The countdown is on to the start of a new season in the NFL as all 32 teams are busy preparing for a Super Bowl run. Some team’s chances are obviously much better than others so here is a looking at the top third of the list according to odds provided by Bovada.
Buckle up for the biggest game of the year. With Super Bowl Sunday around the corner, we’ll provide you the numbers that matter to help you decide on your SBXLVII pick.
So here is your soon-to-be Super Bowl-champion San Francisco 49ers: How do you think Alex Smith is feeling these days?
Through eight games this season Smith had quarterbacked the San Francisco 49ers to a tidy 5-3 record. He had a win over Green Bay in his back pocket, and his Niners headed into their bye week with back-to-back division wins over Arizona and Seattle.
So here is your soon-to-be Super Bowl-champion Baltimore Ravens:
The Ravens are a team that somehow lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, and only three other teams can brag about something like that.
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The 1984 Bears these teams ain’t. Nor are they the 1972 Dolphins.
They are 12 teams that all feel they can win the Super Bowl about a month from now, if for no other reasons than the other 11 are so eminently capable of not winning it.
There will be no Super Bowl winner this year.
Because no teams appear capable of winning it.
The Broncos are at 3/1 in the latest odds offered by Bovada, but Denver has already lost (big) to the Patriots, who in their last two games were beaten at home and should have lost on the road to the worst team in the AFC (Jacksonville).
In the commodities market also known as NFL futures, Week 15 brought strong breezes of change.
Any doubts about Colin Kaepernick were eased when the kid led the 49ers into Foxboro and gave San Francisco its biggest win of the year.
NFL teams that fancy themselves as contenders in what for 14 weeks looked like a wide-open Super Bowl race are like Transylvanian villagers today, seeing a light on again in Dracula’s castle after New England’s staggering 42-14 smackdown of the Houston Texans on Monday night.
From the moment that someone (Vince Young uggh!) declared the Philadelphia Eagles the “Dream Team” seemingly everything went downhill last season.
The expectations are always sky high in Big D and you can bet that owner Jerry Jones is still smarting from how the New York Giants worked their way into the playoffs and then captured another Super Bowl (stings).
Washington is going to be in a tough spot heading into the 2012 NFL season. With the arrival of quarterback Robert Griffin optimism is higher than it has been in a while but this is still a last place team in the tough NFC East, and probably by a wide margin when you look at the competition.
For a team that has won a couple of recent Super Bowls nobody gives the New York Giants much respect. I don’t know if it s because their coach isn’t that likable, their QB isn’t as good as his older brother, or what, but it seems like the world is convinced that the Giants are going to drop to third fiddle in their division watching Philadelphia and Dallas overtake them.
The Miami Dolphins might have been the biggest losers in the Peyton Manning sweepstakes this offseason. Last year they were an undermanned squad on offense that wouldn’t quit on D.
The New England Patriots have probably been the quietest team in their division this offseason…but that doesn’t mean they are not still the favourites to win the AFC East.
There is lots of excitement in Buffalo heading into this season. They scooped up some serious defensive talent through free agency and are looking to make the AFC East a three team race (or at the very least finish a season).
