The Seattle Seahawks will be looking to end a two-game road playoff skid when they take the field in Arlington, Texas on Saturday for a Wild Card Weekend clash with the Cowboys as 2-point underdogs on the NFL odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Seattle has won outright in six of its past seven contests, but has been dominated in consecutive playoff losses ahead of Saturday night’s matchup at AT&T Stadium.
The Seahawks have posted just three straight-up wins in 14 all-time playoff road games, with a 35-20 loss in Atlanta two years ago marking the team’s third loss by a double-digit margin in its past seven such outings.
The Seahawks have held the Cowboys to just 12 points per game in consecutive wins in Texas. However, Dallas is on a roll, going 7-1 SU and 6-1-1 against the spread in its past eight games and now sits as a +2500 wager on the Super Bowl odds.
Earlier on Saturday, the Houston Texans take on the red-hot Indianapolis Colts as 1.5-point home favourites, while Sunday’s action has the Baltimore Ravens hosting the Los Angeles Chargers as 3-point chalk, and the Chicago Bears taking on the Philadelphia Eagles as 6-point home favourites.
A 2-2 SU stretch run relegated the AFC South champion Texans to the No. 3 seed in the conference. Houston’s shaky finish to the regular season began with a 24-21 loss to the Colts as 4-point home chalk at online betting sites, and has contributed to the team’s middling 3-2-2 ATS run over its past seven games.
The re-emergence of quarterback Andrew Luck has energized the Colts, who travel to Houston on a 9-1 SU run. However, Indianapolis is just 3-10 SU in its past 13 playoff road games, and has averaged just 9.4 points per game in five straight Wild Card Weekend losses on the road.
A stingy Ravens defence has held opponents to 17 or fewer points four times during the team’s current 6-1 SU run. Baltimore, though, must contend with a high-powered Chargers offence that has scored 29 or more points on the road four times this season, including two of their past three. Los Angeles has also won outright in its past four as road underdogs, and is 3-3 SU in its past six as a road underdog in the playoffs.
The Bears have won nine of 10 SU overall and have held opponents to just 15 points per game during a 5-0 SU run, but face an Eagles team playing its first road playoff game since 2009 riding a three-game win streak as playoff betting underdogs.
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