A new NFL football season always starts with every team on equal footing and an equal opportunity to compete for the Super Bowl. At the same time, handicappers are on the prowl for some of the best free bet offers being advertised by top online bookmakers on the Internet. Armed with free bets, every handicapper starts the new season with the belief this could be the year of total dominance.
One of the new season's biggest mysteries is in which direction will the Philadelphia Eagles head. With the controversial Chip Kelly era officially in the past, the team now belongs to former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson. He will be charged with the task of trying to develop some team cohesiveness, something that was always missing under Kelly.
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The only major change on offense during the off-season has been the loss of leading rusher DeMarco Murray, who has moved on to the Tennessee Titans. After an incredible 2014 season with the Dallas Cowboys, Murray came over to the Eagles amid high expectations. With only 702 yards rushing and 6 TDs, to call his season a disappointment would be a gross understatement. The good news is Ryan Mathews is back after looking like the same Ryan Mathews who rushed for 1,255 yards and 6 TDs with the San Diego Chargers in 2013. If he can stay healthy, Pederson will make sure he gets plenty of chances to carry the ball. At QB, Sam Bradford returns after what has to be considered a terrific season. After missing 1.5 seasons with major injuries, he returned to throw for 3,725 yards and 19 TDs in 14 games. Any forward progression would make this offense infinitely better than it has been over the past few seasons. A young receiving core is led by third-year wide-receiver Jordan Matthews who caught 85 balls for 997 yards and 8 TDs. While no one on the offensive side of the ball looks poised for superstar status, it's still a group that could mature together and become effective. The biggest problem for last year's team was on defense. The Eagles had the fourth worst scoring defense, allowing 432 points on the season. Even worse was the fact the defense ranked dead-last in rushing yards allowed with 134.6 YPG. They cannot expect to content without making significant changes on the defensive side of the ball. Unfortunately for the defense, the team used the draft to shore up the offense.
It's certainly understandable that the team decided to move up in the draft for the chance to select QB Carson Wentz with the number two overall pick. Given Bradford's injury history, there was no way they could pass on the opportunity to grab a franchise type QB without having to give up the farm. After that, it was two offensive linemen and a running back before selecting defensive players in the later rounds.
While it looks like the Eagles made some changes that will benefit the team in the long-term, it comes at the expense of this season and maybe next season. With essentially the same team as last year, a team that went 7-9, it's hard to imagine this team taking a big step forward. For that reason alone, 2016 should be viewed as a rebuilding season while Pederson puts his own signature on the squad.
If you are a gambler who has secured some free bet offers, you might want to use your free bets to wager against the Eagles at home where they went 3-5 last season. The team's schedule is tough, which doesn't bode well for them to improve on last year's record. Taking everything into consideration, 7-9 looks like a ceiling in
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Some circles call them the “CIA” of football because they never divulge the full details of what is going on with the team where their players or any issues are concerned. Bellichick and Craft are both on the same page when it comes to how they want to accomplish their goals and that ties into their successful run. Their cohesion also explains his long tenure with the team (fifteen years), compared to the four coaches the Cowboys have had within that same time span. Success at the highest level is what really determines the value of the team.
The Rams already have a pretty stacked offensive rushing player in Todd Gurley and solid receiving corps with players like Tavon Austin and rookie Pharoh Cooper, but their quarterback position has been shaky the last couple of seasons and the three players eyeing for the position this year haven’t been too bad this preseason. Case Keenum is most likely going to start, unless he is injured or either Jared Goff or Sean Mannion just do something amazing in the last preseason game. That begs the question, what will Goff’s role be as the number one overall pick. He will most likely turn into the #3 QB and won’t make any starts this season, unless Keenum comes down with an injury. Even though Prescott will get the opportunity to start for the Cowboys, Goff will be in a better position because he isn’t on a team that will most likely finish last in their division. The Rams might be in the division with the Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, and San Francisco 49ers, but they have a team that looks good enough to beat out at least two of these teams this upcoming year. If the quarterback position, whoever it may be, can stay solid, the Rams have a great opportunity to even make the playoffs. Jared Goff will be able to learn a lot quicker when his team is winning games instead of losing them, but this doesn’t mean that Prescott won’t be a great
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Playing football comes with several risks factors that players’ acknowledge prior to playing the game starting a young age. Regardless, these players still chose to play the game, which they end up loving and cherishing despite all the risks accompanied with it. Football is one of the toughest sports in the world; it takes a certain amount of strength, speed, and aggressiveness to play 48 minutes of hard-nosed football. However, the National Football League (NFL) is in the midst of a controversial issue. Is the NFL getting soft? This has been a debatable issue for several years. While some believe that implementing all these rules in the NFL is progressively turning the game soft, others say that the NFL is not getting soft; it is just trying to make the game safer for its players.
Our statistics were gathered from www.cbssportsline.com. We will use these statistics to run a regression analysis to see if any one statistic could be used to predict winning percentage.
Despite a dominant 40-10 win against the San Fransisco 49ers, it is not all good news for the Dallas Cowboys looking back on Sunday evening’s showing. The Dallas Cowboy’s lost All-Pro kicker, Dan Bailey, mid game, due to a groin strain in his kicking leg. It was announced this morning that Bailey could be out for several weeks while recovering.
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Despite reports to the contrary the Los Angeles Lakers had a productive off-season. The desire and effort to improve is evident. The Lakers were ridiculed for having money to spend and not landing one of the top free agents on the market. As a matter of fact the list of top available free agents read LaMarcus Aldridge, Demarcus Cousins, DeAndre Jordan, Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler, David West, Draymond Green and Paul Pierce among others. All of these NBA veterans are talented players that would make an impact on any team, but with all due respect none of them are what you would call landscape changing additions. To put it differently by having this player on your team makes your team a championship contender. The Lakers were able to secure the services of the law firm of Hibbert, Williams & Bass. The additions are far