Betting tips for Monday Night Football - Rams vs. 49ers
Week 4 of the NFL season wraps up Monday night with the San Francisco 49ers (-1.5, 42.5) hosting the Los Angeles Rams at Levi's Stadium (ESPN, 8:15 PM ET).
After an exciting Sunday of action, we have one more opportunity to wager on professional football if we so choose. So which plays do our analysts like the most?
Betting analyst Joe Fortenbaugh, fantasy and sports betting analysts Eric Moody and Andre Snellings, ESPN Stats & Information'sSeth Walder and Football Outsiders'Aaron Schatz provide their top plays.
Note: Lines from Caesars Sportsbook unless otherwise indicated.
Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers (-1.5, 42.5)Monday, 8:15 p.m. ET, Levi's Stadium
Fortenbaugh: I lean to the 49ers, but I haven't gone to the counter just yet. I think it's telling that San Francisco was -1 on the look-ahead line last week and then went and laid an egg in Denver while the Rams won by eight on the road in Arizona. After all that, the line moves from SF -1 to -1.5? I'm likely to play the under here as well, as long as it stays north of 42. Both teams rank 19th or worse in yards per play and I don't see that getting much better against these respective defenses.
Schatz: This is another early game where we have to ask ourselves which is more important: the information we knew before the season began or the information we've collected over three weeks of play? Research shows us that preseason priors are still more important, even after three weeks. So even though San Francisco has been the better team this season, the Rams looked like the better team based on preseason information — and we should still assume they are equal to (or even a little better than) the 49ers. I would definitely take the Rams and the points.
Snellings: I'll