Editor's note: This column appears each Sunday night to give ESPN Chalk readers a first look at the next week's NFL lines. The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook puts out the advance lines on the prior Tuesday (so Week 17 lines will be posted this upcoming Tuesday), and we'll examine how the weekend action affected those lines. We'll also look at which lines were the first to be bet by the professional bettors in Vegas (traditionally, those are the bettors most likely to fire away on these openers, though it's not the exclusive club that it used to be).
LAS VEGAS -- As we've discussed in these opening line report columns all season, the NFL results from one week will often have a significant impact on the next week's lines -- but that's even more magnified for Week 17 as the regular-season comes to a close and some teams are in must-win situations while other teams will be resting their starters for the playoffs.
