NFL 2017-18 season

[the sicilian]

betting a nice perfect storm spot for a flyer today :


Melvin gordon san diego 2 or more td's doubled with denver sanders and/or andersons 2 or more td...

my beloved saints cannot defend especially the run... and tampa just love to give up points too...both teams bottom of the points conceded column... saints game could develop into the wild west show...and denvers ferocious deense should give their offense the ball plenty of times.... all 3 guys in good form and will look to feast on these defenses

example gordon/sanders double is a tempting 48-1

Sigh crossbar..as expected Gordon hit.. sanders and anderson 1 a piece and anderson 3 yards out got stuffed for the scoopio.. game stopped with 7 mins left for severe weather.. and when they came back out just jogged through the last bit

[TightEnd]

Matt Ryan: 503 pass yds Julio Jones: 300 receiving yds 1st game in NFL history with a 500-yd passer AND 300-yd receiver

against Carolina too!

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[Tal]

Is 2016 the best QB class in recent memory?

(Tongue in cheek but not as daft a question as it was a month ago)

[TightEnd]

let you know in 3 years, though early signs obviously great.

i actually like winston and mariota a lot as a pair from last year but being let down by baffling coaching and roster/personanel decisions by their teams, so far

[the sicilian]

Thursday game ... David Johnson over 88.5 yards rushing.. Second year superstar should have a massive game against the defence with the worst rush defence in the league allowing average running backs 100 yard games and Dallas star rookie last week ran for 138 yards.. Add to that San Francisco lost their star linebacker Bowman for the season and Arizona QB PAlmer is out and the reserve QB Arizona don't trust much so a heavy dose of run game is expected

[TightEnd]

NFL ratings so far this season are down between 11 and 17% depending on TNF, SNF, MNF, regular Sunday football

reasons given are

- no one knows what is/isn't a catch
- taunting flags are being overdone
- no celebrations allowed, its less fun to watch

agree with any of those?

are you watching any less, if so why?

[Tal]

NFL ratings so far this season are down between 11 and 17% depending on TNF, SNF, MNF, regular Sunday football

Reason is they keep showing the Bears.

FYP.

[Ironside]

i keep falling asleep during the late night games which is odd as i only get 2-3 hours sleep a day at the moment and it seems to be coming at a time i should be awake enjoying the games

[the sicilian]

oh and if you can get over 49.5 total points for the raiders game grab it..line can only go north

[Evilpengwinz]

- no one knows what is/isn't a catch
- taunting flags are being overdone
- no celebrations allowed, its less fun to watch

Definitely the taunting and celebrations. I'd watch regardless, but both annoy me. The catch rules don't bother me as much as they seem to bother other people.

I think the biggest thing is that the selection of primetime games has been pretty average. Dolphins @ Bengals on TNF? And the damn Bears couldn't be more irrelevant right now if they tried. Schedule makers, c'mon man. Offenses don't get any more fun to watch tonight with Carson Palmer out, unless you're Blaine Gabbert's mum.

NFL probably ran bad too tbf. Texans @ Patriots and Chiefs @ Steelers should've, on paper, been much tighter games than they actually turned out to be. But some really poor picks in there too.

[Cavey007]

Thursday game ... David Johnson over 88.5 yards rushing.. Second year superstar should have a massive game against the defence with the worst rush defence in the league allowing average running backs 100 yard games and Dallas star rookie last week ran for 138 yards.. Add to that San Francisco lost their star linebacker Bowman for the season and Arizona QB PAlmer is out and the reserve QB Arizona don't trust much so a heavy dose of run game is expected

Easy winner there. I stayed away from it as he makes a lot of catches from the backfield. Landed 3/4 of the tips on my page oast night. Think I'm finally hitting my stride on it after a rough few weeks. Was hardly rocket science last night though. Johnson anytime. 2+ and 3+  Johnson and Hyde tds and Cardinals -3.  All pretty obvious bets but made some decent money on it. Had a little personal bet on Cards by 11-15 at 8/1 as well.

Looks like the first half was awful. I woke up randomly at 220 and it was 0-0 with 7:40 left in the second quarter. I would guess they just wore them down in the end. Glad Drew Staunton played. Gave me chance to watch the greatest gift in sports again and again  http://m.imgur.com/gallery/JxLbXrc

[the sicilian]

Lol..

Yup most of the first half was an offensive nightmare but strangely was good to watch... was nailed on for big rushing numbers v that D even with him slipping out into the flat for the easy catch

[Cavey007]

Random, I know, but, I just spent a little time seeing who has scored in which quarter over the season so far... (Living the dream on a Friday night) But I like the score every quarter markets, at usually fairly good odds...

The Bengals and Falcons have only missed 1 qtr so far, the Bengals have played Jets, Steelers and Broncos (their one miss) all 3 of which are pretty tough defences, they travel to Dallas this weekend, so looks good.
The Falcons haven't had it as tough, their 1 miss came against the Raiders. They play the Broncos this week, so expect that to slump.

The Steelers and Saints, unsurprisingly have scored every quarter at home so far, admittedly only 2 games, but it's known the Brees always scores in NO, and Big Ben has some fairly obviously home/road splits, so makes sense.

Ravens have only missed a couple of quarters, while the Cardinals have yet to score in every quarter of a match.

I think I really need to get it organised by who concedes every quarter at home as well, that should give me some instruction on good matchups for these types of bets, should I want.

[Tal]

Random, I know, but, I just spent a little time seeing who has scored in which quarter over the season so far... (Living the dream on a Friday night) But I like the score every quarter markets, at usually fairly good odds...

The Bengals and Falcons have only missed 1 qtr so far, the Bengals have played Jets, Steelers and Broncos (their one miss) all 3 of which are pretty tough defences, they travel to Dallas this weekend, so looks good.
The Falcons haven't had it as tough, their 1 miss came against the Raiders. They play the Broncos this week, so expect that to slump.

The Steelers and Saints, unsurprisingly have scored every quarter at home so far, admittedly only 2 games, but it's known the Brees always scores in NO, and Big Ben has some fairly obviously home/road splits, so makes sense.

Ravens have only missed a couple of quarters, while the Cardinals have yet to score in every quarter of a match.

I think I really need to get it organised by who concedes every quarter at home as well, that should give me some instruction on good matchups for these types of bets, should I want.

Which bookie does this? Not seen that market before.

Definitely good to know this stuff, but you're backing a 4 timer acca, so the odds are presumably going to be heavily in the house's favour.

Would you try to back against teams that are shallow in defence (like San Francisco last night), where the team is tiring or the weaker back ups are on the field and taking a pounding?

[The Camel]

NFL ratings so far this season are down between 11 and 17% depending on TNF, SNF, MNF, regular Sunday football

reasons given are

- no one knows what is/isn't a catch
- taunting flags are being overdone
- no celebrations allowed, its less fun to watch

agree with any of those?

are you watching any less, if so why?

Too many games on TV and too many of the too many are bad games.