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Old School Meets New School
The San Francisco 49ers burned many an NFL bettor last season. Actually, let me rephrase that. The injury bug squashed the hopes and dreams of the many that touted the Niners surpassing their season win total odds a season removed from falling to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV. Even so, the team still went on to win six games with the likes of Nick Mullens and C.J. Beathard under center for a majority of snaps once Jimmy Garoppolo went down with yet another season-ending injury. Upper management had enough of their glass doll preventing the franchise from winning it all so much that it went out and traded three No. 1 draft picks to move up nine spots and secure the services of FCS QB Trey Lance with the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL Draft. Even with a bevy of other injuries, San Fran was still better than average in a number of statistical categories across the board. That speaks volumes for how deep and talented the roster currently is. Hopefully with a major dose of luck on the injury front after what went down last year, the 49ers can get back to being one of the best the NFC has to offer and return to the big game. I’m bullish on Kyle Shanahan’s troops being one of the alphas of the ultra-competitive NFC West, so I have no issues eating some chalk and hammering them to exceed their win total. ...
The Los Angeles Rams won the NFC West in each of Sean McVay’s first two seasons at the helm. While the team did miss out on the postseason in his third season calling the shots, it got right back in the second season last year by churning out a 10-6 regular season campaign to look up to the Seattle Seahawks in the final divisional standings. The franchise has experienced winning marks in each of his first four season’s roaming the sidelines, and online sportsbooks expect another +.500 record to ...
The Arizona Cardinals took steps in the right direction a year ago churning out an 8-8 SU record regardless of the fact that Kliff Kingsbury’s troops opened the season with five wins through their first seven games. Still, the team just barely cashed over tickets on their win total at online sportsbooks. While injuries and COVID played a role with the team managing just three wins over its final nine games, inexperience and the absence of a vocal leader ultimately kept this team out of the playo...
Is it seriously that easy to win a Super Bowl these days? All the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed to do was sign Tom Brady to a two-year contract to pull off the feat. The rest as they say was history after the team went on a furious playoff run on the road to punch a ticket to LV where it would go on to dominate the Kansas City Chiefs and bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Raymond James Stadium for the first time since 2002. NFL win total bettors got to laugh all the way to the bank when Tampa Bay w...
Since representing the NFC in Super Bowl LI and putting forth one of the more memorable choke jobs in recent history allowing New England to come all the way back to win in overtime, it’s been nothing but a steep downward progression for the Atlanta Falcons. Though it surprisingly qualified for the postseason the following year, Atlanta has amassed a grand total of 18 wins over the last three seasons. After finishing last in the NFC South for the first time since 2007 and logging its lowest win total since 2013, upper management had enough of watching the team piss away numerous fourth quarter leads and decided to make wholesale changes by overhauling the entire coaching staff and GM. Out is Dan Quinn/Thomas Dimitroff and in is Arthur Smith/Terry Fontenot. Heck, they even traded Julio Jones to the Titans for draft picks! While some nice pieces still remain on the roster – especially from a fantasy viewpoint - Atlanta looks to be headed towards a rebuild regardless of the fact that online sportsbooks expect a near breakeven campaign with its win total odds clocking in at 7.5. Personally, I’m bearish on the Falcons making any noise within the division and expect another losing season to ultimately play out. ...
The Carolina Panthers suffered through an injury-marred campaign a season ago which prevented the surpassing of their season win total odds in Matt Rhule’s first year at the helm. Understandable considering the head coach was forced to go at all opposition without the services of Christian McCaffrey much to the chagrin of his fantasy and player prop backers at online sportsbooks. But Run CMC is said to be 100 percent healthy and ready to get back in the huddle for a Panthers team that won five g...
A season ago, the New Orleans Saints entered the regular season trailing only the San Francisco 49ers on the odds to win the NFC at online sportsbooks. They opened the year up against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home with a gaudy 10.5-game season win total. Sean Payton’s squad would log the 34-23 win and cover as 4-point favorites and then proceed to win 11 more regular season games to cash over tickets for their supporters a fourth straight season. The Saints have tallied double-d...
A new era is being ushered into the Motor City for the upcoming NFL betting season. Thankfully, Matt Patricia no longer calls the shots after leading the team to a wretched 13-28-1 SU record throughout his two-plus year stay. Instead it will be Dan Campbell and an entirely new coaching staff making the decisions for what many an NFL bettor believes to be one of if not the worst teams in the entire league. Only the Houston Texans have lower season win total odds at online sportsbooks than that of...
Going back the last 12 seasons, it’s been the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers that’ve ruled the NFC North roost with a sprinkle of the Chicago Bears here and there. The Vikes last won the division title back in 2017 which amounted to the second under the watch of Mike Zimmer who took over the reins in Minneapolis back in 2014. After getting out to a 1-5 start and then dropping three of four to close the regular season out, the Vikings failed to surpass their season win total odds at online sportsbooks in 2021. Of all the NFC North teams entering the regular season, the Vikings look to be the only team on solid ground. Major questions abound with the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, while the Detroit Lions, are well, the Detroit Lions. That has the franchise in a favorable spot to make some noise in 2021-22. Because of it, the betting markets look to be bullish on the Vikes win total with it up to 9 and heavier juice attached to the over. Minnesota has alternated between the over and under each of the last six seasons. Last year was an under, and I’m always one to ride prolonged trends be it good or bad. ...
Diehard Chicago Bears fans were disgusted when it was announced that both GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy would be given another chance to hold the reins of the franchise for at least one more season. Then all of a sudden, those frowns turned to smiles after Pace churned out arguably the best draft of his six-year employment with the franchise. Justin Fields – the quarterback of the future – and highly regarded offensive linemen Teven Jenkins more or less fell into their laps much to the s...
The Matt LaFleur era has produced back-to-back 13 win seasons with each ending in the NFC Championship Game. With that, you’d think the Green Bay Packers would be entering the 2021-22 NFL betting season wide-eyed and hungry to finally kick the door in and get back to the Super Bowl. That unfortunately isn’t the case. Aaron Rodgers still hasn’t gotten over upper management’s decision to draft his successor in the 2020 NFL Draft. He hates the front office so much that he demanded a trade hours bef...
By way of punishing opponents with its young up-and-coming defense, the Washington Football Team parlayed a 7-9 overall record into its third NFC East title since the turn of the century. Notable players gone from last year’s team include QB Alex Smith, LB Thomas Davis, longtime DE Ryan Kerrigan and CB Ronald Darby. While those are some big contributors from last yea...
The New York Giants finished in second place of the NFC East standings and would’ve punched a ticket to the playoffs if not for dropping three of four to non-divisional opposition to close out the year. The Giants ultimately pushed against their closing season win total odds with a 6-10 overall record. With that, it’s now been four straight seasons that the franchise has been unable to exceed linemaker’s expectations at online sportsbooks. If you can believe it, New York hasn’t won the
The Philadelphia Eagles were sounding red alerts even before their respective 2020-21 campaign kicked off. The selection of Jalen Hurts in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft let it be known that upper brass was worried about the $128M investment they threw at Carson Wentz in June the prior year. If NFL bettors read between the lines, they walked away with one of the easier ticket cashes on the season win total odds after the Eagles tripped and stumbled their way to a poor 4-11-1 record that ...
What a difference a year makes! The Dallas Cowboys are once again the owners of 9.5-game season win total odds. Last year, the betting markets were hitting the over with reckless abandon so much so that online sportsbooks attached ludicrous -155 juice to the impost. Now in year two of the Mike McCarthy regime, the outlook on the Cowboys looks to have cooled with -113 vig on the under. Regardless, with a healthy Dak Prescott back under center a year removed from suffering a gruesome ankle injury,...
The days of live betting the Los Angeles Chargers to fail at the tail end of games has more than likely come to an end with the dismissal of Anthony Lynn. Whether the new coaching staff led by Brandon Staley fares better in end games is to be determined. Regardless, NFL bettors should collectively pour one out for the money train that was offered up from 2017-20. With rei...
When attacking the Denver Broncos season win total odds at online sportsbooks for the 2021-22 season, you have to break it down from two differing viewpoints; with and without Aaron Rodgers. Denver will likely shatter its 8.5-game impost if the current Green Bay Packers QB1 somehow finds a way to get out of the “Land of Cheese.” If not, it’s going to be real close with the Broncos ...
For the second straight season under Jon Gruden’s watch, the Las Vegas Raiders got out to a commanding start that had it on course to qualify for the playoffs only to see the bottom drop out. The end result was watching teams in the postseason from the couch instead of competing against them on the gridiron. Vegas logged an 8-8 SU record which amounted to a single game improvement from the prior campaign. Due to some head scratching moves made by the front office both in the NFL Draft and free a...
The Kansas City Chiefs have been the class of the NFL ever since Andy Reid handed the offensive reigns over to Patrick Mahomes back in 2018. Though the Chiefs won the AFC West the two prior seasons, it’s only been the last three that KC has been a bona fide Super Bowl contender with regularity. Last year was more of the same as the Chiefs found themselves playing on Super B...
My take in last year’s preview piece dealing with the Jacksonville Jaguars season win total odds centered around 2020-21 being the season of the tank. I began the piece with that question and ended it by relaying my investment at online sportsbooks. I hit the under 4.5 in case you were wondering and cashed the ticket with ease after the Jags managed just one win over the course of their 16 game schedule. It was all about landing the services of Trevor Lawrence from day one. With the quarterback ...
After posting 9-7 regular season records in the first two seasons of the Mike Vrabel regime, the Tennessee Titans went on to win 11 games to take home AFC South honors for the first time since 2008. In doing so, it smashed its 9-game season win total odds to run a streak of overs for win total bettors to three straight. As great a campaign it was for Derrick Henry and company last season,...
The third season of the Frank Reich regime saw the Indianapolis Colts win 11 games for the first time since someone by the name of Andrew Luck was running the offense. That makes it two double-digit win outputs through Reich’s first three seasons calling the shots in Indy. Linemakers are expecting another successful season to play out within Lucas Oil Stadium with the Colts clocking in as one of only nine teams to own the distinction of owning a 10+ game win total. But will it amount to the firs...
Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins, Will Fuller and J.J. Watt helped lead the franchise to first place AFC South finishes in four of five seasons. Though the team never went on to do much in the playoffs, the foundation of the franchise was in place. Entering the 2021-22 NFL betting season, Watson is the only player of the quadrant that still remains on the roster. Whether he can partake in ...
The Pittsburgh Steelers ended a two-year streak of failing to surpass their season win total odds at online sportsbooks after grossly overachieving to log a 12-4 record and win the AFC North for the third time in the last five years. The key to the overall success for the Mike Tomlin coached squad came on the defensive side of the ball where it boasted the league’s No 3 ranked total and s...
The Cleveland Browns enter the fourth season with former Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 draft pick Baker Mayfield under center. The franchise has experienced incremental success ever since he took over the QB1 reins back in 2018-19. After going 0-16 the prior campaign to land his services, Cleveland would go on to post a 7-8-1 record his rookie season to surpass a 6-game win total at online sportsbooks. The following season, the Browns took a step back managing just six wins in a season marred ...
