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Broncos vs. Panthers Preview (Dec 14)

Week 15 of the NFL sports betting season offers up a fantastic AFC/NFC football betting battle when the AFC West leading Denver Broncos invades Charlotte to tackle the Panthers…

Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers 4:15 ET

Week 15 of the NFL sports betting season offers up a fantastic AFC/NFC football betting battle when the AFC West leading Denver Broncos (8-5, 4-8-1 ATS) invades Charlotte, NC to square off against the NFC South leading Carolina Panthers (10-3, 7-5-1 ATS); kick-off is slated for 4:15 ET  and the game can be seen nationally on FOX.

Current Super Bowl XLIII betting odds find the Broncos installed as a +2800 underdog to win it all, while Carolina boasts less favorable odds at +1000. If you believe one of these teams has the goods to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy come February, login to your Bookmaker.com account right now and get your action down before either of these teams loses future value.

Denver head coach Mike Shanahan’s Broncos enter this afternoons tilt on fire having won two in a row and four of their L/5 overall. After going into New York a couple weeks ago and beating the Jets outright as 7.5-point road pups, they returned home to take on division rival Kansas City last week. The two-win Chiefs battled throughout and managed to come within the 9-point spread (24-17) to hand Denver bettors its eighth pointspread defeat of the season.

Still, the offense performed admirably gaining a total of 425 overall yards, and the defense pretty much shut down KC’s rushing attack limiting the Chiefs to just 83 yards on the ground and 260 yards overall. A pick six thrown by QB Jay Cutler was the main reason Denver bettors were forced to rip up their tickets.

Not much went wrong for the Panthers in their Monday Night showdown with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game played out as a good old-fashioned beatdown as the Panthers punished Tampa’s defense with its potent ground attack. RBs DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart had a field day against what has been a stout Buccaneers run defense. When the dust cleared, both backs combined for 301 rushing yards and four touchdowns.

QB Jake Delhomme didn’t have the greatest of outings (14/20 for 173 yards 1 TD 2 INT), but he didn’t need to as his duo in the backfield rushed the team to the impressive home win and cover as three-point choices.

Bookmaker Sportsbook currently has the host Panthers installed as 7.5-point favorites with a game ‘total’ of 48 points.

These teams last met back in 2004 in Denver and it was the Broncos that came out on top by a 20-17 final tally, but the Panthers grabbed the money cashing in as 4.5-point road pups. Carolina’s been good to its betting backers as a home favorite cashing tickets 7 of the L/10 times, but Denver is 4-1 ATS the L/5 times its been installed an underdog. That said; these teams have performed much differently ATS in December with Carolina going 6-2 ATS its L/8 December games while Denver’s gone 2-6 ATS.

Can Denver head back out to the east coast and pick up another road victory, or will the Panthers remain undefeated at home and reel in its fifth home cover of the season? Once you’ve crunched all the numbers and come to a final decision, login into your Bookmaker account and make an investment on who you think will come out on top of this gridiron battle!

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