2025 NFL Thursday Night 10/30

Thu, Oct 30, 2025
by BondMoney.cappertek.com

Ravens at Miami...

In last Sunday’s Cell Door Locks—which were anything but—I spent the entire segment ripping the Dolphins while simultaneously professing my undying love for them. Just before making my worst picks of the season, I said that we should fire head coach Mike McDaniel and get someone who would instill discipline next year. Someone like coach Brian Flores who we fired just before hiring Mike McDaniel. But then the Dolphins went into Atlanta as an 8-point dog and ROCKED the Falcons. RB Bijan Robinson was held to something like 30 yards, Kirk Cousins laid a egg in his audition to be traded to another team (back to Minnesota, perhaps?) and Jaylen Waddle was unstoppable! We are now sitting at 2-6 which is admittedly still very ugly, but in the words of Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, “so you’re telling me there’s a chance?” I think there might be.

But first we have to deal with a 2-5 team whose MVP QB is finally returning from an injury and who are also trying to dig out of the hole. With Lamar Jackson under center, the Ravens can beat you in multiple ways. But for the Dolphins, the issue will be run defense. And while the Falcons’ Bijan Robinson is electric, the Ravens’ Derrick Henry is a locomotive. A diesel truck. Figuring out how to stop him will be job one. But we’ll also have to find an answer for Zay Flowers, DeAndre Hopkins and Mark Andrews. All while spying Lamar Jackson to make sure he doesn’t sneak out the backfield on third and long and do what he usually does. It’s going to be a mission. But their run defense is suspect too. (See the Lions game and those two 90-yard drives consisting mainly of between the tackle runs.) If the Dolphins can pull off the upset, the faint pulse from the Falcons win can officially be called a heartbeat... Then the Bills are coming to South Florida 11 days later. I wonder how many times in history an eight-point underdog has won straight up in back-to-back games. That’s what I’m hoping for. (Can you tell?) And if we lose, we’ll be 2-7. Time to start listening to trade suitors before next week’s deadline in order to build draft capital for next year.

As far as coaching candidates are concerned, there’s a crotchety old disciplinarian and defensive mastermind who looks extremely uncomfortable up in Chapel Hill right now. The hoodie himself, Bill Belichick. I’m sure he’d love an opportunity to break Don Shula’s record—in Miami—while also sticking it to his old boss in New England. (For those who haven’t been paying close attention, Belichick banned the Patriot scouts from North Carolina practices this year.) One thing is undebatable: he would demand discipline. No more bedroom slippers on the practice field. But maybe it won’t be necessary. Maybe we’ll claw our way back to .500 in time to make a playoff push. Maybe McDaniel can save the season. Seems improbable, but then so does the idea of me picking football games against an AI chatbot in the year 2025. Infinite possibilities, my friends. But tonight, gimme the Fins and the points in the Hard Rock. Final answer (with updated point spread): Mia +7.5 vs. Bal.*

*Claude disagrees with Bond$ on tonight’s game.

Lines based on CapperTek as of Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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