2024 NFL Week 13 officiating angles: Finding edges in Browns-Broncos, Steelers-Bengals and more
This column -- a collaboration with NFL officiating guru Joe Gibbs -- is 48-38-1 (plus 6.35 units) since its debut last season
Gibbs (not the Hall of Fame coach, the NFL referee expert who tweets @NFLrefstats1) teams with SportsLine to deliver three weekly bets. Gibbs dives into the NFL referee assignments the moment they are released each week, unearthing the most relevant betting angles.
Before you make any Week 13 NFL picks or NFL parlays, you need to see what Gibbs and SportsLine senior analyst Larry Hartstein have to say about the officiating crews' tendencies.
A former lead writer for Covers and The Linemakers, Hartstein combines a vast network of Vegas sources with an analytical approach he honed working for Pro Football Focus. Hartstein tied for 52nd place (out of 1,598 entries) in the 2022 Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, going 53-34-3 ATS. His weekly Vegas contest selections form the basis of his NFL best bets column, which is 93-69-3 (57.4%, +16.34 units) since its inception in 2022.
We can tell you Hartstein and Gibbs are betting the Broncos -5.5 on Monday Night Football, in part because John Hussey is officiating.
Home teams are 85-50-5 ATS (62.5%) with Hussey since 2016, including 6-3 ATS this season. The Browns rank No. 1 in pre-snap penalties per game. While both defenses rank in the top 10 at generating offensive holding flags, Hussey's crew actually calls the fewest offensive holding penalties per game.
Hartstein and Gibbs also are sharing key officiating angles in Steelers-Bengals and Buccaneers-Panthers. You need to see this key referee data before locking in your picks!
So what's the play for Steelers-Bengals? And what other officiating edges can be found on the Week 13 slate? ... Join SportsLine right now to see Larry Hartstein's Week 13 NFL officiating trends, all from the column that went 37-23 last season!
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