Some NFL thoughts
Bookiefits
Senior Member
I have seen this phenomenon for several years now and it looks like it is happening again.
The teams that play in the Wildcard game and win always seem to get a lot of love the following weekends games, kinda like people forget why the teams that DIDNT play last weekend have the bye.
Baltimore looked very good against the fish, but Miami had a TERRIBLE matchup against the Ravens. The Titans played very unispired football down the stretch, and some injury concerns have given this game a very short line. It seems like people totally disregard the fact that Flacco is a rookie playing one of the best Ds in the league.
Arizona looked great against a road team who was not very good on the road all year..and had a rookie QB to boot. The truth is that Arizona now goes on the road to play a TRUE pipe hittin hard running team..as good a 1-2 punch I have ever seen in the NFL. The Panthers also have a dangerous secondary and physical corners and safeties to match up against the Cards big receivers.
Philly basically dominated a one dimensional Vikings team who could have the worst coach in the NFL. Childress is terrible and should be fired. They now go into division foe NYGiants house and if they sell out against the run vs Eli they will pay very very dearly. Philly has been playing very well but they are running into an absolute buzzsaw in New York.
San Diego has been playing quite well, but the Colts are just not the same Colts. Phillip Rivers was less than impressive last week, and fortunately Sproles had the game of his life. Might be a different story going on the road to cold weather Pittsburgh this weekend. Lets not forget that the previous matchup had the exact same line as it does this weekend, and may go down in NFL history as one of the most crooked ATS covers there has ever been with the replay fiasco at the end of the game.
Pitt, Tenn, NY and Carolina are all basically the same teams. Dominant defenses and running games, and flawless special teams play. They also have had a bye week and two weeks to practice and get healthy.
The point of this post is that it seems that after the bye week people generally forget about the reasons why the four home teams had byes...each team had at least 11 wins. Not taking away from the other teams here, but there is a huge edge for the home teams this weekend and just watned to remind the board not to take last weeks performance of some of the wildcard teams as an example of how they will perform against better competition.
The teams that play in the Wildcard game and win always seem to get a lot of love the following weekends games, kinda like people forget why the teams that DIDNT play last weekend have the bye.
Baltimore looked very good against the fish, but Miami had a TERRIBLE matchup against the Ravens. The Titans played very unispired football down the stretch, and some injury concerns have given this game a very short line. It seems like people totally disregard the fact that Flacco is a rookie playing one of the best Ds in the league.
Arizona looked great against a road team who was not very good on the road all year..and had a rookie QB to boot. The truth is that Arizona now goes on the road to play a TRUE pipe hittin hard running team..as good a 1-2 punch I have ever seen in the NFL. The Panthers also have a dangerous secondary and physical corners and safeties to match up against the Cards big receivers.
Philly basically dominated a one dimensional Vikings team who could have the worst coach in the NFL. Childress is terrible and should be fired. They now go into division foe NYGiants house and if they sell out against the run vs Eli they will pay very very dearly. Philly has been playing very well but they are running into an absolute buzzsaw in New York.
San Diego has been playing quite well, but the Colts are just not the same Colts. Phillip Rivers was less than impressive last week, and fortunately Sproles had the game of his life. Might be a different story going on the road to cold weather Pittsburgh this weekend. Lets not forget that the previous matchup had the exact same line as it does this weekend, and may go down in NFL history as one of the most crooked ATS covers there has ever been with the replay fiasco at the end of the game.
Pitt, Tenn, NY and Carolina are all basically the same teams. Dominant defenses and running games, and flawless special teams play. They also have had a bye week and two weeks to practice and get healthy.
The point of this post is that it seems that after the bye week people generally forget about the reasons why the four home teams had byes...each team had at least 11 wins. Not taking away from the other teams here, but there is a huge edge for the home teams this weekend and just watned to remind the board not to take last weeks performance of some of the wildcard teams as an example of how they will perform against better competition.
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Nice post.