NFL Handicapping Articles
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: New York Giants at San Francisco 49ers
by Alan Matthews - 11/8/2017
In this writer's humble opinion, the games matching the marquee teams each week aren't always the most interesting ones. For example, the two best matchups on paper this week if you go by the caliber of the franchises would be Patriots at Broncos and Cowboys at Falcons. But it gets tiring previewing New England and Dallas every other week - and there will be plenty of time for that going forward, including likely the playoffs.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals
by Alan Matthews - 11/7/2017
OK, I guess I have to officially believe in the Los Angeles Rams now, so that makes this Thursday's game pretty big between the Seahawks and Cardinals as they chase the first-place Rams in the NFC West. L.A. (6-2) already owns a head-to-head win over the Cardinals and visits them on Dec. 3. The Seahawks hold a head-to-head over the Rams and host them on Dec. 17. Both Los Angeles and Seattle are -110 at BetOnline to win the division with the Cardinals at +2500.
NFL Betting Predictions: Week 10 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 11/6/2017
OK, I've had the weekend to process the Deshaun Watson injury. It's nothing short of a catastrophic loss for Houston - sadly less than 24 hours after the Astros won their first-ever World Series title and less than 24 before the city's parade on Friday - similar to that suffered by the Packers when Aaron Rodgers went down. Yes, I compared Watson to Rodgers as the rookie had been that good.
NFL Betting Odds: Week 9 Line Movements & Last-Minute News
by Alan Matthews - 11/3/2017
Sometimes I struggle to come up with a lead topic on these Friday stories if there hasn't been a major injury, line move, etc. This week? I could write five of these stories easy. It was perhaps the newsiest week I can ever remember.
NFL Betting Advice: Niners or Browns for Winless Season?
by Trevor Whenham - 11/2/2017
Ten-to-one. That's the price you could get most recently from Bovada if you wanted to bet that the Browns are going to end the season winless. And the price is the same for the 49ers - the other winless squad remaining. Neither team is very good - obviously. But does either have a chance at matching the Lions for all-time futility? And which team offers more value in this wildly entertaining bet - as long as you don't care about either of the teams? Let's put the two teams head-to-head to see which squad has the edge and what we can learn in the end:
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars
by Alan Matthews - 11/1/2017
Here's a sentence I'm not sure that I've typed since being hired by Doc's: it's a potentially playoff-important game for the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 9. I suppose the same can be said for the Cincinnati Bengals, but they have been a consistent playoff team for the most part this decade.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Buffalo Bills at New York Jets
by Alan Matthews - 10/31/2017
Last week on Thursday Night Football, we were subjected to Matt Moore vs. Joe Flacco, and the Ravens won an incredibly boring game 40-0. This week, it's Tyrod Taylor vs. Josh McCown, two QBs who probably won't be on their current teams come 2018. And I fully expect Bills-Jets to be rather bland as well. But, you can bet on it, and baseball season will be over, so here we are (I'll be watching Warriors-Spurs).
NFL Betting Predictions: Week 9 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/30/2017
We are now at the halfway point of the 2017 NFL regular season, and we still don't have a resolution to this whole Ezekiel Elliott suspension mess. I really didn't want to talk about this again, but it's likely the biggest thing that will happen in the league this week barring a surprising big name traded before Tuesday's deadline.
NFL Betting Odds: Week 8 Line Movements & Last-Minute News
by Alan Matthews - 10/27/2017
I'm obligated to tell you that the NFL trade deadline is Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. After that, there can't be a single trade made in the league until the 2018 league year begins on March 14 at 4 p.m. ET. Might something significant happen? I suppose, but it's more likely that we will just see small moves.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Chicago Bears at New Orleans Saints
by Alan Matthews - 10/25/2017
I somewhat map out before the season which Sunday game I will most likely preview each week here at Doc's. Of course, there are changes to the schedule because the NFL is a league of parity and there are surprise teams every year, both in a good and bad way. That said, if you had told me I would be previewing Bears at Saints in Week 8 because the game had potential playoff relevance for both, well, I would have never believed it. But here we are.
Expert NFL Handicapping: Most Disappointing Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 10/25/2017
At this point in the NFL season we can break the teams in the league into several groups based on their play so far. There are the teams we know for certain are bad - the Browns and Colts, for example. There are the teams like the Eagles that we are pretty sure are good. And there are a whole bunch of teams that it is tough to know what to think about - New England thanks to the defense, and Seattle thanks to the offensive line, for example.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Miami Dolphins at Baltimore Ravens
by Alan Matthews - 10/24/2017
The worst contract in Major League Baseball right now probably belongs to either Albert Pujols or Miguel Cabrera. They will each be first-ballot Hall of Famers, but their bodies are breaking down and their mega-deals stretch into the 2020s. There are probably too many crappy contracts in the NBA to pick just one, although the Grizzlies' Chandler Parsons and Knicks' Joakim Noah immediately come to mind. Two good players but haven't been healthy for a while.
NFL Betting Predictions: Week 8 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/23/2017
Does Carson Palmer belong in Canton? Working against the former Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall pick from USC is that he never has played in a Super Bowl. But his regular-season statistics are strong. Palmer has passed for 46,247 yards overall with three teams: the Bengals (who drafted him in 2004), Raiders (where he wasn't very good for two years) and Cardinals (career resurgence). That's more yardage than such Hall of Famers like Dan Fouts, Joe Montana or Johnny Unitas.
NFL Betting Odds: Week 7 Line Movements & Last-Minute News
by Alan Matthews - 10/20/2017
Back in January, the Indianapolis Colts fired general manager Ryan Grigson, and while you hate for anyone to lose their job it was very much deserved. Grigson had a superstar quarterback in Andrew Luck on a rookie-level salary but could never surround him with enough talent. You must take advantage of your QB making relatively little money while you can before he gets a mega-extension and gobbles up salary-cap space. The Seahawks did that with Russell Wilson in winning one Super Bowl and coming one yard short from a second. The Cowboys are in the midst of this with Dak Prescott.
NFL Handicapping: How the Philadelphia Eagles have the Best Record in Football
by Trevor Whenham - 10/20/2017
This has been an odd, frequently confusing and often frustrating NFL season. So many teams that were supposed to be good are just average or worse. Teams that seem good are except for when they aren't. It seems just plain random at times. Through six weeks of games the team with the best record is, to the surprise of many, the Philadelphia Eagles. A lot of people, as I did, likely felt that they were a solid team that was on the fringes of playoff contention. But to say that they would be 5-1 and running away with their division would have required the faith of a rabid fan. It has been pretty impressive.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Atlanta Falcons at New England Patriots
by Alan Matthews - 10/18/2017
The broken collarbone suffered by Green Bay superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn't just affect the Packers, their NFC North foes or any teams remaining on their schedule. It could just as easily affect the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons going forward as they visit New England on Sunday night this week in a Super Bowl LI rematch.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Kansas City Chiefs at Oakland Raiders
by Alan Matthews - 10/17/2017
We had a very entertaining Thursday night game last week between good teams with Philadelphia winning at Carolina. I would enjoy this Thursday's AFC West showdown between the Chiefs and Raiders in Oakland because the TNF schedule is rather lame the next three weeks: Dolphins-Ravens, Bills-Jets and Seahawks-Cardinals (maybe Adrian Peterson makes Arizona interesting, but that's a wait-and-see).
NFL Betting Predictions: Week 7 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/16/2017
In my NFL Week 6 Line Movements & Last-Minute News story posted Friday here at Doc's, I mentioned that Vikings fans were horrified at the thought of the blood-rival Packers winning Super Bowl LII on the Vikes' home field. Well, no need to worry about that any longer - the Packers are now +2500 to do so.
NFL Betting Odds: Week 6 Line Movements & Last-Minute News
by Alan Matthews - 10/13/2017
The 49ers-Redskins game on Sunday perhaps doesn't look all that interesting on the surface because San Francisco is winless while Washington (2-2) is coming off its bye week, should win and is one four double-digit favorites in Week 6 at -10.
NFL Expert Picks Against the Spread: Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans
by Alan Matthews - 10/11/2017
The Cleveland Browns (I assume) have a lot of smart people in their front office, guys who certainly went to a lot better schools than I did. Maybe this franchise will get turned around before the end of the decade. But, wow, does it look like the Browns blew yet another draft earlier this year.
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