First bets for Week 8: Revenge for Rodgers, a Giants rebound, plus an MVP pick

Week 8 gets underway with a matchup of playoff teams from a play ago, arsenic the Minnesota Vikings sojourn the Los Angeles Chargers connected "Thursday Night Football."

There are 10 day games Sunday, and the "Sunday Night Football" matchup features Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Green Bay Packers, the franchise Rodgers won a Super Bowl with and built his Hall of Fame resume.

The week wraps up with the Washington Commanders and Kansas City Chiefs facing disconnected connected "Monday Night Football."

Six teams person byes (Detroit Lions, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars).

Matt Bowen, Eric Karabell, Pamela Maldonado, Eric Moody and Seth Walder looked astatine the aboriginal Week 8 likelihood and identified which ones are worthy jumping connected present earlier imaginable shifts aboriginal successful the week.

Note: Odds astatine clip of publication, courtesy of ESPN BET Sportsbook.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers to screen -5.5 (-120) astatine New Orleans Saints

Bowen: Baker Mayfield has played astatine an highly precocious level this season, but I'm leaning connected the Tampa Bay defence and their quality to pressure/change the post-snap representation versus Saints backmost Spencer Rattler. In the Week 7 nonaccomplishment to the Chicago Bears, Rattler threw 3 interceptions, and the Bucs tin unit him to play frenetically i...