In the land of “hot takes,” the patient bettor is king.
Today’s sports landscape is drowning with hair-trigger judgments and social media is holding that firehose of opinioned diarrhea.
There’s no better example of this overreaction than Week 2 of the NFL season. Teams that were championed in the summer months are instantly downgraded to “dead to me” status after a bad showing in their season opener.
Some of these abrupt assumptions are simply for shock value because that’s what gets eyeballs. But there’s no denying their impact on the NFL odds because that’s the baseline for oddsmakers each week: market perception.
As someone who treats Week 1 results the same way I do Indian food — with cautious int…