Those who play NFL picks and like to roll with underdogs have an increasingly shrinking margin of error heading into the Week 9 slate.
The upsets didn't come as often in Week 8 as they had the weeks prior. The Houston Texans came close to knocking off the Seattle Seahawks on the road, sure, but overall, the schedule didn't offer up many major surprises.
One can take a single glance at the Week 9 schedule and its lines to see experts think this will become a trend now the league has started to even itself out.