2023 NFL Week 14: Weather Begins to Take Its Toll

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After taking the week off last week, it was time to get back on the horse. One of the things that occurs during a long NFL season is that you begin to get a bit burned out. You’re not making the right decisions (as witnessed by the 2-4 record for Week 11 and Week 12)… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Twelve: Abbreviated Schedule Leaves Few Choices

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With Thanksgiving weekend behind us, the NFL Week Twelve schedule is a bit of an abbreviated one. That doesn’t leave many betting choices for the punters to make, something you always desire when looking at a slate of games. Injuries have also begun to take their toll and influence the betting lines. Quick…with Bengals QB… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Eleven: What’s the Most Important Thing? TIMING…

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There is an old joke among comedians. FIRST COMEDIAN: “What’s the most important thing in comedy?” SECOND COMEDIAN: “Wh—” FIRST COMEDIAN: “TIMING!” The same thing is true with many things in life, but perhaps none more important than sports betting. Picking up key bits of information – an injury, a coaching change, something that can… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Ten Recap: Trends Don’t Always Translate

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The games are beginning to garner more importance in the National Football League as we have passed the Week Ten mark. Every game now seems to have some sort of impact on the pursuit of the playoff race and, especially with the weather becoming cooler in the North, defenses are beginning to flex their muscles.… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Ten: Naming the Contenders and the Pretenders

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We’re by the halfway pole with this Sunday’s 2023 NFL Week Ten schedule and, as such, we’ve got enough information to be able to make some designations. Who are the real contenders, the ones that we could easily see in the Super Bowl come 2024? Who are those that don’t quite reach that level? And… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Nine: Big Games Mark Weekend Slate

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We’ve reached the halfway point of the 2023 NFL season, and it has certainly been an entertaining one. Of course, we have some of the usual suspects that have risen to the top – Kansas City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco most notably – but there have been some surprises, also. Who would have conceived that… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Eight: To Go Early or To Go Late?

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When it comes to pretty much anything in life, the more information that you have, the better decisions you will make. This is especially true when it comes to sports betting and, in particular, the National Football League. One of those informational factors is injuries. Especially when dealing with concussions, which can take some time… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Seven Recap: Welcome to Bizarro World

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It is something that usually happens at least once in any sports season. There is that day when, as Dr. Peter Venkman put it in Ghostbusters regarding the pending arrival of Gozer the Gozerian, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together…Mass hysteria!” That was Week Seven in a nutshell for the National Football League in… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Seven: If All Else Fails…

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There are times, especially in the world of gambling, when you really wonder if you know what you’re doing. You move all in with your middle pair of sevens against an A-J off suit…and the opponent rivers a Broadway straight. In poker, and in gambling too, you can often make the correct move, the ones… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Six: Going Against the Grain

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When it comes to sports betting, part of the trick is knowing when to break away from the pack – or the favorites – and pick up on the underdogs – otherwise known as the contrarian bet. Picking out these times to take the contrarian play is key to being able to maximize a play.… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Five: When Is the Spread Too Much?

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One thing that you’ll notice about the National Football League is that point spreads normally do not get REALLY large. Usually, when you look at any line, it is going to be under a touchdown, if not under a field goal. The reason for this is that there is rarely a difference of more than… Read more »

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NFL Week Four Recap: Sometimes You Get What You Need…

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After the debacle that was the third week of the season, we were able to turn things around a bit in the NFL Week Four results. But that is the way it works in any long-term activity, especially when it comes to sports betting. You’re not going to get everything you want, but sometimes you… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Four: The Word of the Day is…Parity

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After the debacle last week that was the National Football League Week Three schedule, there’s one thing that all bettors must be reminded of. All these professional leagues, whether it is the NFL, the NBA, the Premier League, or even the Canadian Football League, would love it if their teams all finished with the same… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week Three: Who Do You Trust?

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We may be only two weeks into the 2023 National Football League season, but there are a couple of things that are already evident. If you can pick out these “sure things” early in the season, then you can use that to ride some betting action when it comes to future games. Who is riding… Read more »

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NFL Week Two Recap: Push it Real Good …

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In the world of sports betting, sometimes your greatest friend can be something that both bettors and books hate – the push. This is something we saw in the NFL Week Two picks, where the line set by the book – say -3 or -7 as to the spread or the rare case when the… Read more »

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NFL Week One Recap: Breaking Even Isn’t Nice to Do

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If you caught our first-ever National Football League predictions for Week One last Sunday, you learned a fact really quick about sports betting – breaking even isn’t nice to do. To be able to make a profit out of sports betting, you MUST be able to win, preferably around a 60/40 clip, if not better.… Read more »

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2023 NFL Season Week One: Figure Out the Trends Quickly

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We are on the doorstep of the official start of the National Football League season. Technically, it’s already started with the stunning win by the Detroit Lions on Thursday night over the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, but that leads directly to something you must figure out when wagering on pro football. A… Read more »

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National Football League Suspends Four More Players for Gambling Offenses

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With the influx of sports betting across the States of America, it was perhaps inevitable that there would be a crackdown on both professional and collegiate athletics regarding players, coaches, and management taking part in the activity. Earlier this week, the National Football League (NFL) suspended three more players indefinitely for violations of The Shield’s… Read more »

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