Thousands of people come daily to Patriot Place, the vast shopping/entertainment/restaurant plaza that surrounds Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. Unfortunately, none of the visitors seems to have even a clue about what ails their football team. Up is down and down is up in New England, where the Patriots’ powerful offense has been rendered impotent and a defense that uses players no one has ever heard of has been not that bad.
My Week 2 picks went for 11 of 16, including a couple of upsets. NFL betting fans these are my NFL Week 3 pick.
How high can the O/U go in Saints games? 55? 60? 70?
In racing off to a 2-0 start, Drew Brees and the Saints are already being compared to the 2007 New England Patriots, who won 16 straight in the regular season before that Super Bowl flameout. Tom Brady threw 50 touchdown passes that season, and there is speculation that Brees will challenge that record.
Herds of unicorns will be be photographed roaming the desert outside Phoenix before the Cardinals turn into a run-oriented team. Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin (as long as he sticks around), Kurt Warner and last year’s march to the Super Bowl pretty much guarantee that for the time being, and beyond, the Cardinals will live and die with the forward pass.
At 34-14-1, there is no better team in the National Football League playing its home opener than the Dallas Cowboys. And win or lose, no home opener will be more memorable than Sunday’s night’s cage match against the New York Giants in the new 100,000-seat Cowboys Stadium.
Week 2 of the National Football League season has some great matchups, highlighted by a nationally televised tilt between NFC East rivals that will be played in front of the largest-ever crowd in NFL history on Sunday Night Football.
But the pigskin action begins with an AFC East clash as Bill Belichick and his New England Patriots visit rival New York Jets Sunday (1 pm ET, CBS).
Looking for Fantasy Football – NFL Ratings – Player Rankings Week 2– Internet Fantasy Predictions then look no further than Dave B’s weekly fantasy football player ratings and rankings for all positions except Kicker of course.
Stick with us this week as our Fantasy Football Edge provides you with all you need to be competitive this fantasy football season, and in our NFL sportsbooks. Need help making those tough lineup decisions? Our Fantasy football Lineup Rankings can help you make the right call. We provide you with our best possible starters, based on overall Fantasy Football value and each player’s upcoming NFL weekly matchup.
In New England, no one really knows what to make of Rex Ryan.
Since Vince Lombardi was carving up the league in the 1960s, the No. 1 rule was to never say anything that could give an opponent even an extra ounce of motivation on game day.
Ryan has basically blown up that business model, at least when it comes to the New England Patriots. The new Jets coach says he refuses to pay homage to Pats coach Bill Belichick, and furthermore he says he has a decent team in East Rutherford and plans to give NE a run for its money in the AFC East.
Here’s the week 1 report to help you with your fantasy football teams. We scoped out the leagues post game newswires to bring you an up to date list of important team injuries for week 1 of the NFL football season.
The NFL week 1 injury report, or as we’ve always called it, “The Sunday Shelf”.
Stability in the NFL usually trumps change, but this game will give that theory a good test. The Carolina Panthers return basically the same team which stunk out the stadium in a bizarre playoff loss to the Cardinals last January, while the Philadelphia Eagles come in after jettisoning their best back-7 defender (safety Brian Dawkins) and in the process of figuring out what to do with Michael Vick when the former dog torturer joins the team for active duty in Week 3.
Looking for Fantasy Football – NFL Ratings – Player Rankings Week 1 – Internet Fantasy Predictions then look no further than Dave B’s weekly fantasy football player ratings and rankings for all positions except Kicker of course.
Stick with us this week as our Fantasy Football Edge provides you with all you need to be competitive this fantasy football season, and in our NFL sportsbooks. Need help making those tough lineup decisions? Our Fantasy football Lineup Rankings can help you make the right call. We provide you with our best possible starters, based on overall Fantasy Football value and each player’s upcoming NFL weekly matchup.
The 2009 National Football League season kicks off Thursday with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers opening their title defense against the Tennessee Titans at Heinz Field.
NFL Betting Odds at betED.com have the Steelers as 6-point favorites and the over/under at 35 for the NFL’s opening game (8:30 pm ET, NBC).
The Titans have dominated the Steelers straight up, going 7-3 SU over the past 10, but Pittsburgh has covered the spread in six of those games (6-4 ATS).
Time: 8:35 ET
Venue: Heinz Field
Titans vs. Steelers Odds
MoneyLine: Titans +240 / Steelers -180
Spread: Steelers -6
Over/Under: 35
At the end of every season, fifty AP writers sit down and vote for the most valuable player in the NFL. They vote for which player they believe had the biggest impact on their team’s performance that year. In 2008 Peyton Manning ran away with the award with 32 first place votes as he battled back from injury and a slow start to lead his team to an improbable 12-4 record.
2009 NFL Preview; Team by Team Keys to a Successful Season
With the return of Tom Brady from knee surgery and the past success of the franchise, the NFL odds makers have instilled the New England Patriots as the odds-on-favorite to win another Super Bowl. Unfortunately for New England there are thirty-one other teams, including the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers that will have something to say about that.
With the 2009 NFL schedule announced we are now able to see exactly what the 2009 NFL Bye Weeks will be. Each NFL team plays 16 games out of 17 weeks in the NFL schedule. The game that they don’t play is called their bye week, or “Open Date”.
It is important in fantasy football to make sure that your starters and backups do not have the same bye week since one of the primary reasons for drafting backup players to have coverage during the bye week of your starter.
