Bobby Burack
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Yes, basketball, baseball, and hockey are back, but it’s August. Meaning, it’s approaching football season, the season for sports bettors.
Let’s look at the best Super Bowl bets for the upcoming season (assuming there is one), via FanDuel:
Super Bowl odds:
The NFL is too unpredictable to bet favorites. Even in a truncated offseason that benefits established coaching staffs. Every year, one team goes from good to great. If you find that team early, that’s where the value is.
At +1900, the Eagles jump out. Carson Wentz, when healthy, is a top-five QB in the NFL. The last time he was fully healthy, in 2017, he was the MVP frontrunner. In 2019, Philadelphia won the division with AAF-level receivers — mostly due to injuries. As long as the entire team, including Wentz, doesn’t limp into the winter months, the Eagles can compete for the NFC. Darius Slay is a high-impact CB, who bolsters the backend. The NFC East is, again, winnable; Philadelphia should host at least one playoff game.
I’m taking Eagles +1900 all day over Cowboys at +1700.
Further down the list, are the Browns at +3400. No, I don’t see Cleveland winning the Super Bowl; however, that’s an enticing long-shot bet. The roster is there, on both sides of the ball. Talent-wise, Cleveland ranks near the top of the league. A year after premature, ill-advised Super Bowl chatter, expectations have diminished. Which is exactly what the Browns needed. Cleveland is making the playoffs.
FanDuel set odds for nine Super Bowl matchups:
I’m not bullish on the Saints or Bucs, their QBs are over 40. With only nine options, at +2200, I’d go Ravens-49ers.
Baltimore and San Francisco are the two best teams, by far. Kansas City has the best player; don’t mix it up. As long as Jimmy Garoppolo doesn’t throw the ball too much, it’ll be hard to knock off the 49ers. They are too deep, too skilled, too creative.
The Ravens have the best roster in the NFL. Lamar Jackson is a video game. And the team’s secondary is the best since the Legion of Boom. This offseason, Baltimore got even better adding Calais Campbell and drafting J.K. Dobbins.
Man, I can’t wait for football.
Bobby, good value on the Lions at +6600 lol
Looks like they’re not taking the Titans seriously. I think it’s the best team they’ve put together since the 2008 squad, but They are middle of the pack in the odds right now.
I won countless bets last year from friends who were on the Browns train to make the playoffs. That culture of losing is contagious, they haven’t made the playoffs in 18 years, that wasn’t going to change in one year. This year, they COULD make the playoffs, but I’ll need more than 34:1 to buck that trend. Even with the 4th easiest strength of schedule, I’m still leaning under on 8.5 wins.
Aside: will Fanduel pay out if you win? Man those guys have a bad rep with all of the winning soccer bets they “cancelled” this summer.
Unless some common sense starts prevailing i am sad to say there may not be much of a season or a season at all they have the rona fear factor dialed up so high will see. I hope a am wrong for sure but this is a tricky one i think.