With the evergreen caveat that odds released by sports books are designed to get people to place wagers and not perfect predictive indicators of the relative strengths or weaknesses of teams, I was nevertheless struck by the NFL futures odds from Caesars Palace.
ESPN has zeroed in on Tampa Bay having a higher over-under win total (9) than New England (8.5) — the implications, of course, being Tom Brady having moved from the Patriots to the Bucs.
My forever fixation, however, is on comparisons between the Vikings and Packers. And here we find some interesting numbers as well.