Washington Commanders vs Seattle Seahawks tips: Winless road warriors meet wounded hosts

Monday night football under the lights at FedEx Field shapes as a fascinating clash of two struggling outfits desperate to arrest their respective slides. Washington Commanders welcome Seattle Seahawks in a Week 3 encounter that kicks off at 3:00 am AEST, with the Commanders looking to bounce back from consecutive road defeats while the Seahawks hunt their first win of the campaign.

The tale of the tape makes grim reading for both sides. Washington sit thirteenth in the NFC at one win and two losses, their season tally a meagre thirty-six points for and sixty-five against. Seattle's ledger reads even bleaker: winless through three starts with a draw to their name, averaging just over ten points per outing while conceding fifteen a game. Neither outfit has shown much to write home about, but with home turf under their feet for the first time in three weeks, the Commanders shape as the outfit with more avenues to redemption.

Who will win?

Washington's recent form reads like a horror show on paper. Coming off a brutal forty-one-point hiding at the hands of Baltimore Ravens on the twenty-ninth of August, they managed just three points in that road loss. The week prior, they went down by four to Detroit Lions, thirteen to seventeen, also away from home. That's back-to-back road defeats with a combined output of sixteen points and a negative fifty-nine differential across the fortnight.

Seattle's recent run tells a different but equally bleak yarn. Their last start saw them grind out a nine-all draw with Kansas City Chiefs on the road, followed by a narrow three-point loss to Tennessee Titans the week before. The Seahawks are yet to taste victory this season, sitting dead last in the NFC at zero wins, two losses and a draw. Their winless road record—zero wins, one loss and a draw away from home—offers little hope as they trek cross-country again.

The ladder positions paint the clearest picture. Washington, despite their woeful road form, have won their lone home start and sit at one-and-two overall. Seattle are winless full stop, their playoff seed ranking of fifteenth in the conference tells you everything about their prospects. The Commanders may be battered, but they're not broken at home, and that one-and-oh record at FedEx Field looms large against an outfit that can't buy a win anywhere.

These two sides have no recent head-to-head history in the pack to lean on, but the market tells its own story. Washington open at three-dollars-eighty-one to prevail, while the Seahawks sit at a short dollar-twenty-seven. Punters have installed the visitors as firm favourites despite their winless run, presumably banking on Washington's catastrophic road form continuing into their home assignment. Our nfl picks suggest the market may be missing the forest for the trees—home ground advantage and the simple fact of having tasted a win this year gives Washington a tangible edge that the odds don't fully reflect.

Same Game Multi angles worth a yarn

Same Game Multi options are on the board for this Monday night affair, with a few combos catching the eye at varying degrees of lunacy. The tamest play sits at four-dollars-twenty: Seahawks to win, total points over forty-and-a-half, and Jadarian Price to score a touchdown. That requires Seattle to finally crack the win column, both offences to collectively wake up, and a specific player to find paydirt—tall order given the scoring droughts both outfits have endured.

On the spicier end, there's a Commanders blow-out multi at one-hundred-and-one dollars combining a thirteen-plus-point Washington victory, total points over forty-and-a-half, and Jacory Croskey-Merritt to score two or more touchdowns. That's asking Washington to put up the sort of points they've managed just once this season while also banking on a double-scorer in a match-up where offence has been scarce as hen's teeth. Interesting for the dreamers, but hardly a sensible investment given what we've seen from both attacks.