AFC East Questions, Concerns and Futures Odds Entering Camp

The AFC East has been owned by the New England Patriots for so long it has become a foregone conclusion that the top spot is theirs and the others are just playing for second. Is this the year that all changes?

 

After a quick check of the odds over at Sportsbook Review, the sports betting industry’s bible for current odds on anything from futbol to football and featuring the world’s best online sportsbooks, we see that the odds on the Jets to win the East are +1625, the AFC odds are +4800, and New Yorkers will be chagrined to learn that they are getting zero respect in being tagged as the biggest longshot on the board to win the Super Bowl at +17500.

In the addition by subtraction department, the Dolphins rid themselves of Ndamukong Suh but then dealt their top wideout and three-time Pro Bowler Jarvis Landry to the Browns for a fourth and seventh round pick. Say what?! Of course, Landry was looking for a big payday and the Dolphins were not inclined to continue sticking the franchise tag on him, unable to negotiate a long-term agreement, but couldn’t they have done better for a top-flite receiver than to get what became Notre Dame tight end Durham Smythe and a seventh-rounder next year that probably won’t even make the team?

Sportsbook Review is revealing that the industry’s premier betting sites are making the Dolphins +1350 to win the AFC East, +3750 to win the AFC, and the second highest longshot, above only the Jets, to win the Super Bowl at +12500.