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The biggest concern for the New Orleans Saints is a letdown after knocking off the previously unbeaten Rams and extending their winning streak to seven in a row. The Saints look to continue their roll with a Week 10 visit to the Cincinnati Bengals, who are coming off their bye and will be without leading receiver A.J. Green. That’s something to consider on the live betting lines at BookMaker.eu when playing this matchup.... 

The 1972 Dolphins popped the champagne bottles on Sunday when the Los Angeles Rams became the last unbeaten team to lose a game. Faced with a situation new to them this year, the Rams will play trying to avoid a losing streak for the first time. Oddsmakers aren’t overly concerned about last week’s loss to the Saints, installing the Rams a 10-point favorite on the opening NFL betting lines for their Week 10 matchup with NFC West rival Seattle Seahawks.... 

On the day daylight savings time ended, the Carolina Panthers turned back the clock more than an hour. Playing like they did in 2015, the Panthers rolled over the Tampa Bay Bucs on Sunday, winning their third straight game in the process while watching the offense become more and more efficient. Cam Newton and his teammates have a big obstacle in front of them as they take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Week 10 Thursday Night Football matchup. After a rough beginning, the Steelers have regain... 

It was a bad week to be a favorite in the NFL with teams laying points in Week 9 splitting the 12 games straight up through the Sunday Night Football matchup. Several of the “favorites” lost, though the games could easily have gone the other way on the NFL betting lines. A late surge at the betting window moved the line in favor of the Rams for their tilt at New Orleans, and the Superdome is always a tough venue. The Saints covered the 2-point line and handed the Rams their first loss of the sea... 

Both teams are coming off a bye, which gave them some extra time to work out a few kinks and get some banged up bodies healthy. The biggest issue facing the Tennessee Titans and Dallas Cowboys has been offense. Both clubs rank near the bottom of the league stat categories in total yards and scoring, and they have played solidly on the other side of the football, which is why oddsmakers set the total at just 40.5 for the Week 9 Monday Night Football matchup. The Titans are trying to end a three-g... 

Unlike last week when the closing spreads were all over the board, the opening lines for Week 9 of the 2018 NFL regular season schedule are much closer. Seven games currently have a spread of a field goal or less and just two have a line of more than a touchdown. News out of Buffalo that Nathan Peterman would start on Sunday against Chicago caused a seismic shift in that spread. The Bears opened at -8 and jumped to -10 shortly after the announcement.... 

With four favorites standing out from the rest of the pack, BookMaker.eu has now opened up wagers on those teams to NOT win the Super Bowl. Of course you can still throw down some coin on the team you think has a shot at hoisting the Lombardi Trophy in early February with the betting window always open. Placing a wager on a team to come up short of the ultimate goal has a much higher probability rate therefore the odds are long on every team.... 

Add one to the popular Meat Loaf song from years ago and you have three out four ain’t bad. That’s what we had on our teaser picks last week, but unfortunately it wasn’t a winner as the Ravens defense made sure of that. We expected more from the Ravens, or maybe less of the Carolina Panthers. Either way, we didn’t get what we needed and that game cost us a winning ticket. The other wagers were fairly straightforward and came through for us. Aaron Rodgers kept the Packers within striking distance... 

Fans better savor the moment on Sunday Night Football when two of the best to ever play game square off head-to-head in a rare meeting. In a quarterback duel for the ages, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers visit Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Week 9. The two have played a lot of football over their careers, but they’ve gone head-to-head as s... 

We hit on one of our fades from last week, going with the visiting Broncos after the public strongly backed Kansas City. And we were fortunate that Denver scored the game’s final nine points and got the backdoor cover on a late field goal to pull within the 8.5-point line in a 30-23 loss. Undeterred from a couple of narrow losses on our fade plays, we’ll examine some Week 9 matchups to... 

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, as the saying goes. And it certainly doesn’t count when playing a multi-team parlay card. We came close last week hitting on two of our three favorites and correctly playing the underdog Seahawks in their matchup with Detroit. However, one loss ruins everything as the money line parlay card requires all teams to win their games. You would think picking a winner straight up would be easy, but this is the NFL, and nothing comes easy. Just ask the ... 

For the second week in a row a majority of the games played below the closing total and we hit the trifecta with all three of our picks cashing at the betting window. And, not surprisingly, it was the under that won for us. Not to brag or anything, but a perfect 3-0 week is pretty impressive. The key is to continue winning and not rest on your past accomplishments, so we aren’t going to do that. But winning all three tickets on our top total plays made for a successful week. It’s hard to play th... 

A showdown of epic proportion hits the Week 9 schedule when the top teams in the NFC square off. The Los Angeles Rams didn’t play their best last week, yet they maintained their perfect record with a narrow victory over the Packers. The New Orleans Saints have been just as hot riding a six-game winning streak since dropping their opener. And if you like offense this is the game for you. Both teams are averaging at least 33 points per game and the total hit the board at a season-high 60. The Rams... 

It appears as though the Pittsburgh Steelers have put the frustrations of their early season struggles behind them and have moved on from stud running back Le’Veon Bell to retain a position that has become all too familiar for them in the last few years – first place in the AFC North. With three straight wins and covers, the Steelers are looking like the dominant club many felt they would be in the AFC. The Ravens are trending the other direction with losses in two straight and three of their pa... 

It hasn’t been a good season for football in the Bay Area as the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers sit at the bottom of their respective conference heading into their Week 9 Thursday Night Football matchup. But despite the poor play from the northern California clubs, this contest should get the blood boiling for a number of reasons. First, both teams have to be pis... 

The favored teams did another solid in Week 8 of the regular season, winning 10 of the 13 games straight up through the Sunday Night Football encounter. However, the oddsmakers proved their worth once again with the outcomes against the closing lines much tighter as the teams laying points went just 7-6 ATS. Betting on the road dogs was a profitable play with those teams covering the spread in four of six contests. The Broncos slapped host Kansas City with its first ATS loss of the season by cov... 

The way these teams are going the only question for the Week 8 Monday Night Football matchup is how many points are the New England Patriots going to win by. Since opening the season 1-2, the Pats have rattled off four consecutive wins by scoring an average of over 39 points with impressive wins over up-and-comers Chicago and Kansas City in the last two. Things certainly don’t look good for the Bills, but they were bigger dogs in Week 3 and they beat the Vikings outright 27-6 when spotted a cool... 

There are six games with a current point spread of at least a touchdown, including two matchups that reached a double-figure line, on the Week 8 NFL regular season schedule. That suggests we may have a few blowouts as separation among the teams begins to settle in with the halfway point upon us. There has been little movement of the significant variety with most of the 14 games on the slate staying on the opening number or moving just a half-point. The line for the Baltimore at Carolina match sw... 

The Los Angeles Rams kept their perfect season alive by winning their seventh straight with a thorough beating of NFC West rival San Francisco last week. And as a result they remain the favorite at +235 on the updated Super Bowl LIII odds board at BookMaker.eu. Responding to their first loss of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs made a jump to the second favorite on the board at +550 with a Sunday night win over Cincinnati. Ironically, they leapfrogged the Patriots, the only team to deal the Chi... 

The Week 8 Sunday Night Football matchup between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings sets up to be a hum-dinger. Both teams are hot with the Saints winning five straight after a season-opening setback. The Vikings responded to an opening malaise to post three consecutive victories to move atop the NFC Central. The betting public is split on this one as well with near even money pushing the line to a pick ‘em. What will be talked about most on the NBC broadcast, however, is how last year... 

For the first time this season we saw a majority of games play below the closing total with the under going 9-4 last week. Is it a sign that the oddsmakers are making the proper adjustments on the totals? Or are the teams playing a better brand of defense? Who knows, maybe it’s a combination of both. But with all the points and touchdowns being scored, taking the over isn’t an automatic winner. We hit on two of our three top total plays last week with the Broncos going over the total by themselv... 

Things didn’t go so well for us last week on our public fades, but undeterred we’ll examine some of the Week 8 matchups, see which side the public is leaning on the early NFL betting lines at BookMaker.eu and make our own fearless prognostications on what teams should be faded. New England is getting nearly 85 percent of the early action for its Monday Night Football matchup with the Bills and it’s hard to imagine what the other 15 percent are thinking. Despite coming off as a 13.5-point favorit... 

We moved the line and spread in our favor to come up with three winners last week. Unfortunately we needed all four to win in order to cash the ticket and it was the Thursday night game that did us in for the second straight week. It sucks when you have a losing ticket before the Sunday games are even played. We’ll steer clear of this week’s Thursday Night Football game, which has seen a close split in the early wagers, indicating oddsmakers nailed the opening line of Texans -7 for their matchup... 

Playing a multi-team parlay card is both fun to play and very rewarding when you win. Playing on the money line gives bettors a chance at hitting the favorites. However, the payout won’t be as large. In order to hedge our bets, taking a chance on an underdog or two will increase the amount of dough we can make when playing a multi-team parlay card. We hit all our favorites last week, which gave us a solid base. But we missed on one of our underdog picks when the Cowboys couldn’t turn the trick i... 

At the start of the season this matchup had all the makings of a potential Super Bowl battle. Instead it’s turned into a cruel joke. It’s been a real downer for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who came within 10 minutes of the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance last season. Long the punching bag for anything that negatively impacts the club, Blake Bortles was exiled to the bench last week, and it just proved that he isn’t entirely the problem. Should Bortles return to start behind center he won’t...