Favre and the rested Vikings are 5.5 point home favorites against the fish todayThe Minnesota Vikings (0-1) will have 10 days of rest between games following their season-opening loss at New Orleans when they play their first home opener on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins (1-0). The good and bad news is that Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre will also be 10 days older, something that could help or hurt the team depending on how he has progressed.
Oddsmakers currently have the Bengals as a 3 point favoriteSunday’s NFL Hall of Fame Game pits the Cincinnati Bengals against the Dallas Cowboys, which would be an outstanding matchup for the regular season and still makes for an intriguing preseason battle. If this were the regular season, the publicly popular Cowboys would definitely be favored by more than the opener of -1. Instead, injuries and the fact that Dallas could be resting several key players as well as not caring about games in prior preseasons has seen the Hall of Fame Game NFL odds shift to Bengals -2.5 or -3 with the total set at 32.5.