Thursday Night Football: Jets vs. Colts Same Game Parlay Picks
The 2021 NFL season has reached its halfway point, and an exciting second half sits on the horizon. Kicking off Week 9 of this 18-week NFL season, we have the Indianapolis Colts hosting the New York Jets. Will fabled rags-to-riches Jets QB Mike White continue his glorious start to a professional career? Or will veteran QB Carson Wentz hold court, and inch closer to the Titans in the AFC South? I’m taking the Colts, but I’m staying far away from their 10-point spread. Instead, I’ll be going to PointsBet to assemble my latest primetime Same Game Parlay.
A Same Game Parlay basically just means a parlay consisting of multiple correlated wagers from one specific game. It provides bettors with good options to bet a game—and piece together props into a parlay within that game—beyond just the standard spread, moneyline, and over/under totals.
Let’s dive into our favorite Same Game Parlay bets for this exciting Thursday Night Football showdown, and let’s make some more money!
Jets vs. Colts Same Game Parlay
- Moneyline: Indianapolis Colts (-500)
- New York Jets Total: UNDER 17.5 (-136)
- Margins: Indianapolis Colts 1-13 (+120)
- Receiving Props: Michael Pittman to Get 75+ Receiving Yards (-105)
Same Game Parlay Odds: +971
Moneyline: Colts -500
Wentz and the Colts have woken up in a major way in the past few weeks, posting 30 or more points in each of their last three games. Considering the Jets have surrendered an average of 29.4 points per game, I’m picking the Colts to win. I will not, however, mess with a double-digit spread in primetime. Fool me once, shame on the NFL. Fool me twice, shame on me as a bettor. Let’s just be happy with the W, and not start kicking couches if Indy wins by nine due to a garbage-time Jets field goal or something spectacularly annoying.
New York Jets Total: UNDER 17.5 (-136)
I loved the storyline of QB Mike White and RB Michael Carter taking over last week to upset the Bengals as well as anyone. But it’s not going to happen two weeks in a row. The Colts had plenty of film to review over the past few days, Indy has a much better front-seven than Cincy, and New York will be lucky to sniff an upset on the road. White won’t be able to dump the ball off to Carter 15 times, or screen-pass his way to victory. Wentz and the Colts look like a legitimate playoff offense right now, and the success has translated into halfway-decent defense for head coach Frank Reich and d-coordinator Matt Eberflus. I think it’s generous to project Gang Green at 17 points.
Margins 13.5: Colts By 1-13 Points (+120)
I suppose some people would find this a risky prop to add as a third leg, considering we have the Jets at under 18 points. But it works out just fine, in my opinion. I have Indy winning 26-13, satisfying the Jets’ UNDER and the Colts’ winning margin of between 1-13 points. If you like the Colts in a landslide, pick them to win by 13+ in the same margins prop (+130). But I play it safe, because like I said, primetime spreads are dicey spreads.
‘Receiving Props: Michael Pittman To Get 75+ Receiving Yards (-105)
We can’t very well do a Same Game Parlay without at least one player prop. And “(player-popup #michael-pittman)Michael Pittman Jr is arguably one of the most exciting young players in the NFL right now. Indy’s second-year wideout has logged 86 or more receiving yards in three of the Colts’ last four games, during which he has also scored four times. Now he draws a Jets defense that bleeds passing yards—New York has surrendered 275.3 air yards per game so far this season. Maybe you’re more comfortable with betting Colts running back Jonathan Taylor to accrue 75 rushing yards at -180—another fine bet—but I’m riding the Pittman lightning and rooting for chunk yardage through the air. Let’s go, MPJ—get us back on the right track!
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