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The public had it right in our games last week, nailing the Titans in a Thursday night romp over Jacksonville. And proving that teams can still play defense in this league, the Ravens nearly stole one from the Chiefs, losing in overtime but covering the 6-point line, sending us to a pair of losses on our fade plays. We did claim success on Monday night with the Seahawks earning a cover after the early action favored the Vikings.... 

For the second straight week we just happened to pick the double-digit favorite that lost outright, blowing up our money line parlay card. Last week we had the Packers and they crumbled as a two-touchdown favorite to the Cardinals. Surely the Steelers could beat the lowly Raiders this week we thought. Pittsburgh lost a few games in a row and was due for a bounce back, and the Steelers were 10-point chalk in the black hole against a 2-win team. But it wasn’t to be and our five-team money line par... 

Not only are the Chicago Bears a threat to win the NFC North they proved a threat to the hierarchy in the conference with a dominant defensive showing in a win over the Rams on Sunday night. There is still work to be done however, and the Bears will entertain their longtime rival the Green Bay Packers with a chance to avenge an earlier loss that may have been the catalyst for the surprising run. Or maybe it was the acquisition of Khalil Mack, who transformed a good defense into a great one.... 

Both teams are coming off frustrating losses in a way no one could have possibly imagined. And they will try and get over that by hanging an L on each other when the New England Patriots visit the Pittsburgh Steelers in a Week 15 tilt on Sunday. Despite their dramatic defeats both teams continue to lead their division, though the Steelers advantage in the NFC North has become much closer after their third straight loss. After losing in Miami last year, the Pats strolled into the Steel City and k... 

It was another good week for the underdogs, especially against the spread with teams getting points covering in nine of the 15 games ahead of the Week 14 Monday Night Football tilt. Favored teams went 8-7 straight up, but a few major upsets made the week seem worse than it actually it was. Two AFC heavyweights were knocked off with the Patriots losing, 34-33, on a last-second double-lateral pass that somehow resulted in a Miami touchdown. The Pats closed as a 9-point favorite over the Fins but l... 

Recent history isn’t on their side, but that won’t stop the Los Angeles Chargers from showing up for their Week 15 Thursday Night Football battle with the Kansas City Chiefs. First place in the AFC and the West Division is on the line and for the Bolts to pull even they’ll need to break a nine-game losing streak in the series. The Chiefs maintained their lead by pulling out the third wildest win of the weekend by amassing 441 total yards against the NFL’s top-ranked defense and beating the Raven... 

The Minnesota Vikings didn’t pay Kirk Cousins a bunch of money to compete for a playoff spot. The brain trust of the organization identified the quarterback position as the one that needed an upgrade in order to get the Vikes to the Super Bowl with their window still open. Cousins is having a nice season statistically, but he hasn’t been much better than Case Keenum was last year. And Cousins doesn’t have a glorious history of performing in clutch football games. That could change, however, the ... 

Not much going on with the lines early in the NFL betting week at BookMaker.eu. A number of games have moved from between ½- to 1-point, which is normal. Two games have been wagered more than a point and only one has gone beyond a 2-point shift at the mid-week point. That one was a big move, though, with the Giants going from a pick ‘em to -3.5 for their Sunday NFC East tilt with the Skins.... 

Sneaking by in a few games with a backup quarterback, the Chicago Bears hope to have their full arsenal intact when they host the Los Angeles Rams in a key NFC matchup to conclude Sunday’s Week 14 slate of games. The surprising leaders of the North are expecting to have Mitchell Trubisky back after he missed the last two games with an injury. The Bears could certainly use him against the Rams high-scoring offense. We should also see some standout defensive play with the last two DPOY’s taking th... 

The odds finally caught up with the Saints, who saw their 10-game SU and nine-game ATS winning streaks stopped by losing outright as a touchdown-favorite in Dallas last week. We went to the well once too often and it cost us on our four-team teaser card, with that being the only defeat we suffered. However, in order to cash the winning ticket we need all four teams to cover the teaser line, so it didn’t matter what happened in the other games. By the way, we won the other three with the Texans a... 

After watching the Saints lose in Dallas last Thursday, the Los Angeles Rams regained the top spot on the Super Bowl LIII updated odds list at BookMaker.eu. The same four teams have camped out at the top of the list all season, though they swapped spots this week with the Chiefs and Patriots also changing their ranking. Kansas City took a body blow with the release of leading rusher Kareem Hunt and the Chiefs responded by beating Oakland, but it was closer than most expected. That may have swaye... 

Our recent heater on the top over plays came to an unceremonious end last week with all three of our picks going the other way. We certainly didn’t expect the Colts to get shut out the way Andrew Luck had been playing, and we were counting on the Jaguars to maybe pack it in after their season was tossed in the toilet thanks to a seven-game losing streak. So of course the Jags play their best defensive game of the year to cash the under and hand us a loss. And kudos to the Chargers for storming a... 

Going against the grain on the Carolina Panthers last week proved to be a wise choice on our part as the Bucs pulled off the upset as a 3-point dog to send 70 percent of the bettors to defeat. We weren’t so lucky on our other fade plays as the Rams put together a solid defensive game to slow down Matthew Stafford and the Lions, allowing them to cover the 10-point line much to the delight of the betting majority that backed the NFC West Champions.... 

The Green Bay Packers blew up a number of money line tickets last week, including ours, with their upset loss to the Cardinals as a two-touchdown favorite. Figuring the Pack had one last chance to keep their playoff hopes alive, and going against the two-win Cards at home seemed like a good play. In reality it wasn’t, and such is the unpredictable nature of the NFL. One thing we do know is that coaches are hired to be fired, and Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy paid the price for the loss, getting cann... 

Take last year’s leading rusher and a big part of the NFL’s most explosive offense out of the lineup and you might expect a dropoff in production. Without Kareem Hunt following his release, the Kansas City Chiefs still dropped 40 on the Raiders in a win last week to maintain their lead in the AFC. Riding the hot play of Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens have crept into contention and look to slow down the league’s highest scoring team by putting the No. 1 defense on the field in a Week 14 show... 

With a quarter of the season remaining to be played, the NFC East is looking like a two-team race, and entering Week 14 the Dallas Cowboys are in the driver’s seat. The Boys are coming off their biggest win of the season when they stymied the Saints high-powered offense and came away with a 13-10 verdict for their fourth consecutive triumph. The offense is still lagging but the underrated defense has the Cowboys thinking about a division championship. They still have to hold off the defending ch... 

Winning ugly was the catch phrase of the week for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans, but the key word is winning. Both teams accomplished that and head into their Week 14 Thursday Night Football matchup with very different goals for the rest of the year. The Jags will look to finish strong after ending a seven-game losing streak while the Titans are still on the fringe of the AFC playoff picture heading into the final quarter of the 2018 campaign. Don’t expect the Jags to light up th... 

The Week 13 Thursday night game set the tone for the entire slate of games that had the dogs barking. Heading into Dallas as a 7-point favorite for the opening game of the betting week, the Saints were upset 13-10. The Chargers ended the weekend with a dramatic comeback win in Pittsburgh on Sunday night as a field-goal pup, giving the underdogs a 7-8 straight up and 9-6 against the spread record ahead of the Monday night affair. The biggest shocker came in Green Bay with the Packers falling to t... 

It is the wacky NFC East, so none of the four teams are out of the race for the division title. The Washington Redskins were in the catbird’s seat a few weeks ago until they lost Alex Smith and couple of games to relinquish the lead to Dallas. Most folks had given up on the defending champs after the Philadelphia Eagles tiptoed through the Big Easy to put them two games under .500. A strange thing happened on their way to booking lift tickets, a win, to move Philly back into the picture. In a di... 

We’ve seen the typical ½- to 1-point swings on the early NFL lines at BookMaker.eu and a few Week 13 encounters have remained stagnant. But a pair of games stood out among all the others in the midweek betting roundup. Those games have seen enormous shifts with each jumping the fence and the chaos is far from being over. We haven’t seen a spread move as much as it did for the AFC East battle between the Bills and Dolphins. Buffalo opened as a 6-point favorite at BookMaker.eu in what was clearly ... 

The divide at the top keeps getting larger and larger. The same four teams that have been at the top of the Super Bowl LIII odds board since early in the season at BookMaker.eu are still there with the New Orleans Saints holding down the top spot. The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs deserved a week off after treating NFL fans to one of the greatest games in recent memory to conclude the betting in Week 11. They remain locked into the No. 2 and No. 3 holes respectively. And lingering just... 

We teased our lines just right last week and hit our four-team teaser picks to cash the winning ticket, and the games weren’t even close. Playing the Saints has been a winner for nine straight weeks, and moving the line in our favor only made it that much easier. Turns out we didn’t even have to tease that one as New Orleans covered the spread anyway. We bought the Pats at -9.5 for their game with the Jets and teased it in our favor. And we didn’t need to tease that one either.... 

Philip Rivers and the Los Angeles Chargers displayed how to properly bounce back from a terrible defeat. Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers will look to follow suit when the AFC heavyweights meet in the Week 13 Sunday Night Football matchup. Rivers set a NFL record for completion percentage in a win over Arizona, one week after the Bolts were doused by Denver. The Steelers took one on the chin against the same Broncos team and are hoping to respond the way the Chargers did, though th... 

The unpredictable nature of the NFL caught us last week with the Dallas-Washington Thanksgiving matchup easily going over the closing total. Of course we sided with the under while trying to figure out where the offense was going to come from. The Boys got a breakout game from Amari Cooper to help them climb into a first-place tie in the NFC East. We did hit on our two other total plays, raising our record to 11-4 over the last five weeks. We bought the Giants and Eagles when the total was at 46... 

The public got the better of us last week with three teams backed on the early line going on for a win and a cover. It’s always a gamble to go against the home team and we were undone by a pair of hosts last week. An outburst of points by the Cowboys was certainly unexpected and they parlayed that into a cover win over the Skins on Turkey Day. And we were the last ones holding out hope that the Jacksonville Jaguars would turn a corner and end their losing streak. They were after all playing the ...