It’s the second weekend of NFL Playoff Picks action where the result will whittle down the combatants to a mere four teams for next weeks Conference Championships. After a run of 9-2 ATS for underdogs the first week of NFL Picks saw that proposition only post a 2-2 mark. As of this writing with Baltimore beating Tennessee, this years mark stands at 3-2 ATS (a respectable 60%).
It’s time to say goodbye to another year of college football – and hello to the beautiful game of basketball. Every handicapper should be absorbed in hoops, given how betting-friendly the sport is. We’ll help you get there as we add some roundball stats and factoids to our coverage of this weekend’s NFL Divisional Round action.
With the completion of this past weekend’s thrilling NFL wild card matchups in the BetUS Sportsbook, NFL sports betting fanatics everywhere are preparing to get geared up for some bankroll-boosting NFL sports betting with this coming weekend’s four divisional matchups.
The NFL Wild Card Weekend is in the books! Now sports betting fans turn their attention to the Divisional Playoff games.
Which wild card weekend winning teams will take their good fortune into this weekend’s NFL Playoffs? Which teams will falter? What favorites are in for an against the spread beating and which favorites will win against the BetUS online wagering spread?
Let’s take a quick peek at each game this weekend!
The 2009/10 NFL schedule will not be released until this spring, but each team’s home and away opponents have already been determined.
So don’t go bugging us about the official 2009 schedule, with playing dates and times, because they will be announced in the spring. We promise.
The opponents for all 2009 regular-season games have been determined and a complete list of each team’s home and away scheduled NFL matchups was issued this week by the NFL.
Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons finished up an improbable 11-5 season last Sunday with a 31-27 win over St. Louis. They’ll march into the postseason after being selected to only win 4.5 games at the beginning of the year. Arizona has had the NFC West locked up for almost a month, and will host its first playoff game since it played in St. Louis.
We’re just days away from the end of what’s been an incredible online NFL betting regular season, and as we head into this weekend’s play there’s numerous games with playoff implications and even more muddled scenarios that may or may not put your favorite team into postseason. All of which that makes it easy to forget about a Week 2 blown call and a 1-15 team of last season, which will fuel two of Week 17’s monstrous games.
It’s the holiday edition of stat check, so in keeping with the spirit of the season, here’s an extra goodie to go along with our usual Top 10 football stats and factoids for the weekend: The longest NFL game in history took place on Christmas Day. Miami beat Kansas City 24-21 in double overtime in the 1971 AFC Divisional playoffs. Garo Yepremian booted the winning figgie at 82:40.
Two divisions that aren’t sending teams in to my illustrious Furious Seven – the NFC and AFC West. How brutal are these divisions? I was talking to Chip, who you can chirp with at Account Management by asking for ext. 2327, and we were pondering how good the NFC West could possibly be? If the Seahawks’ wide receiver unit hadn’t been gunned down in malice by the injury bug, and the Niners hadn’t listened to Mike Martz and played Shaun Hill from the get go, would this division be slightly more competitive?
Today’s list of football stats and factoids for the weekend is dedicated to legendary QB Sammy Baugh, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. Baugh led TCU to victory at the 1936 Sugar Bowl and the 1937 Cotton Bowl, and won two NFL titles with the Redskins in 1937 and 1942 – playing both ways and punting. His No. 33 is the only uniform Washington has ever retired. Without Baugh’s contributions, the NFL might not exist today.
For the first time all season, there is a new team in the top-2. That’s right, a team known for grit, tenacity and guts has climbed to the top as our season-favorite Titans and Giants hit massive stumbling blocks. The race for the Wildcard has never been more exciting, with sixteen teams grinding out for a shot at the Superbowl in Tampa Bay, Week 16 and 17 have all the relevance that you’ve been waiting for.
Who said there was no college football this weekend? Our Top 10 gridiron stats and factoids will visit the two FCS semifinal games and the Division II championship, all three of which are being shown on the Worldwide Leader with betting lines attached.
NFC Playoffs – Potential Surprise Teams
** The Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants are already in. The Carolina Panthers and Minnesota Vikings look like solid online bets to win their divisions.
How exactly do you grade a loss to a turnaround team? That’s exactly the situation we’re facing when trying to figure out if the Giants were exposed by the Eagles, or if it was just one of “those” games for Eli Manning. The Titans take over the top spot again since they have the better record, but the rest of the rankings are as muddled as my drunk grandmother trying to clip coupons using a butter knife.
Three teams that started the first half of the NFL sports betting season even-steven still have a shot at making the playoffs. In addition, one in each conference could win their division.
The AFC East is a three-way race. The Jets, Patriots and Dolphins each have 8-5 records with three regular season games to go.
Why is everyone on this Carolina Panthers bandwagon? Did people just skip watching the NFC South because they’ve been so historically morbid? Well to refresh your stinking memory, the NFC South is poised to send three teams in to the playoffs if Carolina can get its crap together and Atlanta continues on this miraculous run.
