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by Jim Feist Rookies are not to be trusted. Rookie QB’s are exciting but they give away as much as they deliver. Just check the stats on budding young stars Cam Newton, Christian Ponder and Andy Dalton this week tells the story. They had 4, 3, 3 picks respectively. Only Jacksonville rookie QB Blaine Gabbert,…

Tony Romo and the Cowboys battle Mike Vick and the Eagles in a Sunday night division showdown. A look at this key NFC East game from a Las Vegas handicapping point of view.

by Jim Feist Last week the Baltimore Ravens had just 267 total yards in a Sunday night showdown with the Jets and were a measily 6 of 18 on third down. In addition, they averaged 2.8 yards per rush. What a terrible offensive performance! Oh, and by the way the Ravens won the game, 34-17….

by Jim Feist The best time of the sports calendar is here, the opening week of the pro football campaign! There are mountains of stats and angles available for sports bettors to digest from this season and years past. Information certainly is a huge key when analyzing games and point spreads. Sometimes it can seem…

by Jim Feist The pro football season kicks off this week when the Saints travel to the defending champion Packers, a battle of the last two champs. Despite the fact that the NFC has won two in a row, the AFC has won 9 of the last 14 Super Bowls. Here is a look at…

by Big Al McMordie Week 3 of the preseason is on deck and that’s the time many coaches use their starters the most, playing three quarters as if it’s a real game. However, not all coaches do this. It’s essential to keep tabs on all the shifts and changes, as preseason football is loaded with…

by Big Al McMordie Las Vegas bettors were all over the dogs and the unders in the first week of preseason, with mixed results. Plenty of dogs got the money, with even the Seahawks, Cardinals and Dolphins winning straight up, but the games were not the conservative, low scoring affairs you normally expect in Week…

by Big Al McMordie Everyone’s looking at the matchups on the field for the Super Bowl as the Packers battle the underdog Steelers, but let’s start with the key guys carrying the clipboards on the sidelines. Pittsburgh Coach Mike Tomlin has been here before, just two years ago guiding the Steelers to a victory over…

by Big Al McMordie We are down to the Final Four in the NFL: The Steelers and Jets are back again, joined by the Bears and Packers out of the black and blue division. Now you understand why the Packers dumped aging Brett Favre for Aaron Rodgers? Rodger completed 31 of 36 passes for 366…

by Jim Feist This is it, the final weekend of games before the Super Bowl. The last month we’ve been hearing about playoff seedings, bye weeks and home field advantage. Are all those things really important? Historically it has been during the second round of the playoffs. Teams with the bye have home field advantage…