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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 ... 

Coming within an upset pick or cashing our five-team money line parlay card last week, we move ahead to Week 13 with the intention of beating the house. There were some huge favorites last week and we hit on our three with the Saints, Chargers and Patriots all coming through. They were so dominant that they all covered a double-digit spread to boot. We bought the Browns as a +3 dog before that line was wagered to a pick ‘em and they hit for us by stomping the Bengals. Our lone miss looked like a... 

Quietly the Indianapolis Colts are making noise in the AFC playoff picture and pushing the Texans for the top spot in the South. The Colts won their fifth consecutive game knocking off the Dolphins on Sunday, getting three touchdown passes from Andrew Luck, who is a lock to win the comeback player of the year award. Without Luck all last season, the Colts finished at the bottom of the division with four wins. They can sweep the Jacksonville Jaguars and they are a 3-point favorite on the Week 13 ... 

Heading into their bye off a stunning 24-point loss to the Titans, the questions that come up at this time of year when the New England Patriots falter made the headlines. The obvious is in regards to Tom Brady and whether he can lead the Pats to another Super Bowl at his advanced age. Well, those questions were answered in a win over the Jets on Sunday. It wasn’t a dominating victory, but the Pats covered the 13-point spread and they showed they have much more than just the best QB of all-time.... 

The Dallas Cowboys are on a roll that’s propelled them to the top of the NFC East standings. Behind Ezekiel Elliott, the Boys have run off three straight wins, including a big one over Washington on Thanksgiving Day that got them to the top of the division. Extending their winning to four might be more challenging with the New Orleans Saints on tap for the Week 13 Thursday Night Football matchup. The Saints haven’t lost since the opening week of the season and they are 9-0 ATS in their last nine... 

After getting pushed around against the line the last two weeks, the favored teams made up for it in Week 12, going 10-3 straight up and covering the closing line in eight of the 13 games. The Cleveland at Cincinnati matchup closed as a pick ‘em. Over the previous two weekends, the dogs were barking loud by going 14-8 with five pushes. Favorites came through for their backers against some steep closing lines this week. Four teams giving double-digit points all covered with the Chargers blowing o... 

Considering what some other teams in the NFL have accomplished to this point, the Houston Texans are being overlooked. But they currently have the longest winning streak in the AFC and the second longest in the league at seven in a row. They’ve won shootouts and prevailed in a few low-scoring affairs. And they’ve been blessed with some good luck during the run. It all amounts to a two-game lead over the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts in the AFC South, a season after winning four games a... 

We’ve seen just slight movement on the NFL lines for several games in the early part of the Week 12 betting week. Oddsmakers have been dialed in for the past few weekends and the teams are falling into their respective places as we come up on the three-quarter mark of the regular season. Only two games have seen more than a 1-point shift in the line, one being the Miami at Indianapolis encounter, which shifted 2.5-points in favor of the Fins.... 

The New Orleans Saints are playing like the best team in the NFL and oddsmakers agree, moving them to the top of the updated odds list at BookMaker.eu to win Super Bowl LIII. Making another statement in two months filled with them, the Saints lambasted the defending champs, putting a 48-7 smackdown on the Eagles last week, just in case you weren’t convinced of their status. We had an epic battle on Monday Night Football between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs and neither team did any... 

We got teased by our teaser picks again last week hitting on three of our selections to fall just shy of cashing a winning four-team ticket. It wasn’t too much to ask of the Philadelphia Eagles to show up in a game they desperately needed to win. Instead, the defending champs tip-toed through the Big Easy and left with the worst loss ever by a Super Bowl champ in its follow-up season. Just like the wildfires in California, the Saints are destroying everything that gets in their way.... 

Two teams that were expected to battle it out for the NFC North title find themselves looking up to the Bears with the loser of the Week 12 Sunday Night Football matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings finding themselves with even more work to do as the season winds down. If the Packers are to come out victorious, they’ll have to do something they have yet to do this season – win a game on the road. Green Bay is 0-5 SU and 1-3-1 ATS away from Lambeau Field and the Pack is get... 

Our total plays from last week are a good lesson in why you don’t always have to wait for the line or spread to move. Sometimes the best number hits the board early. We gobbled up the under for the Bears-Vikings game when the total was 46 and it paid off. The number was wagered down to 44 by kickoff and wouldn’t you know the teams split the difference, combining for 45 points. We also cashed a winning ticket when the Broncos and Chargers played below the total of 47, just adding to our recent he... 

Going against the public on three games last week netted us two wins and a push, so it was a nice week at the betting window. Researching trends and injury reports, and going on instinct are sometimes more valuable than following the masses. The Bears hadn’t beaten a team with a winning record and there were many non-believers for their Sunday night affair with the Vikings. This isn’t John Fox’s Bears and they played a vicious game covering the 3-point line to get us a win. We bought the Jags at...