quarterback battle between

01:44Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones is probably both of those guys who have experience, obviously,

01:51as NFL quarterbacks. Both of those guys are going to be battling. So I think this line

01:56movement is telling you they expect the Colts, especially the quarterback spot, to be much

02:01more intense here and trying to get, you know, show off what they have as opposed to, you know,

02:08Leary or whatever Baltimore is going to throw out there in this spot here, which would be Cooper

02:15Rush, who, again, we're talking about a backup battle here. So if I would do it, I'd bet it early.

02:22I would bet the Colts early over a field goal, by the way. So I think that's telling you everything

02:28you need to know. Three and a half points the Colts are laying on the road, no less, as a road

02:34favorite. If you're going to give me the half a point, there's probably a reason in the preseason

02:38that it's been steamed up to this. So yeah, I like the Colts early in this one.