NFL Betting – 2011 MVP Futures
In the happy, hypothetical world where the NFL lockout is no more, training camps are about to start. The Hall-of-Fame game is a month away.
In the happy, hypothetical world where the NFL lockout is no more, training camps are about to start. The Hall-of-Fame game is a month away.
Here we go with today’s sports water cooler talk. Here, you won’t just find the straight news; you’ll find the stuff everyone is talking about – the ice breakers, the Twitter Sports Picks and topics…well, basically all the stuff you discuss at the water cooler.
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 2009 Peyton Manning won the award for the fourth time in his career and second year in a row, as he led his team to 14 straight wins before taking the rest of the regular season off after the Colts clinched home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
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.
The race for NFL MVP continues to tighten as some players that were low on the chart just a week ago have started to rise sharply. Sports betting fans have to like how the players that deserve MVP mentioning have solidified their position in just the past two weeks.
The fields for the MVP and rookie of the year awards are starting to get very crowded. Why? Because the stand-outs aren’t on what many would consider unbelievable teams. The rookie of the year is okay for that. But the MVP award usually goes to a person on a team that has separated itself from the rest of the NFL.
We’re just about half way through the NFL regular season. For NFL betting fans, it’s time to revisit those prop online wagers that we made before the season started and to see if it makes sense to lay down more sports betting dollars on some of the props.