The home stretch of the season is always a challenge for NFL betting.
Now, COVID-19 throws a wrench into the mix, hitting teams hard over the past week and forcing the league to shuffle the schedule. We still have eight teams in action Monday and Tuesday, so NFL Week 16 odds are rolling out slowly.
We normally preach planning your attack by betting some spreads and totals now and waiting for moves on others. However, with a growing uncertainty around outbreaks, it can make the “Bet Now” part of this weekly article riskier.
That said, we move forward with our NFL Week 16 spreads and totals to bet now and the best lines to bet later. Be safe out there.
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The Philadelphia Eagles enter their Week 10 prime-time matchup with the Washington Commanders as a double-digit favorite for the third straight week.
The game script might favor the pass from the visitors, but as we saw last week with Houston, teams can run against the Eagles and have success.
Here are my best NFL player prop picks for Monday Night Football’s match between the Commanders and Eagles. You can also check out our Commanders vs. Eagles picks and predictions and our Jalen Hurts spotlight prop picks.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are reeling with a 1-3 straight up record over their last four games and head to Foxborough this week as 9.5-point road favorites vs. the New England Patriots, who are coming off a rare win and extra rest.
With the public perception a little high on this New England offense after last week, are bettors getting a second-half total at the highest possible price heading into the weekend?
I break down the NFL odds and offer my free NFL picks for the Chiefs vs. Patriots on December 17.
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Football Over/Unders are an exciting way to wager on NFL odds every Sunday, allowing bettors to wager on the total score instead of picking a winner.
How the Over/Under works in football
The Over/Under in football starts with the oddsmakers’ projected total for the game. NFL betting sites will post an Over/Under for every game on the schedule based on the teams’ offense, defense, injuries, and other factors like home/away splits and weather.
For example, oddsmakers could examine a matchup and set the Over/Under total at 50 points. Bettors would then pick whether the final combined score of the game would be over or under 50 points. If the final combined score of both teams was 53, bettors who selected the Over would win the bet.
As Pep Guardiola prepares to take Manchester City into the cauldron of Anfield for Sunday’s showdown with Liverpool, he exudes a characteristic first witnessed towards the end of last season: serenity. Intensity has been superseded by a manager at ease – with his team and himself.
This new geniality appeared in May when City beat Paris Saint-Germain in their semi to reach a first Champions League final. When Guardiola’s third Premier League title was secured with three games to spare, it deepened. Come the next season and fresh travails, it was easy to assume Guardiola would return to his more recognisable persona.
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This was not the stadium where Napoli had hoped to seal their Serie A title but after a 33-year wait you can make any place feel like the promised land. There are more than 500 miles of road between the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona and Udinese’s Dacia Arena, and thousands of supporters travelled them to be present when their team crossed the finish line.
They were made to suffer a little while longer, watching Napoli fall behind to a brilliantly taken goal by Sandi Lovric. But when Victor Osimhen swept an equaliser home through a crowded penalty area at the start of the second half the celebrations began in earnest. One point was all Napoli needed.
The striker ran to the nearest pocket of away fans and hammered h…
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We enter a very different NHL after the "Summer of Stats," and we have the Maple Leafs to thank. The analytical approach that began making inroads in front offices a decade ago, and among smart fans and media not long after that, has finally become fully mainstream, thanks in large part to the Leafs being as awful as everyone predicted. They were seen as the last best hope for the non-analytics argument, due to how regularly their coach and executives scoffed at the idea that there was more to the game than the eye could see. When Toronto crashed and burned, it started a run on stats bloggers akin to when everyone in a fantasy hockey draft starts scooping up goalies toward the end of the second round. Stats nerds, long derided in the sport for not "watching the games,&qu…