Week 9’s Thursday Night Football matchup pits a pair of teams looking to rebound from disappointing losses. In a bit of an odd caveat to that, the visiting Green Bay Packers have a much more positive outlook for the remainder of the 2020 season than the host San Francisco 49ers. Despite COVID-19’s infiltration of the Packers’ locker room, the latest updates from the NFL suggest that the game will go on as scheduled. The NFL betting odds and expert NFL picks have been heavily in favor of the road team. This betting preview contains the NFL odds, key betting trends,…
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Henry John
Henry’s passion for sports dates all the way back to childhood and has ultimately led to a full-fledged career as an analyst and content creator. After getting his start penning fantasy football articles, he forrayed into the betting side of the business in early 2019. His love for sports and statistics proved to be an ideal match with the dedicated research and strategy that handicapping requires. Henry currently specializes in betting analysis and picks for college football, college basketball and NASCAR. He counts the NFL, the WNBA, and NBA player props as additional leagues/markets of interest.Henry graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 2021 with a Communication Studies degree and a Psychology minor. A native of the Finger Lakes region in Upstate New York, he and his pup, Harold, have since relocated to Laramie, Wyoming. Thanks to his professional goals within the sports betting industry, there has been a whole lot of steam on the odds for a move to Las Vegas in 2023! Most of Henry’s free time is spent on outdoor adventures, playing chess, snowboarding, or reading a good book. He is also a competitive powerlifter and aspires to qualify for the USAPL Nationals meet within the next 2-3 years.
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The first half of the 2020 NFL season closed with a bang this past weekend. Underdogs had plenty of bark all week long, creating quite a stir throughout the Week 9 NFL Power Rankings. Familiar teams sit on top and at the very bottom while the middle of the pack remains a dogfight as we enter the second half of the season. Read on to see where your team stacks up at the halfway point. With the NFL’s trade deadline set to pass on Tuesday, we will have a full sense of rosters for the remainder of the season by…
The Philadelphia Eagles are perhaps in one of the most unique situations in the NFL as the final hours before the league’s trade deadline slip away. At 3-4-1, the Eagles are a sub-.500 football team, yet have a game and a half lead in the NFC East, following their victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 8. The Eagles have popped up among trade rumors wearing the hats of both a buyer and a seller. While Philadelphia could opt to move big-name veterans already on the roster, like Alshon Jeffery or Zach Ertz, the team is also in the market…
After a 5-0 start to the season, the Tennessee Titans have dropped back-to-back games and find themselves in a tie for first in the AFC South Division with the rival Indianapolis Colts. While the Titans have been prolific on offense all season, there is no denying that Mike Vrabel’s team could benefit greatly from addressing some of their weaknesses on defense. With the NFL trade deadline now just over 24 hours away, here are three Titans trade targets that could help Tennessee position themselves as legitimate AFC contenders. Titans Trade Targets Before NFL Trade Deadline Ryan Kerrigan | DE |…
One of the more notable names that has popped up among the myriad of NFL trade rumors over the past week is New England Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year would bolster the Super Bowl aspirations of any contending team willing to pony up what is likely to be a steep asking price. A number of events that have played out over the past week would seem to suggest that Bill Belichick may very well wind up parting with the best player on his defense before the NFL trade deadline. Gilmore was held out…
After living through nearly all of a year that has taught us to expect the unexpected, we probably should’ve seen chaos hitting the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs too. The series took to Martinsville Speedway on Sunday in what was the second-to-last race of the 2020 season and final race of the Round of 8 as far as the postseason is concerned. With only one driver (Joey Logano) having clinched a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 coming into the race, three spots were still up for grabs. With the stakes at an all-time high, Martinsville Speedway delivered a…
A battle of NFC playoff contenders is scheduled for the late afternoon NFL slate in Week 8 as the New Orleans Saints travel to the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bears. Both teams currently sit just off the pace in their divisions with records of 4-3 and 5-2 respectively. In addition, a win on Sunday could prove vital down the road for both teams in terms of the postseason head-to-head tiebreaker. The NFL odds and expert NFL picks have sided with the road team thus far. This betting preview contains the NFL odds, key betting trends, prop bets…
We are just two races away from crowning the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion. Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway marks the final opportunity for drivers to clinch their berth in the Championship 4 and have a shot to win the series championship next weekend in Phoenix. NASCAR fans and bettors alike know full well that anything can happen at “The Half Mile of Mayhem”. Add in the pressures that come along with being the final postseason elimination race to decide the championship contenders and we are sure to see an action-packed race on Sunday. The NASCAR odds and expert…
Well, that went badly. Last week saw us suffer a big old goose egg on our College Football picks. Fortunately, a successful run coming into the weekend means this column’s record is sitting right at .500 (11-11) even after the carnage. We were at least able to get a sense of how the Big Ten and Mountain West conferences look this season with their return to play last week. There are a number of games and lines I like on the Week 9 Halloween slate, so let’s not waste too much time dwelling on the past and instead focus on…
Any sports bettor knows full well that game totals are generally much higher for College Football across the board than the NFL. There is also a greater variance in where over/under lines can fall at the collegiate level. This has perhaps never been displayed more perfectly than on this week’s slate. From 42.5 in the Kentucky vs Georgia game to the massive total of 82.5 for UCF vs Houston, this week’s over/under lines have a range of a whopping 40 points. It’s a rare occasion to ever see the over/under line on a football game surpass 70, let alone 80.…