Tom: Welcome to the seventh year of Mike and Tom telling you before the season how NFL teams will fare relative to their over/under, before NFL teams tell Mike and Tom they're not oracles into the future of the NFL.
Mike: The best way to view this exercise is a barometer of ratedness, in that it is all entirely arbitrary and exists largely to drive vacuous flamewars.
Tom: Yes. At Pinnacle Sports, where we get these lines, they are accompanied by numbers expressing whether a team is likelier to go over or under their O/U.