Trends for AFC teams:
AFC East:
Bills
Last seven years, Buffalo is 5-1-1 ATS in its road opener.
Bills’ last three playoff losses were all by three points.
Dolphins
Miami covered four of last five visits to Buffalo.
Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game since 2000.
Patriots
New England covered five of last six games vs Buffalo.
Patriots are 2-9 ATS in their last 11 games vs Miami.
Jets
Last four years, Jets are 8-16 ATS in divisional games.
Last four years, Jets are 4-8 ATS as a home favorite.
AFC North
Ravens
Ravens are 7-2 ATS in their last nine games as road underdogs.
Four of their last five road openers went over the total.
Bengals
Last four years, Bengals are 13-6 ATS as a road favorite.
With Burrow at QB, Cincy is 1-6 ATS as a favorite in Weeks 1-2.
Browns
Last four years, Cleveland is 9-18 ATS as a road underdog.
Browns are 0-5 ATS in their last five visits to Pittsburgh.
Steelers
Last nine years, Pittsburgh is 0-5 SU in playoff games.
Steelers are 12-7 ATS in their last 19 divisional games.
AFC South
Texans
Houston is 5-2 ATS in last seven games vs Tennessee.
Last four times they made playoffs, Texans went W-L
Colts
Since 2008, Colts are 3-15 ATS in Week 1 games.
Colts covered nine of last 13 games as a home favorite.
Jaguars
Last three years, Jaguars are 8-4 ATS as a road favorite.
Jacksonville covered five of its last six games against the Colts.
Titans
Last three years, Tennessee is 1-9 ATS as a home favorite.
Last four years, Titans are 7-17 ATS in divisional games.
AFC West
Broncos
Broncos covered their last four Monday night games.
Denver is 1-6 ATS in last seven Thursday games.
Chiefs
Last four years, Chiefs are 7-16-1 ATS in divisional games.
Kansas City is 0-5 ATS in their last five visits to Denver.
Raiders
Last four years, Raiders are 1-5 ATS as a road favorite.
Raiders covered eight of their last 10 games vs Denver.
Chargers
Last three years, Bolts are 10-1-1 ATS in divisional games.
Chargers covered five of last six visits to Kansas City.
— Famous birthdays, July 9th:
George Stone, 80
Jimmy Smits, 71
Willie Wilson, 71
Tom Hanks, 70
Jim Paxson, 69
Kelly McGillis, 69
Trent Green, 56
Damon Huard, 53
Kelly Holcomb, 53
Enrique Murciano, 53
Jared Young, 31
Brett Rypien, 30
— Blue Jays 10, Giants 0
Dylan Cease had a no-hitter until the 9th inning.
Toronto scored five runs in the top of the first.
Kazuma Okamoto homered, had four RBI
— Braves 3, Pirates 0
Game was scoreless after seven innings.
Joey Bart hit a two-run HR in the 8th inning.
Jared Jones pitched six perfect innings (77 PT) for the Pirates.
— Marlins 2, Mariners 0
Otto Lopez had his 40th multi-hit game of the year.
Kyle Stowers hit a second inning home run.
Seattle is 47-46, but they lead AL West by half a game.
— Mets 6, Royals 2
Mets scored five runs in the bottom of 8th inning.
Key play: Jared Young got hit by a pitch with bases loaded.
Christian Scott allowed three hits in five scoreless IP.
— Twins 6, Guardians 5
Cleveland led 5-3 in the 7th inning.
Alan Roden had the walk-off hit for Minnesota.
Cleveland is 47-46, game out of first place in AL Central.
— So far this season, National League teams are 232-185 (.556) vs AL teams.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Braves, Brewers, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Phillies-Cubs-Marlins
AL: Rays, Whits Sox, Mariners. Wild Cards: Bronx-Guardians-Rangers
