NFL Betting: Cardinals vs. Chargers Pick & Odds: October 3rd 2010

October 3, 2010 By

NFL sports betting is our specialty here at BetUS Sportsbook, and we breakdown this inter-conference game between the Arizona Cardinals and San Diego Chargers.
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Arizona Cardinals at San Diego Chargers
Game Date/Time: Sunday, October 3, 4:15 ET
Game Location: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA
TV/Radio Broadcast: Fox, Sirius, XM Radio

NFL Football Odds: Arizona Cardinals (+8) -110 vs. San Diego Chargers (-8) -110: Over/Under 45.5

The Arizona Cardinals are a flawed 2-1 football team that’s averaging 16 points per game with poor quarterback play. Derek Anderson has only completed 52 percent of his passes with a TD/INT ratio of 3/3. Arizona has struggled to establish drives and lost the time of possession by at least six minutes in each of their first three games. Without the consistent threat of a passing game, opponents are double teaming all-pro receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who is battling a knee injury and had just two receptions last week. The Cardinals become fairly predictable and less capable of moving the chains as they rely on ‘Beanie’ Wells and Tim Hightower to grind out yards on the ground. NFL sports betting is about finding advantages at the line of scrimmage and teams with balance and strength offensively can have more success even when facing stronger defenses.

Arizona does not possess a strong defense either, as they allowed the Falcons to run and pass for over 220 yards two weeks ago in a blowout loss. Last week the Cardinals were out-played and out-gained at home vs. the Raiders, as Oakland’s sub-par offense rolled up 364 yards offense but missed key field goals as Arizona escaped 24-23. The Cardinals run defense is allowing nearly 150 yards per game and 4.6 yards per rush. San Diego has a explosive ‘fast break’ offense with playmakers and strong quarterback play to take advantage of the Cardinals weaknesses, and top rookie running back Ryan Mathews (ankle) returns this week. San Diego is the leagues no. 1 offense averaging 461 yards per game. Yet despite some strong edges on paper in this match-up, the sports betting market is hesitant to back the Chargers after continued miscues, turnovers and poor special teams play has cost them in two defeats despite superior yardage stats over their opponents. Still, San Diego (1-2) throttled an inferior foe on this field in week 2 vs. Jacksonville, and the Chargers no. 1 ranked offense is averaging 6.7 yard per play.

NFL Insider Tip: After piling up 518 yards offense at Seattle last week, San Diego leads the NFL in net yards with a whopping 189 yards per game advantage over their opponents. The Cardinals have been out-gained by an average of 87 yards per game. Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt is 1-8 ATS on the road vs. a opponent off a SU and ATS loss.

San Diego has been dominant on the field in all three games this season, and facing Arizona’s no. 25 ranked defense that has faced two poor opponents only serves to support San Diego as a sports betting favorite as the Chargers should gain plenty of yards and convert them into many points in this spot.

My NFL Predictions: San Diego Chargers (-8) -110

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Monday Night Football Pick: Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears: September 27th 2010

September 27, 2010 By

BetUS Sportsbook is back with more football betting analysis for this Week 3 Monday Night Football duel between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.
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Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears
Game Date/Time: Monday, September 27th, 8:30 ET
Game Location: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
TV/Radio Broadcast: ESPN, Westwood One, Sirius

NFL Football Odds: Green Bay Packers (-3) +100 vs. Chicago Bears (+3) -120: Over/Under 46

Many are touting Aaron Rodgers as the favorite to win the MVP Award this year. We must admit that Rodgers has a great shot now that Ryan Grant is out for the season, because the onus is clearly going to be on his back to lead the Packers to football betting wins and the playoffs.

However, without a rushing game, Mike McCarthy knows that his team isn’t winning the Super Bowl. In last week’s romp of the Buffalo Bills, there wasn’t one man that rushed for even 40 yards on the day. That isn’t going to cut it against the best in the NFL. Watch for Jermichael Finley to have a big impact on this game, as the big tight end is coming off of a great game in which he caught four passes for 103 yards against Buffalo.

Whomever replaced last year’s bad version of Jay Cutler and replaced him with the version of Jay Cutler that was a first round draft choice and projected to be the star of a franchise deserves a purple heart in the Windy City. All of a sudden, it looks like Cutler “gets it,” as he has guided the Bears to two football betting victories due to the fact that he has only thrown one INT on the season against five TD passes.

Even Matt Forte, who had a miserable sophomore campaign a year ago, is getting back into the fold quite well. He might only be averaging 2.9 yards per carry on the ground, but he has 12 catches for 188 yards and three TDs through the air, making him the team’s leading receiver.

Still, that team average of 2.78 yards per carry won’t cut it if the Bears are beating the football betting lines on Monday Night Football.

NFL Insider Tip: The Packers are 10-3 ATS in their L/13 football betting affairs against the NFC North.

This opportunity is just too good for the Pack to pass up. Especially if by chance the Minnesota Vikings get beaten on Sunday by the Detroit Lions, they can go three up on their biggest rivals and a game and the tiebreaker up on the nearest competitors. If this is really one of the best teams in the league and Rodgers is legitimately an MVP favorite at this point in the year, this game will be one that they figure out how to win.

Look for Green Bay to trump Chicago in Monday Night Football betting festivities.

My Monday Night Football Pick: Green Bay Packers (-3) +100

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NFL Predictions: Seattle Seahawks vs. Denver Broncos Pick & Odds: September 19th 2010

September 19, 2010 By

Football odds are our specialty here at BetUS Sportsbook, and we’re back with yet another great duel to bring you for Week 2 between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos.
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Seattle Seahawks vs. Denver Broncos
Game Date/Time: Sunday, September 19th, 4:05 ET
Game Location: Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO
TV/Radio Broadcast: Fox, Westwood One, Sirius

NCAA Football Odds: Seattle Seahawks (+3.5) -110 VS. Denver Broncos (-3.5) -110: Over/Under 40

New head coach Pete Carroll probably couldn’t have drawn it up any better than this. The Seahawks opened up Qwest Field in 2010 with a dominating victory over the San Francisco 49ers 31-6, crushing the football odds by the biggest margin of any team in Week 1.

Matt Hasselbeck didn’t exactly look like the man that led the Seahawks to the Super Bowl not that long ago, but he did look like a totally different quarterback than the one that led last year’s disgrace of a team. He completed 18-of-23 passes for 170 yards and a pair of TDs.

The key on Sunday was the defense, which forced a pair of Alex Smith INTs and nailed Frank Gore for just 38 yards on 17 carries.

The Broncos didn’t play a bad game last Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but a few things became painfully obvious that this team just isn’t going to be able to reconstruct in all likelihood.

The first obvious problem that caused for the Week 1 loss against the football odds was that there just wasn’t that much of a pass rush. Just one sack isn’t going to cut it on a regular basis, and that’s what Elvis Dumervil averaged by himself last year.

The second big problem is that Kyle Orton doesn’t have a receiver that he is truly comfortable with. And why not? Brandon Marshall was a man amongst boys at times for the Broncos last year, and with both he and Tony Scheffler gone, there aren’t many familiar targets left.

Brandon Lloyd and Eddie Royal picked up the slack, but neither are clearly star quality. Lloyd had eight passes thrown his way, connecting on five of them for 117 yards. Royal had eight catches for 98 yards. Orton ended the day with 295 yards through the air and one TD pass with an INT.

NFL Insider Tip: Seattle is just 1-8 ATS in its L/9 tries against the football odds.

Though Denver isn’t a significantly better 8-21-1 ATS in its L/30 home games, we just can’t take the Seahawks at this inflated price after last week’s romp. If this game were played two weeks ago, Seattle would be a TD underdog in all likelihood. We don’t think that it proved anything to us by beating the Niners down in the long run.

As a result, we’re going with Denver against the football odds on Sunday.

My NFL Predictions: Denver Broncos (-3.5) -110

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Week 4 NFL Preseason Odds: Dolphins vs. Cowboys Prediction: September 2nd 2010

September 2, 2010 By

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Miami Dolphins vs. Dallas Cowboys
Game Date/Time: Thursday, September 2nd, 8:00 ET
Game Location: Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Dallas, TX
TV/Radio Broadcast: Local TV, Westwood One, Sirius

NFL Football Odds: Miami Dolphins (-1.5) -110 vs. Dallas Cowboys (+1.5) -110: Over/Under 37

It is fairly clear that Tony Sparano isn’t a very happy man right now. After last week’s 16-6 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at home in which the team failed to reach the end zone, Sparano announced that he will indeed use his starters against the Cowboys in the preseason finale.

This immediately jolted the football game odds down to make Miami a short favorite instead of a three point underdog at the opening of lines.

How long the Miami starters will play is still anyone’s guess. We know that Chad Henne is probably going to need to do a better job of hooking up with his receivers that are going to be in the rotation starting next weekend. Brandon Marshall and Anthony Fasano, the team’s best receiver and tight end respectively, only have a combined 11 catches in three games.

Wade Phillips was fairly irate after Dallas was dumped by the Houston Texans 23-7 at Reliant Stadium last week. He promptly came out the next day in the media and said that he would be utilizing his starters as well in spite of the fact that this is the fifth preseason game for the Cowboys.

On Wednesday though, he changed his mind. Stephen McGee will get the starting nod in what will be the most important game of his career.

McGee is still trying to prove that he is worthy of a spot in the NFL, and this preseason has been a mixed bag that hasn’t helped that cause any. The former Texas A&M Aggie has gone 26-of-45 for 220 yards and he has yet to either throw a touchdown pass or a pick.

The worse news for McGee is that he probably won’t get much help from his ground game. The Cowboys rank dead last in the league in rushing and have yet to score a rushing TD in the preseason.

NFL Insider Tip: Neither one of these teams has been particularly proficient on offense in the preseason, and the end result has been a combined six ‘unders’ against just one ‘over’ contest.

How could we not play the ‘under’ once again? This would be a bunch of points for the Dolphins and Cowboys to reach if this were a regular season game, let alone one in the preseason. This should once again be a relatively sloppy contest, and the end result should be an easy win for players of the ‘under’ on the football game odds.

My NFL Predictions: Miami Dolphins/Dallas Cowboys Under 37

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Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings Preseason Odds & Prediction: September 2nd 2010

September 2, 2010 By

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Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings
Game Date/Time: Thursday, September 2nd, 8:00 ET
Game Location: Mall of America Field, Minneapolis, MN
TV/Radio Broadcast: Local TV, Westwood One, Sirius

NFL Football Odds: Denver Broncos (+4.5) -110 vs. Minnesota Vikings (-4.5) -110: Over/Under 35

The key to figuring out the winner of the football game line in this one is going to be quarterback play.

Quite simply, for the visiting Broncos, their QBs just aren’t quite there yet. Neither Brady Quinn nor Tim Tebow is completing more than 57 percent of their passes, and neither has even reached 200 passing yards yet in the preseason. The two have also combined to throw just one touchdown against two INTs.

Denver is clearly also not being helped by its defense, which is allowing 385.3 yards per game, the second worst total in the NFL. Will the ‘D’ that picked off three passes and made life a living hell for the quarterbacks of the Pittsburgh Steelers show up? Or will the one that seemingly tanked its first two games of the year rear its ugly head?

If it is the latter, the backup QBs for the Vikings are going to make Denver pay. The Vikes, without a doubt, have the strong trio of quarterbacks right now in the league, and even if Brett Favre doesn’t play (or doesn’t play much), there is no reason not to believe in the combination of Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels.

Look for Rosenfels to get the majority of the reps once again for the men in purple and gold, as this will probably be the last time that he ever steps foot on the turf for his current team. Rosenfels has looked sharp all preseason long, completing 63.8 percent of his passes for 392 yards with four scores and no picks.

Even the fourth man on the depth chart, rookie Joe Webb has looked great, throwing for 91 yards and two TDs and rushing for another 78 yards and a score.

NFL Insider Tip: These two teams are clearly in different mindsets right now in terms of recent form. Denver is just 2-5 ATS and 1-6 SU in its L/7 games overall, while Minnesota has beaten the football game line in five of its L/6.

That being said, we tend to believe that the backups for the Vikings are just all around better than they are for the Broncos. Yes, we understand that Tebow generally refuses to lose as a starter, but this is a game that isn’t exactly for keeps. Go with Minnesota, and you’ll be a winner against the football game line on Thursday night.

My NFL Predictions: Minnesota Vikings -4.5

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