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NFL Picks & Predictions: Our Experts’ Favorite Bets for Giants-Cowboys, Colts-Chargers
Should you trust the Eagles to cover the biggest spread of the week? Are bettors overreacting to Andrew Luck’s retirement? Which teams are our analysts backing in season-opening divisional matchups? Our staff reveals their 11 favorite bets for Sunday’s NFL Week 1 slate. All odds are as of Friday afternoon and via PointsBet. Here are…
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Ultimate Week 1 NFL Guide: Picks & Predictions for Every Game
Key divisional matchups. The regular-season debut of first overall pick Kyler Murray. Two future Hall of Famers in primetime. We have a full lineup of games to ring in the first NFL Sunday of 2019: Chiefs at Jaguars: 1 p.m. ET Falcons at Vikings: 1 p.m. ET Titans at Browns: 1 p.m. ET Bills at…
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NFL Week 1 Sharp Report: How Pros Are Betting Colts-Chargers, 4 Other Sunday Games
Wasn’t that Packers-Bears game great?! Aren’t you excited for the first full NFL Sunday of the season?! This is what we’ve been waiting for all summer and it’s finally time to sit back, relax, watch some football and wildly overreact to things we see in Week 1. Week 1 is of course different than the other weeks…
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Chiefs vs. Jaguars Betting Odds & Predictions: Is the Market Undervaluing Jacksonville?
Chiefs at Jaguars Betting Odds Odds: Chiefs -3.5 Total: 51.5 Time: 1 p.m. ET TV Channel: CBS All odds above are as of Thursday evening and via PointsBet. These franchises slid in opposite directions last season, with the Chiefs jumping to 12 wins and an AFC Championship appearance and the Jaguars dropping to five wins after…
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Koerner’s NFL Pick ‘Em Pool Ratings: Best Week 1 Straight Up & ATS Picks
Pick ’em pool season is back! You can even play in our app now. But if you’re really serious about winning your pool, you can follow my straight-up and against-the-spread pick ’em confidence ratings each week throughout the season. Let’s quickly run through my methodology, then dig into my ratings for Week 1 complete with…
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Week 1 NFL Survivor Pool Picks: The Best Path to Start the Season
The 2019 NFL season is finally here and with it comes another year of survivor pool analysis and picks from yours truly. Week 1 provides the full slate of teams to choose from, including six teams that are favorites of more than six points: Eagles, Ravens, Seahawks, Chargers, Cowboys and Saints. Remember, it’s important to…
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Stuckey’s NFL Betting Preview: The 3 Underdogs I’m Backing in Week 1
We are inching closer to the first full NFL regular season Sunday slate. It’s eating season, my friends. Each week during the season, I will share my three favorite NFL bets as well as my plan for survivor leagues. Let’s eat. My approach for the first week of the NFL season is fairly simple. I…
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Our 5 Best NFL Prop Bets for Sunday’s Main Week 1 Slate
NFL player prop bets offer tremendous value on the board every week. They receive less action and money than the traditional bets, so savvy bettors can gain a big edge by reacting to news quicker than the books. The betting lines for prop bets are often less efficient than NFL sides and totals, opening up…
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Koerner’s NFL Week 1 Power Ratings: My Betting Approach for All 16 Games
Welcome to the first edition of my weekly NFL Power Ratings. Each week, we’ll compare odds to my projected spreads and totals to identify the best bets. My approach for Week 1 is a combination of my raw Power Ratings, my Buy/Sell Ratings and market movement. There aren’t any recent games for the market to overreact…
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The Key Mistake to Avoid When Betting NFL Week 1, Including Giants vs. Cowboys
Betting on NFL Week 1 is unique compared to the rest of the season. Week 1 odds open in April, giving fans, mainstream media analysts and bettors months to form opinions about these matchups. However, very little changes between the end of the previous season and the beginning of the next to change the feelings…
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Rovell’s Week 1 NFL Vegas Report: Sharps and Squares Disagree on Chiefs vs. Jaguars
The day that bettors have been waiting seven months for has finally arrived. It’s the first NFL Sunday of the season, which along with Super Bowl Sunday and the first weekend of March Madness, is the busiest day of the season for the people behind the betting window. Let’s see what games are making the…
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Chiefs vs. Jaguars Odds: Week 1’s Biggest Sharps vs. Squares NFL Matchup
Sharps bet numbers. Casual bettors bet on the best/most popular teams — usually favorites — no matter the line. It’s much more fun to root for good teams to play well than to hope the league’s worst can keep games close enough to cover the spread, even if the underdogs in these matchups represent the…
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NFL Week 1 Betting Market Report: Wildly Popular Ravens Moving Towards Key Number
We’ve had plenty of time to get action down on the Week 1 NFL slate. Any of you readers hammer some of these openers back in April? Maybe you let things settle in and pulled the trigger in May. Heck, maybe you’re just one of those boring people who waits until the actual week of…
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Testing Bill Simmons’ NFL Betting Theory: When to Bet Home Underdogs
It is officially Week 1 in the NFL, which means a new episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast has dropped. “The Sports Guy” and his wizard of wagering, Cousin Sal, guessed the lines for the opening games of the 2019 season. While analyzing the slate Simmons said, “We do this every year. We always talk…
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Tyreek Hill Injury News Affecting Chiefs-Jaguars NFL Week 1 Odds
At 10:54 a.m. ET Tuesday, Sports Insights’ Bet Signals triggered a Steam Move on the Jacksonville Jaguars for their NFL Week 1 matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs. Steam occurs when multiple sportsbooks across the betting market all move their lines in the same direction at the same time, and is usually the result of…
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NFL Week 1 Odds: Chiefs-Jaguars Among Most Interesting Early Line Moves
While we’re still in the dog days of the summer sports calendar, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The 2019 Hall of Fame Game between the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos will take place on Aug. 1, meaning the official start of the NFL preseason is just two weeks away. While savvy…
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NFL Week 1 Betting Picks: Chiefs-Jaguars Line Offering Early Value
It’s never too early for NFL betting value, right? In all seriousness, tying up money in a bet for Week 1 before even the NFL Draft may be tough for most bettors, and that certainly makes sense. There are still plenty of changes to rosters coming, along with the inevitable training camp and preseason injuries…